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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1908

516 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 26

The Wool Trad

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 1 January 1908 · page 2

The Christmas New Year rece[?] only a very moderate volume [?] transacted the Sydney market [?] Parcels that buyers have secured [?]…

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The Dairy. Strive for Quality

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 1 January 1908 · page 3

It does not follow that because a farmer has been liberal in his supply of food to his cattle that he obtains a correspondingly high return. Although as…

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Defect in Farmyard Manure

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 1 January 1908 · page 3

There is no fertiliser that can be more profitably used on the farm than, farmyard manure, the resulting by-product in feeding live stock of all classes. It…

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Farm and Field. Suffolk Punch Horses

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 1 January 1908 · page 3

The most distinct type of the various races of British draught horses is undoubtedly the Suffolk Punch. This race has been from time immemorial…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles [All Rights Reserved.] Dairy Cows

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 3 January 1908 · page 4

To dairy cows fresh pastures are indispensable. There must be a pretty good bite, but superabundance is not advised, lest the herbage gets dry,…

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Defect in Farmyard Manure

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 January 1908 · page 3

There is no fertiliser that can be more profitably used on the farm than farmyard manure, the resulting by-product in feeding live stock of all classes. It…

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Farm and Field. Suffolk Punch Horses

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 January 1908 · page 3

The most distinct type of the various races of British draught horses is undoubtedly the Suffolk Punch. This race has been from time immemorial…

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The Dairy. Strive for Quality

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 January 1908 · page 3

It does not follow that because a farmer has been liberal in his supply of food to his cattle that be obtains a correspondingly high return. Although as…

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Salting Butter

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 8 January 1908 · page 4

In salting butter gather it in granular form not larger than wheat kernels. To insure this in summer, ice is desirable. Wash in two waters, the first containing…

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Farm and Field. Progress in Wheat-Growing

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 8 January 1908 · page 4

Speaking at a recent meeting of farmers at Georgetown, South Australia, Professor Custance said that a great improvement had been made in the…

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The Dairy. the Care of Milk

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 8 January 1908 · page 4

The American Department of Agriculture has issued a set of rules for posting in cow-sheds and dairies. The following rules, which briefly summarise…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles. (All Rights Reserved). The Cheese Fly

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 7

During the summer months very few dairies are free from the visits of the cheese fly from the eggs of which mites are batched. Though certain…

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Salting Butter

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 3

In salting butter gather it in granular form not larger than wheat kernels. To Insure this in summer, ice is desirable. Wash in two waters, the first containing…

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Farm and Field. Progress in Wheat-Growing

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 3

Speaking at a recent meeting of farmers at Georgetown, South Australia. Professor Custance said that a great improvement had been made in the…

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The Dairy. the Care of Milk

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 3

The American Department of Agriculture has issued a set of rules for posting in cow-sheds and dairies. The following rules, which briefly summarise…

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Come-back Wheat

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 3

Experiments made this season at the Cowra State Farm, New South Wales, go to show that the Come-back variety of wheat is going to establish a…

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Farm and Field. New Varieties of Wheat and Lucerne

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 3

It is reported that the Botanical branch of the Department of Agriculture at Washington (U.S.A.) has discovered a new type of wheat which vill…

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The Wool Trade

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 2

Sales in the Sydney market will be resumed on the 21st instant. In the meantime business is confined practically to passed-in lots, a Dumber of which have been placed during the week. At the…

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The Dairy. Milk Fermentations

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 3

It is not unusual to find persons connected with dairy work whose sole knowledge of fermentative processes is limited to the tactic add fermentation—…

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Tillage and Rotation of Crops

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 3

Professor W. H. Day, of the Ontario Agricultural College, Canada, has recently issued an important bulletin dealing with the tillage and rotation of…

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