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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1901

207 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 5 of 11

Notes on Some of the Wheats Offered for Sale at the Wagga Farm. (Concluded from last issue.)

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 11 June 1901 · page 2

STEINLEE.--This wheat comes from a cross between Steinwedel and King's Jubilee. Steinwedel, with its excellences and faults, is already well…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. Syrup From Sorghum Canes

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 14 June 1901 · page 5

WE recently published some articles respecting millet; and now add that some of the varieties, also yield sugar, which may be treated…

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Fifty Years of Farm Life

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 19 June 1901 · page 4

Every body around Inverell knows and respects Mrs. Elizabeth Nevin, wife of the well-known Oakland farmer of that name says a country paper). It would be strange if her…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. Testing Fjeld a Garden Seeds

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 21 June 1901 · page 6

WHEN the time planting seeds approaches it is important to know whether or not your seeds are good. There are many simple…

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Scent Farms

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 22 June 1901 · page 1

Scent farms furnish a new occupation for women, and a profitable one. It' has already attracted a number of women and it will only be a short…

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Bacteria in Butter and Milk

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 28 June 1901 · page 2

Mr. G. C. Frankland, in 'Longman's Magazine,' says the bacterial population of a moderate-sized pat of butter may be reckoned by millions; and a tiny lump,…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Relative Value of Forage Crops

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 28 June 1901 · page 2

FOR silage it is said that there is no crop superior to corn, and the larger growing varieties are recommended particularly. The…

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Scent Farms

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 28 June 1901 · page 1

Scent farms furnish a new occupation for women, and a profitable one. It has already attracted a number of women and it will only be a short…

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Australian Sheep. Important Factor in the New Commonwealth

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 29 June 1901 · page 1

The sheep, rather than the kangaroo, should be the Australian emblematic device, for the pastoral industry is that on which the material prosperity of the…

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Progress in the Queanbeyan District. An Object Lesson in Farming

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 29 June 1901 · page 2

It is always pleasant to ta[?]e note of, and write about residents of a country community, who endeavour by exalting themselves out of the beaten track to increase…

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Progress in the Queanbeyan District. An Object Lesson in Farming. (Continued.)

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 3 July 1901 · page 3

Having, from a very large experience among dairies, and vivid recollections of some of them, always been an un-compromising believer in the compulsory…

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High Priced Sheep

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 5 July 1901 · page 3

AT the opening of the Sydney annual Stud Sheep Sales on Monday there was the largest attendance known in the history of the sales. Small selectors were many, and…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Relative Value of Forage Crops

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 5 July 1901 · page 1

RED Clover is an excellent green crop of good quality, and relished by all kinds of stock; it is frequently a catch crop, and may be sown…

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Comparative Value of Forage Crops

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 5 July 1901 · page 1

Kafir corn is a crop quite similar in habits of growth to the larger varieties of millet, and while more leafy is, as a whole, less palatable. Kafir corn has proved…

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New South Wales and Victorian Wheat

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 9 July 1901 · page 2

THE relative merits of New South Wales and Victorian wheat have lately led to a good deal of discuss[?]on, and an extract from a communication from a member of a…

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Progress in the Queanbeyan District. An Object Lesson in Farming. (Continued.) [Tuggranong School.]

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 10 July 1901 · page 4

Having heard of Mr McGee's enthusiasm and success as an apiarist I was induced to call also upon him. Both Mrs McGee and himself received me most hospitably, and…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. Difficulty in Churning

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 12 July 1901 · page 5

DURING cold weather one of the difficulties in butter-making results from hard fat granules and cream with a high viscosity…

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Winchcombe, Carson and Co.'s Wool Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 July 1901 · page 3

Supplies for auction are very limited, and confined practically to scoureds and held-over fines of greasy fleece. Not with standing the weaker opening of the…

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The Government and the Farmers

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 July 1901 · page 2

Speaking at the Farmers', and Settlers' conference at Tamworth on Friday, Mr, Kidd, Minister for Agriculture, said that he had determined to provide grain elevators as speedily, as possible, and…

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Value of Hereford Cattle

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 19 July 1901 · page 2

A WRITER on "Herefords for Export," in the Rural World remarks:--"There has been within the last several years a good demand for Hereford cattle abroad, more…

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