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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1898

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A Notable Sale of Wool

The Captain's Flat Mining Record · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 4

ALTHOUGH the wool season is now supposed to be over, evidence is not wanting to show that plenty of buying power still remains in the market, even for the highest grades…

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Serious Assault on a Farmer. Four to One. the Assailants Arrested

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 30 March 1898 · page 4

To be set upon by roughs and almost killed after going through nearly 60 years of life without accident to health or limb is one of the hardest experience we know of. Such, though,…

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Farmers and Co-operation

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 16 April 1898 · page 2

A gathering of considerable interest to the producers of the colony look place at the warehouse of the Farmers Co-operative Company of New South Wales (the Ltd. South Coast and West Comden…

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Selected Poetry the Farmer’s Boy

The Captain's Flat Mining Record · Saturday 16 April 1898 · page 3

The [?]un had sunk behind the [?] Across you dreary m[?] When wet and cold there came a boy Up to the farmer’s door…

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Co-operation Amongst Farmers

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 16 April 1898 · page 2

For some time past there has been a movement among the farmers of the colony to secure co-operation for the regulation and control of sales of fodder and grain. The…

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Selected Poetry. the Farmer's Boy

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 19 April 1898 · page 4

The sun had sunk behind the hills, Across you decary moor, When wet and cold there came a boy Up to the farmer's door…

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SECTION C. SHEEP. (First prize 10s, second certificate.)

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 23 April 1898 · page 3

3 Pen of [?] Fat Wethers (any other breed)—K J and J Cunningham, 1. 4 Pen of 3 Fat Ewes (any other breed)—J McCarthy, 1; A J & J Cunningham,…

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SECTION B. CATTLE. (The prizes in the whole of this section are—First, 10s; second, certificate.) SHORTHORN

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 23 April 1898 · page 3

CLASS 3 Cow, 3 yrs and over.—W Sullivan, 1. 4 Cow or Heifer, under 3 yrs—W Sullivan, 1…

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Section I—dairy Produce. Class

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 23 April 1898 · page 3

CLASS 1 Ham—James McCarthy, certificate 3 Fresh Butter in lump, 31b, without salt and without brand or mark.—Mrs…

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Section H—farm Produce

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 23 April 1898 · page 3

1 Sample not less than one bushel White Wheat, guaranteed a fair sample of not less than 100 bushels, grown on Queanbeyan district.—R Swan, 1 ;…

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Section P—implements, Machinery. Farmers Only

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 23 April 1898 · page 3

10 Harrows.—C C Moore, 1 Threshing Machine and Three Furre v Plough— T Gribble—non-competitives…

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New South Wales Farmers' and Settlers' Association. Federation of Australia. Manifesto to the Members of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association and Other Producers of New South Wales

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 May 1898 · page 2

GENTLEMEN.— The President having appealed to the members of the Executive Council of New South Wales Farmers and Setters Association for an expression of opinion on the Federal Convention…

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New South Wales Farmers and Settlers Association. Federation of Australia. Manifesto to the Members of the Farmers and Settlers Association and Other Producers of New South

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 10 May 1898 · page 2

GENTLEMEN, -- The President having appeared to the members of the Executive Council of the Newt South Wales Farmers and Settlers Association for an expression…

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Latest Telegrams BABY-FARMING

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 11 May 1898 · page 2

Sydney, Tuesday.—The police at [?] West Australia, have found the bodies of infants, in the back yard a house in city…

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Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 14 May 1898 · page 2

At the wool sales on Wednesday when 2515 bales were catalogued and 4930 disposed of at auction and privately an easier tendency was exhibited. In superior…

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Model Farm at Goulburn

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 18 May 1898 · page 2

While at Goulburn, Mr Reid was approached on the subject of utilising the Government property on the Rossiville Estate for the purpose of a model form. Mr Reid…

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Other Reasons for Federation. Why Farmers, Selectors, and Working Men Should Vote for the Bill

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 27 May 1898 · page 2

FARMERS should support the Federal Bill because it means protection against America, New Zealand, and other places, which send their produce to our markets, and thus…

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Other Reasons for Federation. Why Farmers, Selectors, and Working Men Should Vote for the Bill

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 28 May 1898 · page 3

Farmers should support the Bill, because it means protection against America, New Zealand, and other places which send their produce to our markets, and thus deprive our…

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Federation means Less Taxes. Farmers Lose O and Gain Much

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 28 May 1898 · page 2

The causes of federation in the abstract has been won by the weight of overwhelming [?] and the [?] dispute now is whether this bill of 1898 [?] be accepted as the basis…

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Judging Sheep

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 4 June 1898 · page 2

Mr J. G. Brooke, manager of Duntroon station, has written to the Committee of the Queanbeyan. Pastoral, Agricultural and Horticultural. Association, suggesting that…

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