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Illawarra · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1911

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Dairy Farmers' Union. Branch Formed at Singleton

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Wednesday 17 May 1911 · page 2

A splendid attendance was at the meeting called at Singleton on Saturday night to form a branch of the Dairy Farmers' Union. The…

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Farmers' Experiments. Fodder Corps at Albion Park

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Wednesday 17 May 1911 · page 2

MR. Makin, Inspector of Agriculture, visited the experimental corps on Sir William McMillan's farm at Albion Park during last week, and obtained the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 19 May 1911 · page 6

These Notes will be issued every week, under the direction of the Honorary Minister for Agriculture (Hon. J. L. Trefle), and are based mainly no the experiments of the Department. With its organisation the Department should be enabled to solve for the…

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Dairy Farmers' Union

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 19 May 1911 · page 7

A meeting of dairy farmers was held in the Agricultural Hall on Tuesday night last for the purpose of forming a branch of the Dairy…

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Fodder Crops on the South Coast. R. N. MAKIN, Acting Inspector of Agriculture

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 19 May 1911 · page 3

WEATHER conditions were much against a satisfactory germination of seed sown for winter experiments in 1910. During April, May, and the greater part of…

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The Future of the Farm Horse

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 19 May 1911 · page 20

The modified success of motors on farm, and the general development of motor power, is making some people wonder if there will soon…

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Winter School for Farmers

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Wednesday 24 May 1911 · page 2

FARMERS and other rural workers of over 16 years of age who contemplate taking the four weeks' course at the Hawkesbury…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 26 May 1911 · page 6

These Notes will be issued every week, under the direction of the Honorary Minister for Agriculture (Hon. J. L. Trefle), and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. With its organisation the Department should be enabled to solve for the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 2 June 1911 · page 6

These Notes will be issued every week, under the direction of the Honorary Minister for Agriculture (Hon. J. L. Trefle). and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. With its organisation the Department should be enabled to solve for the…

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Farmers Jubilant

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 2 June 1911 · page 7

A Sydney wire tells us that "splendid rains have, fallen throughout the State, and farmers are jubilant." Now, I've knocked about among…

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Rural Topics Notes by the Agricultural. Department. Dairying. Kerry Dairy Cattle

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 9 June 1911 · page 8

It is not desirable to bewilder the dairy-farmer with a discussion on the various breeds of cattle. In most of the dairying districts there are dairy…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 9 June 1911 · page 7

These Notes will be issued every week, under the direction of the Honorary Minister for Agriculture (Hon. J. L. Trefle), and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. With its organisation the Department should be enabled to solve for the…

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Farming and Mining Inventions

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 9 June 1911 · page 9

Messrs. Griffith and Hassel, patent attorneys, of 163 King-street, Sydney, and 9 Queen-street, Melbourne, report that the following applications for…

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Dairy Farmers' Union

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Wednesday 14 June 1911 · page 2

A meeting was held in the Muswelbrook School of Arts on Tuesday evening last (says last Saturday's Muswelbrook "Chronicle"), for the purpose of…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 16 June 1911 · page 7

These Notes will be issued overy week, under the direction of the Honorary Minister for Agriculture (Hon. J. L. Trefle), and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. With its organisation the Department should be enabled to solve for the…

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Dairy Farmers' Union

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 17 June 1911 · page 2

We received a wire from Bellingen on Thursday last stating that Mr. R. Shepherd, of Berry (President of the Dairy Farmers' Union of N.S.W.), had address a large…

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Dairy Farmers' Union

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Wednesday 21 June 1911 · page 2

A meeting of the provisional executive of the New South Wales Dairy Farmers' Union was held in Kiama on Saturday last. Mr. R. Shepherd,…

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Rural Topics Agricultural Department Notes. Dairying

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 23 June 1911 · page 22

TESTING THE HERDS.—Attention is now being given in some of the dairying districts to the testing of the herds. The dairy-farmers on…

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Position of Farmers. a Serious Result

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 27 June 1911 · page 2

At the conference of Dairy Factory Managers' Association Mr. A. E. Sweaney (Inverell) said that the labor question had an extremely serious…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 30 June 1911 · page 8

These Notes will be Issued every-week, under the direction of the Honorary Minister for Agriculture (Hon. J. L. Troff[?], and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. With its organisation the Department should bo enabled to solve for the…

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