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Farming & the land, 1913

11,124 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 250

Poultry on the Farm Geese for the Farmer. the Toulouse and the Embden

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 6

The Toulouse goose has been domesticated for many centuries, and it is frequently referred to in ancient writings as the "grey goose." It is the…

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Dairy Factory Reports

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 6

Bowthorne Co-operative Butter Company (Morpeth) during December manufactured 66 tons 10wt 2qr, 24lb, butter. This is an increase of two tons on the November output. Owing…

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The "Farmer and Settler" and the F.s.a

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 4

Blayney.—We cannot complain at the action, of Mr. Cook in proclaiming that the "Farmer and Settler" has nothing to do with the Farmers and…

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For the Farm Table Potatoes. and Some New Ways to Serve Them

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 8

When serving a cold luncheon, there are innumerable ways to make it attractive and appetising; and during these hot days one needs everything to…

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Jewish Farmers in America

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 8

The fourth annual convention of the Federation of Jewish Farmers of America, held recently at New York, served to emphasise the growth of the agricultural…

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How the Farmer Educates Himself

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 20

That was a most profound truth that was uttered by a farmer in one of the Wisconsin farm institutes a few years ago (writes Hoard's Dairyman..) The…

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Farming Hands. Who Wants Men?

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 3

An able-bodied but gentlemanly young man, an English farmer, been on his own for years, wants a billet with a view to share-farming later on…

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Trouble with the Slaughtermen New Zealand Farmers Ready

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 6

A message dated Wellington (N.Z.) Tuesday, reads:—"The Gisborne sheep farmers are resolved to urge the freezing companies to resist the…

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The Dairy the Industry

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 7

The story of the Channon settlement on the North Coast makes very suggestive reading. A handful of men, mainly inexperienced and with…

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Bathurst Experiment Farm

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 7

The rainfall at Bathurst Experiment Farm for 1912 was exactly 70in., being 6½in. below the average for the past 54 years. Over 10in. fell during June,…

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Dairymen Who Don't Care

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 7

The Bowraville correspondent of the Sydney "Daily Telegraph" writes:— "For the past two years the Macksville Agricultural Association has given…

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Pleuro in a Dairy Herd

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 7

A report from Broken Hill states that an outbreak of pleuro has occurred in a dairy herd at Thackaringa, near the South Australian border…

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Dairy Factory Notes

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 10

A branch factory of the Lismore Co-operative Dairy Company has been opened at Corndale. Mr. G. T. Hindmarsh, M.L.T., performing the opening ceremony. The factory cost £3000…

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Australian Dairy a New Zealander's Opinion

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 10

"During my investigations in Australia," says a New Zealand writer, "I could only come to one conclusion, taking my own observations, the…

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Farmers' Federation. Conference in February. One Association Yet to Speak

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 12

The scheme to form a farmers' federation is maturing. On February 11 a conference will be held in Sydney. It is already certain that delegates…

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Produce. Dairy. Case Eggs Again Weaker

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 11

T[?]e weakness in case eggs was still [?] ap[?]ent yesterday. Grocers would have [?][?]ly nothing to do with Northern Rivers, [?] to the very unsatisfactory state in which…

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Free Farms. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 5

The free farms offered by Federal Government in the Northern Territory will be largely over-appiled for. Already to applications have been received by the External…

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Dairying

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 4

ALBION PARK.—55 points of rain fell on Wednesday evening, but a good fall is required to [?] driry farmers to put in crops for winter feed for daily cattle. At…

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Tasmanian Crops. Hobart

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 4

The Government Statistician's forcenrt of the acreage and yield under five principal crops for the current season gives the following quantities, the increase being…

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Closer Settlement. Promotion Act Application. 52 Farms Provided

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 January 1913 · page 4

The Minister for Lands (Mr. J. L. Trefle) has approved of an application under the Closer Settlement Promotion Act, by which 52 settlers will he provided with home…

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