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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1900

166 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 9

Government Experimental Farms. the Hawkesbury College

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 May 1900 · page 5

THIS farm has been established for some years, and is recognised as one of the foremost agricultural scholastic institutions in Australia. Its object is not…

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The Bathurst Experimental Farm

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 May 1900 · page 5

THE Bathurst Farm exhibits are under the control of Mr. A. A. Dunnicliff. There are 100 varieties of wheat and 46 of oats. The farm is just on the city…

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Wollongbar Experimental Farm

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 May 1900 · page 5

THIS farm, which is under the management of Mr. H. V. Jackson, is situated about 8 miles from Lismore, in the Richmond River district. The area…

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The Furracabad Estate Farms. Glen Innes, New England

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 May 1900 · page 2

THIS splendid estate, now subdivided into farms by the owners, the Haymarket P.L.B. and I. Company, Ltd., 750 George-street, Haymarket, Sydney, is…

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The Government Farm

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 May 1900 · page 2

A very great amount of money has been expended by the Government on its Agricultural Colleges and Experimental Farms, and every penny of it,…

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Catch Crops. From the Agricultural Gazette of N.S.W.

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 4 May 1900 · page 1

A good succession of catch crops to sow between the regular crops is as essential to good farming as the selection of the main crops. It is often the neglect…

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Rough on the Farmer

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 11 May 1900 · page 1

An old farmer having been elected a member of the School Board paid a visit to one of the schools coder his care…

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Wheat as a Stock Food

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 15 May 1900 · page 4

On this subject State department of Kansas sent a large number of letters asking the farmers for results of their experience in feeding farm animals with wheat, and the…

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Important Farmers' Conference

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 16 May 1900 · page 2

A monster meeting of farmers is projected for the early part of July at the Town-hall, under the auspices of the Farmers and Settlers' Association. The…

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Important Farmers' Conference

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 16 May 1900 · page 2

A monster meeting of farmers is projected for the early part of July at the Town-hall,.under the auspices of the Farmers and Settlers' Association. The…

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Wool Report

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 2

GOLDSBROUGH, MORT & Co., LIMITED, report. -- In view of the unsatisfactory state of the market, it was decided by the Sydney wool selling brokers to postpone…

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A Rabbit Farm

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 3

The Chicago “National Provisioner” is a good paper, and fall of valuable items about the trade. In the current issue it says:1 “Near Wabash, Ind., Natban Meyer has…

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Thursday, May 17Th. (Before the P.M., and Messrs. Gale, T Whitehead, E.C. CAMPBELL, and W Beatty, J's.P.) Charge of Cattle-stealing

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 19 May 1900 · page 2

Joseph Blewitt and Charles Blewitt were charged with on or about April or May, stealing two bullocks, the property of some person unknown…

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Thursday, May 17Th. (Before the P.M., and Messrs. Gale, T. WHITEHEAD, E. C. CAMPBELL, and W Beatty, J's.P.) Charge of Cattle-stealing

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 19 May 1900 · page 2

Joseph Blewitt and Charles Blewitt were charged with on or about April or May, stealing two bullocks, the property of some person unknown…

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The Land. Clean, Sound Seed-Wheat, From the Agricultural Gazette of N.S.W.

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 25 May 1900 · page 2

Mr. P. Cosgrave, of Edin Derry, Ganmain, writing of his experiences in wheat growing, says: Deep ploughing and thorough cultivation are invariably attended…

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Goldsbrough, Mort & Co., Ltd. Wool Report

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 1 June 1900 · page 2

Another very quiet week has been experienced in the local wool trade. Certainly we have had some little private enquiry, but offers made were such that we did not…

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Wheat Farming in Manitoba

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 15 June 1900 · page 2

The 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 bushels of wheat, which are exported every year from Manitoba, are grown almost, entirely in farms of one or two “quarter-sections,” i.e., of 160…

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Stud Sheep Fair

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 June 1900 · page 2

THE sheep men throughout Australia look Gorward to this season of the year with pleasurable anticipations. The reason is chat Messrs Goldsborough, Mort, & Co.,…

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The Queanbeyan Age with Which Are Incorporated Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror & Captain's Fla Miner. Saturday, June 16, 1900. Local and General. Stud Sheep Fair of Golds-brough, Mort & Co, Ltd

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 16 June 1900 · page 2

The sheep men throughout Australia look forward to this season of the year with pleasureable anticipations. The reason is that Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort and Co.,…

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The Queanbeyan Age with Which Are Incorporated Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror & Captain's Fla Miner. Saturday, June 16, 1900. Local and General. Stud Sheep Fair of Golds-brough, Mort & Co, Ltd

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 16 June 1900 · page 2

The sheep men throughout Australia look forward to this season of the year with pleasureable anticipations. The reason is that Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort and CO.,…

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