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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1908

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Farm and Field. Finger-and-toe Disease. Some of the Characteristics

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Wednesday 12 August 1908 · page 3

The finger and toe disease, also known by the names of club-root and canker, attacks turnips, cabbage, rape, swedes, and various other kinds of vegetables…

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Hardening the Butter. Cotton Cake Food

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 15 August 1908 · page 7

Soft butter (writes an English, paper.) Is one of the usual products of the dairy during the summer time,) and the question is often asked if anything, can be…

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Condensed Dairy Knowledge

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 15 August 1908 · page 7

Professor C. L. Beach, of the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station America, has condensed the science of feeding cows into the following, few…

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Farm and Field. Fingeb-and-toe Disease. Some of the Characteristics

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 15 August 1908 · page 7

The finger and toe disease, also known by the names of club-root and canker, attacks turnips, cabbage, rape, swedes, and various other kinds of vegetables…

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Useful Farm Derricks

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 15 August 1908 · page 6

A derick comes handy when loading heavy articles on a waggon[?] for butcherr[?]ling, building, etc. A good derrick, like the one shown in fig. 1, is easily…

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Farmers and Settlers, the Political Platform

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 15 August 1908 · page 4

The following is the political platform of the Farmers and Settlers Association, as confirmed at the Conference held in Sydney recently…

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Farm and Field. Handling Wheat

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 26 August 1908 · page 3

The South Australian Wheat Commission appointed to inquire into the sale, export and handling of wheat finished the taking of evidence in Sydney on 16th…

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The Dairy. Casein in Butter. a Simple Test

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Wednesday 26 August 1908 · page 3

A new test has recently come to light in the United States to determine the casein in milk. The inventor is Professor E. B. Hart, of the University of…

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Mottled Butter. the Cause Op the Trouble

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Wednesday 26 August 1908 · page 3

"When mottled butter has been produced" (writes an American paper) "the blame is usually laid to improper salting, but tests show that salt cannot…

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Farm and Field. Leguminous Crops

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Wednesday 26 August 1908 · page 3

In an article on "The Present Status of the Nitrogen Problem" in the Year Book of the United States Board of Agriculture, it is stated that the value of…

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Crop Extracts From Soil

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 26 August 1908 · page 3

The accompanying diagram and figures show the approximate quantities in pounds of the three principal fertilising constutuents—ammonia,…

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The Dairy. the Local Creamery. Disloyal, Suppliers

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 26 August 1908 · page 3

The "Farm Stock Journal," a New York paper, has the following to say relative to the way many farmers abandon the local creamery:—"The local…

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Experimental Farms

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 26 August 1908 · page 3

Th Surveyor-General of South Australia, who recently visited North America, speaks enthusiastically of the experimental farm work being carried on in…

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The Dairy. Casein in Butter. a Simple Test

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 29 August 1908 · page 3

A new test has recently come to light in the United States to determine the casein in milk. The inventor is Professor E. B. Hart, of the University of…

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Mottled Butter. the Cause Op the Trouble

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 29 August 1908 · page 3

"When mottled butter has been produced" (writes an American paper) "the blame is usually laid to improper salt-, ing, but tests show that salt cannot…

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Farm and Field. Leguminous Crops

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 29 August 1908 · page 3

In an article on "The Present Status of the Nitrogen Problem" in the Year Book or the United States Board of Agriculture, it is stated that the value of…

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Farm and Field. Diminishing Sheep Stocks

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Wednesday 2 September 1908 · page 3

The strongest reason for anticipating a continuance of prosperity in the sheep trades, states an English writer on live stock subjects,is the falling off that has…

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Sheep Dipping Bath. a New Zealand Invention

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Wednesday 2 September 1908 · page 3

This is a sketch plan of a "walk-in" concrete sheep-dipping bath at Maraekakaho Station, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, the property of Mr R. D. D…

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International Dairying. the Fourth Congress

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Wednesday 2 September 1908 · page 3

Improved methods in dairying are now engaging the attention of all the civilised nations of the world. The idea of exchanging ideas in an international…

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The Dairy. the Successful Dairyman. Method and Iltelligence

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Wednesday 2 September 1908 · page 3

"We once knew two patrons of a cooperative creamery" (writes "Hoad's dairyman") who were striking examples of successful and unsuccessful men. One…

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