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Farming & the land, 1905

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Farm and Field. Pasture and Rye Grass

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 26 July 1905 · page 4

A leaflet issued by the Irish Department of Agriculture on the laying down of land to permanent pasture does not give any encouragement to the…

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The Butter Market

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 27 July 1905 · page 2

Foley Bros, report:—Confirming our last week s report, with a firm tendency prices were held and stocks cleared whilst [?] a…

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Durham Cattle Discussion at Dapto

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 27 July 1905 · page 2

On Wednesday evening members of the Dapto A. and H. Society had an opportunity of participating in an interesting discussion with regard to…

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Special Butter Report. (To the Editor.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 28 July 1905 · page 4

The enclosed correspondence must interest your readers and we hope you will find room for same in your columns. A vigilance committee from…

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Farm Notes. (From Various Sources.) Potatoes From Seed

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 28 July 1905 · page 1

To produce a strong, vigorous potato with good eating and Keeping qualities, we must select for its parents varieties possessing these qualities; and by…

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The Boxing of Butter

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 29 July 1905 · page 7

The Nowra co-operative Dairy Company like other companies of the kind on the South Coast, has under consideration the question of adopting a process recently…

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Farm and Field. Potato Manuring

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 29 July 1905 · page 3

One of the recent lectures to farmers under the auspices of the Essex Education Committee (England) gave the results of an experiment in the manuring…

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Farm Notes. (From Various Sources.) Pig Breeding

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 August 1905 · page 1

To start successfully in the breeding of pigs, care should be taken to [?] that the sow comes from a mother which is an easy feeder…

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A Butter Exchange

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 2 August 1905 · page 4

The Southern Star (Bega), referring to the work of the Select Committee of the N.S.W. Parliament now inquiring into the beet means of improving the trade and quality of…

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Why Butter Goes Rancid. Some Hints to Prevent It

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 2 August 1905 · page 2

There is a peculiar form of bacteria which, when it finds a proper place in which to multiply, develops an acid with a well-known and well-liked flavor. This…

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Farm and Field. Manufacturing Alcohol From Potatoes in Germany

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 2 August 1905 · page 2

The manufacture of alcohol from potatoes is an important industry on the Continent of Europe, and more especially in Germany. The extent of the industry…

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[?]Es for Cattle

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 3 August 1905 · page 2

The sub-commiteee appointed by the Shoalhaven Agricultural Society to revise the cattle sections of the schedule met on Saturday last. There were…

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Farm Notes. (From Various Sources.) New Process of Butter-making

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 4 August 1905 · page 1

A committee of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia has just made public its report on the Taylor process for butter-making. It…

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A Butter Exchange

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 5 August 1905 · page 2

THE Southern Star (Bega), referring to the work of the Select Committee of the N.S.W. Parliament now inquiring [?] means of improving [?]…

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Butter up a [?]

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 5 August 1905 · page 3

THE conference of delegates from co-operative butter-making establishments which met in Sydney on Thursday decided butter should be a halfpenny per 1b, dearer from yesterday…

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The Disposal of Butter

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 5 August 1905 · page 1

[?] M. F. Morton, M.O., has caused [?] a commotion in dairying circles [?] his suggestion the butter be dis[?] of at open competition instead…

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Farm and Field. a Novel Wife Stretcher

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 5 August 1905 · page 3

A power full wire [?] may be made of a round place of hardwood, 3 feet long and 7 inches in diameter. As each and cut off a strip all around so…

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Farm and Field. The Value of Rape for Pigs

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 9 August 1905 · page 4

Many experiments have been conducted at one time or other in the States and elsewhere with the object of estimating the value of the rape crop for…

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Farm Notes. (From Various Sources.) Investigations Into Feeding and Milk

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 11 August 1905 · page 1

In the extended data of Milk investigations at Gerforth, published in the Transactions” of the Highland and Agricultural Society, the following…

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The Biggest Farm in the World

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 11 August 1905 · page 3

On the northern boundry of Okla home U.S.A. lies the biggest form in the world. It is based by a Mrs G.W. Miller, and co[?]wins over…

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