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Southern Highlands · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1925

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Why Boys Leave the Farm. Two Great Causes

The Southern Mail · Friday 24 July 1925 · page 3
Also in Robertson Mail

The increased cityward drift of our rural population is a subject of such seriousness as to have been very anxiously discussed in recent years,…

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World Championship for Butter

Robertson Mail · Tuesday 28 July 1925 · page 4
Also in The Southern Mail

Eighty-seven entries have been received for the first competition for the world's butter championship, to be held in connection with the…

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Local Farmers Co-operate. Annual Report of A.b.c. Agricultural Bureau

The Southern Mail · Friday 7 August 1925 · page 4
Also in Robertson Mail

At the annual meeting of the Aylmerton, Braemar and Colo Vale Agricultural Bureau, the following interesting report was presented by the…

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Dairymen In Trouble. Milk Below Standard

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 15 August 1925 · page 2

Walter A. Harrison. J M Hardy, Robert Hoses (two counts), and Philip A Quirk were at the Moss Vale Court of Petty Sessions on…

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Dairymen in Trouble. Milk Below Standard

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 18 August 1925 · page 3
Also in Robertson Mail

Walter A. Harrison, J. M. Hardy. Robert Moses (two counts) and Phillip A. Quirk were, at the Moss Vale Court of Petty Sessions on Tuesday,…

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The Wail of an Out-of-date Farmer

The Southern Mail · Friday 21 August 1925 · page 4
Also in Robertson Mail

Under its spreading bankruptcy The farmer's homestead stands; Its lord a mournful man is he, As he ploughs his mortgaged lands…

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Tubercular Cattle. How They May Be Identified. Interesting Address at the A.b.c. Bureau

The Southern Mail · Friday 28 August 1925 · page 5
Also in Robertson Mail

For some time past the members of the A.B.C. Agricultural Bureau have been [?] in the subject of tuberculosis in entry cattle, and…

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Good Dairy Washes

The Southern Mail · Friday 28 August 1925 · page 6
Also in Robertson Mail

The following wash is used by many dairy-farmers, and has been proved satisfactory at Hawkesbury Agricultural College:—Mix air-slaked…

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Cattle Poisoned. Soldier Settler's Loss. Tracks of Arsenic

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 9 September 1925 · page 2

To have lost 64 head of cattle during nine months is the unfortunate lot of Mr. J. T. Nugent, a returned soldier, who is farming at Moleville, between…

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Old Methods and New. the Demands of Modern Farming

Robertson Mail · Tuesday 29 September 1925 · page 4

The essential difference between the new methods of farming and the old is that the old rule-of-thumb methods are being superseded by those…

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699 Balloters for 34 Farms

Robertson Mail · Tuesday 29 September 1925 · page 3

There was a great rush for land on Uabba holding, near Lake Cudgellico. For 34 blocks there were 1125 applicants, of whom 699 went to the…

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Goulburn Special Cattle and Sheep Sale

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 30 September 1925 · page 4

O. H. Furner and Co., report a yarding of 700 head of cattle and a little over 8900 sheep at their special sale held at Goulburn, Thursday, 17th September. The weather…

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Special Cattle Sale

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 30 September 1925 · page 3

W. H Wheatley report having yarded 960 head of cattle on Tuesday last to a good attendance of buyers, principally from local…

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