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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1896

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Model Farm for Cooma

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 20 October 1896 · page 2

AT a recent meeting of the Cooma Council A derman Devereaux [?]ed a motion with the object of urging the Minister for Land to consider the desirability of establishing…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 21 October 1896 · page 3

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report that the regular sales of the series were resumed last week. The comparative lateness of shearing dates in some of the earlier districts…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 24 October 1896 · page 2

Catalogues submitted this week have been of fair average quality, representing all portions of the colony, except the late shearing districts. .A more general survey of the clip is somewhat…

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The Dairy the Next Step Forward. Milk and Cream Will Have to Be Steri[?]ized or Pasteurised

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 27 October 1896 · page 1

The next stop forward for the wide awake dairyman and milk dealer will be the sterilizing of all milk and cream before it is sold to the consumer. Public…

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Dairy and Creamery

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 27 October 1896 · page 1

Two interesting applications of solidified carbonic acid have been made in dairy work. One is to a simple process for the preservation of butter. The…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 31 October 1896 · page 2

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report that sales of wool were held at the Wool Exchange, Macquarie Place, this week when somewhat larger catalogues, embracing a rather…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 7 November 1896 · page 2

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report that sales of wool were continued this week, when considerably larger catalogues were submitted. From the west, the northern, and…

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Bread and Butter Dance

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 11 November 1896 · page 2

The bread and butter dance in aid of the Chirstmas tree prize fund of the Christ Church Sunday School was held in the Protestant Hall on Monday night,…

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Sheep Dipping

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 14 November 1896 · page 2

It has now been proved conclusively by Pastoralists that dipping their flock pays, even if they are quite free from ticks, red lice, or other parasites, as the general health of the…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 14 November 1896 · page 2

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report that sales of wool were continued this week, the pressure being so great as to necessitate the holding of sales on Monday, .notwith-…

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Prospect of Rise in Wool

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 14 November 1896 · page 2

London, Thursday -There was a good advance of prices for wool at the Antwerp sales. There is a prospect of higher prices at the London wool sales on 24th inst…

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The Dairy a Little Journey. Among the Cows That Supply New York with Milk

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 17 November 1896 · page 4

Much of New York's milk supply comes from Orange, Sullivan, Ulster and Dutchess counties. I made a little journey through this…

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The Dairy Sugar Beets and Potatoes. How Much They Are Worth in Butter Production

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 20 November 1896 · page 4

In bulletin 17 of the Iowa, agricultural college, Professor Wilson gives "the results of feeding experiments to determine the value of sugar beets and…

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The Dairy the Farm Dairy in Winter. Don't Use the Kitchen Pantry for a Milkroom

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 20 November 1896 · page 4

The housewife who expects to make better this winter from milk and cream set in the kitchen pantry will not have any better "luck" than heretofore in…

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Dairy and Creamery

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 20 November 1896 · page 4

One swallow does not make a summer. One good, dairy bailor cow of a beef breed does not prove at all that dairymen should go in for that breed as…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 21 November 1896 · page 3

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report that sales of wool were continued this week. Very large catalogues comprising numerous representative clips were submitted…

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Experimental Farm for the Southern District

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 21 November 1896 · page 2

Mr Campbell, the Director of Agriculture, travelled up in the train on Friday morning with the member of Queanbeyan, and on the journey Mr. O'Sullivan impressed upon…

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Experimental Farm for Queanbeyan

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 27 November 1896 · page 2

WE are given to understand that Mr. E. W. O'Sullivan is endeavouring to induce Mr. Anderson, the Director of Agriculture, to recommend the conversion of the…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 28 November 1896 · page 2

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report that the catalogues submitted this week have been large in extent, including a very considerable percentage of superior lots, the bulk…

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Wool Teams for Nelligen

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 1 December 1896 · page 2

THE first of the wool clip this season is all going to Sydney by way of Nelligen. This week and last teams have gone down with the wool of Messrs. Stewart, G. Hush, T…

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