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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1864

11 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Wool Market

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Saturday 13 February 1864 · page 2

Sydney scoured and low priced fleece much enquired for. Prices firm, and stocks small…

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Sheep Breeding

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Saturday 9 April 1864 · page 4

THE natural habitat of the sheep is high mountain ranges. When domesticated it can be made feed to on the richer herbage of the plains,…

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Commercial. Wool Market

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Wednesday 20 April 1864 · page 4

The wool market was very quiet inquires only for immediate requirements Buyers received an advance on November rates, except in special…

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Preservation of Wheat

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 26 May 1864 · page 2

SOME interesting experiments have been made in Paris on the preservation of wheat in a vacuum, with an apparatus invented by Dr. Louvel. Weevills were completely killed at…

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Butter Making and Packing

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Saturday 4 June 1864 · page 2

THIN[?]NG it may be of interest to some of your readers. I will give a few [?]eas of butter making obtained by making it [?]r years, and while…

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The Cattle Disease. [To the Editor of the News.]

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Wednesday 22 June 1864 · page 2

Sir,—Having seen a paragraph in [?] journal [?]especting the [?]culation of cattle for the pleurisy, where you state that there are few if any…

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Braidwood Police Court. TUESDAY. (Before J. W. Orridge, Esq. J.p.,) Breach of the Cattle-stealing

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Wednesday 22 June 1864 · page 2

PREVENTION ACT.—Daniel Guinea, a [?]ree selector upon the Upper Shoal[?] near Kia[?] and who had been apprehended by se[?]…

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Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 14 July 1864 · page 2

There was a large attendance at the May wool sales. The bidding was very spirited, competition being brisk. Fine Port Phillip brought 2s 7d to 2s 11d…

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Sketches by the Way. [Continued.] No. Ix.—martin Cropper, the Tutor

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 11 August 1864 · page 3

MY time passed on at Dargle's as agreeably as could be expected under the circumstances. There was no humbugging, the field of my operations was pointed out to me, and when…

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Sketches by the Way. No. Ix.—martin Cropper, the Tutor. [Continued.]

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 18 August 1864 · page 3

THE first intimation we had of Mr Cropper's glorious condition, was on seeing him running frantically across the yard to the dwelling-house, calling upon the entire…

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The Wheat Crops

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 13 October 1864 · page 3

THE Empire, of Thursday, published a long and interesting article on the state of the standing crops of this year; and the Goul-burn Argus' Sydney correspondent has thus…

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