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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1914

321 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 6 of 17

Dairy Produce

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 17 April 1914 · page 8

The entries in dairy produce were [?] against 296 last year. Butter had gone up from 147 to 176, and bacon from 89 to 12[?]. Cheese exhibits…

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Active Farm Clydesdales

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 17 April 1914 · page 7

The number of active farm Clydesdale stallions exihited was not up to expectations. The judge, Mr. P. M. Bourke, picked out Mr. E. Roberts…

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Furracabad Farms

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 17 April 1914 · page 10

The connection of thE famous Furracabad Estate with the Royal Agricultural Show arises out of the fact that it is in the hands of the Haymarket…

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Model Irrigation Farm Exhibits

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 17 April 1914 · page 10

This was located on tho plot of ground opposite the Agricultural Hull, and being a novelty, representing a feature which is yet now in the State it…

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The Single-farm Exhibit

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 17 April 1914 · page 10

There were three competitors for the special prize, £65, for best collection of form produce grown and exhibited by a bona fide farmer resident in New…

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The Farm and Dairy. Rearing Calves of Tuberoulous Cows

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 April 1914 · page 3

This is a subject which is of particular importance to our dairy farmers, more particularly in view of the fact that pasteurisation of the skim…

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Lady Farmers

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 April 1914 · page 3

Sedgewick, a community in that district of the Western Canadian prairies, known as Central Alberta, is six thousand' miles distant from…

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Goulburn Special Sheep Sale

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 April 1914 · page 2

W. H. WHEATLEY reports having yarded and sold on Tuesday the 7th instant 27,493 sheep. There was an exceptionally large attendance of…

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Local Cattle for the Solomon Islands

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 21 April 1914 · page 2

Mr. C. H. McKeahnic of Booroomba, has just completed the sale of ten young Hereford bulls to Mr. Percy Lamb, to supply an order for the Solomon Islands…

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Wool Review

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 24 April 1914 · page 2

An interesting publication is the Annual "Wool Review," by Wineheem be Carson Limited. The wool triple represents 42 per cent of the whole of the…

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Sowing the Wheat. Some Seasonable Hints

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 April 1914 · page 4

Practical points in connection with the sowing of wheat were offered by the Chief Inspector in the course of conversation, in reply to the suggestion…

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Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. Their 25Th Annual Wool Review, April, 1914

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 April 1914 · page 2

WINCHCOMBE, CARSON, LTD., of Sydney and Brisbane, so well, so favourably, and so widely known amongst the sheepmen of the…

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Farm and Field. Bacteria and Cultivation

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 24 April 1914 · page 5

Since cultivation promotes the activities of the micro-organisms, and since it is, a well-recognised fact that the fertility of u soil depends very…

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Dairying. Herd Testing

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 April 1914 · page 4

What is Revealed About Profits The extent to which herd-testing has benefited the dairy industry in Denmark cannot be better expressed than…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. G. Ashford, Minister for Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No, 154. Agricultural. Selecting Seed Potators. Some Practical Men's Opinions

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 April 1914 · page 4

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal sup on of the Hon. W. G. Ashford, Minister for Agrinculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department…

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Record of Wheat Stacks

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 25 April 1914 · page 3

The longest authentic period for which a wheat stack has been kept unthrashed is forty years. The story of this forty-yeur-old stack is…

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The Farm. Stocking and Overstocking

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 25 April 1914 · page 4

An experienced fanner will see that his grass paddocks are stocked with just the number of sheep or cattle that will entail neither shortage of…

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Wool

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 April 1914 · page 4

A. M. L. & F. Co. LTD., report:— Business under this heading has been quiet during the week, supplies available for sale at the present time being…

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Goulburn Special Cattle Sale. Tuesday 21St April, 1914

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 April 1914 · page 3

W. H. WHEATLEY reports having yarded over 4,000 store cattle on Tuesday last, being considerably more than the number advertised, and every yard…

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Farm and Field. Original Articles. Specially written for this column. All Right Reserved. CULTIVATION

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 1 May 1914 · page 5

The benefit derived from the cultivation of land in the autumn cannot by too highly estimated. It is profitable practice on all classes of land. The…

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