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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1910

421 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 21 of 22

The Wool Clip

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 3 December 1910 · page 2

THE shearing is now over throughout the district except in a few instances. Manar, where it has been delayed by the wet weather will take another week or more to cut out. The Clip everywhere is…

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Farm and Field. Shropshire-Merino Cros[?] Preferred

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 December 1910 · page 3

The following report regarding the competition in London as referred to has been received by the National Association of Queensland, from Mr W. B…

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The Farmer. to Increase Milk

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 December 1910 · page 3

Professor Kronacher has studied the power of "yohimbin" to increase the flow of milk of cows and sheep. The results prove that the…

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The Crops

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 December 1910 · page 2

THE hay crops which were in many places cut down before the lace rain and could not be stacked or put in the sheds for a time, are now got safely in. The wheat crops, owing to the dry spell…

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Australian Wool. Its Use in Japan

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 December 1910 · page 7

MR. J. B. SUTTOR, Commercial Commissioner in the East, has just made an interesting report, in which he gives statistical information, showing the…

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Lime in the Dairy

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 9 December 1910 · page 2

One of the most useful pieces of furniture in the dairy is the limewater cask, of which too much use cannot be made. As a disinfectant it is one…

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The Wool Market

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 10 December 1910 · page 2

Dalgety and Compaany report:—There have been do wool tales in the Sydney market throughout the put week in fulfilment of the arrangement made in the early part of the seaton that,…

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The Farmer. Tilling Soil with Dynamite

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 14 December 1910 · page 3

Probably no stranger use for dynamite has ever been devised than its substitution in place of the plough for the tilling of clay land. It is…

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Local Wool

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 December 1910 · page 2

INCLUDED in this week's Wool sales were the following.—JBNO Bowylie (Gundaroo), 9 AAA xb at 11d, 14 AAA xb at 10¼d, 23 AA xb at 10½d, good length, colour, and…

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Practical--Agriculture. Original Articles. Specially Written for this Column. All Rights Reserved. the Washing of Butter

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 16 December 1910 · page 1

Many butter makers are inclined to overlook one or more of the small details which are really a necessary part of the process. Especially is this…

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Commercial. Wool Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 17 December 1910 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Limited report :—Sales were resumed on Monday in Sydney with prices unchanged at late rates. The auctions for the present year will close on the 19th December, on…

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The Farmer. Cream Testing Balance

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 21 December 1910 · page 3

A simple and sensitive weighing instrument to be known as the Wisconsin Hydrostatic Cream Balance, has just been devised at the…

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A Fine Crop of Wheat

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 December 1910 · page 2

THERE are many fine crops of grain in this district this season, but of wheat in particular. It is doubtful, however whether any where a standing crop of…

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Brains in Farming

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 23 December 1910 · page 3

One of the most instructive addresses at the recent conference of the British Association at Sheffield, was that delivered by Mr. Christopher…

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Practical Agriculture. Original Articles. Specially Written for this Column. All Rights Reserved. the Dairy Cow

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 23 December 1910 · page 3

The dairy cow is sometimes referred to as a machine that manufactures milk. This is practically true; therefore she requires to receive the…

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Christmas Poetry. Christmas on the Old Farm

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 23 December 1910 · page 1

The mist-veiled sun, just peeping through the hedge, Gleams on the snow, new fallen in the night,…

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A Christmas Guest; Or, the Mortgaged Farm. Copyright

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 December 1910 · page 2

It's no use, my man; the place must go, unless that claim is met; and from what I gather, this you are unable to do. Allowing for delay of Christmas holidays,…

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Wool Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 24 December 1910 · page 2

Dalgety and Company report:—The closing wool sales in the Sydney Market for this year were held on Monday last, the position at the end of the first aeries being favourable to sellers and the outlook in…

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Farming and Education

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 December 1910 · page 1

Dr. C. G. Hopkins, an American scientist, lecturing recently on the importance of agricultural education, said the great material problem of…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Market

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 31 December 1910 · page 2

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report:—A little clearing up business has been transacted in the Sydney wool market during the past few days, bat, generally speaking, buyers have closed their books for…

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