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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1914

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Dried Potatoes as Cattle Food

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 February 1914 · page 4

Germany is evolving an ever-increasing number of potato products and thus rapidly solving the problem of disposing of the once…

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The World's Butter Production

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 February 1914 · page 4

WE read in the papers that the world's butter production is increasing by leaps and bounds; that through the higher standard of living, more butter…

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Baby Farming. Woman Sent to Gaol. "Dealt with Them Like Goods and Chattels." Newcastle

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 11 February 1914 · page 2

In sentencing Sarah Naylor, or Williams, to nine months imprisonment, on a charge of treating infants in a manner likely to injure their health, Mr. Adrian, the…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 13 February 1914 · page 2

Winchcombe. Carson, Limited report;-- Wool sales closed on Thursday. The market was very strong at best rates offering. We sold 3100 bales and…

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Who Bought the Wool

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 13 February 1914 · page 2

The Sydney weekly wool auctions for the year close this week; and though final figures are not yet available, it is interesting to note which of the world's…

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Farm and Field. Special written for this column. All Rights Reserved. Acid Soils

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 13 February 1914 · page 5

As every farmer knows, the presence of acidity in a soil is injurious to vegetation. It gives rise to some wellknown plant diseases, such as…

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A State Dairy

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 13 February 1914 · page 3

The Minister for Labor and Industry, after a visit to the State Industrial Farm at Randwick on Wednesday, made the announcement that he intended to…

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Commercial. Wool Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 14 February 1914 · page 5

Harrison, Jones and Devlin, Ltd, brought forward a catalogue of 933 bales on Tuesday. Biddings were very spirited, and although the…

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Farm and Field. Original Article. Nitrogen and Pastures

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 20 February 1914 · page 5

Thu results achieved by combined dressings of phosphate of potash are often so striking that it assumed the application of nitrogen is not needed,…

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The Dairy. Do Milk Veins Indicate Dairy Capacity?

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 21 February 1914 · page 4

Dr. King, of Maine, writes very interestingly on "Do Milk Veins Indicate Dairy Capacity ?" He quotes from a station bulletin:—"The size…

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Care of Farm Implements

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 21 February 1914 · page 4

Of course, a well constructed toolhouse is the best place in which to store and care for farm implements, but the majority of farms do not…

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Publications. Pastoral and Agricultural

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 February 1914 · page 2

AMONGST the many booklets and smaller publications which, from time to time reach us for review or briefer notice, two of more than passing…

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Modern Dairying

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 February 1914 · page 2

THE drudgery which at one time was associated with dairying is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Just as machinery in many other instances has…

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Wool Market

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 27 February 1914 · page 3

Winchombe, Carson, Limited report: -- A very keen enquiry continues for all descriptions of wool. Now that the weekly series have closed, operations…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 27 February 1914 · page 2

WINCHCOMBE, CARSON, LTD., report:— A very keen enquiry continues for all descriptions of wool. Now that the weekly series have closed, operations…

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Farm and Field. Original Articles. Specially written for this column. All Rights Reserved. Cows and Water

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 27 February 1914 · page 6

It is difficult to eradicate the idea that the quality and quality of milk will be influenced by causing cows to drink water in excess. It is pointed…

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Electricity and Farming

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 27 February 1914 · page 6

According to the "Electric Review," we may hope that this new poweragency will extend its influence to the work of the farm, relieving as of much…

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Commercial. Wool Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 28 February 1914 · page 5

Wincbcomhe, Carson, Limited, report: A very keen enquiry continues for all descriptions of wool. Now that the weekly [?] have closed, operations have been confined…

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The Farm. Handling Manure

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 28 February 1914 · page 3

A progressive young Swiss dairyman, who called at our office a few days ago, told us that some time ago he purchased a manure spreader…

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Farm and Field. Original Articls Increasing Butter-fat Yield

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 6 March 1914 · page 5

Although no groat difference of opinion may exist among intelligent dairymen as to the utility or season ableness of the work of increasing the…

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