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South Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1917

378 stories in South Coast's papers · page 15 of 19

Agricultural Rotation of Crops. the Effect on Fertility

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 10 September 1917 · page 1

Of figures that show the importance of rotation there are plenty, in the view of some farmers, perhaps, but the latest are certainly remarkable. They…

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The 1000lb. Butter Cow

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 12 September 1917 · page 2

The race for the £1000 prize offered some years ago by the Department of Agriculture for the first cow in New South Wales…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Limb Washing Cow Byres

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 12 September 1917 · page 10

One of the first essentials to the production of clean milk is a clean and sanitary milking shed, and to that end the use of a lime wash is one means…

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The Pig a Profitable Farm By-Product

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 12 September 1917 · page 5

Yankee live stock papers are advising to make up the meat shortage by the larger cultivation of hogs, and the same advice is equally good and sound…

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Mixing Farmyard Manure and Superphosphate

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 12 September 1917 · page 2

It is Suggested, as a result of some experiments, that the fertilising value of superphosphate is enhanced by mixing it with farmyard…

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The Farmer. Pasteurizing Milk Kills Tubercular Germs

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 12 September 1917 · page 2

Milk from tuberculous animals heated, to the temperature of 140deg. F. and held for twenty to twenty-five minutes, will destroy the…

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A Strayed Dairy Cow. and Her Milk Yield

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 12 September 1917 · page 10

It is quite natural for a cow that rears her calf in the wild, or which loses it there, to go dry quickly, says Mr. F. E. Place, Veterinary Lecturer…

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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 14 September 1917 · page 6

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 331…

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Rixon's Special Cattle Sale

Southern Star · Saturday 15 September 1917 · page 2

Wm. Rixon reports having sold over 1100 head of cattle at his special sale on Wednesday last. Buyers were in attendance from Delegate…

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War Time Farming

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 15 September 1917 · page 3

A correspondent of the "Eastern Daily Press," writing on what he designated "The Great Push on the Land," describes a recent scene…

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Wool for Sydney. Government Prepared to Carry It

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 19 September 1917 · page 10

John Bridge and Co., Ltd , send us the following for publication:— In the Sydney "Daily Telegraph" of the 1st inst. there appeared an…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. [Issued by the Department.] the Control of Parasites. in the House and on the Fowls

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 19 September 1917 · page 7

A sharp look-out should now be kept for all kinds of vermin in the poultry-house and on the bodies of the fowls themselves. Poultry…

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The Farmer. Cream Mixing

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 19 September 1917 · page 2

Upon the question of mixing Cream received from various suppliers, Mr. E. H. Farrington, of the Wisconsin dairy school (America)…

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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 21 September 1917 · page 6

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. C. Graharne, M.L.A. Minister [?] Agriculture and are [?] mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 332…

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A Strayed Dairy Cow. And Har Milk Yield

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 21 September 1917 · page 6

It is quite natural for a cow that rears her calf in the wild, or which loses it there, to go dry quickly, says Mr. F. E. Place, Veterinary Lecturer in South…

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Dairying. Lime Washing Cow Byres. a Novel Brush Handle

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 21 September 1917 · page 6

One of the first essentials to the production of clean milk is a clean and [?] milking ahed, and to that and the use of a [?] wash is one means…

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Market Reports Dairy and Farm Produce

Southern Star · Saturday 22 September 1917 · page 1

The Berrima Co reports: Butter: There is still a shortage of local butter and some of the distributing houses are competed to draw large…

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Agricultural a Strayed Dairy Cow. and Her Milk Yield

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 24 September 1917 · page 1

It is quite natural for a cow that rears her calf in the wild, or which loses it there, to go dry quickly, says Mr F E Place, Veterinary Lecturer in…

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The Farmer. Making the Best Butter

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 26 September 1917 · page 2

The difference between first-class butter and poor is only the matter of observing a "few simple precautions and the purchase of a few…

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Dairy Farmers' Milk Co

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 26 September 1917 · page 3

An extraordinary general meeting of shareholders in the Dairy Farmers' Co-operativo Milk Company was held in the Town Hall, Albion Park, on…

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