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Southern Highlands · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1884

13 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Burrawang Farmers' Club and West Camden Agricultural Society

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 12 January 1884 · page 3

By request of the President a special meeting of the Executive Committee of the above Society was held last Friday, which was attended by the President,…

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Burrawang Farmers' Club

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 26 January 1884 · page 2

AN Executive Committee meeting took place on Monday evening at the Club Hotel, there being present the President (Mr. Dunnicliff), and Messrs. W. Barrett, Lovegrove,…

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Burrawang Farmers' Club

Bowral Free Press and Mittagong, Burrawang and Kangaloon Advocate · Saturday 16 February 1884 · page 3

THE usual monthly meeting of the above society was held on Thursday evening 7th February. There were nineteen members present, the chair was occupied by the…

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The Farmer's Horse

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 29 March 1884 · page 4

THE ideal farmer's horse is a horse of good constitution and endurance, of good disposition, a fast walker and a good roadster, and that is the all-purpose horse. Such a…

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Local Intelligence. Burrawang Farmers' Club and West Camden Agricultural Society

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 26 April 1884 · page 2

THE annual meeting of the above society was held in the Oddfellows' Hall, Burrawang, on Thursday evening, 17th inst., A. A. Dunnicliff, Esq., J.P., president of the…

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Opening of the Kiama Pioneer Dairy Factory

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 28 June 1884 · page 3

This important event came off last Wednesday, week and must be regarded as a very successful affair. Had the directors issued a general public invitation the building…

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Cause of Rust in Wheat

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 19 July 1884 · page 2

THE following very important remarks are extracted from a lecture delivered in Kiama on Wednesday, July 9, by Mr. S. W, Pye, agricultural lecturer to the Board of…

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Mixed Crops

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 2 August 1884 · page 4

It is a well-known fact that mixed crops are more productive than those sown singly. Thus one acre sown to oats or barley, or oats and peas, will yield as much, or nearly…

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Burrawang Farmers' Club

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 9 August 1884 · page 2

AT the last regular monthly meeting of the Burrawang Farmers' Club and West Camden Agricultural Society, we learn from the Burrawang Herald that Mr. W. Moses asked what had been done in…

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Lecture on Dairying

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 16 August 1884 · page 2

WE commend the following remarks to the consideration of our dairy readers, simply stating that they were made by Mr. McIver in a lecture in Sydney recently:—…

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Farmers Should Keep Records

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 6 September 1884 · page 4

Most farmers cannot tell what a single crop costs or what they realise for it, which crop pays and which does not, what class of farm stock is to them profitable or otherwise, or what…

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Burrawang Farmers' Club

The Bowral Free Press · Saturday 6 September 1884 · page 2

AT the monthly meeting on Thursday week the attendance numbered sixteen. The following business was transacted:—The secretary is in future to be a paid officer, but the amount is to be fixed at next…

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Faults and Failures in Colonial Farming

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 17 December 1884 · page 2

MR, R. W. Emerson M'lvor, F.I.C., &c., lecturer on agriculture in connection with the Board of Technical Education, delivered a lecture, entitled" Faults and Failures in Colonial Farming," in the School of…

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