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Farming & the land, 1907

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The Dairy, Diarrhoea in Calves. Disastrous But Preventible

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 9 October 1907 · page 8

Diarrhoea is a disease well-known in all countries where dairying is carried on. Investigations have been wide, extended, and searching…

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Numba Farms

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 10 October 1907 · page 2

Mr. T. Watson has decided to leave Kangaroo Valley, and is negotiating for the purchase of one of Mr Pritchard a farms at Numba. So we are…

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The Dairy Acidity in Cheese-making

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 11 October 1907 · page 3

Since the introduction of the [?]meter in cheese-making, Canadians have been developing from 1 to 1.2 per cent, acid on the curds—or. more correctly, in…

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Preserving Farm-yard Manure

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 11 October 1907 · page 3

Overheating of farmyard manure is avoided by keping the mass well compressed. This is secured, according to a lea[?] issued by the Board of…

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Farm and Field. Care of Farm Machinery

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 11 October 1907 · page 3

Considering the money a farmer has to invest in agricultural machinery one would think there would be no need to draw attention to the necessity of talking…

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Dairy Cattle Condemned

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 12 October 1907 · page 4

At 181 premises licensed under the Dairies Supervision Act inspected by the officers of the Health Department in the Cootamundra Wallendbeen,…

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The Standard Bushel of Wheat

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 12 October 1907 · page 7

Speaking at a meeting of farmers held at Mallala, South Australia, to consider the question of the standard weight of wheat per bushel, Mr J. Nairn expressed…

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Farm and Field. Nitrate of Soda Deposits

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 12 October 1907 · page 7

The only source from which natural nitrate of soda is at present obtained is from the deposits in the northern part of the Republic of Chill, in the…

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Farm Leakages

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 12 October 1907 · page 7

Under the heading of "Some Farm Leakages" the "Michigan Farmer" supplies a lengthy list of minor wastes which eat into the profits of the…

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Water Supply Oh the Farm

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 12 October 1907 · page 7

A farmer in Ohio writes thus of his troubles with water on his holding. He had a well in a field 200 yards from which he had to pump water for the…

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Conserving Farmyard Manure

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 16 October 1907 · page 5

In the proper conservation of farmyard manure the objects to be aimed at are to prevent the loss of compounds containing nitrogen, potash and…

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Farm and Field. Difference in Plant Food

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 16 October 1907 · page 5

In a bulletin published by the Ontario Department of Agriculture, there are some interesting remarks on the above subject. Plants, like animals, differ…

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The Dairy, the Fat in Cream

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 16 October 1907 · page 8

The fat in cream is present in the form of globules. In cream the fats are concentrated, inasmuch as they are much more numerous in the same volume…

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Dairy and Farm

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 17 October 1907 · page 2

Kameruka Estate is erecting twelve tub silos. Lucerne crops around Bega are well withstanding the dry spell…

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Water Supply on the Farm

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 18 October 1907 · page 3

A farmer in Ohio writes thus of his troubles with water on his holding. He had a well in a field 200 yards from which he had to pump water for the…

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The Dairy. Diarrhoea in Calves. Disastrous But Preventible

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 18 October 1907 · page 3

Diarrhoea is a disease well-known in all countries where dairying is carried on. Investigations have been wide, extended, and searching…

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Farm Leakages

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 18 October 1907 · page 3

Under the heading of “Some Farm Leakages” the “Michigan Farmer” supplies a lengthy list of minor wastes which cut into the profits of the…

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Farm and Field. Nitrate of Soda Deposits

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 18 October 1907 · page 3

The only [?] from which [?] rate of soda is at prevent [?] is from the deposits in the northern part of the Republic of Chill, in the…

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Australian v. Danish Butter

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 19 October 1907 · page 8

A contradiction is given in a letter published in the London "Morning Post" by Mr. E. T. Doxat, managing director of Dalgety and Co., to an…

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Farm and Field. Mixed Strains for Sheep Breeding

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 23 October 1907 · page 3

Many farmers in prchasing rams keep shifting from one breed to another, thinking that they are producing lambs of greater stamina and profit producing…

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