Cattle Stealing
Extensive robberies of cattle are reported to have taken place in the Gundagai district, the principal sufferer being Mr. Robertson who owns a large station…
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Farming & the land, 1905
340 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 17
A Distructive Fire. Travels at the Rate of Ten Miles an Hour. Horses, Sheep, and Dogs Perish in the Flames. Burns Habitations, Hay and Wheat Stacks
WORD reached Queanbeyan at about 7 o'clock on Sunday evening that all the country lying between Glenwood and the Murrumbidgee was one gigantic conflagration, and the services of…
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A wire from Moruya states that for November the local, factory treated 39,260 gallons of milk. During December there were shipped and sold 40,446…
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JOHN BRIDGE & CO. LTD., report:-- Although no public auctions have been held since our last report, we have nevertheless cleared a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. to Secure Eggs Winter
PULLETS, not old hens, must be kept for autumn and winter laying; and the pullets should be mature enough to begin laying before cold weather…
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Mr. J. A. McKenzie, of; the firm of McKenzie and Hooke, who have been closely associated, with the subdivision of the A.A. Company’s Port Stephens…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Butter Factory
Mr. A. R . Pooley has informed is that the turn over for last month for butter: at the factory closely reaches £500 This is not a large turn ever, when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Dubbo Wheat Yield
Mr. W. Brown, of “Belle [?] some ten miles from Dubbo, in an interview with a representative of the Dubbo “Dispatch” on Thursday reported that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Breeding Corn Commercially
COMMERCIALLY the com breeder has but one aim, and that is utility. The acre of land is the farmers' unit. There are three ways to increase his profits…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Queanbeyan Age with Which Are Incorporated Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror & Captain's Flat Miner. Tuesday, January 17, 1905. The Trouble in the Wool Trade
THE Sydney wool trade, which up to the end of 1904, had progressed with great satisfaction to all interested, received a decided check in its forward march last Wednesday…
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IN consequence of the dispute between the wool buyers and the ship owners, thereby preventing sales from being held for some six days, the bidding on Tuesday was very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Wool Sales
TUESDAY'S wool sale was probably the largest ever held in Australia, 16,110 bales being catalogued. The sales, including private transactions,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Notes and Comments. the Wool Deadlock
The deadlock in the wool trade was not regarded by all concerned as the unmixed calamity, which the papers represented it. In the first place, not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Protecting Dairy Cows
PROTECTION for dairy cows' is very apt to be neglected, and they are frequently left to obtain a scanty living from bare pastures and exposed to all the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmer's Absence
'Well,' said Farmer Briggs to the artist, 'how much will 'oo paint my farm with me standin' at t' door for ?' ' Oh, five guineas,' said the artist…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat Standard Fixed
At a meeting of the grain trade committee of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce last Thursday, Mr. J; M. Paxton presiding, it was decided, after…
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THE following sales have been effected at the Sydney Wool Exchange during the week:— Narrabundah/P S, 18 h w e at 11d. Bulge creek/M M, 14 h w e at 11½d. W H/Spring…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crops at Sutton
AMONG the crops harvested at Sutton this season were those of Mr. H. Reid, 130 bags—about the Sutton district reord, it is said; Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Raising Turkeys
DAMP or low swampy land is not a good location lot raising turkeys the ideal being gravelly, light soil through which flows a small stream. For the very…
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The supply was above requirements, and values all round were lower. Best medium and lightweight beef was worth to about 23s 6d per 100lb., with…
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