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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1897

115 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 6 of 6

Alleged Sheep Stealing

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 13 October 1897 · page 2

At the Rungendore Police Court on Thursday, before Messrs. Rutledge, Powell and Leaby, George Scott, on remand, was charged with stealing a sheep, the property of someone unknown…

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Braidwood Police Court. Monday, October 11. (Before E. L. Maitland, Esq., P.m.) Alleged Cattle Stealing

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 13 October 1897 · page 2

Francis David Taylor and Thomas Higgs were charged with having on the 28th August last stolen one cow, branded R D over U. the property of Richard Druce…

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The Alleged Sheep Stealing Case at Bungendore

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 16 October 1897 · page 2

At the Goulburn Assizes on Tuesday George Scott(on ball) was charged that he did at Ingledow near Bungendore on or about the 26th of August steal a sheep the property of William Edmonds of…

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Agricultural Notes. for Practical Men. [These Article Are Copyright] No. 33. [Queries upon practical farming or kindred subjects forwarded to the Editor of this journal will in due course be dealt with by Mr. Henessey in this column

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 22 October 1897 · page 3

YOU may grow a pig on almost anything, but when fattening off he wants the best. The delicate flavour of the pork will depend very largerly…

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The Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 23 October 1897 · page 2

Sydney, Friday.—At the wool sales yesterday values were all good. Superior parcels extremely firm and regular…

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Original Correspondence. Railway Freights and Pastoral Produce and Storekeepers' Goods. [To the Editor of the Dispatch.]

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 23 October 1897 · page 2

SIR,-It is now more than four years since I first pointed out, through the columns of the press, the gross injustice that is being done to a section of the producers of this colony by the system on…

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Original, Correspondence. Braidwood Butter Factory. (To This Editor of the Dispatch.]

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 November 1897 · page 2

SIR,-A good many of the shareholders are anxious to leach something about the doings of the Factory and whether the resolution carried, almost unanimously, forbidding the contemplated letting…

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Feeding Dairy Cows

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 November 1897 · page 4

"A Gippsland Farmer" writes to the Australasian:-"In answer to 'Dairyman' I beg to state I have fed my cows for the last three winters on steamed straw chaff…

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Feeding Dairy Cows

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 19 November 1897 · page 3

"A GIPPSLAND FARMER." writes to the Australasian: -- " In answer to 'Dairyman' 1 beg to state I have fed my cows for the last three winters on…

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The Wool Market

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 23 November 1897 · page 2

An easier tone continued at the local wool market yesterday, and southern wools are arriving more freely. Tenpence was paid…

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Bread and Butter Dance

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 November 1897 · page 2

THE above dance, which has now become an annual affair, and organised for the purpose of raising funds to purchase prizes for distributing among the children…

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Bread and Butter Dance

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 27 November 1897 · page 2

What was termed a Bread and Butter Dance took place in the Protestant Hall on Wednesday night. The dance was in aid if the Christ Church (C. of E.) Sunday School…

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The W[?] Crop

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 3 December 1897 · page 2

WE (Daily Telegraph) publish an estimate of the present whest harvest, together with the position of supplied and the probable exportable surplus available during the…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 4 December 1897 · page 3

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report that at late auctions very heavy catalogues have been submitted to buyers. These districts which suffered most severely from…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 11 December 1897 · page 3

The Sydney Wool Selling, Brokers' Association report that at late auctions very heavy catalogues consisting for the most part of medium, quality wools were submitted each day…

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The Government Experimental Farms

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 December 1897 · page 2

A conference of the managers of the experimental farms and other officers of the Department of Agriculture was hel dat Bathurst on Saturday last. Mr. Sydney Smith presided. The main object of…

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