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South Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1911

608 stories in South Coast's papers · page 9 of 31

Dairy Produce. Butter for Export. Continuous Judging Competition

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 1 May 1911 · page 10

This contest is one of the severest tests that can be applied to the ordinary output of the factories. There can be no making of special boxes…

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Dairy Cattle. Milking Shorthorns. Judge, Mr. Donald M'Nab

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 1 May 1911 · page 5

Bull, A years old and over.--Scottish Australian Investment Co., Ltd's, Embelm of Darbalara, 1 and champion; F. A. MaoKenzie's Waverley Hero, 2; Alick Frederick…

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Bill Squires--champion Wheat Grower

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 1 May 1911 · page 2

What Bill Squires failed to do in the boxing arena he has quickly accomplished in the agricultural. Taking up one of the Government…

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Beef Cattle. Shorthorns. Judge, Mr. Donald H. Potts

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 1 May 1911 · page 4

Bull, 4yrs. and over.--Sir R. T. H. Clarke's Bart., Lindenow Duke of Derrimut 19th, 1; trustees of late J. H. Angus's Connaught 83rd, 2: John Nixon's Lord…

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Dairy Breeds

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 1 May 1911 · page 5

The dairy cattle were numerically much stronger than last year The quality exhibited was on the whole, better, though several of last…

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Practical Agriculture. Original Articles. Specially written for this column. All Rights Reserved. Dry Farming Is Not Fallow

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 1 May 1911 · page 6

Dry farming is generally, understood to be the method of ploughing land and keeping it well stirred during one season so as to hold enough…

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Clydesdales. (Active Farm)

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 1 May 1911 · page 3

The active draughts are confined to one class for each sex, and in the stallion' class Caffrey and Murphy headed the list with a good actioned…

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Lever Brothers, Ltd. Farm Produce. an Attractive Exhibit

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 1 May 1911 · page 10

Our illustration herewith should convey to the mind of the reader a very fair conception of what the headquarters of Messrs. Lever Brothers Judges: Messrs. G. L. Sutton, G. Bryant, J. A. Munro, F. Turnbull. Collection of Farm Produce for Consumption. £65 for the best collection of farm…

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Farmers' Clubs

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 3 May 1911 · page 2

The Professor of an American agricultural college talks sound sense in thus discussing a matter that farmers give too little consideration to:—…

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The Farmer. Molasses in Stock-feeding

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 3 May 1911 · page 8

Flavor is an important factor in the feed of stock. A correspondent describes that when feeding a number of pigs with kitchen refuse he added barley meal and some…

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The Poultry Farm. Introducing Fresh Blood

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 5 May 1911 · page 1

The poultry-keeper who aims at building tip or maintaining a heavy laying strain needs to lie just as careful in introducing fresh blood…

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The Butter Business

Southern Star · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 4

SPEAKING at Wingham of the present system of fixing the price of Butter, Mr. D. A. M'Donald (Chairman of the Manning River…

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Sydney Show Butter

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 5

No doubt others like ourselves were im­pressed with the apparent fact that the butter from the local factory, in the con­tinuous judging for the local consumption…

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Moisture in Butter. Danish Averages

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 3

Permanent butter exhibitions are held at the Danish Government Laboratory for Agricultural Research. The annual report for 1910 shows that 970 dairies…

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World's Champion Dairy Cow

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 3

The world's champion dairy cow is said to be Missouri Chief Josephine, a Holstein-Friesian, owned by the College of Agriculture, University of Missouri…

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The Dairy. Poor Cows

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 3

Only the rich can efford to keep poor cows, and they don't and the poorer a man is the better his few cows should be it holds to make a…

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Agriculture in Japan. Chief Crops

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 3

The Director of the Agricultural Bureau of Japan has written a book of 132 pages, entitled "Outlines of Agriculture in Japan." It is shown that…

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Cattle

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 8 May 1911 · page 9

Pitt[?]on & Badgery, Ltd., 4 O'Connell street, report: 1834 yarded. Competition was free, but values scarcely equal to last day…

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Cattle in Japan

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 8 May 1911 · page 6

There are in Japan, nearly one and a-quarter million cattle, or nine per square mile. This number is small compared with England but it must…

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Utilising Farm Wast[?]

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 8 May 1911 · page 6

The next great stop in farm waste may be a change in the manufacture of paper, as the wood fibre available may be exhausted within a comparatively…

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