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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1928

9,809 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 250

F. and S. Association. District Council at Guyra Farmers Lagging Behind, Says General President

The Land · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 4

At a meeting of delegates from P.S.A. branches to form a district council at Guyra, yesterday week, a letter of apology for absence was received from the president, 'Mr. D. H. Drummond, in which he said that while every branch of society to-day was more or less…

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The American Farmer. Pact Between Labor and Big Industry. Cheap Bread and Beef, High Wages, Short Hours (Continued.)

The Land · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 4

The addresses delivered by Dr. Earle Page and Mr. T. I. Campbell [?] the recent Farmers and Settlers' Association Conference, attracted he attention of Mr. H. M. Foulke, a manufacturer in the State of [?]Wisconsin, U.S.A., who wrote in last issue regarding parallel…

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From Eve's Dairy

The Land · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 14

"So I ate it—and they all made such a lovely fuss about me. But they shouldn't have got so angry. After all. I'm very young, and I had no…

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Homestead Farms Available

The Land · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 5

The Lands Department is making available eight blocks, varying from 300 to 500 acres in area, in the parishes of Dyraaba and Mummulgum, Land…

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Molong Farmer Fatally Crushed

The Land · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 7

When the team driven by Mr. Robert Dickson, a farmer of Nora Creek, near Molong, on Saturday, swayed with the strain of brinping a…

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The Better Crop

The Land · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 7

Malizza, an Italian farmer, in the Warragud (Vic.) district, becoming jealous of a compatriot, named Lombardi, who had produced a better crop,…

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veterinary & Stock Milk Veins and Milk Wells Important When Selecting Dairy Cows

The Land · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 20

Dairymen are often heard discussing the matter of milk veins and milk wells, more especially when they foregather at show time, but it is surprising to find that there are still a large number of "them who know very little of what is meant by the terms and how…

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PROGRESSIVE FARMINGn The Benefits from Fallowing and Good Cultivation a Striking Illustration From HARDENn

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 11

Every season leaves behind some lesson pointing the farmer further along safer and more profitable lines of progress and development…

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Foul Crop Disease Among Turkeys a Finley Breeders' Records

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 3

In a recent issue of the "Farmer and Settler" there was included in the "Information and Help" page an answer to a correspondent who stated…

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The World of Motoring Motor Cars and Motor Cycles For the Farm or the Road, Business or Pleasure Record Breakers Danger on Country Road Shirk Takes Action

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 12

Councillors of the Humo Shire (N.S.W.) have declared war on record-breaking motorists, and have decided to ask the Local Governmentt…

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COUNTRY SHOWSe Triumphs of Husbandry the Farmers' Pride DAPTO.e

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 10

The seventy-first annual show of the Dapto Agricultural and Horticultural Society was opened last Friday by the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Thorby), who said that somethingo…

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Radio Notes, Wireless for the Farmer Radio Poultry Club

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 10

Most New South Wales radio enthusiasts prefer the Sydney and Melbourne broadcasting stations to station 5CL, Adelaide, but 5CL still has quitee…

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Flax Culturee a Dual-purpose Crop Important Discoverye

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 11

An invention of the utmost importance to flax-growers has been patented by two Irish linen experts, Messrs. Watson and Waddell. If theirr…

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The World of Motoring Motor Cars and Motor Cycles For the Farm or the Road, Business or Pleasure Problems of the Motorist Materials Used in the Tyres Rubber and Cotton—fabric and Cord Tyres

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 13

January and February are generally ideal months for the motorist, that is anxious to make a lengthy tour; that is, provided he is one of…

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Motor Mishaps Level Crossing Smash Farmer Killed

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 4

As a result of a level-crossing accident on Tuesday afternoon, a well-known farmer, Lawrence Lloyd Buckley, of Beni, near Dubbo (N.S.W.),…

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Farming Enterprise

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 9

The Atherton Tableland Co-operative Bacon Company has now in operation a well-equipped bacon factory at Marceba, twenty miles from…

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Matters of Moment Junior Farmers The Clubs Project Voluntary Efforts Fail

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 10

That it was useless to depend upon voluntary effort and that the council must look to the N.S.W. Government for assistance, was the opinionn…

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Consignments for City MARKETSn The Farmer and his Agent the System of Keeping ACCOUNTSn

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 10

A farmer grows produce to sell and has two markets in which to make sales, namely, the local market and the city market. It often happend…

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Picture Crops. Potato Championship. (From Our Special Representative.) Taraloa

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 9

A preliminary inspection around Goulburn of the entries in the Royal Agricultural Society's southern potato championship has revealed severale picture crops. These are…

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Betting Tickets. Alleged Forgeries. Warwick Farm Case

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 8

Allocations that he had tried to pass forged betting tickets were made at Liverpool Court yesterday by the police against Athol George Love, 42 years, who was charged with being…

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