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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1911

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Dirty Dairy. Farmer Fined £5. WAGGA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 8

Michael Monogue, a farmer, of the Tooyal district, was prosecuted at the Wagga Police Court under the Dairies Supervision Act on a charge of keeping butter in conditions…

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Federation Wheat. Seed Selection. Work at a Victorian College

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 11

Mr. J. T. Pridham, in an article on "The Value of Pedigree in shed Wheat," describes the policy pursued at Longerenong College is regard to the Federation variety…

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Late Gable News. Received To-day. London Wool Sales. Open Brisk

Evening News · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 10

LONDON, Tuesday Evening.—the first series of colonial wool sales opened this evening. Business was brisk, at from 5 to 10 per cent, decline on the last series…

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Government Seed Wheat. and the Question of Payment. Between £13,000 AND £14,000 OWING

Evening News · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 4

There is at present between £13,000 and £14,000 owing to the Government of New South Wales for seed wheat supplied. The hon. Minister in charge of the agricultural…

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English Wool Trade. Merinos on the Easy Side. (From Our Special Correspondent.) Bradford, Dec. 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 7

Wool business on the whole is distinctly on the quiet side. The past week has not shown any new developments, everything having settled down to a groove, and it seems as if…

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Pitt Town Labor Farm

Evening News · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 10

Conditions at the Pitt Town Casual Labor Farm are very gratifying to the Superintendent and staff, and never were crop prospects more full of promise or pasture lands more…

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Notes and Anticipations THE A.J.C. Anniversary Meeting. Challenge Stakes and Anniversary Handicap Possibilities. The Two-years-old Division-Warwick Farm Racing—Didns a Winner—Stipendiary Stewards-St Leger Candidates—Short-priced Doubles—General Notes. Selections for Randwick. The A.J.C. Anniversary Meeting

Referee · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 1

SATURDAY next sees the commencement of the above fixture at Randwink, and if the weather is favorable the racing should…

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Dairying

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 7

BOWRAVILLE.—An instance is reported of the success of dairying in this district. Mr. Robert Provost, Taylor's Arm, drew £626 from the butter factory last year. He…

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The Potato Crop

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 7

MILLTHORPE.—The potato crops throughout the district look splendid. The last rains have proved of great benefit, and it present conditions were to extend to the harvesting…

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On the Land. Farm and Station. the South Coast

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 7

In another column the first of a series of articles appears relating to the South Coast as regards the rural conditions. We recently published another series dealing with the…

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Farming. the Congress. What the Scientists Did

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 11

Scientists were much in evidence in Sydney last week. Papers on agricultural subjects were read in one section of the congress at the University. Most of the subjects were…

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Dairying. Stock Diseases. Dairymen and Scientists

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 14

Dairymen should take a keen interest in some of the subjects dealt with at the Science Congress last week. Tuberculosis is a disease that must be fought by every means…

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Science Congress. Tuberculosis in Dairy Herds

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 14

Professor J. Douglas Stewart, M.R.C.V.S., Professor of Veterinary Science at the University of Sydney, read a paper et the Science Congress, last week, on "The Repression of…

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Glen Innes Farm. the Operations Outlined

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 12

Splendid progress is being made at the Glen Innes experimental farm, which was es-tablished in August, 1902. It stands 3600ft above sea level, and comprises 1050 acres…

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Farm, Education. Mr. Potts on the Australian Aspect of It

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 11

Mr. H. W. Potts, F.C.S., F.L.S., Principal of the Hawkesbury Agricultural College, read a paper on the above subject at the Science Congress. He said that applied science was…

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Bathurst State Farm. Some of the Season's Tests

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 12

Harvesting operations at the experiment farm are completed, and although figures showing results are not yet available, still the returns are exceedingly satisfactory…

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Sporting: the Turf Notes. Wet Day at Warwick Farm

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 47

Those who disregarded the weather predictions, as well as the ominous indications that prevailed on Saturday forenoon, and went to Warwick Farm in summer attire had reason…

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Paying the Penalty. Farmers' Bank Defalcations

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 9

VANCOUVER, Tuesday.--Travers, the general manager of the Farmers' Bank, Toronto, who last week pleaded guilty to three charges of theft, and the making of…

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Tuberculosis in Dairy Herds

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 12

Professor Douglas Stewart, of Sydney University, read a paper at the Science Congress on "The Repression of Tuberculosis in Dairy Herds." Tuberculosis,…

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Martindale's Notebook. Warwick Farm Notes

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 18 January 1911 · page 45

It is very evident that the race track at Warwick Farm can be classed as one of the best we have in wet weather. In the two days prior to January 14 quite six inches of rain must have…

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