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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1910

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Australian Training Farms British Boys Coming Out. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 18 February 1910 · page 2

The training farms committee, which has undertaken to select boy-immigrants for Australia has received 300 applications to date…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 February 1910 · page 4

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. report holding a small wool sale on Thursday, and submitting 803 bales, of which, together with private sales, 721 were…

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A Plague of Baboons. They Ate the Crops in Nigeria So Fast, Natives Gave Up Farming

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 19 February 1910 · page 3

In many parts of Nigeria, and especially among the hill regions of the northern provinces, baboons are one of the greatest plagues to the…

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Making Microbes Do Farm Work

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 19 February 1910 · page 3

Results of experiments in inoculating soil with nitrogen-fixing bacteria have been published. These, it is found, are retarded in development…

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Odd Work on the Farm

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 February 1910 · page 2

There will be a great many odd [?] on the farm, telling for attention is soon as the press of having harvesting is [?] just now the most important…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles, (COPYRIGHT.)(Prof. F. S. Cooley, Experiment Station) Potato Fertsuiser Experiments

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 February 1910 · page 2

Nitrogen gave very beneficial result throughout four years of potato experiments at the Station, whether used in the form of cottonseed meal or…

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Export of Manchurian Wheat

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 22 February 1910 · page 3

Japan is supporting the protest of Russia to Pekin against the interdict on the export of Manchurian wheat…

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Complaint Against Federation Wheat

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 22 February 1910 · page 3

A curious complaint is being made by millers of the Goulbarn Valley against federation wheat, which is rapidly becoming the most popular variety in…

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Danish System of Cattle Breeding

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 23 February 1910 · page 3

Prof. Aug. Morkenberg at the British Association in Canada, said that Denmark, mainly an agricultural country which formerly grew…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 23 February 1910 · page 4

The wool sales wove resumed in Melbourne to day to a large attendance of buyers and animated competition. Dalgety and Coy's, sales to date in…

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Danish Butter

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 25 February 1910 · page 3

The Danish Government has introduced a bill prohibiting the export of butter, which contains more than sixteen per cent of moisture…

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Wheat Lands

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 February 1910 · page 41

One thousand four hundred and eighty acres in the well-known wheat district of Barmedman and Wyalong will be offered at auction at Barmedman on 9th…

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Pasteurised Butter. Acidity of Cream and Flavour of Butter

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 February 1910 · page 3

It has been a generally accepted theory among the touchers of and writers on dairy subjects that the production of good butter…

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An Old Wool Catalogue

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 February 1910 · page 17

What is claimed to be the oldest wool catalogue extant is in the possession of Messrs. H. P. Hughes and Sons, of London. The front page of the catalogue…

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J. T. Brown and Co. Special Sheep Sale

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 February 1910 · page 21

J. T. Brown and Co. report holding a special sale of sheep at Wangaratta Corporation Yards on Friday, [?] when they yarded 10,120 sheep and sold…

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The English Wool Market. Bradford, January 14

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 February 1910 · page 17

The present week, from a raw-material point of view, will be quite a busy and important one. Not only have Sydney and Melbourne recommenced active operations,…

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Experiment Farms

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 February 1910 · page 35

The Chief Inspector, Department of Agriculture, Mr. Valder, returned to Sydney from an inspection of the Wagga and Yanco experiment farms He states that at…

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The Farm and the Body

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 February 1910 · page 13

There is a wonderful similarity in the processes of Nature. The highest productivity of a farm and the highest capacity of the body are attained by nourishment,…

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Dairy Notes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 February 1910 · page 16

It is not possible in one and the same animal to get the perfect butcher's beast and the perfect dairy cow. Every well-bred cow calf should be…

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Poultry Farming on Small Holdings. (Continued from our last.) Breeding and Feeding. The Breeding Pen

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 February 1910 · page 16

Locality plays a most important part in the success or otherwise of poultry breeding. Badly drained, sour, or very stony land should be avoided; rather select a site…

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