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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1908

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 17 January 1908 · page 2

WINCHCOMBE, CARSON & CO., LTD., report:--Since last reporting the market has shown more activity and we have placed considerable quantities…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles. (All Rights Reserved). Care of Dairy Cows

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 17 January 1908 · page 8

Under good conditions and if properly treated, one may gain the dairy cow's confidence, and that will increase her motherly instinct. Under those…

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Wool Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson and Co., report: Since last reporting the market has shown more activity and we hare placed considerable quantities of wool consisting mainly of parcels which have been…

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Come-back Wheat

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 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

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 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 will…

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The Dairy. Milk Fermentations

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 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 lactic acid fermentation—…

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Tillage and Rotation of Crops

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 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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Salting Butter

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 22 January 1908 · page 4

The following suggestions in the salting of butter have been issued by the Iowa Dairymen's Association, U.S.A.:—No established rule for salting butter…

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The Dairy. Method of Butter-making

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 22 January 1908 · page 4

In bulletin No. 13, issued by the Dairy Division of the Ontario Department of Agriculture are given the results of experiments to…

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The Age of Cattle

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 22 January 1908 · page 4

The method adopted in connection with the great international show at Chicago for testing the age of cattle by their teeth was as follows:—…

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Farm and Field. Farming in Cities

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 22 January 1908 · page 4

According to Mr. Fels, the American who has interested himself in the case of the unemployed—there is no need to go very far to get back to the land. The…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles. (All Rights Reserved). Rustic Houses

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 24 January 1908 · page 7

No garden is complete without a summer-house and nothing harmonizes so well with the surrounding objects as good, well-made rustic work,…

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Wool Reports

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 2

Winchcombe Carson & Co Ltd report:—The sales re-opened on Tuesday the 21st inst. Superior wools were not offered in any quantity and ruled at December rates. All other grades…

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Salting Butter

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 January 1908 · page 3

The following suggestions in the salting of butter have been issued by the Iowa Dairymen's Association, U.S.A.:—No established rule for salting butter…

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The Dairy. Method of Butter-making

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 January 1908 · page 3

In bulletin No. 13, issued by the Dairy Division of the Ontario Department of Agriculture are given the results of experiments to…

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The Age of Cattle

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 January 1908 · page 3

The method adopted in connection with the great International show at Chicago for testing the age of cattle by their teeth was as follows:—…

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Farm and Field. Farming in Cities

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 January 1908 · page 3

According to Mr Fels, the American who has interested himself in the case of the unemployed—there is no need to go very far to get back to the land. The…

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Farm and Field. Pasturage and Stall Feeding

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 29 January 1908 · page 4

The comparative effects of stall-feeding and pasturage from the point of view of physiology and breeding formed the subject of two papers read at the…

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The Dairy. the Tuberculin Test

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 29 January 1908 · page 4

The following extract from the "North British Agriculturist" is given for what it is worth. It is much to be feared that the news is too good to be true, but…

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The Wheat Crop

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 31 January 1908 · page 2

THE figures of the wheat crop, as given in the latest official estimate, shows the effects of the unfavourable season and…

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