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Farming & the land, 1913

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Agricultural Notes. Continuous Wheat Growing

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 4

Seven years ago the Department initiated an experiment in wheat growing at Cowra experiment farm, from which it was expected that valuable…

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Stud Romney Marsh Sheep from N.Z.

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 2

By the 6,8, "Manuka" which arrived from New Zealand recently Messrs Dalgety & Co received 50 stud Romney Marsh ewes from Mr…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 6

These Notes ate issued week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Tred[?], Minister of Agriculture, and are based [?]tnly on the experiments of the Department. No. 106. AGRICULTURAL…

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Government Experimental Piots. Wheat Experiments at Grong Grong

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 6

The Department of Agriculture is again conducting wheat experiments this year on the farm of Mr. J. Charles “Stoneleigh”…

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The Germination of Wheat. Influence of Soil Conditions

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 6

Where soil is only roughly cultivated there is a poorer germination than where the seed is well covered, and the…

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Milk Can Shed. Dairy Farm Essential

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 7

It is a great convenience to have milk cans on a level with the waggon which is to draw them to the factory, and at is a good plan to have the plat[?]…

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For the Han on the Land. [Issued by the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture.) Agriculture. Continuous Wheat Happened at Cowra

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 4

Seven years ago the Department initiated an experiment in wheat growing at Cowra experiment farm from which it was…

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The Dairy. the Robber Cow. Finding Her Out

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 7

An American dairyman explains how he discovered the robber cow in his herd. "I had two registered Jersey, heifers," he says, "both two years old,…

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Public Opinion. Mr. Wade and the Farmers. to the Editor

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 4

SIR,—On reading the signed report of Mr. Wade's Gundagai meeting in your issue of the 2nd instant, I was simply astounded at the…

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Our Dairy Milk. Illawarra Evidence

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 4

Giving evidence recently before the Royal Commission of Inquiry into food supplies and prices sitting at Kiama, Mr. Thomas James, dairy…

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Where Farm Students Get To

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 6

The Minister of Agriculture has had a return prepared, showing the disposition of youths who enter the various agricultural training institutions…

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Dairying. the Cow in Sickness. The First Symptoms

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 6

The detection of the first symptoms of sickness in a cow in one of the qualifications of the dairyman that comes only by experience. The dairy expert…

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More Money for Australian Farmers

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 4

It has long been thought that Africa is the only country in the world where ostriches can be farmed with profit, but in "Life," for June, just…

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Farmers and Settlers

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 2

The attempt failed to get a meeting on Thursday, afternoon to formally inaugurate the Cootamundra branch of the Farmers and Settlers…

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A Beauty Farm in Russia

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 3

A wealthy retired distiller, named [?], who resides near Perm, in North-cast Russia, employs as workers on his estate only the…

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Wheat

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 17 May 1913 · page 4

Private cables state that the London wheat market dropped threepence per quarter, and the market generally is unsteady. This was reflected in…

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Novel Sheep Sale

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 17 May 1913 · page 4

One of the most important stock sales of the year is advertised to take place at Wellington, New South Wales, on Tuesday, May 20, when…

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No Wool Decrease

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 17 May 1913 · page 3

Despite the heavy losses of sheep via N.S.W. LasT year, it is estimaled that there will he no diminution in the wool…

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Great Grain Fire. Wheat Elevator Burnt. [?] £200,000. New York

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 17 May 1913 · page 6

Seven hundred thousand bushels of grain and flour were consumed by the destruction of the elevator at Buffalo. A number of freight sheds adjoining…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Agricultural. Continuous Wheat Growing. What Happened at Cowra

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 May 1913 · page 1

Seven years ago the Department initiated an experiment in wheat growing at Cowra experiment farm, from which it was expected that valuable…

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