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Farming & the land, 1912

527 stories in South Coast's papers · page 7 of 27

Wool Trade With China

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 8

Speaking at the recent [?] Sydney to [?] of the new Chinese [?] Mr. James Chucy, president of the [?]…

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Butter Making. Causes of Inferiority

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 6

Some of the pauses of inferior quality in butter are a want, of cleanliness in dealing with the milk, leaving, the cream so long on the milk that it…

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A New Butter Box. Made of Galvanised Iron

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 6

A London correspondent states that Mr. H. Allen, of Colonial House. Tooley street, has invented and patented a butter box, which he is…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 2

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the J. L. Trefle, Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. The Department can selve many problems concerning the land and production which would be impracticables to the individual producer…

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Profitable Dairying

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 6

A very interesting paper has been published by Mr. A. M. Draper, of Banneckburn, Dear Inverell, New South Wales, giving the result of dairying on…

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The Dairy. Breeding Pigs. Question of Rations

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 6

The feeding of pigs, with special reference to their development for breeding purpose, is the subject of a special report which has just been issued by…

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Poultry. Fowls on the Colony System. the Methods on a Large Farm

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 6

If the ordinary farmer keeping a few scores or hundreds of flows with plenty of grassland to run them on, the colony system will always take first place…

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Manure and Baking Properties of Wheat

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 10

A question frequently debated, when farmers and bakers meet together, is—what effect, if any, has manure on the baking properties of…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 6

These Notes will be issued every week, tinder the direction of the Honorary Minister for Agriculture (Hon. J. L, Trefle), and are based mainly on the experiments of the…

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The Farmer. Electric Plant Culture

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 10

A German process, the patent of Mr. Mies, of electric culture for plants, and electric impetus to seed germination, was the subject of an…

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Mr. F. McGaffrey as a Dairy Cattle Judge

The Nowra Leader · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 3

Mr Frank McCaffrey (states the Kiama "Reporter") is as well and favorably known in Queensland, as in New South Wales as an advocate of the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 6

[?] of [?] of the Department. [?] which would be [?] producer…

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State Dairy Farm. Action in Western Australia. Perth

The Nowra Leader · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 5

The Government proposed to utilised 400 acres of the Claremont Asylum reserve for a State dairy farm, carrying 70 cows, to supply the hospitals…

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Departmental Notes. Tuberculosis Dairy Herds

The Nowra Leader · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 2

In a paper read recently, by Professor Stewart, Professor of Veterinary, Science, Sydney University, before the Australian Association for the…

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Illawarra Dairy Cattle for Victoria

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 23 March 1912 · page 4

The lower Gippsland district of Vic-toria has been enriched by a consign-ment of five bulls and four beifers of the Illawarra breed. Dairymen in…

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Amount of Rain Needed to Produce a Payable Wheat Crop

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 23 March 1912 · page 2

Regarding the number of inches of rain needed for the production of a payable crop, some valuable lessons have been learned during the past…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Tuberculin Test Compulsory

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 23 March 1912 · page 8

The compulsory application of the tuberculin test for the eradication of bovine tuberculosis in this State has from time to time been Advocated by persons possessing abundance of…

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Age of Cattle. Teeth As Indicators

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 23 March 1912 · page 6

1.-Yearling. (Full mouth of temporary incisors). 2.—One Tear and Ten Months. (Central permanent incisors well…

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A Troublesome Sheep Disease. No. 43

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 23 March 1912 · page 2

THE Inspector of Stock at Cobar, in the March number of the Agricultura, Gazette, directs attention to a disease in sheep which is becoming widespread…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 23 March 1912 · page 2

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon.J.L. Trefle, Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. The Department can solve many problems concerning the land and production which would be impracticable to the individual producer…

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