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Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1905

56 stories in Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown)'s papers · page 2 of 3

The Wool Industry

Camden News · Thursday 6 July 1905 · page 2

At the Sydney Sheep exhibition, where the merinos are housed, there stood fittingly enough, an exhibit which eloquently emphasises the enormous development which…

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Dairying Notes

Camden News · Thursday 13 July 1905 · page 2

Mr. Jno Dawson has removed, from Menangle to a large estate in Campbelltown district where he is carrying on dairying. No less than ten tons of milk are sent…

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Farmers Awake!

Camden News · Thursday 13 July 1905 · page 1

In a recent issue Mr. Downes, Camden our worthy Parliamentary representative drew attention to the return of a most unjust and barborous law concerning…

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The Dairying Industry

The Campbelltown Herald · Wednesday 19 July 1905 · page 2

THE movement which was initiated some time back with the object of establishing an association to deal with matters affecting the homblned interests of dairy farmers…

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Diseases in Cattle. Important Hints

Camden News · Thursday 20 July 1905 · page 1

In view of what I have heard daring my tour of the mysterious deaths that have taken place amongst chiefly young cattle in the Camden districts, and is some cases the…

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The Dairying Industry

The Campbelltown Herald · Wednesday 26 July 1905 · page 2

A conference of delegates, representing the dairy farmers in the country now supplying milk to the metropolis, assembled at the Great Southern Hotel, George-street, Sydney…

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The Wool Industry. Locks and Pieces

Camden News · Thursday 27 July 1905 · page 7

Study your flocks as you do your herds. Don't feed the ewes too highly directly after lambing. If your land is poor you cannot farm…

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Diseases in Cattle. Important Hints. No. 2 continued.) Pleura Pneumonia

Camden News · Thursday 27 July 1905 · page 1

Pneumonia (contagiosa) is a contagious disease affecting cattle, and showing tip of the long lesions. Symptoms, primarily, are not well marked. If in a…

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Dairying Notes

Camden News · Thursday 27 July 1905 · page 2

Messrs. Wm. Inglia & Son, Sydney, write as follows:—Milch cows, competition for the better class was fair, but other descriptions were dull at low rates; best to £11…

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Diseases in Cattle. Important Hints. No. 3 continued.) ANTHRAX

Camden News · Thursday 3 August 1905 · page 1

Is an exceedingly malignant, specific blood disease; with a period of incubation, when the germ attacks the body. First manifestations of the symptoms from a few…

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Sheep. the Shropshires

Camden News · Thursday 10 August 1905 · page 7

Shropshires are being kept in increasing numbers as they become widely known. Like Shorthorn cattle they seem to possess the faculty of thriving in varied…

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Dairying Notes

Camden News · Thursday 10 August 1905 · page 7

Mr. M. S. Foley of Messrs. Foley Bros., Limited, Sydney, has sailed for London in pursuance of that firm's usual custom, it being found that the personal supervision…

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Farmer's Fowls. By MR. G., BRADSHAW, (The Agricultural Gazette of N.s.w.) Breeding Wyandottes

Camden News · Thursday 17 August 1905 · page 9

Hitherto poultry-books dealing with the subject of juding, mysteriously appended the standard at the end of all the descriptive matter about the breed. An instance may…

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1905 Annual Conference Farmers and Settlers' Association

Camden News · Thursday 24 August 1905 · page 7

THE fourteenth annual conference of the New South Wales Farmers and Settlers Association was held this year in the Royal Chambers hall, Castlereagh-street, Sydney, and commenced…

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Farmer's Fowls. Breeding Wyandottes

Camden News · Thursday 24 August 1905 · page 11

The silver variety of Wyandottes, being the first originated, it might readily be accepted that two or more years should have been sufficient to have established the…

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Does Poultry Farming Pay?

Camden News · Thursday 24 August 1905 · page 10

Messrs. Arthur Rickard and Co., Limited, the well-known land salesmen of 84[?] Pittstreet, Sydney, have for sale valuable and cheap poultry farm blocks, on Quaker's…

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Dairying Notes. BUYING [?] COW

Camden News · Thursday 24 August 1905 · page 11

When you go out to buy a cow what do you look for, or, in other words, what kind of a cow meets your idea of a profit-[?] to purchase? Almost every farmer has…

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Dairying Notes

Camden News · Thursday 31 August 1905 · page 2

The recipient of a small parcel of the Woodhill and Dairy Co's butter, South Coast district, which was sent privately to India, packed in an ordinary earthernware…

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Sheep Bearing. the Merino

Camden News · Thursday 7 September 1905 · page 11

These sheep are small in size, with flat sides, narrow chests, and long legs—the whole, structure of the animal showing plainly that it is not a profitable breed for…

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The Dairying Industry

The Campbelltown Herald · Wednesday 13 September 1905 · page 2

A MEETING of dairy farmers was held in the council chambers on Saturday evening, 2nd [?] the object for which at was called [?]ing to [?] to consideration the [?] of…

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