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Farming & the land, 1908

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Farm and Field. Growing Crops Deposit Lime

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 1 January 1908 · page 3

Recent research has shown that crops in their process of growth leave behind in the soil a residue of lime, which may account for the fact that average crops…

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The Dairy. Municipal Milk Depots

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 1 January 1908 · page 10

The following are the main provisions of the Hill introduced into the House of A Commons by Mr John Burns, President of the Local Government Board,…

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Farm and Field. Growing Crops Deposit Lime

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 3 January 1908 · page 3

Recent research has shown that crops in their process of growth leave behind in the soil a residue of lime, which may account for tho fact that average crops…

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The Dairy. Municipal Milk Depots

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 3 January 1908 · page 3

The following are the main provisions of the Bill introduced into the House of Commons by Mr John Burns, President of the Local Government Board…

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Cattle-Driving. Illegal and Indefensible

The Bega Budget · Saturday 4 January 1908 · page 5

A late cable says: Replying to a deputation of landlords in Dublin, Mr. A. Birrell (Chief-Secretary for Ireland) said cattle-driving was…

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Farm and Field. New Varieties of Seed

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1908 · page 8

A discovery that may ultimately revolutionise farming is announced by a group of Cambridge scientists. Very careful experiments have been made…

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Nowra Butter Factory. Milk for Sydney

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 4

The butter output from the Nowra Co-op. Dairy Co.'s. factory for December was 28 tons. Suppliers were paid at the rate of 9d…

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Dairying Land Values

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 1

Good dairying land in Gippsland brings £10 and £12 per acores in the Taranaki district of New Zealand similar land is worth £30 to £40 an acres. We are not speaking…

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The Dairy. Strive for Quality

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 10

It does not follow that because a farmer has been liberal in his supply of food to his cattle that he obtains a correspondingly high return. Although as…

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Defect in Farmyard Manure

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 3

There is no fertiliser that can be more profitably used on the farm than farmyard manure, the resulting by-product in feeding live stock of all classes. It…

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Farm and Field. Suffolk Punch Horses

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 3

The most distinct type of the various races of British draught horses is undoubtedly the Suffolk Punch, This race has been from time immemorial…

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Manures and Manuring Lecture at Windsor (From “Hawkesbury Herald.”) FARMYARD MANURE.(Continued.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 17 January 1908 · page 8

This is one of the most valuable of manures. In addition to supplying all the ingredients required by plants, these…

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Farm and Field. Progress in Wheat—Growing

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 7

Speaking at a recent meeting of farmers at Georgetown, said that a great improvement had been made in the…

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Farms in a Rich District

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 January 1908 · page 2

Ben Lomend, a [?] in the heart [?] New England has reached the end of its days [?] property. Recently, the place changed [?], and the purchasers have…

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Come-back Wheat

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 22 January 1908 · page 10

Experiments made this season at the Cowra State Farm, New South Wales, go to show that the Come-back variety of wheat is going to establish a…

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Farm and Field. New Varieties of Wheat and Lucerne

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 22 January 1908 · page 10

It is reported that the Botanical branch of the Department of Agriculture at Washington (U.S.A.) has discovered a new type of wheat which vill…

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The Dairy. Milk Fermentations

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 22 January 1908 · page 10

It is not unusual to find persons connected with dairy work whose sole knowledge of fermentative processes is limited to the lactic acid fermentation—…

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Farm and Field. Progress In Wheat-Growing

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1908 · page 3

Speaking at a recent meeting of farmers at Georgetown, South Australia, Professor Custance said that a great Improvement had been made in the…

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The Dairy. Milk Fermentations

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 2

It is not unusual to find persons connected with dairy work whose sole knowledge of fermentative processes is limited to the lactic acid j that which produces the souring or i rioenlnj? of milk or cream. Yet this |…

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Seriously effecting the Farmers

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 4

At the Albion Park Show lunecheon, Mr. M. F. Morton, M.P., said that two questions seriously affecting the farmers in the district were the high…

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