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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1909

194 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 10

Dairying in Denmark

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 April 1909 · page 3

In an address on "Dairying in Denmark," given by Mr T. R. D. Carruthers to the agricultural students of Edinburgh University, he gave the following…

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Dart's Imperial Wheat. Its Origin

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 14 April 1909 · page 3

Speaking at Longerenong College a few days ago, Mr F. E. Lee gave the history of Dart's Imperial Wheat. Mr Thomas Dart, who is now 72 years of…

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Stomach Worms in Sheep the Disease Described. an Official Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 21 April 1909 · page 3

Mr Sydney Dodds, M.R.C.V.S., Principal Government Veterinary. Surgeon and Bacteriologist in Queensland, in dealing with the…

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Wheat Corner. Fears of Personal Violence. London, April 17

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 21 April 1909 · page 2

Mr. Patten, the Chicago wheat speculator, prophesies that before many month the people of Europe will be struggling for bread in Europe will be stricken queues. He has engaged detective to…

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The "Cattle King" Talks

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 28 April 1909 · page 2

Mr. Sidney Kidman, the boos cattle raiser of Australia, has just returned from a tour of England and the Continent. "After travelling and seeing what I have," Mr. Kidman…

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Western Canada. the Great Wheat Belts

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 1 May 1909 · page 4

Not every home-keeping Briton realises the magnitude of the Western wheat lands. The great stretch between middle Canada and the…

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Poor Cattle at Homebush

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 22 May 1909 · page 1

On Thursday last, says the Herald, some exceedingly poor cattle were sold through the Homebush fat stock saleyards at 18s per head. Severe strictures were passed by…

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A French Farm. Popularity of English Methods

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 2 June 1909 · page 4

I was present a few days ago on one of the most perfectly equipped of French farms at the very crisis ot the lambing season, and in no place or…

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Commercial. Wool Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 5 June 1909 · page 5

Winchcombe C[?]roa and Co., Ltd., report:— We brought for w[?] 1st June a catalogue of 13[?] our yesterday sale, The offerings were of could [?] interest, as they included…

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Sapphires and Butter

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 12 June 1909 · page 3

Sapphires and butter seem very far apart, but they have come together in Queensland as representative of the two most remarkable…

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Aboard a Cattle Boat

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 12 June 1909 · page 3

I have shovelled coal on a "Geordie" tramp-steamer, and worked as a deck-hand on Western ocean liners (writes a correspondent of a…

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Farm and Dairy

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 12 June 1909 · page 6

Coarse hair on the sides of the lefts of a horse indicates spongy bone and predisposition to greasy heal and lymphangitis. Feed and handle the heifers carefully, and…

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Mammoth Wool Store

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 16 June 1909 · page 2

There is being erected in Pyrmont a wool store that will be the largest in the southers hemisphere, and with the exception of one mammoth store in the Argentine, the largest in the world. It is not…

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Should Save the Calves. Farmers in Dairy Sections Can Replenish Their Herds at Home

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 26 June 1909 · page 4

One of the largest problems which now presents itself to farmers in essentially dairy sections is keeping up the supply of really meritorious cows…

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Big Game Shooting. Bag by Supposed Cadets. Three Cattle and One Pig. Newcastle

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 26 June 1909 · page 6

The police of Newcastle are at present engaged searching for two boys, believed to belong to the cadets, who on Saturday did some big game shooting. That day two…

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Commercial. Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 July 1909 · page 7

SCHUTE, Bell and Co., Ltd., report under date 29th June, as follows:—To-morrow will be the close of a wool season that all concerned in the growth, handling, and sale of…

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Handling Cream at Butter Factories

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 July 1909 · page 3

C. W. M'Dougall, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, in "Chicago Dairy Produce':— Have the cream delivered as often as possible…

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Farm and Field. Smut in Cereal Crops

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 July 1909 · page 3

Mr T. W. Kirk, Biologist to the New Zealand Department of Agriculture, has issued a leaflet giving directions for treating seed grain for the prevention…

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Milking Machine Patents. a Warning to Dairymen

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 July 1909 · page 5

THE "L-K-G" Milking Machine having proved an absolute success after 7 years' use, a crop of weak imitations has some along, and we hereby warn…

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Sheep or Grouse? Judge Quotes Poetry

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 July 1909 · page 4

Mountain sheep are sweeter. But valley sheep are fatter; We therefore think it meeter To cultivate the latter…

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