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Farming & the land, 1908

494 stories in South Coast's papers · page 21 of 25

Splendid Dairy Farms

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 10 October 1908 · page 8

Mr. M. A. O'Callaghan, the Government Dairy Expert, in speaking at a Glen Innes Show dinner some time ago, gave it as his opinion that the…

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The Fairy. and the Farmer

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 10 October 1908 · page 3

Dion Clayton Calthrop writes in the "Daily Mail" of July 21:— A farmer stood at the door of his farm and finished his pint of ale…

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Farm and Dairy. Lucerne for Dairy Cows

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 October 1908 · page 1

D. H. Otis, professor of animal nutrition at the College of Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin, has just completed a…

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Assisting Farmers. Conservation of Fodder

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 October 1908 · page 4

The Minis[?] has been consisting the important question of existing [?]…

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Splendid Dairying Farms

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 14 October 1908 · page 6

Mr M. A. O'Callaghan, the Government dairy expert, in speaking at a Glen Innes show dinner some time ago, gave it as his opinion that tho Glen Innes district was one…

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American Farm Language

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 14 October 1908 · page 5

The American and the Australian farmer both talk the same language, but with variations. In the United States a farm is a ranch, a farmer or…

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Dairy Notes. Cause of Tuberculosis. Effects of Milk Consumption

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 14 October 1908 · page 12

At the annual congress of the Royal Institute of Public Health, held last month in England, Dr A. M. Fraser, medical officer for Portsmouth,…

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Agriculture Etc. Farm and Field. Eradication of Dodder

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 14 October 1908 · page 12

Spraying with a solution of sulphate of Iron is a means of destroying dodder on clover, which has proved successful in Germany. Dr Hiltner Direstor of the…

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Farm and Dairy

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 16 October 1908 · page 1

Lucerne hay, boiled potatoes, separated milk, and a little barley and pea-meal make on ideal feed for brood sows…

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The Cattle Market

The Bega Budget · Saturday 17 October 1908 · page 4

E. I. Pell reports having yarded at the special sale last Wednesday 722 head of cattle out of which 469 head were sold. The lots that were…

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Export of Butter

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 21 October 1908 · page 4

Mr Meares, manager of the Coastal Farmers' Co operative Society, Limited, who lately returned from a visit to England, has stated his views on the subject of the…

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The Cattle Market

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 21 October 1908 · page 2

Wm. Rixon reports having held a successful sale of cattle at McKee's yards, Towamba, Friday, 16th inst.: 200 head were yarded…

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Agriculture, Etc. Farm and Field. Agricultural Education

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 21 October 1908 · page 10

For some time past a board of inquiry, appointed by the British Board of Agriculture, has been taking evidence in various parts of Great Britain…

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Dairy Notes. Dehorning Calves. Caustic Potash Directions

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 21 October 1908 · page 10

In most dairying countries dehorning is now resorted to among the herds. It tends to make the animals more docile. Caustic potash is the chemical used…

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Dairying in Japan

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 21 October 1908 · page 10

There was a time when milk was regarded in Japan with the same abhorrence as cheese in China. Recent statistics, however, show that time has…

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Farm and Dairy

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 23 October 1908 · page 1

The value of carrots as a winter food for pigs has been proved by a farmer in the Fielding (N.Z.) district, who goes in…

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Making the Farmers Pay

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 23 October 1908 · page 7

Recently a number of farmers resident about five miles from Gilgandra, on the Gilgandra to Balladoran section, made an application…

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Farm and Dairy

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 October 1908 · page 1

Potatoes, like other crops, need plant food. Stinginess in the use of fertilisers is poor business policy…

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Molasses As Cattle Feed. a German Experience

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 28 October 1908 · page 8

A correspondent to a German paper gives a description of the manner in which molasses is being used as a cattle food. At the present moment the…

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Farm and Dairy

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 30 October 1908 · page 1

The food value of three tons of well-made ensilage is equal to one ton of oaten hay. The abandonment of farms…

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