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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1906

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Wool Report

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 10 August 1906 · page 2

THE Sydney wool market shows returning activity,Messrs Winchcombe, Carson and Co. report, though prices are now on a lower level than a month…

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Wool and Produce Reports

The Age · Friday 10 August 1906 · page 4

HAARISON JONES AND DEVLIN, Hill, Clark & Co., Schute, Bell & Co., and Winchcombe, Carson & Co., Ltd. report. Business during the past week has been…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Raising Geese

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 10 August 1906 · page 1

ON many farms a flock of Toulouse geese may be profitably reared each year, the number depending on range and other facilities. The Toulouse breed are…

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Farm and Garden. Calendar for August

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 10 August 1906 · page 3

The various rainstorm centres passing to the south have caused deficient rainfalls in our district; still the land is in fair order for cropping, and it is always a…

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A Wheat Hospital

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 August 1906 · page 3

The loss to American and Canadian farmers every year through a wet dirty, and diseased wheat is very large. To reduce this loss to a…

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Butter

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 14 August 1906 · page 4

A quart of cream is too little to put into a churn, but you can make butter by putting it into a self-sealing half-gallon fruit can. Screw the lid on, put a folded towel in the…

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Paying the Penalty. Chapter Ii --Continued. the Black Sheep

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 14 August 1906 · page 4

I PROMISE on the honour of a Vraill," he declared, theatrically, " that I will guard these most indispensable…

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Farm and Garden. Calendar for August

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 14 August 1906 · page 3

The various rainstorm centres passing to the south have caused deficient rainfalls in our district; still the laud is in fair order for cropping, and it is always a…

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Concessions to Farmers

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 14 August 1906 · page 2

The Railway Commissioners, in view of the satisfactory financial position of the railways, have been modifying the conditions in regard to the…

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The Improvement of Dairy Cattle

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 17 August 1906 · page 3

A noteworthy, feature of Mr primrose M Connell’s excellent paper, “How to Improve Daily Cattle,” read at the recent Dairy Conference in London is the…

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Farm and Field. Periodicity in the yield of Wheat

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 17 August 1906 · page 3

At a recent meeting of the Royal Society, London a paper was read by Dr W. N. Shaw, Director of the Meteorological Office, entitled “An Apparent…

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Housekeeper. to Keep Butter Cool

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 17 August 1906 · page 1

HERE is a very simple arrangement for keeping butter cool, one of the greatest troubles of the housewife in summer, Get a common flower pot and a piece…

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Paying the Penalty. Chapter Ii --Continued. the Black Sheep

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 17 August 1906 · page 4

OH, don't you know them ? Why, yes, you saw them at my birthday party. They've been away since, but I…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Right Reserved,] Management of Young Chicks

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 17 August 1906 · page 2

ABOUT twenty-four hours after the chickens are hatched they should be removed with the hen to a clean coop. one that has been thoroughly disinfected, so…

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Farm and Garden. Calendar for August

The Queanbeyan Leader · Friday 17 August 1906 · page 3

The various rainstorm centres pass[?] to the south have caused deficient ra[?] falls in our district; still the land is[?]fair order for cropping, and it is alwa[?]…

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The Dairy. Cow Losing Cud

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 17 August 1906 · page 3

“What is an animal’s cud? Can’t they lose it? Both sheep and cows are ruminating animals, or in other words. they ruminate or cluey their…

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Farm and Field. Spraying Potatoes for Blight

The Age · Friday 17 August 1906 · page 4

Mr Kirk (Government Biologist for New Zealand) states that the potato crop in that colony will show a shortage for the season. The havoc this year was in…

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A White Farm. Every Bird Beast and Building Is White

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 August 1906 · page 3

To own a farm and breed animals of some sort is the ambition of most wealthy men both here and abroad, and there are few millionaires who…

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Then the Farmer Growled

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 August 1906 · page 3

"Patsy, me boy," said Farmer O'Reilly, sternly, "where's the donkey and the cart ?" Patsy had just returned from…

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Farm and Garden. Calendar for August

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 21 August 1906 · page 2

The various rainstorm centres passing to the south have caused deficient rainfalls in our district; still the land is in fair order for cropping, and it is always a…

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