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Southern Highlands · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1902

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Farm and Garden Original Abticles Marketing, Farm Produce

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 September 1902 · page 5

THE matter of association in the improvement of the relation of the farmer to the sale of produce in the market is yet in its infancy…

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Cattle on the Catchment Area

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 September 1902 · page 2

In answer to a question in the Assembly on Friday, the Premier said he was not aware that people who had cattle on the catchment area allowed…

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Practical Dairy Farming

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 10 September 1902 · page 4

In his recent lecture upon the above subject at Hawkesbury. Mr. H. W. Potts, as reported in the local journal, after describing in detail the operations of the Victorian…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles When and How to Graft

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 13 September 1902 · page 5

THE ordinary method of grafting as universally practised in cleft grafting. Any intelligent person with a fairly good eye can graft…

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The Berrima District Farm and Dairy to Ltd. Weekly Market Report

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 16 September 1902 · page 4

Butter—The market firmed up during the week, and 1s 3d is now the ruling price. Sellers not much interested in New South Wales butter seem disposed…

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Farm and Garden Potato-growing in Dry Seasons

Bowral Free Press · Saturday 20 September 1902 · page 1

Writing of the manner of growing potatoes in dry seasons Mr. F. C. Dyer, of Marulan gives his method as follows:—"If the tubers are large enough to cut I…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles Valuable Remedy for Codlin Moth

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 September 1902 · page 5

THE spraying experiments here noted were made upon apple trees about eighteen years old and from fifteen to twenty feet high. Just…

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Long Cattle Horns

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 24 September 1902 · page 5

The headquarters of the National Live Stock Association in the Quincy, building will soon have lung up an adornment that will be the admiration of every…

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Our Dairying Industry

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 24 September 1902 · page 6

At an early hour on Friday morning' the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Kidd) introduced a bill to regulate dairies and dairy factories, and the…

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Dairy Legislation

The Southern Mail · Friday 26 September 1902 · page 4
Also in Robertson Advocate

On Friday morning last in the Assembly Mr. Kidd introduced his bill to regulate dairies and dairy factories. Generally speaking, it…

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Dairy A Esthetics

Bowral Free Press · Saturday 27 September 1902 · page 4

It is announced by Professor Herbert Ingle, of Leeds, that if cows are to yield good, rich, pure milk, they must' be made happy and kept in a composed frame of…

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Farm and Garden Manuring, Vegetables

Bowral Free Press · Saturday 27 September 1902 · page 1

A series of experiments to determine the best fertilisers for garden crops has been carried out for some years past by Professors Truffaut and Denaiffe for the National…

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The Butter Market and Co-Operation

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 30 September 1902 · page 2

Referring to the heavy importation of butter last week, the Berrima.[?] Dairy Company…

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Farms in the United States

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 1 October 1902 · page 6

A very interesting, not to say remarkable, census bulletin has been received from Washington, this giving a mass of summary figures on the…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles Raising Young Turkeys

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 1 October 1902 · page 5

YOUNG turkeys are very tender and used to be carefully and intelligently treated, otherwise the mortality among them will be…

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Banana V. Wheat for Bread

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 8 October 1902 · page 2

The banana is a true child of the tropics, and grows in the greatest luxuriance, demanding little exertion from those who cultivate it for their…

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Farm and Garden Origin [?]Articles Planting and Caring for Peach Trees

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 8 October 1902 · page 5

THE peach tree requires high, well-drained, moderately fertile soil sandy loam is preferable, and of that lind which contains…

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Islington Butter Show

The Southern Mail · Friday 10 October 1902 · page 2

Fifty lost of New South Wales and Victorian butter were exhibited at the Islington butter show (London). No New Zealand butter was above, and…

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State Butter Competition

Robertson Advocate · Friday 10 October 1902 · page 2

With a view to encouraging the manufacture of high-class butter for export, Mr. Kidd, Minister for Agriculture, has approved of the State…

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