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Farming & the land, 1926

237 stories in South Coast's papers · page 7 of 12

The Lazy Farmer

The Nowra Leader · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 2

My neighbour's pigs are doing fine, they're nearly twice as big as mines they're in the lucerne up to their neck, that's why they grow so…

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Bath-Tub As Boat For Bridal Party. Resourceful Farmer

The Nowra Leader · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 2

A remarkable story of an outback father's resourcefulness in romantic circumstances is told by Bathurst drovers who have returned from a…

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Farmers of Russia For Soviet. Land Divided Among the People

The Nowra Leader · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 2

Outside forces cannot change Russia's form of government. Military pressure from invading forces without always served to harden the…

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Five-Acre Farms. On The Shoalhaven. Money in Vegetables

The Nowra Leader · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 6

£1000 a year from pocket-hand kerchief five-acre farms ! It sounds too good to be true. Yet Nowra, the terminus of the South…

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Importation of Butter

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 3 July 1926 · page 2

Australia exports quite a lot of buller, but if imports more than it ought to do. In the House of Representatives the other day the…

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Cattle More Buoyant

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 10 July 1926 · page 2

Messrs. Stewart and Morton report good sales of cattle, and at Mr. J. Hanigan's sale cows brought up to £10/10, bulls to £12, and poddies to…

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Dairying

The Bega District News · Monday 12 July 1926 · page 4

"Feed is the source of milk, and the consumption of a large amount of feed on the part of the cow is highly essential,” writes Professor…

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Depraved Appetite in Cattle As a Result of Deficiency in the Pasture

The Bega District News · Thursday 15 July 1926 · page 6

An interesting, illustration of the relationship between depraved appetite in animals and phosphorus shortage in the pasturds given by…

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Successful Cattle Sale

The South Coast Register · Friday 16 July 1926 · page 3

Mr. F. A. Wallis, the local Cattle King, reports a successful sale of cattle at Leeton, where he recently disposed of 200 head. Store cows…

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Send-off to Mr and Mrs Farmer

The Bega District News · Monday 19 July 1926 · page 4

On Tuesday evening 6th instant pra[?]ca[?]y the whole of the residents of Tanja and Wapengo ra[?]l[?]ed at Tanja hall to say farewell and…

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Farming in U.S.A. As Others See It

The Bega District News · Thursday 22 July 1926 · page 6

The great farming industry in the United Stages is not the ideal business that we are generally led to believe. Writing from Albany, New…

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Cattle Brands At Nowra Council

The South Coast Register · Friday 23 July 1926 · page 5

As the outcome of a letter from Mr. Win. Thomson, read at last meeting, in which Mr. Thomson claimed a refund of money on…

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Impounded Cattle. Claim For Refund Of Fees

The Nowra Leader · Friday 23 July 1926 · page 4

At Nowra Council meeting on Monday night the Mayor (Ald. Rauch said that a fortnight ago a letter had been received from A. J. Evans, per W…

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Crop Rotation and Soil Fertility

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Saturday 24 July 1926 · page 2

In the practice of crop rotation a farmer has at his command a means whereby he can materially reduce or increase the output of his land…

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For the Farm Housewife. the Pulping Up Fruit

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Saturday 24 July 1926 · page 1

Pulping is an economical method of preserving all deciduous and berry fruits It is easily and quickly done, and does not require any expensive…

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Sorghum Crop Results

The Bega District News · Thursday 29 July 1926 · page 2

The Department • of - Agriculture has just supplied Mr T.- J. Kelly, of Tanja, with results of his sorghum experimental plot. The Departmental…

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Cropping of Fruit Trees Bearing Habits of Different . VARIETIES

The Bega District News · Thursday 29 July 1926 · page 6

When the bearing habits of the different kinds of fruit trees are understood it is possible to regulate the bearing of each individual tree. Fruit…

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Dairy Inspectors' Conference. "Profiteering In Diseased Cows ?"

The Nowra Leader · Friday 30 July 1926 · page 5

The following excerpts are from a report of the proceedings of the conference of dairy inspectors of the Board of Health, held in Sydney…

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A Tasty Dairy Product. How to Prepare Clotted Cream

The South Coast Register · Friday 30 July 1926 · page 9

The manufacture of this luxury was originally confined to the counties of Devon and Cornwall (writes Mr. L. Verney in the Queensland…

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