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Farming & the land, 1898

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Dairy Farmers’ Association. Adoption of Rules the Cape Weed and the South Coast

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 1 October 1898 · page 3

THE second conference in connection with the above object was held in the Berry School of Arts on Monday afternoon. The Tailoring delegates were present:—Messrs. Becket and…

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A Phenomenal Dairy Herd. Surely an Australian Record

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 1 October 1898 · page 4

That South coast dairymen (says the Berriona Leader) have lead the way in perfecting the breed and quality of dairy cattle cannot be gainsaid. Many of them have…

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Farm and Station Notes. Over-stocking the Pastures

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 1 October 1898 · page 2

How to maje the most profit out of the pastures is a problem which farmers should study at this period of the year. The grazing of mastures is matter equally as…

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Cattle Surgery

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 October 1898 · page 4

A MATTER of considerable interest to cattle breeders has been brought under the notice of the Queensland Government by Dr. Q[?]innell, the veterinary…

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Our Wealth in Wheat

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 October 1898 · page 4

EVERY inhabitant of the colony is deeply concerned in the wheat question and the probable yield for the coming season. For the matter of that the…

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To Utilise Farmyard Manure

The Kangaroo Valley Times · Tuesday 4 October 1898 · page 1

From time immemorial farmers have been advised to use well rotted [?] manure, so that the material way become [?] with the soil. It has, how…

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Margarine and Butter. Meeting of Merchants

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 5 October 1898 · page 2

A special meeting of those interested in the selling of butter—to which all agents were invited by advertisement— was held in the Hotel Australia on the…

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Pasteurising Butter

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 8 October 1898 · page 2

The Department of Agriculture has for some time past been drawing the attention of dairy farmers to the urgent necessity for adopting the pasteurising process in the…

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Margarine and Butter Meeting of Merchants

The Kangaroo Valley Times · Tuesday 11 October 1898 · page 2

A special meeting of chose interested in the selling of butter — to which all agents were invited by advertisement—was held in the Hotel Australia, Sydney, on the…

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Potatoes as Dairy Feed

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 October 1898 · page 4

EXPERIMENTS have recently been carried out as to the feeding value of potatoes at the Michigan Agricultural College. The object was to teat the question…

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Mr. Rhodes’s Farm

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 October 1898 · page 4

MR. Rhodes’s farm in Mashonaland appears to be prospering. A recant visitor reports that 1,000 trees have been planted, and a considerable area…

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A State School Boy. How He Was Treated in the Service of a Shoalhaven Farmer. Thrashed with a Stock Whip and Leg-rope. Extraordinary Statements

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 12 October 1898 · page 2

At the Nowra Police Court on Monday morning, before Mr J. H. Nisbott, P.M., a State School boy named Joseph Dawson was charged with absconding from the service of Hugh…

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Sale of a Dairy Herd

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 12 October 1898 · page 2

The Richmond Ricer Herald of October 7 says: Referring to the sale of Mr. James Daley's herd at Alstonville. Mr. Mackay supplies us with a few further particulars in addition to…

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Dispute About a Crop. Wiley Bros. v Andrew Chittick

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 12 October 1898 · page 2

At the Kiama District Court held on Friday last, before his Honor Judge Fitzhardingo, amongst other matters the following case of local interest was hoard, Messrs Thomas and…

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Farm and Station Notes. Co-operation in Dairying

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 15 October 1898 · page 2

It has long been obvious that the future prosperity of dairy farming in this colony depends to a great extent on the widespread adoption of co-operation for the better…

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Farm Notes

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 15 October 1898 · page 3

It ia proposed to make the tuberculin test compulsory in England. The best judges agree that wheat will be exceedingly low in price this season…

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Dairy Herds

The Kangaroo Valley Times · Tuesday 18 October 1898 · page 2

The production of milk at a profit depends to a largo extents pot the character of the herd and the food upon which the animals are sustained. The only way to…

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The Sunflower Crop

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 October 1898 · page 4

SOME attention is now being given in Australia to the sunflower as a farm crop. Its cultivation is specially recommended in the moderate dry parts…

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Australian Wheat Production

Moruya Examiner · Friday 21 October 1898 · page 2

IT is evidence of the seriousness of the drought in many parts of the Colony that the New South Wales Government has felt called upon to appoint next Sunday a day of…

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Dutch Cattle For Shoalhaven

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 22 October 1898 · page 4

Two competent buyers visited Holland last month, and purchased three bulls and six cows for the New South Wales Government, and two heifers for Dr. Hay, of the…

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