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Farming & the land, 1908

494 stories in South Coast's papers · page 16 of 25

Value of Catch Crops. How to Grow Them

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 31 July 1908 · page 3

The growing of catch crops formed the subject of discussion at a recent meeting of farmers at Crystal Brook, one of the most northerly districts of South…

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Testing Dairy Cows

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 31 July 1908 · page 3

A United States agricultural “Bulletin” suggests that the fat test may be made at frequent intervals, say, once a week. Another bulletin…

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Mortality in Cattle. Dairy Cows Affected

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 1 August 1908 · page 3

An unknown disease has broken out in several dairy herds in the Allora district, Queensland. The cows affected are seized with staggering, which…

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The Diary. Over-run in Butter. an American View

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 1 August 1908 · page 3

How to obtain the proper over run in butter is a matter has been discussed very much of late years. It has claimed the attention of our best…

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Improved Butter Manufacture

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 August 1908 · page 4

An improvident in the manufacture or butter is to be seen in some of the Victorian factories. It consists of a combined churn and…

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Farm and Dairy

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 August 1908 · page 1

When a pig stops growing and only adds on fat he is surely adding on profit to his grower, and it is a chance if he pays for…

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Mortality in Cattle. Dairy Cows Affected

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 5 August 1908 · page 10

An unknown disease has broken out in several dairy herds in the Allora district, Queensland. The cows affected are seized with staggering, which…

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The Dairy. Over-run in Butter. an American View

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 5 August 1908 · page 10

How to obtain the proper over-run in butter is a matter that has been discussed very much of late years. It has claimed the attention of our best…

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Open Column. Dairy Slave Children. (To the Editor)

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 5 August 1908 · page 9

SIR,—After having read R. Aberdeen's letter in your last issue, making a hypothetical attack upon me, I cannot refrain from troubling you again, although I did…

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Farrer Scholarships for Wheat Students

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 7 August 1908 · page 6

WHEN the object of perpetuating the memory of the late William Farrer and his rare achievements in the field of [?] breeding and improvement, the…

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Farm and Dairy

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 7 August 1908 · page 1

Dairying is a profitable business, and you get your pay in cash. There is a difference between…

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Improving the Dairying Industry

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 7 August 1908 · page 8

There is no doubt whatever that the amount of butter produced by our dairy herds is very small in comparision with the number of…

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A Farmers' Party

The Bega Budget · Saturday 8 August 1908 · page 2

In the making of parties, apparently, there is no end. Until the Labor Party came into power, our State Legislature only contained…

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Poet's Corner. on a Dairy Farm

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 10 August 1908 · page 1

Now, this is a tale of a far off land, Where the skies are bright and blue, And of things that many don't understand…

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Farm and Dairy

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 August 1908 · page 1

Rust in wheat is said to cause an annual loss to the world’s cereal crop of more than £100,000,000…

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The Dairy. Keeping Butter

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 12 August 1908 · page 8

A Connecticut station bulletin contains this information:—"Butter does not keep indefinitely, but undergoes deterioration due to several distinct…

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Big Reduction! in the Price of Butter

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 12 August 1908 · page 4

THE BUDGET received the following telegram yesterday afternoon:— "Butter dropped £40 per ton this morning, being a reduction of…

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Dairy Conversazione

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 12 August 1908 · page 9

During the past fortnight a number of factory managers from this and other districts have been attending a Dairy School at Berry, conducted by Messrs O'Callaghan…

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Farm and Field. Agriculture in America

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 12 August 1908 · page 8

The annual report for 1907 of the United States Secretary for Agriculture contains some Interesting information as to the yields of the principal crops. Corn…

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Farm and Dairy

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 14 August 1908 · page 1

The dairy bull should be fed of like a working horse, and should receive plenty of exercise. Work him in tread power…

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