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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1867

12 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Scheduled. Position and Order of Brands on Cattle

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 7 February 1867 · page 3

Portion I embracing the near rump hip and thigh. " II " the off rump hip and thigh. " III " the near back and ribs. " IV " the off back and ribs…

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London Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 14 February 1867 · page 2

Last sales closed 10th December. Total bales catal[?]g[?]ed 77,272, being 150,000 in excess of arrivals, showing a large quantity held over, sent from the North for…

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Wool Market

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Friday 19 April 1867 · page 3

The market is very quiet, few transactions occurring. A small number of sales have been made in the sorts wanted for immediate consumption, at about last rates, but none could be sold except at a…

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Notes on the Crops at the Experimental Farm

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Friday 17 May 1867 · page 4

OUR readers are no doubt aware that Mr Mitchell has for a long time past been carrying out a system of farming best calculated for the climate, and also with reference to…

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Some Crops That Are Unlikely to Pay

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Friday 24 May 1867 · page 4

THERE are two sections of cultivators, each of them in their own way about equally prejudical to the interests of bona fide agriculturists. The first class are men who are…

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Wool

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Friday 14 June 1867 · page 3

Since close of sales little doing. Market quiet, with a tendency to depression. Contracts made with difficulty at a slight…

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Advice to Farmers

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Friday 14 June 1867 · page 4

It is not uncommon for those who leave a town for a country life to start with false ideas. They get their notions from a species of agricultural literature which…

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Queanbeyan General Sessions. Friday, June 28Th, 1867. (Continued from page 2.) Cattle Stealing

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1867 · page 4

James Richard Webber was indicated for having on the 20th April last stolen a cow, the property of Mary Edmonds. There was a second count of receiving…

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Dairy Produce

Braidwood Independent · Wednesday 4 September 1867 · page 2

THE supplying of milk to large towns is occupying the attention of influential bodies of men in Europe, and although the results of their investigations are not yet made public,…

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An Arrowroot Farm

Braidwood Independent · Saturday 7 September 1867 · page 6

ON Wednesday last we had the pleasure of paying a visit to that rather celebrated farming settlement—Oxley. Probably few localities can be found in this colony that…

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Salting Butter

Braidwood Independent · Wednesday 16 October 1867 · page 2

THERE are proper seasons for every description of work connected with the farm, and the time for salting butter is not even excepted, as it is a well-known fact that if…

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Dairy Produce

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 26 October 1867 · page 2

THE supplying of milk to large towns is occupying the attention of influential bodies of men in Europe, and although the results of their investigations are not yet made public,…

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