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Southern Highlands · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1907

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Farm Ans Field

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 2 March 1907 · page 5

Improvements in Swingle-Trees. At a recent meeting of the members of the Farmers Association at Reeve's Plains, South Australia, Mr. Shepherd…

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B.D. Farm and Dairy Company

Robertson Advocate · Friday 8 March 1907 · page 2

SIR,—In the report of what I stated at the meeting of shareholders of the Berrima District Farm and Dairy Company, at Robertson, on the 28rd ult., there are one or two…

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B.D. Farm and Dairy Company. Weekly Market Report

Robertson Advocate · Friday 8 March 1907 · page 2

Butter: The market remains unchanged locally, first-class grades selling from 84s to 86s, 1s extra for superfine grades. At those figures the demand for export is steady, and…

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Infants' Bodies Burned. Baby-farming Revelations. Child Witnesses' Stories

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 13 March 1907 · page 5

Some amazing statements were made when Mr A. M. Forbes, the Edmonton Coroner; resumed his inquest at Edmonton Town Hall on…

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Farming on Shares. The Work of the Intelligence Department. How People are being put on the Land

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 16 March 1907 · page 5

THE Director of the Intelligence Department, Mr. H. C. L. Anderson, has given an interview to a representative of the Press on the subject of…

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Farm and Field. Fat Lambs Competitions

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 16 March 1907 · page 5

Competitions, possessing special interest to Australian breeders of lambs took place in connection with the Fat Lamb Show at the recent Christchurch…

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Influencing the Percentage of Butter Fat

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 27 March 1907 · page 5

When a cow is in full milk and full flesh, she will give her normal quantity of milk for at east a limited time, even although the quality and…

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Cows on the Wheat Belt. Dairying Spreading West. "At the Wagga Farm

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 30 March 1907 · page 5

THE Manager of the Wogga Experimental Farm has supplied some notes to the Agricultural Gazette on dairying experience at the form, which are…

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Government Grading of Butter

Robertson Advocate · Friday 5 April 1907 · page 2

In proposing the toast of "The Dairy Industry," at a dinner given to butter factory managers in Sydney the other evening, Mr. W. R. Baker (Byton Bay) said that he…

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Wrinkles and Folds on Merino Sheep

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 13 April 1907 · page 5

"For years past," writes Mr W. H. Webb in the "Sydney Mail," "it has been shown that the best sheep are the most wrinkly. The win the prizes under our…

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Farm and Field Early Maturity

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 13 April 1907 · page 5

"Early maturity" was very much to the fore at the Chicago fat stock show last December. Not only was the championship awarded to a bullock only 11…

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B.D. Farm and Dairy Company. Weekly Market Report

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 16 April 1907 · page 2

Butter—Quotations remain unchanged, and superfine butter only is selling at 90s. The quantity of superfine being placed on the local market be about equal to…

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The Dairy. Cheese V. Butter

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 April 1907 · page 5

Mr. Mackie, the British representative of the National Dairy Association, when addressing a recent meeting of dairy farmers. at Carterton, New Zealand, on…

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Farm and Field. British Market Prospects for 1907

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 April 1907 · page 5

Writing on the market prospects for 1907, "Weddell's Annual Report" says that the general trade of the United Kingdom is unusually active, and the…

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B.D. Farm and Dairy Company. Weekly Market Report

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1907 · page 2

Butter—The price will be advanced to [?] on Monday, the 22nd inst., for superfine butter. The inter-State demand for this quality is good, but the lower grades are…

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Young Men for the Farm

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 27 April 1907 · page 5

AMONGST the immigrants who are now streaming into Now South Wales by every passenger steamer front the United Kingdom and South Africa…

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B.D. Farm and Dairy Company. Weekly Market Report

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 30 April 1907 · page 3

Butter—[?] report of the 20th the market adv[?] 4s [?] and the higher range of p[?] has been well maintained owing [?] to inter-State demand…

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Advantages of Mixed Farming. Paper Read by Mr. F. A. Badgery at Robertson

Robertson Advocate · Friday 3 May 1907 · page 2

The following paper on "The advantages of mixed farming" was read by Mr. F. A. Badgery at the meeting of formers held at Robertson on Thursday last under the…

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The One-Crop System of Farming

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 4 May 1907 · page 5

The one-crop system, wherever it is practised, means failure ultimately. This has been the story of agriculture stace the world began. Of course, when the…

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Farm and Field. Bovine Tuberculosis

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 4 May 1907 · page 5

In an address at a recent meeting of the Dairymen's Association of Maine (U.S.A.). Professor F. L. Russell, or the local University, discussed the question…

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