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Southern Highlands · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1946

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Volue of Herd Recording Experience of a Milk. Zone Farmer

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 30 November 1946 · page 3

In a recent A B.C. Broadened, Mr. I. W. Scott, special officer in charge of herd recording of the Department of Agriculture, described a milk none…

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Soldier Settlement New Plea for Single Farms

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 30 November 1946 · page 2

A fresh plea for the authorisation of single farm settlement for ex-serviceman was made in the Legislative Assembly by Mr. S. D…

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Charge of Stealing Bag of Wheat Fine of £5 IMPOSED

The Southern Mail · Friday 6 December 1946 · page 7

At Bowral Police Court on Friday, before Mr. T. H. Brooke, P.M., Norman James Roffe was charged with stealing a bag of wheat valued at…

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Six Months Gaol for Local Farmer Wanton Cruelty Alleged

The Southern Mail · Friday 6 December 1946 · page 10

At Mom Vale Police Court on Wednesday, Joseph Hollins, a well-known dairy fanner, of Robertson Road, Moss Vale, was sentenced to…

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Request for Higher Butter Price

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 7 December 1946 · page 3

Referring in the Legislative Assembly to unrest in the butter producing crone of New South Wales because of the low price being paid for butter,…

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Use of "666" in Sheep Blowfly Control

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 7 December 1946 · page 4

Experiments recently carried out by G. J. Shanahan, assistant entomologist of the New South Wales Department of…

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Prevention of Mastitis in Dairy Herds. Valuable Free Departmental Pamphlet

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 7 December 1946 · page 4

Most cases of mastitis that occur on the dairy farm are contagious. Not only is the infection transmitted from…

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Settlement of Ex. Servicemen Anomaly of Ban on Single Farms

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 7 December 1946 · page 2

It was grossly unfair to place an with a persons who did not serve in the armed Forces, declared Mr. W…

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Labor Governments Turn Donw Dairyman

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 7 December 1946 · page 2

Federal and State Governments share the responsibility for with holding a drought subsidy from dairymen in the N:S.W. milk zone,…

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The Feeding of Dairy Cows Expert Gives an Instructive Address

The Southern Mail · Friday 13 December 1946 · page 7

One of the most interesting addresses given to dairy farmers in this district for some years was that delivered by Mr. H. J. Geddes, M.Agr.Sc., lecturer in animal husbandry at Sydney University and officer-in-charge of the McGarvie Smith…

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Fail in Wheat arid Butter Production Labour Policies Blamed

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 14 December 1946 · page 3

"The Government had told country people so many bed-time stories about what Labour had done for them that it was high time they were given the…

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Bracken Fern Poisoning in Cattle Sudden Onset of Sympfoms

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 14 December 1946 · page 3

Bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) is toxic for cattle, probably throughout the whole stage of its growth The toxic principle has never been…

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Cattle Sale at Mittagong

The Southern Mail · Friday 20 December 1946 · page 5

For the first time for many yean a cattle sale was conducted at Mittagong on Wednesday of last week. Buyers from Blacktown, Picton and…

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Fair Deal Wanted for the Dairying Industry

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 21 December 1946 · page 2

The great difficulties and most unfair conditions under which the dairymen of this State are endeavouring to carry on at the preset time…

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