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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1908

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Commercial. Wool Reports

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 October 1908 · page 7

Schute, Bell and Co, Ltd. report under date 20th Out.:— Decidedly the most encouraging features I of the London September series of sales has…

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Molasses As Cattle Feed. a German Experience

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 October 1908 · page 5

A correspondent to a German paper gives a description of the manner in which molasses is being used as a cattle food. At the present moment the…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles. (All Rights Reserved) Chrysanthemum Rust

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 23 October 1908 · page 2

There are many amateurs who have observed light brown specks or blotches appearing, often in great abundance, on the under surface of…

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Wool Sales

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 24 October 1908 · page 2

Hill, Clark and Co report:—At this week's sales of a total of 2161 bales we cleared satisfactorily 1979. The market was the best we have seen this season and showed for good wools an improvement…

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Wool Reports

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 28 October 1908 · page 5

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co, report:—At our sales on Thursday we found the market stronger than when we last told, the continental section of the trade competing keenly…

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Agriculture, Etc. the Wheat Market

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 28 October 1908 · page 3

There are indications that the world's wheat market will be firm for some time. An English writer in the "Mark Lane Express" of August 24 is of opinion…

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Wool Reports

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 October 1908 · page 7

WINCHCOMBE CARSON & Co, LTD, report Close on six thousand bales of wool were in eluded in our Monday sale's catalogue yet practically the whole of the offerings changed…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles. (All Rights Reserved) Market Cattle

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 October 1908 · page 2

The taste of the public for a rather leaner class of meat, whether pigs, cattle, or sheep, has been growing now for some few years, and breeders and…

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Commercial. Goulburn Special Cattle Sale

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 October 1908 · page 7

W. H. WHEATLEY reports:—Owing to the continued dry weather, prices were not too good, although the presence of a couple of outside buyers, who operated freely, enabled…

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Electrical Farming. Startling Experiments by Sir Oliver Lodge

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 October 1908 · page 1

Sir Oliver Lodge, Principal of Birmingham University, has been conducting a series of experiments regarding the effect of electricity on field…

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Cultivation of Root Crops. Importance of Hoeing

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 October 1908 · page 5

Roo[?] crops during the period of growth require more attention than perhaps any other of the ordinary cultivated croups. In order that the plants may…

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A Little Farm Well Tilled

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 31 October 1908 · page 5

Evidently Mr. Jas. Grant, of Glen Elgin, Holmwood, near Cowra, believes that there is some profit in a little farm well tilled in a district where nothing less than three or four…

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Wool Sales

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 4 November 1908 · page 5

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Co. Ltd., report :—Our catalogue on 26th ultimo included a few lots of good greasy, but the great bulk comprised medium wools, dust stained and more or less…

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Sheep Dog Trials. Plan of Course

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 4 November 1908 · page 4

Herewith is given a plan of a course for sheep dog trials. The man in charge stands at the flag marked (cast off), and when the sheep are released, the dog…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 6 November 1908 · page 2

WINCHCOMBE, CARSON & Co., LTD., report:--Outside the few wools suitable for America our catalogue contained very few clips of special merit,…

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Commercial. Wool Reports

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 November 1908 · page 7

Winchcombe, Carson and Co., Ltd. report under date 3rd November:— Outside the few wools suitable for America our catalogue contained very few clips of…

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Agriculture, Etc. the Wheat Market

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 November 1908 · page 3

There are indications that the world's wheat market will be firm for some time. An English writer in the "Mark Lane Express" of August 24 is of opinion…

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Farm and Dairy Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Influenza in Horses

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 6 November 1908 · page 2

In many places this has been a very troublesome malady during the past winter, and it must not be looked upon as out of season now, as now is very…

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Wool Sales

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 November 1908 · page 5

Winchcombe, Canon and Co., report—Outside the few wools suitable for America our catalogue contained very few clips of special merit, the selection bring mainly of the good useful character…

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A Shower of Wheat

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 November 1908 · page 4

It must have been a high wind indeed, that brought a shower of wheat the other day to the villagers in a place on the southern…

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