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Southern Highlands · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1901

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Dairy Farmers' Conferance. (Continued from last issue)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 21 August 1901 · page 2

Mr. Hayes (Singleton) moved,— "That in the opinion of this conferencs of dairy farmers it is bighly desirable that a Government depot be established…

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FARM and Garden a New Milking Machine

Bowral and Robertson Free Press · Wednesday 21 August 1901 · page 1

One of the latest improved machines has been imported by Messrs. Bartram and Son, of Melbourne, and is now in operation at the dairy farm of Mr. David Mitchell,…

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Industrial Farms

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 21 August 1901 · page 5

The Minister for Works is pushing on as rapidly as possible with his proposal to establish industrial forme for the uncmployed in country district. Reports have been…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles, Tillage

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 21 August 1901 · page 3

HOR use on all heavy soils which have been ploughed in sut[?] and on corn and po[?] ground which is to be seeded with small grain in…

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The Wool Season

The Southern Mail · Friday 23 August 1901 · page 4
Also in The Mittagong Express

Our pastoralists and sheep farmers are now speculating upon the prospects of the first wool season of the new century, and notwithstanding the…

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FARM and Garden Sheds v. RUGGING

Bowral and Robertson Free Press · Saturday 24 August 1901 · page 1

The following letter is published in the "Leader":—"Sir,—Seeing a good deal of correspondence about "rugging cows," and…

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A Sew Cattle Disease

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 28 August 1901 · page 4

With reference to a complaint about the action of the Department of Minos sod Agriculture in connection with the investigation of a disease affecting the…

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FARM and Garden a Lesson of the Drought

Bowral and Robertson Free Press · Wednesday 28 August 1901 · page 1

The drought has led a practical farmer of the Robertson district of Victoria to pen the following suggestions:—How best to avert losses in future might…

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Farm and Garden. Original Abricls. Inseot Enem[?] of the San Jose Scale

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 28 August 1901 · page 3

IT is reported from distant parts that the destruction of the san Jose Beale in some orchards has been principally due to the sttacks of a…

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FARM and Dairy. Agricultural Education in N. S. Wales. From a Victorian Standpoint

Bowral and Robertson Free Press · Saturday 31 August 1901 · page 1

Mr. Dow, the editor of the Melbourne "Leader," was recently in Sydney, and thus describes the Hawkesbury College:—"If the butter and meat export trade of…

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The Pastoral Outlook

Bowral and Robertson Free Press · Wednesday 4 September 1901 · page 2

The recent rainfall has done a grent deal of good to the orchards and farms in this district, and gives promise of an early spring—in fact, the fruit trees are already bursting…

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FARM and Dairy. Austsalian Fruit Export

Bowral and Robertson Free Press · Wednesday 4 September 1901 · page 1

Mr. F. M. Garcia, of Messrs. Garcia, Jacobs and Co, fruit merchants, of Covent Garden, in a recent interview with a representative of the "British Australasian,"…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles Producing Pure Milk for Profit

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 4 September 1901 · page 3

THE objection to milk in a general way are almost [?]lably that the cows have not been properly selected of fed, that sufficient attention…

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Conference of Dairymen

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 4 September 1901 · page 4

The conference arranged by the directions of the Cosstal Farmers' co-operative Society was held Albion Park on Thursday last. The…

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Soiling Crops for Hogs

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 4 September 1901 · page 3

Cowpeas have been found very useful for soiling especially for hogs. Cowpeas are very succulent oven in very dry weather, and being a leguminous plant…

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FARM and Dairy. Danish Co-operation

Bowral and Robertson Free Press · Saturday 7 September 1901 · page 1

Much is being done in Holland to improve the production of butter, so as to be able to improve the position of Dutch produce generally on the English market…

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The Wheat Famine

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 11 September 1901 · page 5

London, September 6.—The Russian Government is opening a sum equivalent to fifteen million pounds sterling on grain to relieve the pon[?]estry…

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FARM and Dairy. Hints for Poultry Breeders

Bowral and Robertson Free Press · Wednesday 11 September 1901 · page 1

Ducks do not eat their eggs, Health cannot exist with filth. Don't force the growing chickens, Brown shelled eggs are the richest…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 11 September 1901 · page 3

SAY [?] FARM MANURE. IT was formerly [?] pinion that rich soils did not need fertilisers of any kind. Early settlers in many ca[?]…

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