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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1904

230 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 6 of 12

Traveller. Manchuria's Wheat Lands

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 13 May 1904 · page 1

THERE is an almost unanimous obverses of Public opinion in England, and for the matter of that in most Western countries, that…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Planting and Cultivating Cowpeas

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 13 May 1904 · page 2

IT has been the [?] to give very poor preparation to the [?] intended for cowpeas. The case with which they may be grown is responsible for…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles, Successful Farming

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 20 May 1904 · page 2

AGRICULTURAL districts [?] many new farms are normally developed by raising grain crops, and when the grain growing is fixed…

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Butterfly Farms

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 20 May 1904 · page 2

The first butterfly farm was established only a year or two ago by Mr. William Watkins at Eastbourne but already several similar…

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Went for the Sheep

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 21 May 1904 · page 2

A Highlander fresh from one of the small western, islands of Scotland, where ploughing is unknown, was engaged as ploughman by a…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 27 May 1904 · page 2

PREPARING HOGS FOR MARKET SELECT the pig your market demands, leaving entirely out of the question personal fancies' and prejudices. If…

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Profitable Cattle

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 31 May 1904 · page 2

The Richmond River “Times” states that for a cow which won the butter [?] and the champion [?] for the best [?] at the Casino show, the great price of £100…

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A Serious Sheep Disease

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 31 May 1904 · page 2

The outbreak of a serious sheep disease in a number of the best districts to Victoria, has been lately reported officially by Dr. Brown, bacteriologist connected with…

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A Serious Sheep Disease

The Age · Friday 3 June 1904 · page 2

THE outbreak of a serious sheep disease in a number of the best districts in Victoria, has been lately reported officially by Dr. Brown, bacteriologist connected with the Agricultural…

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Farm, Garden and Orchard. Original Articles. Temperature and Milk Preservation

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 3 June 1904 · page 2

IT is now claimed that the keeping quality of milk is more a matter of temperature than anything else. This conclusion has been arrived at as the result of experiments…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Preparing Poultry for Market

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 10 June 1904 · page 2

AT the present time there is a considerable quantity of dressed poultry consigned to commission merchants, bringing to the producers a much smaller…

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Farmers and Settlers’ Convention

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 10 June 1904 · page 2

The proposal brought forward at the Farmers’ and Settlers’ Conference assembled at Dubbo, to form a political party was negatived. However [?] was proposed to select…

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Wild Cattle Flat

The Age · Tuesday 14 June 1904 · page 2

AUSTIN CHAPMAN has received the following letter from the Secretary to Postmaster General:— I have the honor to intimate that an application was made by Messrs. W…

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Mail Service for Wild Cattle Flat

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 14 June 1904 · page 2

MR. AUSTIN CHAPMAN has received the following letter from the secretary to the Postmaster General:-- Application was made by Messrs…

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The Farmers' Conference

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 14 June 1904 · page 2

THE end of the Farmers and Settlers' Conference, sitting at Dubbo, is now beginning to appear in sight. In the words of a far-western delegate, they…

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Farmers and Arbitration

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 14 June 1904 · page 3

At the recent conference of the Wellington (N.Z.) Provincial District Farmers’ Union, a committee appointed to frame answers to questions from the Victorian…

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The Farmers and Settlers Conference

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 14 June 1904 · page 2

The Farmers and Settlers’ Conference assembled in Dubbo today, adopted an election platform, including a State Land Bank closer settlement a water conservation…

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Farmers and Settlers' Conference

The Age · Tuesday 14 June 1904 · page 2

ON Saturday the Farmers and Settlers Conference, sitting at Dubbo, adopted the election platform, embodying the reforms…

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Queanbeyan Age with Which Are Incorporated Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror & Captain's Flat Miner. Tuesday, June 14, 1904. The Farmer at Dubbo

The Age · Tuesday 14 June 1904 · page 2

IT is hardly to be wondered at that the Conference of the Farmers and Settlers' Association at Dubbo should have rather fully discussed the vital problem of land tenure;…

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Farmers' and Settlers' Conference

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 15 June 1904 · page 2

The Farmers' and Settlers' Conference on Friday revolved that the Crown should pay outgoing tenants for improvements on conditional and settlement leases. The conference asked that residential…

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