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Illawarra · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1913

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Berrima District Farm and Dairy Company. Weekly Market Report

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Wednesday 1 January 1913 · page 2

Butter—A cable from London this morning advises "Danish as unchanged and Australian as slightly easier." An increased demand, however, is expected…

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Commercial. Coastal Farmers Co-operative Society, Ltd. Weekly Market Report

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Wednesday 1 January 1913 · page 2

Butter.—In practically every section of the trade a heavy record - Xmas business has been experienced. Apparently the tightness of the money market is not yet…

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Motive Power on the Farm

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Wednesday 1 January 1913 · page 2

The internal combustion, or Oil Engine as it is generally termed, is most favourably regarded by the progressive independent of hired makes him practically independent of hired…

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Pastoral. Farmers' Wool. Hints on Marketing

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 3 January 1913 · page 20

Sonic useful suggestions on the preparation of fanners' lots of wool for market were matte by Mr. Cuthbert Howard in a paper read by him before…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 3 January 1913 · page 20

These Notes are Issued every week, under the personal supervision of the hon. J. L. Trefle, Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. No. 87. AGRICULTURAL…

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A New Butter Factory and the Jersey Herd at Kameruka

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 3 January 1913 · page 8

A new departure has just been made at Kameruka by the establishment of a butter factory, and a fine, airy, well-situated building it is,…

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Instruction in Dairying. Wollongong Experiment Farm

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 3 January 1913 · page 20

For the young man who wishes to make dairying his vocation, there is no question that Wollongong experiment farm is the place to acquire the…

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Dairying. Lucerne on the Richmond. Profitable in Several Ways

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 3 January 1913 · page 20

as was remarked in a previous article in these notes, the farmers on the Richmond River find that paspalum has not the feeding value where time and…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 10 January 1913 · page 10

These Notes are Issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Trefle, Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department, No. 88. AGRICULTURE…

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The Seed-bed for Wheat. Why Plough Twice?

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 10 January 1913 · page 10

The practice seems to have been adopted latbly by a few of our wheat fanners in the north-west, of ploughing their land twice before sowing, and…

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Farming & Mining Inventions

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 10 January 1913 · page 5

Messrs. Griffiths and Hassel, Patent Attorneys of 163 King-street, Sydney, and Queen-street, Melbourne, report that the following applications for patents connected…

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Painless Cattle-killing

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 8

Tests word made this week at Islington cattle market (says, the. "Daily Mail") of a now air-gun for the painless slaughtering of cattle. A prize of…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 8

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L.Trefle, Minister Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. No. 89. AGRICULTURAL…

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Vehicles Farm Implements, etc

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Wednesday 22 January 1913 · page 2

L R. Mood look first and second prizes for single seated buggy, bent shaft sulky with hood and straight shaft sulky without hood. arid first for iron and wooden…

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Farming & Mining Inventions

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 24 January 1913 · page 2

Messrs. Griffiths and Hassel, Patent Attorneys of 163 King-street, Sydney, and Queen-street, Melbourne, report that the following applications for patents connected…

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Cow Peas as a Seed Crop

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 24 January 1913 · page 11

Under this title and articles appears in the "Queensland Agricultural Journal" for December, which directs attention specially to the profits of…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 31 January 1913 · page 10

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Trefle, Agriculture, and are bated mainly on the experiment of the Department. No. 91. AGRICULTURAL…

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Growing-crop Competition. a Fine Yield

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 31 January 1913 · page 10

Though the competition held at Cowra during the past harvest was gradually, reduced by one defection and another to one grower, that one was able to show…

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Farming Under Water

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 31 January 1913 · page 9

Fanning? under forty feet of water would seem to be rather different. It is both different and expensive work, and is done upon a vast scale. There…

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Seasonable Dairy Utensils

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 1 February 1913 · page 2

We make it our business to supply everything required in connection with the dairying industry and cheese and butter factories. Futhermore, everything we…

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