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Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1915

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Dairy Science School. At Byron Bay

The Picton Post · Wednesday 7 July 1915 · page 4

The Department of Agriculture announces that arrangement have been made to hold a Dairy Science School at the North coast Co-operative…

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Dairying. the Heaviest Milker. And the Babcock Tester

The Picton Post · Wednesday 7 July 1915 · page 4

The annual statistics of the herd testing associations affiliated with the Tweed-Richmond Herd-Testing Council provide plenty of food for dairy, farmers…

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Tubs Lucerne. As a fodder Crop

The Picton Post · Wednesday 7 July 1915 · page 4

A correspondent recently asked the Department of Agriculture whether Tree Lucerne, together with a little other fodder, would keep milking torn in…

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PASTORAL. No. [?]18. Sc[?]ue-cutting for Sheep Feed. How to Use Edible Plants

The Picton Post · Wednesday 14 July 1915 · page 6

Last week we gave in these columns the suggestions of the Stock Inspector stationed at Cobar with regard to scrub-cutting, indicating especially the…

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Sheep-maggot Flies. Farmers' Bulletin No. 95

The Picton Post · Wednesday 14 July 1915 · page 6

The "sheep-maggot fly" or the "blowfly post" is quite a modern trouble of the Australian sheep owner. It is frequently stated, and it may be true to a certain extent, that the…

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Agricultural. Thistles in Wheat Crop. Feed Off or Mow

The Picton Post · Wednesday 14 July 1915 · page 6

"In a wheat paddock recently sown, the wheat beings now about six inches high, thistles are coming up thick. What should I do! It is too late to…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Picton Post · Wednesday 14 July 1915 · 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 [?]alaly on the experience of the Department…

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Dairy Science School. An Altered Date

The Picton Post · Wednesday 14 July 1915 · page 6

The date of the Dairy Science School, which ls to be held at Byron Bay during the winter, has been altered to the 9th August. It has been found that…

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Dairying. Foundations of Success. a Half Sheet of Notepaper

The Picton Post · Wednesday 14 July 1915 · page 6

The specialists in charge ef various departments in the College of Agriculture at the University of California, U.S.A., were asked recently to boil down…

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Pastoral "Phalaris Bulbosa." Some Further Experiences

The Picton Post · Wednesday 21 July 1915 · page 6

That the favorable impressions eo far created on the coast and tablelands by the grots "Phalaris bulbosa" are likely to bo sustained by…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Picton Post · Wednesday 21 July 1915 · 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 mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 219…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Picton Post · Wednesday 28 July 1915 · page 6

These Notes we Issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon.W.C.grahame, M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. 320…

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At the Sydney Sheep Show. the Man From Mudgee

The Picton Post · Wednesday 28 July 1915 · page 3

The annual Sydney Sheep Show was very poorly attended in comparison with past years, and the was partly due to the lack of preliminary advertisement…

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Farming in Siberia

The Picton Post · Wednesday 28 July 1915 · page 3

We have inherited from the traditions of the past the idea that Siberia ia a country with a not very fruitful soil. Yet in the last few years very…

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Irrigation Farming. As An Applied Science

The Picton Post · Wednesday 28 July 1915 · page 6

Both as a business and and an art irrigation is in its infancy in Australia, remarks the Inspector organising the Agricultural Bureau in the first of a…

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Dairying. Cream Quality. Grading Cream at Factories

The Picton Post · Wednesday 28 July 1915 · page 6

Setting aside taints due to food, absorption, etc, which only in very bad cases compel the cream to be classed as second quality, the article by one of…

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Dairying Winter

The Picton Post · Wednesday 28 July 1915 · page 5

The winter months are the quit period in the dairying industry and is during this quite period that the working plant and [?] of the dairy…

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Damaged Wool Consignments. Railway Commissioners' Attitude

Camden News · Thursday 29 July 1915 · page 4

We have been requested by John Bridge & Ltd. to publish the subjoined correspondence. Sydney, 10th June, 1915. The Hon. H. C. Hoyle, M.L.A.,…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Picton Post · Wednesday 4 August 1915 · page 4

These Notes are issued every week. under the personal supervision of the Han. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture, and ore based mainly on the experience of the Department…

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Agricultural. the Tobacco Crop. Stripping and Balking

The Picton Post · Wednesday 4 August 1915 · page 4

So much time and labor bag been expended by growers before the tobacco leaf is ready for the last stage in its treatment on the farm, that the…

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