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Southern Highlands · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1947

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Farmers' Role in World Affairs

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 5 July 1947 · page 3

The war and its afterm th had demonstrated the realiy important role of the primary producer in world affairs, declared the Federal Country…

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Farm Machinery Control of Exports

The Southern Mail · Friday 11 July 1947 · page 7

The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture (Mr. R. T. Pollard) announced to-day that controls arc to be exercised over the export of…

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Butter Goes Further!

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 12 July 1947 · page 4

After experiments with various ways of making butter go further, this recipe is considered og near perfection as possible. It has added…

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Exemptions for Farm Buildings New Building Regulations

The Southern Mail · Friday 18 July 1947 · page 4

The Minister for Building Materials (Mr. Matthews) has issued a statement in reply to one suggesting that following the extension of…

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Percheron Stud At Wagga Experiment Farm

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 19 July 1947 · page 3

A Percheron stud, the first in New South Wales, is to be established by the Department of Agriculture at Wagga Experiment Farm. This stud…

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Worm Infestation in Young Cattle Drenching Not [?]Ufficient for Conirol

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 26 July 1947 · page 3

In wet seasons especially, and parsionlarly if the animals are poorly nourished, kept on the Same over-stocked ground or on swamy areas,…

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Silage For Sheep Question of the Quantity to Be Stored

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 2 August 1947 · page 3

Trials earned out by the Department of Agriculture have shown that, while silage will maintain life in sheep for fairly long periods, the animals…

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Importance of Sheep Classing In Relation to Auctioning of Wool

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 9 August 1947 · page 3

Every breeder would be better off, if he discarded all sheep of less than average standard in his flock—in many cases the increase in feed available for…

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Waste on the Dairy Farm Faulty Management of Paddocks

The Southern Mail · Friday 15 August 1947 · page 5

In any commercial project a primary requirement for success is the adoption of methods of management conducive to the minimum of waste…

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Waste on the Dairy Farm Faulty Management of Paddocks

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 16 August 1947 · page 2

In any commercial project a primary requirement for success is the adoption of methods of management conducive to the minimum of waste…

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Competition for Dairy Herds All Breeds Eligible

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 23 August 1947 · page 2

The Berrima District Show Society has decided to institute a dairy hard competition, open to all breeds. Judging will take place on the…

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Outlook For Butter Production. Producer Needs Extra Is a Lb

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 30 August 1947 · page 4

The opinion among those engaged in and interested in the dairying industry is that it would take at least another…

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Control of Worms in Sheep Value of Regular Drenching

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 September 1947 · page 4

For control of worms, sheep should be drenched before they get too low in condition. On the first sign of infestation,…

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Fumigation of Bagged Wheat

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 13 September 1947 · page 4

The fumigation of large stacks of bag wheat is discussed in Bulletin 207, just issued by the Council for…

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Forty-Hour Week Bruxner Suggests Unpegging of Farm Prices

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 September 1947 · page 2

"The Country Party believes in arbitration, therefore it accepts the decision of the Court is favour of a 40-hour week, and we hope the…

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Breeding Grounds of Sheep Blowflies

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 27 September 1947 · page 4

The importance of live sheep as against carcases as breeding grounds for primary sheep blowflies is stressed in Bulletin…

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Storage of Farm-Cured Bacon

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 27 September 1947 · page 3

Farm cared bacon often becomes reasty, (rancid) through being bung in places where the temperature; is variable, and it may also be attacked…

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Treatment of Cattle Diseases With Coat Serum

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 4 October 1947 · page 4

"A considerable amount of correspondence has been necessitated recently as the result of the publicity given in…

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Cow's Big Yield of Butter

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 11 October 1947 · page 3

Ad Illawarra Shorthern cow, reared by a member of the Junior Farmers' Club at Gerringong, has joined milkers to produce 1,000lb, of…

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Wheat Silas and Taxation Mr. Vernon Treatt Pieads Cause of Farmer

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 18 October 1947 · page 3

A strong plea that the taxation law should make an allowance to the farmer on silo construction was made in the Legislative Assembly by the…

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