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Farming & the land, 1900

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Other Crops

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 15 August 1900 · page 3

Sow Lettuce, Radish, Small Salading, [?] Of the former Victoria is a good upstanding Cos. variety. Where more fiabby-leaved cabbage varieties are…

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Farm and Garden. Management of Silkworms

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 22 August 1900 · page 3

The keeping of silkworms is an amusement indulged in by many schoolboys and is a frequent introduction to the study of entomology in after life. About the most…

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Farm and Garden Homing Pigeons

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 29 August 1900 · page 7

To those who intend to go in for homing pigeons this is a very good time for making a start. Plenty of young Home's can be bought now just as they are able…

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Wool Clip

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 1 September 1900 · page 2

THE shearing season has fairly set in, and pastoralists and sheep farmers are speculating with pride and pleasure on the prospects of the clips. The general community will wish them sploadid [?]lips…

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Farm and Garden Giant Onions

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 5 September 1900 · page 3

'How to Grow Giant Onions' is the title of a little book which may be published. Bat a book is hardly needed to tell the little story. Those who want to…

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Fleece Wool for Exhibition at Philadelphia Museums

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 8 September 1900 · page 1

"Mr. Fegan, Minister for Mines and Agriculture, having learned that the Committee of the Philadelphia Museums is anxious to have, for…

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Farm and Garden Selecting Good Layers

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 12 September 1900 · page 3

That the majority of hens are capable of producing many more eggs than they usually do is undoubted. The statements sometimes made that the hens in certain…

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Farm and Garden Gardening

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 19 September 1900 · page 3

Clematis, which are amongs the most showy of town flowering plants, are, growing most vigorous this season, and will make good displays an on, when attended…

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Britain's Big Butter Bill

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 26 September 1900 · page 5

Australian butter-makers will no doubt be interested if we reprint a Frenchman's statistics on the butter trade with England. M. de Loverdo's…

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Dairy-work in Denmark

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 26 September 1900 · page 3

Denmark has done wonders in dairying. That country enjoys a magnificent climate in summer, but not nearly be good a one during the other seasons of the year; yet…

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Farm and Garden. the Best Farm Manures

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 26 September 1900 · page 3

Manure from horses is worth twice as much as that from cows and pigs. Give the horses plenty of oat straw and let this become fully saturated with their…

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Australasian Wheat Exports

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 1

Up to June 30, there was imported into the United Kingdom no lees than l,191,300cwt. of wheat from Australasia, those imports being distenced by…

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Farm and Garden Bees Benefit Fruit Growers

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 3 October 1900 · page 3

Many fruit-growers in Kent have been puzzled of late to account for the unusually large number of nos-bearing strawberry plantain their fields. An…

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Farm and Garden Rheumatism in Young Pigs

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 October 1900 · page 3

Young pigs are very liable to rheumatism, particularly in very cold weather in winter. The great cause of this complaint is dampness of the bedding in…

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Farm and Garden Faking Fruit

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 17 October 1900 · page 3

The production freaK fruits, as white blackberries, frost-proof plums, and seedless oranges, has become such an important business in America that the…

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The Farmer Khedive

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 17 October 1900 · page 3

Abas Pasha, the young Khedive of Egypt, always has his mother with him, and she outranks all his advisers. She is said to be one of the most beautiful women in Egypt, in…

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Losses of Sheep

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 October 1900 · page 5

Blayney Wednesday.—Considerable interest has been manifested for some time poot in the reported mortality in choep in the Blayney district. Some…

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Millionaire Dairy Farmers

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 24 October 1900 · page 1

Some of the finest farms in the world are worked by New York millionaires. From 17 of these farms the produce annually sold amounts to £100,000…

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Farm and Garden Town Gardening

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 24 October 1900 · page 3

Clematis, which are amongst the most showy of town flowering plants, grew most vigorous, and will make good displays when attended to in the matter of…

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