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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1889

11 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

The Victorian Farmers' Association

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 February 1889 · page 2

A special general meeting of delegates from the branches of the Victorian Farmer's Association and the affiliated bodies was held on Wednesday afternoon in the Town HalL The meeting unanimously…

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Manuring Orchards by Sheep

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 13 March 1889 · page 2

Some experiments in the manuring of apple orchards by sheep have been carried out in America, with very satisfactory results. In one case the object of putting the sheep into the orchard was that of…

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Seed Wheat to Fanners

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 30 March 1889 · page 2

The [?] have [?] the scheme for supplying seed wheat to distressed farmers. The police…

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Seed Wheat

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 April 1889 · page 2

In the Assembly on Tuesday Mr. Crick asked if the attention of the Government had been called to the hardship likely to be inflicted upon landlords by their being called upon to give an…

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The Wheat Market

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 1 June 1889 · page 4

The comparative failure of the wheat crop in Australia (says the Adelaide Advertiser) does not affect the market of the world to any appreciable extent. We doubt whether the…

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Braidwood Police Court. Wednesday, May 29. (Before Messrs. J. Aldcorn, P.M., and John Wallace.) Cattle Styaying

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 1 June 1889 · page 2

James Allen was fined 2s 6d and 2s 8d costs for allowing cattle to stray in the streets. M. Willis was fined in a similar amount for a similar offence…

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The Opening of the Pastoral Leases to Selection

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 29 June 1889 · page 2

The provision in the 28th clause of the Land Bill to terminate all pastoral leases in the Eastern division to make room for closer settlement by being thrown open to free selection was argued at great…

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Pastoral Leases

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 July 1889 · page 2

A petition was presented to the legislative Assembly on Tuesday night by Mr. J. Wilkinson from residents of the town and district of Albury against the proposed extension of pastoral leases in the…

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Anthrax Disease in Cattle

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 27 July 1889 · page 2

Some days ago a telegram was received at the Stock Department stating that the cattle at Cowra were dying at the rate of about six a day from some disease which was entirety new, so far as…

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Preparing for the New Land Bill. a Meeting of Farmers and Free Selectors. Gundaroo, Gininderra, and Micalago to Be Visited

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 10 August 1889 · page 2

IT is the intention of the member for Queanbeyan, to hold a meeting of farmers and free selectors and Gininderra in a few weeks time for the purpose of explaining the provisions of…

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Commercial. the Wool Season 1889—1890. to the Pastoralists of New South Wales

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 26 October 1889 · page 2

WE cannot retrain from sincerely thanking old constituents, as well as those Pastora-lists who have kindly signified their intention of forwarding their consignments of Wool and…

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