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Farming & the land, 1918

331 stories in South Coast's papers · page 8 of 17

Heavier Potato Crops. Value of Immature Seed

The Cobargo Chronicle · Saturday 18 May 1918 · page 4

The relation between selected seed mid payable craps is recognised by successful potato growers in this State, but if it were not that old haphazard…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes [Issued by the Department.] Testing of Pure-bred Cows. How It Progresses in New South Wales

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 22 May 1918 · page 1

Addressing the Council of the United Pure-bred Cattle Breeders' Association at the annual meeting in Sydney, during the R.A.S., the…

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Two Black Sheep

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 24 May 1918 · page 5

The architect and the painter sat near the door of their tent, pitched among the she[?] on a small stretch of [?] near…

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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 24 May 1918 · page 6

These Notes are issued every week under the personal experience of the Hon. W. C. Grahame. M. L. A. Minister of Agriculture and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 387…

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Will They Want Butter ? British Used to Margarine. Melbourne

The Nowra Leader · Friday 24 May 1918 · page 4

That it was generally held that after the war margarine would take the place of butter to a very great extent as an article of diet throughout Europe was…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Sudan Grass. a Profitable Fodder Crop

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 25 May 1918 · page 3

A good deal of attention has been directed of late to this grass, and some of the reports that have been received as to its capacity for yielding…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes Elephant Grass. Yields Heavy Crops of Palatable Fodder

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 29 May 1918 · page 6

Introduced into New South Wales Borne three or four years ago; Elephant or Napier's Fodder grass has already given such promising yields…

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Dairying. Inferior Cream. and Some More Reasons for It

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 29 May 1918 · page 6

How to prevent cream from being graded as inferior, was the subject of a paper read before the Kyogle branch of the Agricultural Bureau…

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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 31 May 1918 · page 6

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervisors of the Hon. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 768…

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Dairying. Testing of Pure-bred Cows. How It Progresses in New South Wales

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1918 · page 6

Addressing the Council of the United Pure-bred Cattle Breeders Association at the annual meeting in Sydney, during the R.A.S., the Acting Dairy Expert…

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Sudan Grass. a Profitable Fodder Crop

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1918 · page 6

A good deal of attention has been directed of late to this grass, and some of the reports that have been received as to its capacity for yielding heavy…

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Jellat Cattle Sale

The Bega Budget · Saturday 1 June 1918 · page 2

As was anticipated there was a big attendance at the Jellat Jellat sale of live stock and farming plant on Wednesday and…

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Profit on Resale of Butter

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 1 June 1918 · page 1

When Australian producers sold up to 30,000 tons of last season's surplus butter to the British Government at 151s per cwt ([?]b. Australia), most…

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Proof Against Cold. Fish, Sheep, Rabbits

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Saturday 1 June 1918 · page 1

A hedgehog picked up in the curious torpid state which we call "hibernation" has been immersed in water for twenty minutes without…

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Big Cattle Sale. Dispersal of the Ritchie Estate Herds

Southern Star · Saturday 1 June 1918 · page 2

The sale of dairy herds in the estate of the late Robert Richie on Wednesday and Thursday attracted probably the largest attendance ever…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes Dairying. the Age for Freshening. a Timely Question

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 5 June 1918 · page 8

An American dairy-farmer lately put to "Hoard's Dairyman" the timely question: "Under the present world's shortage of food, and especially…

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Farm Labor

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1918 · page 4

This question is agitating tho minds of the people, the world over. Collier’s Weekly prints the following statement in a recent issue: Our American farms have always been…

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Dairying. Inferior Cream. And Some More Reasons For It

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1918 · page 6

How to prevent cream from being graded ns inferior, was the subject of a paper read before the Kyogle branch of the Agricultural Bureau by Mr…

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Elephant Grass [?]is Heavy Crops of Palatable Fodder

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1918 · page 6

[?] South Wales [?] years ago. Elephant [?] grass has already [?] of [?]…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. [Issued by the Department.] Dairying. Accidental Abortion in the Herd. Some Unsuspected Cause

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 12 June 1918 · page 6

How easily contagious abortion can be communicated in a herd and from one herd to another, and with what suspicion any possible…

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