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Farming & the land, 1910

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The Farmer As He Really Is

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 2 July 1910 · page 6

"It takes a devil to Know a devil," was the confession of Mr Aiken, amid screams of laughter, at the festive board at Red Range (says the "Glen…

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Butter Grading

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 6 July 1910 · page 7

The Australian Field is a strong advocate for compulsory grading of butter, and in its last issue says:—Instead of the system in New Zealand being a failure, as contended…

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Illawarra Cattle

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 6 July 1910 · page 7

At the meeting of the Barry Agricultural Society's committee, on Thursday, the letter from the secretary of the Illawarra Dairy Cattle Association, urging the inclusion in…

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Refrigerated Cars for Butter Carriage

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 6 July 1910 · page 1

Last week a meeting of dairy factory managers and directors was held at M'Caffrey's Assembly Hall, Kiama, to discuss the question of approaching the…

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Cookery. Methods of Preserving Butter

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 6 July 1910 · page 5

One way is to well wash the butter to free it from buttermilk, add a little salt, and press it tightly in an earthenware jar—not quite full. Then pour…

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Milking Shorthorn Association. Special Prize for Butter Fat Test

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 6 July 1910 · page 4

The Milking Shorthorn Cattle Association of New South Wales offer a special prize of ten guineas for the highest butter fat test by any cow entered or…

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The Farmer. Lime and Lucerne

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 6 July 1910 · page 8

"A great many farmers," a practical correspondent writes to an American journal, "are speaking about their failures in growing…

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Butter for Export. The Question of Grading

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 8 July 1910 · page 6

THE Minister for Agriculture (the Hon. Julia Perry), who has a sound practical know ledge of the subject, recently made some interesting comments on…

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Worm in Sheep. a Source of Serious Loss to Pastoralists

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 8 July 1910 · page 3

It is a fact which no practical sheep owner will gainsay, that ninny thousands of pounds arc lost annually to [?]ock masters in this country, owing to…

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Farm and Dairy

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 8 July 1910 · page 1

If fed on good hay and plenty of silage, cows need no hard corn foods. A strong tan of wattle-bark…

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Dairy Science School. For the Middle Northern Rivers

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 8 July 1910 · page 6

THE Department of Agriculture, in pursuance of its policy of instruction in the scientific side of the dairying industry, proposes to conduct another…

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Importation of Dairy Cattle Into N.s.w

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 9 July 1910 · page 2

EARLY in the year the Minister for Agriculture made an offer to the dairy farmers of this State to assist them by undertaking to bring out, with…

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Depraved Appetite in Cattle. Bone Hewing

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 9 July 1910 · page 8

Cattle suffering from this disease have a capricious and variable appetite as regards their ordinary feed, but evince a strong desire to lick and eat substances for which healthy cattle…

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A South Shoalhaven Appeal. Hyam's Mayfield Farm

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 9 July 1910 · page 8

Mr Elliott, P.M., at the Nowra court on Tuesday last, heard an appeal by David Hyam against the valuation of a farm of 60 acres at…

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Butter

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 11 July 1910 · page 7

Prescott, Limited, Sussex-street, Sydney, report:--The market remained unaltered until Thursday, when prices advanced to 118s for…

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Wheat Crop Failure

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 July 1910 · page 2

The Manitoba Wheat crop is the worst for year, the conditions filling famers with gloomy forebodings. One big operator declares that the crop will…

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Farm and Dairy

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 July 1910 · page 1

New Zealand is coming into line as one of the exporters of pedigree stock and is shipping largely to South America…

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Against Butter Grading

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 13 July 1910 · page 11

That there is strong opposition to compulsory grading is very evident, and it seems that most of the weight, which is great, of the co-operative interests, is…

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The Farmer. Sterilisation by Light

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 13 July 1910 · page 10

Milk is now being sterilised in Paris by submitting it to the action of ultra violet rays, thus avoiding the use of heat or treatment by…

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Educational Lectures for Farmers' Sons

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 13 July 1910 · page 7

The Department of Agriculture is making an important move to bring within the sphere of the young people engaged on the land opportunities of acquiring, by means of…

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