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Farming & the land, 1905

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Dairy Slump in New Zealand

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 31 January 1905 · page 2

“Canterbury Times” says there is a slump in dairy stock in Rangitikei and contiguous districts. Quite a number of dairy formers on suitable country—…

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Farm Notes. (From Various Sources.) Rhodes Grass

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 31 January 1905 · page 1

There is a splendid sample of Rhodes Grass — the great drought-resisting grass recently introduced from South Africa—to be seen at the Wolumla…

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Illawarra Farming

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 1 February 1905 · page 9

The agricultural reporter of the Australasian has a fling at the South Coast dairy man in the following terms:- It a souse the Illawarra district, to one…

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The Price of Butter

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 2 February 1905 · page 2

In consequence of the drought in the mid-coast and south coast districts milk supplies have fallen to such an extent that the top price of butter in…

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Dairying Slump in New Zealand

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 2 February 1905 · page 4

Canterbury “Times” says that there is a slump m dairy stock in Rangitikei and contiguous districts. Quite a number of dairy farmers on…

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Farm Notes. (From Various Sources.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 3 February 1905 · page 1

Professor 11.11. Dean, in the twenty-sixth annual report of the Ontario Agricultural College, makes some remarks on a number of tests that were…

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Farm Gossip. Why Horses Shy.—Horse Shoeing

Southern Star · Saturday 4 February 1905 · page 4

THE horse seldom fears any object unless at appears suddenly; therefore the way to break a horse of shying is not to whip it when it obeys the instinct of its…

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Dairy Slump in New Zealand

Southern Star · Saturday 4 February 1905 · page 4

"CANTERBURY Times" says that there is a slump in dairy stock in Rangitikei and contiguous districts. Quite a number of dairy farmers on suitable…

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The Co-operative Craze. a Few Side-lights. of Interest to Dairyfarmers

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 4 February 1905 · page 3

Thus “Demos” in the “Bemboka Advocate”:— “There is a mild contagious disease spreading throughout the land, commonly known as co-operation, which appears to be sapping the…

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Farm Notes. (From Various Sources.) About Pig Keeping

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 February 1905 · page 1

There are a good many daily farmers who keep, or who have kept pigs, yet who argue that pig-keeping will not pay. From their standpoint,…

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Butter Commission

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 8 February 1905 · page 8

The members of the Butter Commission presented their second interim report last week. Strong comments are made upon the practice of granting secret rebates, which is…

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Grading Dairy Herds

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 8 February 1905 · page 3
Also in Southern Star

It is very important that dairy farmers should grade up their herds, but many who make the attempt and think they are succeeding are going on wrong lines…

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Farming Notes

Southern Star · Wednesday 8 February 1905 · page 4

Bendigo has put up what is believed to be a record. The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Swinburne) proceeded there recently, and found…

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The Butter Commission

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 10 February 1905 · page 4

THE Butter Commission has ended its long season of inquiry, it has struggled with the evidence of many witnesses, it has revealed artful and [?]…

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Farm Notes. (From Various Sources.) Cheap Irrigation

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 10 February 1905 · page 1

Mr. Rivers, a dairyman near Tumut, has installed an irrigation plant—a 3 h. p. engine, with a centrifugal pump—on the bank of the Gilmore Creek, at…

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Nowra Butter Factory

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 11 February 1905 · page 2

Mr A. Jarman has been appointed foreman buttermaker and Mr J. Hill (late of shellbarbour) refrigerating engineer for the Nowra Co-operative Dairy Co,'s butter…

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The Butter Scandal. to the Editor of the Beery Register

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 11 February 1905 · page 2

SIR,— the Royal Commission hold in Melbourne and subsequent events. I will first of all state that I was subpoenaed to give evidence at the Royal Commission,…

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The Dairy Farmer and the Over-run." Mr. O'callaghan in Reply to Mr.meares. a New Development

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 11 February 1905 · page 2

(From the N.S.W Agriculture Gazette.) Quit recently at a meeting at Berry, the manager of the Coastal Farmers Co-operative Company after having…

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Farm Settlers and [?] Registration

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 11 February 1905 · page 4

Mr M. F. Morton, M.P., has received the following communication from the Chief Secretary's office, dated 25th January:— In reply to your…

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