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Farming & the land, 1907

444 stories in South Coast's papers · page 6 of 23

Should Cattle Judges Be Trained ?

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 29 March 1907 · page 3

Disagreements are common among judges at agricultural shows (writes “Spero” in the “Live Stock Journal”), especially as regards animals which…

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Farm and Field. "Bishoping” A Horse’s Month

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 29 March 1907 · page 3

In these days of scarcity in the horse supply, various artifices, writes the “Chicago Breeders’ Cassette,” are resorted to in order to make the animal…

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Applying Farmyard Manure

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 29 March 1907 · page 3

When farmyard manure is carted from the heap to the field, it is best, if possible, to distribute it over the land without delay. Care should be taken to…

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Points of a Good Dairy Cow

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 29 March 1907 · page 7

On the second day of the Tenterfield Show, at the Showground, a very instructive lecture was given by Mr. O’Callaghan, Dairy Expert…

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Churns Butter Quirkly

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 4 April 1907 · page 4

A Kansas farmer is the inventor of the churn herewith shown. The body of the churn has a cover supporting a movable frame, to which the operative…

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Barley For Dairy [?]

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 4 April 1907 · page 2

Barley is fed everywhere to cows In Denmark and where used In this country gives satisfaction. Here, however, wheat bran la much cheaper and much…

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Hints for Farmers [?]

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 4 April 1907 · page 2

Boots are [?] productive and doubtless yield under favourable culture more [?] food than can be grown upon the same given area of…

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Feeding the Farm Horse

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 4 April 1907 · page 2

The noon meal of horses should he the most concentrated feed. Feed most of the grain then and but little hay. At night give the most hay. It is not…

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Large Returns From Dairying

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1907 · page 2

From time to time returns are published showing the profits made from dairying in Victoria, but none equal to the following, which…

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Wrinkles and Folds on Merino Sheep

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 6 April 1907 · page 2

"For years past," writes Mr W. H. Webb in the "Sydney Mall," "it bus been shown that the best sheep are the most wrinkly. They win the prizes under our…

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Farm and Field. Early Maturity

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 6 April 1907 · page 2

"Early maturity" was very much to the fore at the Chicago fat stock show last December. Not only was the championship awarded to a bullock only 11…

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Some Dairying Definition

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 6 April 1907 · page 8

Milch cow: The name applied to N.S.W. Treasury by bankrupt municipalities which need assistance…

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The Buckscraper. a Usefull Implement in Farm, Orchard, and Other Work

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 6 April 1907 · page 7

I HAVE been struck in the course of my visits to many parts of the State by the absence of good scoops for levelling land for orchard and other purposes, and I have had many inquires as to where such an implement could be obtained. The several sketches which I herewith give will serve to illustrate…

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Filthy Farmers

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 10 April 1907 · page 8

There must be some very dirty dairy farmers in this country, if certain statements made at the conference of factory managers in Sydney last week are true…

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Commercial. Sale of Dairy Farms

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 11 April 1907 · page 2

Mr W. M. Hunt reports having sold the 155. icres farm tenanted by Mr Frank Smith (Meroo Meadow), and the 109-acres farm, tenanted, by Mr…

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Wrinkles and Folds on Merino Sheep

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1907 · page 6

“For years past, ” writes Mr. W. H. Webb in the “Sydney Mail.” “It has been shown that the last sheep are the more wrinkly. They win the prizes under our…

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Farm and Filed. Early Maturity

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1907 · page 6

“Early maturity” was very much to the [?] at the [?] fat stock show last December. net only was the championship awarded to a [?] only 11…

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The Buckscraper. a Useful Implement in Farm, Orchard, and Other Work

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1907 · page 3

I HAVE been struck in the course of my visits to many pails of the State by the absence of good scoops for levelling land for orchard and other purposes, and I have had many inquiries as to whore such an implement, could be obtained. The several sketches which I herewith give will serve to illustrate…

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The Dairy. Chrese V. Butter

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1907 · page 2

Mr Mackle, the British representative of the National Dairy Association when addressing a recent meeting of dairy farmers. at Carterton, New Zealand, on…

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Farm and Field

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1907 · page 2

British Market Prospects for 1907. Writing on the market prospects for 1907, "Weddell's Annual Report" says that the general trade of the United…

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