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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1908

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Farm and Garden Original Articles. (All Rights Reserved). The Celery Fly

The Burrowa News · Friday 17 January 1908 · page 2

During the late summer and autumn it may be often noticed that the leaves at celery and parsley have a very withered and blighted appearance; on…

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Farmers Holding Wheat for a Rise

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 2

The statement in " The Age" on Saturday last to the effect that the very light consignment of wheat being received for export of the Williamstown railway pier were…

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Come- back Wheat

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 5

Experiments made this season at the Cowra State Farm, New South Wales, go to show that the Come-back variety of wheat is going to establish a…

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Farm and Field. New Varieties of Wheat and Lucerne

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 5

It is reported that the Botanical branch of the Department of Agriculture at Washington (U.S.A.) has discovered a new type of wheat which will…

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Sydney Wool Report

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 4

MESSRS. Winchcombe Carson & Co., Ltd., report on 14th January, 1908, as follows Since last reporting the market has shown more activity and we have placed considerable quantities of wool,…

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The N.s.w. Wheat Harvest. Decrease of 13,000,000 Bushels

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 2

The Government Statistician's estimate of the wheat harvest this season in the State of New South Wales is 8,686,500 bushels, as compared with 21,818,000 last harvest. This…

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The Dairy. Milk Fermentations

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 5

It is not unusual to find persons connected with dairy work whoso sole knowledge of fermentative processes is limited to the lactic acid fermentation --…

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Tillage and Rotation of Crops

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 5

Professor W. H. Day of the Ontario Agricultural College, Canada, has recently issued an important bulletin dealing with the tillage and rotation of…

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Cattle Straying. To the Editor

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 January 1908 · page 2

Sir,—I notice in your Saturday's issue a letter over the signature of "No. I" upon this subject. Had "No. I" done as he might have done…

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Fallow Land and Cover Crops. Seasonable Expert Advice

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 22 January 1908 · page 4

IN view of the approaching conclusion of the harvest, some notes by Mr. G. L. Sutton, wheat experimentalist to the department, and manager of the Cowra and…

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Agricultural Work. Mr. Perey’s Aims. the Friend and Adviser of the Farmer

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 22 January 1908 · page 2

NOTHING has yet been settled with regard, to the new Under-Secretary for Agriculture. Mr. Porry is anxious to obtain the heat man available, and, above all, a good administrator. A…

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The Wool Sales. London, Jan. 21

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 January 1908 · page 2

The wool sales opened this afternoon with brisk bidding. Prices showed a decline from par to 5 per cent. below the closing rates of the last series…

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Invitation to Farmers

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 January 1908 · page 2

Mr. J. J. Roberts, sec. of the Goulburn A., P., and H. Society, has received the following:—"Department of Agriculture, Sydney, 22nd January, 1908. The Minister for Agriculture would…

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The Wheat Harvest. Decrease of 13,000,000. BUSHELS

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 January 1908 · page 3

The Government Statistician's estimate of the wheat harvest this season in the State of New South Wales is 8,686,500 bushels, as compared with…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles. (All Rights Reserved). Profitable Small Holdings

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 January 1908 · page 1

A small holding may be of the best of soils and situation, nearness to market and rent may alike leave little to be desired, and yet fail to bring in a…

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Salting Butter

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 5

The following suggestions in the salting of butter have been issued by the Iowa Dairymen's Association, U.S.A.:-- No established rule for salting butter…

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The Dairy. Method of Butter-making

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 5

In bulletin No. 13, issued by the Dairy Division of the Ontario Department of Agriculture are given the results of experiments to…

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The Age of Cattle

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 5

The method adopted in connection with the great international show at Chicago for testing the age of cattle by their teeth was as follows:--…

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[Reuter's Telegrams.] London, Friday. Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 4

At the wool sales to-day merinos and best crossbreds were keenly completed for, but faulty sorts were sold slightly in buyers' favour. MISSING BOAT…

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Farm and Field. Farming in Cities

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 5

According to Mr Fels, the American who has interested himself in the case the unemployed-- there is no need to go very far to get back to the land. The…

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