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Illawarra · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1917

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Agricultural Department's Notes. Butter Quality. The New Cream Grading Conditions

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 2

In an interesting little table the Dairy Expert sets out the quantity of butter of each grade that was manufactured during July, August and…

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Rural Topics Tasmanian Apple Crop

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 2

The prospects for the season, were good when the trees were in blossom. have become much less promising owing to the almost continuous wet…

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How we do it in the Northern Territory a Government Farm

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 15

The following is from a contribution to the "Age":—Two beautiful horses, one of a Carbine, lineage, the other of an almost…

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Farm Notes

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 12 January 1917 · page 6

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture, and are based…

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The Potato Crop. Keep Cultivating Implements Going

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 12 January 1917 · page 6

Provided the land is kept well cultivated during the next two or three months, the very servicable rains that have fallen in practically all…

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Dairying in New Zealand

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 12 January 1917 · page 8

A correspondent writes to a contemporary from New Zealand as follows:—A very serious state of things threatens the dairying industry just…

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A District Record Cattle Sale

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Wednesday 17 January 1917 · page 3

W. Gilbert Walker, auctioneer, and T. W. Dooley, in. conjunction, report holding the record cattle sale of the district for Mr. Geo. W.Moffitt…

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Butter Prices. an Increase Asked For

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Wednesday 17 January 1917 · page 2

The Butter Advisory Committee of Victoria wanted on Senator-Russell(Minister in charge boodstuffs) on Monday with the request that the price of…

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Dairy Cattle

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 19 January 1917 · page 6

Mr. Frank McCaffrey, writing to the "Bangalow Herald" in reference to dairy cattle, says :—"Without making any further statements regarding…

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Farming Notes

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 19 January 1917 · page 5

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. Cr. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture, and are based…

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Scots Farmers at Werribee

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 19 January 1917 · page 2

One of the daily farmers on the Werribee closer settlement, Mr. Ewart, has an interesting history in connection with how he was induced by one of the…

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Poisoning Sheep Blow-flies

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1917 · page 3

The attention of the Minister for Agriculture, Hon. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., has been drawn to the fact that quite a number of letters have…

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"Daylight Robbery." "Preventing Production." Dairymen and the New Time

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1917 · page 3

The daylight saving scheme was strongly condemned at the annual meeting of the Singleton branch of the Primary Producers' Union…

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Farming Notes

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 5

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister for Agriculture, and are based…

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The Disposal of the Crop

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 8

I approach this matter with great difference recognising the fact that I [?] we men whose lives have [?] spent in the cultivation and…

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Cattle Sale. Over £70 Realised

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Wednesday 31 January 1917 · page 2

What might well be regarded as a phenomenal gift sal realised in a very short time the sum of £70/12/6 for the young stock, pigs, poultry and…

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Farming Notes

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 3

Those Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister for Agriculture, and are based…

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FARMERS' and Dairymen's Mile Company

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 9 February 1917 · page 2

The report of the Farmers' and Dairymen's Milk Co., for the year ended December 31st, states that, notwithstanding adverse seasonal conditions during…

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Croome Crops

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 9 February 1917 · page 5

Wa are indebted to Mr. E. Hamilton for the following particulars regarding the rainfall at Croome for the month of January. There were…

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Agricultural Department's Notes. Planning a Poultry Farm

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 9 February 1917 · page 2

The average poultry farm has been a thing of small beginnings, usually jumbled together without any definite plan. Points in Starting a Poultry Farm…

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