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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1917

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Wool Trade Economy. Endorsement of "John Bridge" Policy

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 January 1917 · page 4

Nearly twelve months ago the firm of John Bridge and Co., Ltd., inaugurated, in the interests of woolgrowers, their campaign of…

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Farm and Field Original Articles (Copyright). Mangold Sowing

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 19 January 1917 · page 5

Trials have been made with the o[?]ject of showing whether a variation in the distance of the plants apart would make any alteration in the yield of…

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Fertility and Dairying

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 19 January 1917 · page 5

A Queensland farmer says:—"Dairying is the system of farming that will maintain the fertility of the farm without the use of high-priced…

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Sheep and Cattle Prices

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 5

Supplies were moderately heavy at the Homebush stock sales last Thursday. Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report that sheep prices were…

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Poisoning Sheep Blowflies

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 3

The attention of the Minister for Agriculture, Hon. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., has been drawn to the fact that quite a number of…

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Demand for Cattle

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 3

Owners with cattle forward for sale at Homebush last Monday met a strong market. Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report that biddings…

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Wool Report

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 3

Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd., report: The appraisers are at present in Brisbane, so sales will not be resumed here until the 29th [?]inst.[?] our next…

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Improved Demand for Cattle

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 9

Owners with cattle forward for sale at Homebush last Monday met a strong market. Winchcombe Carson, Ltd., report that biddings…

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Science Notes a Good Onion Crop

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 6

It seems that onions can make the mouth water as well as the [?]yes. Three hundred acres of them, which Mr. George Caldwell has under…

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Farm & Field. Original Articles Ensilace

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 6

There are few districts where there is not a certain season of the year in which the farmer looks back with envy to the time some weeks back, when…

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Sheep Blow-flies

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 30 January 1917 · page 4

The attention of the Minister of Agriculture, Hon. W. C. Grahame. M.L.A., has been drawn to the fact that quite a number of letters have…

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Wool Report

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 30 January 1917 · page 2

Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd., report; It was not unexpected that technical difficulties would arise in connection with payment for the first series of…

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Further Rise in Cattle

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 30 January 1917 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report that cattle rates were again higher at. Homebush last Thursday. Competition ruled, keen,…

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Record Load of Wheat

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 30 January 1917 · page 2

On Saturday morning Mr. Thomas Read, of Ainslie, brought in to the Queanbeyan Roller Flour Mill what is said to be a record load of wheat…

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The World's Sheep

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., write: "In view of the present need for wool and mutton throughout the world, it is interesting to note the number of…

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Wool Report

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report by wire:—Prices for our second appraisement catalogue of 6282 bales of wool were made available yesterday…

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Farm and Field Original Articles. (Copyright). Crops for Dairy Farms

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 2 February 1917 · page 6

Dairy-farmers anticipating their tows coming in early in spring should look well ahead to see that there should be plenty of succulent food to…

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The Sheep Fly

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 6 February 1917 · page 2

The ravages of the sheep fly, which have been gradually extending year by year, are now assuming the proportions of a national calamity…

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Wool Report

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 9 February 1917 · page 2

Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd., report Appraisements of the second series of wool offerings is proceeding satisfactory this week, the appraisers…

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Appraising the Wool. Bradford Expert Appointed

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 February 1917 · page 2

John Bridge and Co., Ltd., realising that the conditions under which the value of wool is being arrived at by the appraisement…

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