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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1901

207 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 11

Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. Guinea Fowls for the Table

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 26 February 1901 · page 1

ONE cannot understand why more guinea fowls are not raised. They are excellent table fowls, possessing a true gamy flavour…

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Developing the Dairy Calf

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 26 February 1901 · page 1

The calf destined for the dairy should never be fed a ration which will make it put on fat. If the flesh-growing habit is acquired by the young growing animal…

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Farmers and Shows

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 27 February 1901 · page 2

We commend the following comments of the DESPATCH regarding the recent Braidwood show:—If the attendance was small so also the number of exhibits, the falling…

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Effects of Copper upon Sheep

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 1 March 1901 · page 2

According to the Sydney Herald’s Blayney correspondent an interesting point has been raised in that district as to the effect of copper-mining on the pastoral industry…

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Free Trade for Farmers

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 1 March 1901 · page 2

Where does the wheat farmer come in, with wheat selling in protected Victoria at a shilling a bushel less than in free trade England ?…

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Spent a Good Farm Doctoring

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 2 March 1901 · page 2

Mr. A. N. Noell of Asherville, kansas, says he spent a good farm doctoring himself for (chronic diarrhea but got do relief and he was afraid that be mast die. He chanced to get hold of a bottle of…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. Southdown Sheep

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 5 March 1901 · page 5

NO breed of sheep stands so high with mutton-eaters as the Southdown. In quality of meat they stand in the front rank…

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Sanitary Farming

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 8 March 1901 · page 6

A very sensible suggestion made by Mr. Henry Richmond, of Lytham, in a Manchester paper, deserves the widest possible, publicity (says Land and Water). It is that…

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A Pious Scotch Farmer

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 8 March 1901 · page 1

A pious Scotch farmer once remarked with regard to the potato disease, that at first he ‘thocht it was a dispensation of Almichty God, but now he believed…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. the Jersey Cow

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 12 March 1901 · page 2

THE Jersey cow has a record of thirty one pounds--one and one-third ounce of butter for seven consecutive days. This butter contained…

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Sanitary Farming

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 12 March 1901 · page 4

A very sensible suggestion made by Mr. Henry Richmond, of Lytham, in a Manchester paper, deserves the widest possible publicity (says Land-and - Water). It is that…

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Grass Seeds in Cattle

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 March 1901 · page 3

A WIRE from Cooma reports that Mr. Stewart, Government veterinary surgeon. examined on the Rosebrook estate some of the dairy cattle which…

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Green Rye as a Preparatory Crop for Potatoes

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 March 1901 · page 3

THERE can be no doubt that many of the failures attending spring-grown potatoes in various districts of this colony are due to the unsuitable…

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Sagacity of Pantomime Sheep

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 16 March 1901 · page 2

Those who witnessed the performance of "Bo-Peep" pantomime, at Bolton, could not fail to be struck with the manner in which the four sheep employed in connection…

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Farmers and the Commonwealth

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 16 March 1901 · page 2

The address issued by the Hon J. A Isaacs late Attorney General of the Colony of Victoria is of interest to others and more particularly to farmers outside his own…

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Grass Seeds in Cattle

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 19 March 1901 · page 2

A wire from Cooma reports that Mr. Stewart, Government veterinary surgeon, examined on the Rosebrook estate some of the dairy cattle which had swellings of the…

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Farm and Poultry. Original Articles. Brahmas

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 19 March 1901 · page 1

THIS breed of fowls has many good qualities, the hens being great layers, non-sitters, good foragers, and the most beautiful of many of the…

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Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 20 March 1901 · page 2

Sydney,Tuesday—At the wool sales yesterday scoured sold up to 15¾d and greasy up to 8d…

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Grass Seeds and Cattle

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 20 March 1901 · page 2

Mr J. D. Stewart, the Government veterinary surgeon, examined on the Rosebrook estate, Cooma, some of the dairy cattle which had swellings of the jaw, and found…

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Queanbeyan Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horticultural Association. the Tenth Annual Show

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 22 March 1901 · page 2

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