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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1909

194 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 10 of 10

Commercial. Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 December 1909 · page 2

Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd. report under date 29th November:—The exceedingly satisfactory prices forthcoming last week for practically all descriptions of wool have…

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Wheat and Wool Blocked at Stations!

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 December 1909 · page 2

IN the Assembly on Wednesday Colonel Ryrie asked the Minister for Railways if, in view of the fact that at many country railway stations there were…

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Dairying v. Grazing. Milking Machine Test

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 December 1909 · page 3

MESSRS. CLIFT BROS., Breeza, the well-known Pastoralists, are going in extensively for dairying. They are firm believers in the Milking Machine as…

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Commercial Wool Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 December 1909 · page 2

[?] Carson and Co. Ltd., report:- After considerable delay, resulting from the complications following on the coal strike, we were adle to bring foward on Tuesday, our catalogue…

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Feeding Off Wheat with Sheep

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 December 1909 · page 4

Many farmers make it a rule to feed off their early wheat crops. Sheep are admirable for this, for if care is taken not to put them on a field…

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The Dairy. Production of Cold Cream

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 December 1909 · page 4

Flavor-producing germs multiply rapidly while the milk is warm, It is only by cooling the milk down that it can be saved. If no bacteria had got…

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Fertilisers for Different Crops

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 December 1909 · page 4

The recently isued journal of the Irish Department of Agriculture contains a full report of the field experiments carried out in recent years in various parts of…

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Herefords as Dairy Cattle

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 December 1909 · page 4

THE value of Hereford cattle as a breed is scarcely realised sufficiently by those who are not closely interested in the breeding of them. Hereford breeders are not fully…

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Prize Sheep From Ireland

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 December 1909 · page 2

Messrs? Warden, Harry Graves, Limited, have just received a consignment of six ewes and one ram, imported by Mr. W. W. Killen, of "Merribe[?]," Whitton, from Roscommon…

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Carriage of Wool

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 December 1909 · page 2

THE Railway Department is again accepting [?]ol for despatch to Sydney, notice of which [?] from the Station Master at Tarago on Wednesday last. The greater portion of the wool which has…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 December 1909 · page 2

Winchcombe Carson and Co., Ltd., report as follows:—We held our last wool auction for the year 1909 on the 16th inst., and had no reason to complain of the reception which…

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Farm and Field. The Art of Milking

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 December 1909 · page 4

To have a talk with the good farmers in your district is worth a good deal to you. In every district there are some farmers who possess a special knowledge…

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Wool Sales

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 22 December 1909 · page 2

THE following were among the sales on Thursday last:-Packwood, 17 bales, merino ewes and w[?]thers at 10¼d; Braidwood, 15 m[?] at 10d; H. H. Little Plain, 8f at 10¼d; Nerriga, 8f at 9¼d;…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 December 1909 · page 2

Schute Bell and Co., Ltd., report under date 20th December :—At our sale on Thursday last the market closed very firmly, with values at the best level of the season, except…

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