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Southern Highlands · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1906

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Cattle Daffing Extraordinary

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 3 January 1906 · page 3

An interesting cattle-stealing case is being heard at Winton (Q), where five persons are accused of stealing 128 calves from Cork station, in the…

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Game Farms

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 3 January 1906 · page 5

In many cases the controllers of game farms are virtually little more than receivers of stolen eggs. A few hens ostentatiously displayed in pens give nominal…

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A Farm Mystery. Three Persons Murdered

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 3 January 1906 · page 5

The New York correspondent of the London " Dally Mall " wrote from New York on Sunday, 8th October:— An extraordinary tragedy occurred on…

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Draycote's Farm. by Evelyn Fletcher Chapter I.

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 3 January 1906 · page 5

The road the traveller followed wound round the top of the hill. He paused at the summit and looked about him long and earnestly…

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The Berrima District Farm and Dairy Co., Ltd. Weekly Market Report

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 9 January 1906 · page 2

Better—The London market improved during the week about 2s per cwt., and choicest N.S.W. butter is selling up to 116s. local rates are well maintained at 11d, with…

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Remarkable Butter Yield

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 17 January 1906 · page 2

A most remarkable account of butter production from a Jersey cow is being published in the American papers, to which a few references may…

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Closer Settlement. Byron Estate Subdivision. Dairy Farms, Lucerne & Maize Flats, Wheat Lands. 19,000 Acres of Magnificent Country

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 17 January 1906 · page 1

It has often been remarked that Australian soil and Australian climate seem to delight in providing the very opposite extremes of…

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A Wheat Experiment

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 17 January 1906 · page 2

Some time ago Mr. E. J. Allen, of Gregra, Molong, received from the Agricultural Department five varieties of wheat for the purpose of demonstrating their suitability to…

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Crops Nurtured with Blood

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 17 January 1906 · page 2

War-ridden Southern Manchuria is not such a desolate waste after all, as the enormity of the battles fought on its bosom tended to lead the world to…

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South Coast Experimental Farm

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 17 January 1906 · page 6

A conference of the representatives of the South Coast Agricultural societies was held at the Berry stud farm on Friday. The Minister for Agriculture…

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Farm and Field. the Construction of Stables. Selection of the Site

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 17 January 1906 · page 5

The selection of the site on which stables are to be built demands some attention. Where possible, they should be built on high ground, thus giving a…

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The Moss Vale Cattle Sales

Robertson Advocate · Friday 26 January 1906 · page 2

At the meeting of the Moss Vale council held on Monday evening, the new by laws for the local saw yards were brought forward for consideration. The conditions have for…

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Adulterated Butter

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 2

Messrs. Coopman and Young, butter merchants, of Smithfield, charged with wrongly describing an butter a mixture of butter and coconut oil, have been fined £20…

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The Berrima District Farm and Dairy Co., Ltd. Weekly Market Report

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 30 January 1906 · page 2

Butter—The market so far remains unchanged. The London market has not recovered to any extent and the ruling quotation is about 110s, Cho[?] butter is…

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A Dairyman's Chance

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 31 January 1906 · page 2

There is not much fun in a farmer paying rent all his life. Far better that the money being earned out of the form should go in purchasing that form. This is just the…

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Bowral Cattle Sales

Robertson Advocate · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 2

Messrs. Knox and Smith write:—Owing to the want of accommodation for the sale of cattle in Bowral, the auctioneers find it very difficult to conduct their sales on the one…

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A Dairyman's Chance

Robertson Advocate · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 2

There is not much fun is a farmer paying rent all his life. Far better that the money being earned out of the farm should go in purchasing that farm. This is just the…

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A Dairyman's Chance

Bowral Free Press · Saturday 3 February 1906 · page 3

There is not much fun in a farmer paying rent all his life. Far better that the money being earned out of the farm should go in purchasing that farm. This is just the opportunity that is now being…

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The Berrima District Farm and Dairy Co., Ltd. Weekly Market Report

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 6 February 1906 · page 2

Butter: Daring the week determined efforts have been made to reduce batter all round; selling at lid or less has been tried in order to force the…

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Farm and Field. Treatment of "Dry Bible."

Bowral Free Press · Wednesday 7 February 1906 · page 4

Mr Williams, Government Inspector of Stock, South Australia, has been on a visit to Orroroo, for the purpose of inspecting stock suffering from "dry…

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