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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1886

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Protection for the Farmers

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 29 April 1886 · page 4

THE following is a report of the speech delivered by Mr. E. W. O'Sullivan on Mr. W. Clarke's motion for Protection for the farmers :—…

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Letters to the Editor. Protection to Farmers

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 May 1886 · page 2

DEAR SIR,—Some time ago I heard Mr. O'Sullivan justify his joining the Ministry he had allied himself to, by saying that he could not find a Ministry from whom he could…

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The Age Saturday, May 15, 1886. Bee-farming As an Adjunct to Agriculture, Introduction

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 15 May 1886 · page 2

The management of bees as a profitable industry has now reached a degree of perfection, that it may be regarded as a science, and so much…

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Mr. E. W. O'Sullivan and Wheat Importation

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 June 1886 · page 2

IN the Assembly, Sir Patrick Jennings, in reply to Mr. O'Sullivan, said that 120,055 bushels of wheat had been imported from Victoria since January 1st to…

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The Age Tuesday, June 29, 1886. The Rise in Wool

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 June 1886 · page 2

THE cable message which announced the opening of the June-July series of London wool sales on the 16th instant must have sent a thrill of joy through the…

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Farmers' Special Trains

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 3 July 1886 · page 2

The following return was laid up on the table of the Assembly on Tuesday night relating to the cost and earnings "of farmers' special trains. Following are the…

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Bill Nye on Butter and Butter-making

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 July 1886 · page 4

BUTTER is the mature fruit of a full blown cow. It is the greatest effort of her life. The cow toils not, neither does she…

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The Age Tuesday, July 13Th, 1886. Protection for Our Farmers

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 July 1886 · page 2

THE circular which appeared in our last issue from the hon. secretary of the Land and Industrial Alliance, addressed to the eighty-six affiliated associations of the…

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The Age Saturday, July 24Th, 1886. Bee-Farming as an Accessory to Agriculture

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 24 July 1886 · page 2

SOME few weeks back, in an article on this subject, we pledged ourselves to enter into the details of the principles on which…

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The Advance in Wool

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 August 1886 · page 4

Although wool has gone up in London and there is water in the interior, a large section of Australian squatters are not (the…

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The Age Thursday, August 12Th, 1886. A Sheep Walk on a Hive of Industry

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 12 August 1886 · page 2

THIS question we apply to the future of New South Wales. Is this vast colony with its valuable natural productions to become eventually a sheep walk or the…

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Leasehold Farms

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 12 August 1886 · page 2

WE are glad to learn that Mr. E. K. Grace, J.P., of Gungahleen, has engaged the services of Mr. Surveyor Barrington, to sub-divide 5000 acres of the finest…

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Sheep Stealing at Bungendore

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 14 August 1886 · page 2

OUR correspondent writing under date 12 August, says :— Last night Senior Constable Nelson and Constable Caldwell brought to the lockup two men, named…

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Leasehold Farms

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 14 August 1886 · page 2

THE following more detailed information respecting Mr. Crace's proposed sub-divitions will be read with interest:— Mr. Crace is about to sub-divide and let on…

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Conference of Farmers and Free Selectors

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 August 1886 · page 2

At a meeting of the central committee of the Land and Industrial Alliance on Friday, at Barrister's Court, it was resolved that a conference of farmers and…

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Important Meeting of Farmers and Others

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 2 September 1886 · page 2

ATTENTION is directed to the advertisement appearing in another column calling a meeting of farmers and others for Saturday next to elect delegates for the…

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Letters to the Editor. Farm Produce

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 11 September 1886 · page 2

SIR,—The following is a return of farm produce imported into Sydney during the month of August. I should have pleasure in supplying you with regular monthly…

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The Rise in Wool

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 September 1886 · page 2

The news of an advance of ½ to 2d per lb, in the various classes of wool, though unexpected, gives assurance of enlarged returns for our squatters. For years…

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Goulburn Quarter Sessions. RESUMED on Thurrday morning before his Honor Judge McFarland. Sheep-sealing at Blackheath

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 September 1886 · page 2

John Pratt (on bail, who had been acquitted the previous day upon a similar charge) was charged with stealing at Blackheath on the 1st April two sheep…

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The Wool Sales. London, Sept. 24

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 September 1886 · page 2

The fifth series of wool sales commence on November 23…

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