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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1896

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Bread-and-Butter Dance

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 31 July 1896 · page 2

QUITE a numerous gathering took place at the Protestant Hall on Tuesday night to participate in the pleasure to be derived from the bread-and-butter dance got up in…

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Bread and Butter Dance

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 1 August 1896 · page 2

The bread and butter dance held in the Protestant Hall on Tuesday night, in aid of the funds of the Queanbeyan Benevolent Society, was in every way a great success…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 1 August 1896 · page 2

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers Association report that sales were resumed at the Wool Exchange, Macquarie Place, on Wednesday, after an interval of four weeks. Including private…

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Proceeds of Bread-and-Butter Dance

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 4 August 1896 · page 2

A STATEMENT of collection find expenditure connexion with the recent bread-and-butter dance in aid of the funds of the local benevolent society shows subscriptions, etc.,…

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The Dairy How to Milk. This Man Says Cows Have a Good Ear [?] Music

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 7 August 1896 · page 1

A milking experiment is thus reported in a London paper: "Five cows were milked two weeks' each by two competent milkers. [?]…

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The Wool Works

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 11 August 1896 · page 2

WE clip the following from Saturday's issue of the "S.M. Herald": -- In reference to a telegram from our Queanbeyan correspondent published yesterday as to the sale…

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Two Columbian Dairy Cows. World's Fair Cows -- Typical Specimens of Two Rival Diary Breeds

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 11 August 1896 · page 1

Out readers have here opportunity to compare the two famous milk and butter breeds -- Jersey and Guernsey. The owner of each one of them thinks she is good…

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Cattle Slaughtering

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 14 August 1896 · page 2

THE Board of Health has forwarded the following circular to the municipal Councils of the colony…

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The Farmers and Settlers Conference

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 19 August 1896 · page 2

The Farmers and Settlers' Conference which has been in session at Wagga since Tuesday morning, practically concluded its business on Thursday. A number of…

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Sheep Stealing at Yass

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 22 August 1896 · page 2

Mr Weekes, P.M., sat at Yass for the first time on Tuesday and had a big day. After one or two minor cases, Theophilus William Howell, Alitia Howell, and William Coady…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 29 August 1896 · page 2

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report that sales were resumed at the Wool Exchange, Macquarie Place, on Wednesday, after an interval of four weeks. The catalogues…

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Root and Fodder Crops

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 2 September 1896 · page 2

The season for planting these having commenced, a few remarks may be of service. Our dairymen and others are fast realizing the fact, that these crops must be largely…

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The Goulburn Experimental Farm

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 5 September 1896 · page 2

Mr Valder's report to the Department of Mines and Agriculture on the Rossiville Estate and the proposal to convert it into an experimental farm is unfavorable to the…

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Farmers' Waste in Seed Wheat

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 11 September 1896 · page 2

MR. DICK, M.L.A., was much struck with a remark by Mr. George Voider, manager of the experimental farm at Bomen, near Wagga to the effect that great waste took…

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Queanbeyan Wool Company

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 18 September 1896 · page 2

THERE are now in Queanbeyan two representatives of Messrs. Gibson, Battle, and Co., of Sydney, engineers, who are engaged in the task of pulling down and…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 19 September 1896 · page 3

The Sydney Wool-Selling Brokers' Association report that sales were resumed at the Wool Exchange, Macquarie Place, on Wednesday. These sales, the first at which any considerable…

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A New Butter Box

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 29 September 1896 · page 2

THERE seems to be no limit to the ingenuity bestowed upon the devising of means tor accomplishing the transport the perishable produce of distant clime…

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Farm Garden Feeding Fodder. An Improved Plan That May Be Adopted With Small Expense

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 6 October 1896 · page 1

Throwing the bundles upon the ground for the cattle to trample under foot While the feeder is descending the steps or coming around the back way is the…

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Store Crops In Good Condition

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 6 October 1896 · page 1

The loss of fruits and vegetables in storage is of not infrequent occurrence. To lose one's supply of potatoes or apples is a serious matter. Sometimes the…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 9 October 1896 · page 2

THE local wool sales were resumed on Tuesday. Buyers, who were well represented, showed greater disposition to operate than had been anticipated, with the…

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