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Southern Highlands · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1927

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Cheap Rugs for Dairy Cows

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 4
Also in Robertson Mail

To farmers who favor the rugging of their dairy cows, but who cannot afford the ordinary article, the following suggestion of a dairy…

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Pulling Together. Dairy Farmers Are Waking Up

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 3
Also in Robertson Mail

Even so recently as six months ago the question, the desirability, the supreme necessity of demanding an, Australian price independent of the…

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Butter Trophy. at Nowra Show

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 19 January 1927 · page 4

Butter factories competing at the forthcoming Nowra show in class 1 of section 10 should remember to forward the box of butter to the Newre butter…

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Wool Trade Influences. the Law of Supply and Demand Winchcombe, Carson, Limited. report:—

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 19 January 1927 · page 4

Recent events at local wool sales forcibly Illustrate the effects of the law of supply and demand. Choice fine wools have made' prices head…

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Best Guernsey Butter Producer

Robertson Mail · Friday 28 January 1927 · page 3

A butter production record for the Guernsey breed in Australasia has been established, in a nine months test completed on January 18 last, by…

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Canadian Wheat Yield

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 29 January 1927 · page 2

The Dominion Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday issued the 1926 crop report, estimating the total wheat y[?] at 406,259,000 busheis from 22,768,000…

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Struck by Lightning Farmer's Narrow Escape

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 2 February 1927 · page 2

Mr. James Buckman, a dairy farmer at Lower Mittagong, was milking a cow during a storm when a flash of lightning struck the steel…

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The Value of the Australian Dairy Council. Speaking for Australia

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 2

The continuous importation of butter from New Zealand through the port of Sydney is doing in reality more to weld the dairymen of the…

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Dairy or Farm Butter

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 16 February 1927 · page 2

Causes loss to the industry of over half a million sterling. Many are the problems that beset the dairying industry; some of them…

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Linking Farm and Factory. a Romance of Cotton

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 16 February 1927 · page 4

No more interesting event has happened in the industrial history of Australia than the recent purchaes by the Australian cotton-spioners of the…

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Special Cattle Safe. at Goulburn

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 2

W. H. Wheatley reports having yarded over 2000 head of cattle on Thursday last to a large and representative attendance of buyer…

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That Duty on Butter

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 23 February 1927 · page 4

The recent deputation, representing all sections of the dairying industry that waited on the Minister for Customs during his stay in…

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Goulburn Special Sheep Sale W. H. Wheatleys Big Yarding

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 23 February 1927 · page 4

Messrs. W. H. Wheatley submitted 25,000 good store sheep at the municipal yards on Thursday afternoon. There was a good attendance of buyers…

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Apple Growers. Heavy American Crop

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 23 February 1927 · page 2

A warning to Australian apple and peat exporters is contained in a cable received on Thursday by the Victorian Department of Agriculture…

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P.d.s. Column. Empire Butter Position

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 4

The recently published report of the Imperial Economic Committee which sat in London, dealing with dairy produce, is not in any way…

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Moss Vale Wool

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 5 March 1927 · page 2

Mr. William T. Cowley's Mereworth clip, form Moss Vale, was among the offerings at Winchcombe, Carson's Sydney auction last Tuesday. The…

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Wheat Pool

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 15 March 1927 · page 4
Also in Robertson Mail

The result of the ballot of whealgrowers, conducted by the Government on the question of the formation of a compulsory wheat pool for…

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