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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1904

230 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 10 of 12

Bread and Butter Pudding

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 14 October 1904 · page 1

Ingredients: 1 pint of milk, 2 thin slices of bread and butter, 2 eggs, 1 dessertspoonful of sultanas, 2 tablespoonfuls of sugar, flavoring…

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The Railway Commissioners and Farm Produce

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 14 October 1904 · page 2

THOUGH giving the N.S.W. Department of Railways every credit for the many concessions they have made in their tariff of charges for the haulage…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Incubators and Brooders

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 14 October 1904 · page 2

AN experienced poultry keeper writes and says that he has been very successful in hatching and growing chickens with incubators and brooders and would…

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Butter

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 18 October 1904 · page 3

The real value of butter as an article of diet is only dimly realised by the great majority of people who regularly use it. They know that it is pleasant to eat,…

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The Butter Factory

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 18 October 1904 · page 2

We learn that the Butter Factory commenced to receive cream yesterday morning, the first days receipts being about 14 cans. Some of the largest…

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Wool Report

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 18 October 1904 · page 2

The opening sales of the season were held this week, this Company submitting 2799 bales, of which 2202 were sold under the hammer…

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Butter Factory

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 21 October 1904 · page 2

Five tenders for supply of firewood for the Butter Factory have been received by Mr. A. R. Pooley secretary That of Mr. James Rex has been…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Poultry Fattening or Cramming

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 21 October 1904 · page 2
Also in The Age

THE rapidly increasing interest that is being manifested in this branch of the poultry business is very gratifying. The profits to be made in poultry belong, first of…

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Wool Sales

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 25 October 1904 · page 3

As arranged, no auction sales were held in this market during the past week. Some few sales of passed-in and fellmongers lots have, however, been…

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For Profit Feed the Crops

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 25 October 1904 · page 4

Once it was deemed advisable to manure the land, but that being a costly process, agriculture did not make the advance it should. To-day, however,…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Cooling Milk on the Farm

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 28 October 1904 · page 5

IF the shallow, or open system, as it is sometimes named, is used, strain the milk as soon as it is drawn, first through a wire strainer, and then through a thin…

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Pumpkins As a Dairy Feed

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 28 October 1904 · page 5

Very few, if any, experiments seem to have been made to determine the value of pumpkins as food for the dairy cow. However, they are generally regarded as…

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Real Value of Butter

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 4 November 1904 · page 4

The real value of butter as an article of diet is only [?] realised by the great majority of people who regularly use it. They know it is pleasant to eat,…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 4 November 1904 · page 2

The A. M. L. and F. Co., Ltd., report: The regular weekly auctions were inaugurated last week, when we submitted two catalogues totalling 2186 bales, of…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Handling Young Chicks

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 November 1904 · page 2

COCKERELS and pullets should be operated the latter part of the summer. When they are about three months old, the cookerels should be…

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Farmers and Settlers Association

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 4 November 1904 · page 2

The annual meeting of the Farmers and Settlers Association was held in the Council Chambers yesterday, Mr. R. Kennedy, the President, in the chair…

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Cattle Stealing

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 8 November 1904 · page 2

Friday’s Grange “Advocate” says.— A daring case of cattle stealing was brought to light last night. From the particulars available it appears that…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 8 November 1904 · page 2

The A. M. L. & F. Co., Ltd., report:— For our sales last week we catalogued 1,886 bales, of which we sold under the hammer 1,525. We experienced a very…

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Regulating the Moisture in Butter

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 11 November 1904 · page 1

The moisture in butter in many cases, especially in that not washed, holds within it a certain proportion of the c[?]n or curd from the buttermilk. It follows, therefore,…

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