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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1911

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The Wool Market

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 31 October 1911 · page 2

Australian Mercantile, Land and Finance Co., Ltd., Harrison, Jones and Devlin, Ltd., Hill, Clark, & Co., Ltd., Pastoral Finance Association, Ltd.,…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 31 October 1911 · page 3

These Notes will be issued every week, under the direction of the Honorary Minister for Agriculture (Hon. J. L. Trefle), and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. With its organisation the Department should be enabled to solve for the…

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Farm and Field. Farm Yard Manure

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 31 October 1911 · page 4

Writing on the value of farmyard manure, Mr. Shortt, chemist to the Experimental Farms, Canada, makes the following remarks in a recent…

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Wool Reports

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 1 November 1911 · page 2

New Zetland Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report that at their sale held on Thursday, the 26th inst., they found keen competition for better class wools at the full rates recently…

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The Farmer. Interesting Ploughing Experiments

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 1 November 1911 · page 3

The cost of ploughing by steam, horse, and electricity has been compared in late German experiments. The working day in each case was…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 November 1911 · page 3

These Notes are Issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Trefic, Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. The Department can solve. many problems concerning the land and production, which would be impracticable to the individual producer…

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Damaged Stock Train. Number of Sheep Killed. Picton

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 4 November 1911 · page 2

The fronts of the three engines were completely stove in. Several sheep vans were smashed to matchwood, end a great number of sheep killed…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Farmers' Sheep

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 7 November 1911 · page 3

Even a little hand-feeding of sheep at the Wagga Wagga Experiment farm shows substantial profit. The first half of the year 1910 was dry in the…

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The Wool Market

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 7 November 1911 · page 2

Dalgety, & Company, Limited, report:-- There were no wool sales in the Sydney market last week, owing to the holding of auctions in the Brisbane market on…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 November 1911 · page 3

These Notes will be issued every week, under the direction of the Honorary Minister for Agriculture (Hon. J. L. Trefle), and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. With its organisation the Department should be enabled to solve for the…

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Farm and Field. Spraying Potatoes for Blight

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 November 1911 · page 4

Mr Kirk (Government Biologist for New Zealand) stater that the potato crop in that colony will show a shortage for the season. The havoc this year was in…

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The Dairy. Production of Cold Cream

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 November 1911 · page 3

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 7 November 1911 · page 3

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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The Farmer. Vital Considerations in Testing a Herd

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 8 November 1911 · page 3

To decide which cows produce milk and butter economically, and which do not, it is necessary to be acquainted with three things about…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 10 November 1911 · page 2

John Bridge & Co., Limited, report: For our seventh sale we brought forward on Monday a large and representative catalogue of just on 6,000 bales…

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The Prices of Butter Boxes

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 November 1911 · page 4

In a Sydney daily paper, on the 1st September last, under the heading of the Agricultural Column, an article was published, dealing with…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 November 1911 · page 3

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Trefic, Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. The Department can solve many problems concerning the land and production which would be impracticable to the individual producer…

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Poetry Leaving the Farm

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 10 November 1911 · page 6

With Hopeful hearts they packed their goods, The farmer and his faithful wife. Their thoughts to'rd to the city great…

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Farm Workers' Families

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 November 1911 · page 4

THE Immigration and Tourist Bureau, Challis House, Sydney, will be glad to hear from any pastoralist, farmer, or dairyman who may have a place for a…

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Important Cattle Sale

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 November 1911 · page 2

ATTENTION is directed to Mr. W. H. Wheatley's sale of 700 head of splendid store cattle, in Goulburn, on Wednesday, 15th instant. These cattle are for absolute sale, as they are being sent to…

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