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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1918

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Big Sales of Stock. 102,000 Sheep and 5,040 CATTLE

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 3

Messrs. Leahy Bros., Auctioneers, Stock and Station Agents of Bungendore, report having sold during 1917, the undermentioned stock on behalf of the following:—…

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Colour in Butter

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 6

Recent experiments carried on by the Department of Agriculture have demonstrated that the rich yellow colour demanded by the public in dairy…

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Wool Sale Dates Fixed

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:—The Central Wool Committee has arranged to hold four series of wool appraisements in Sydney. Sales will commence on January…

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Wool on Hand in Sydney

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. write:—Approximately 310,000 bales of wool are in Sydney stores awaiting appraisement. Arrivals since July 1…

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Farm and Field Original Articles. Advantage of Leguminous Plants

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 January 1918 · page 6

One advantage in growing a leguminous plant for this purpose is that it does not rob the soil of nitrogen as does non-leguminous crops, but on the…

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Wool Report

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 8 January 1918 · page 2

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. under date January 3, 1918, reports:— The disposal of wool by appraisement…

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Weights of Wool Bales

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 8 January 1918 · page 2

John Bridge & Co., Ltd, write:— We desire to call the special attention of woolgrowers, wool-scourers and others to the new regulation…

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Wool Sale Dates Fixed

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 8 January 1918 · page 3

The Central Wool Committee has arranged to hold four of wool appraisements in Sydney. Sales will commence on January…

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Choice Dairy Herd

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 8 January 1918 · page 2

Dairymen who are making strenuous efforts to improve the highest productive quality of their herds—and they are legion—will…

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New Seasons Wheat

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 January 1918 · page 3

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Grahame) states that the agreement that has been made with the agents for the handling…

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Wool Offerings Underway

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 January 1918 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report :—Wool appraisements are again in full swing on the Sydney market. By February 13…

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Special Cattle Sale at Goulburn

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 11 January 1918 · page 2

Next Thursday, January 17, Messrs. O. H. Furner & Co., and Pastoral Finance Association, agents in conjunction, will submit to auction 1,500 head of well-bred…

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Wool Offerings Under Way

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 11 January 1918 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report. Wool appraisements are again in full swing on the Sydney market By February 13 practically one half…

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Farm and Field Original Articles. Feeding Skim-milk

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 11 January 1918 · page 6

The successful feeding of skim-milk necessitates many precautions being taken, and, as the result of experiments at a large number of stations in North…

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Sheep Still Dear

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 4

Values were slightly easier at the Homebush sheep sales last Thursday. Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report that prime lines felt…

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Sheep and Cattle Demand

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:— Buyers showed a decided preference for prime sheep at Homebush last Monday. Rates for this class were, as a…

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Stock or Wheat?

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 9

A suggestion made by the State Cabinet that growers should consider the advisableness to some extent of substituting stock…

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Wheat and the Weevil

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 9

It would be difficult to over-estimate the importance to Australia of the very definite and emphatic statement of Professor…

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Farm and Field Original Articles

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 6

Do not apply rank manure to soil in which tap-rooted vegetables such as beetroots or parsnips are to be grown. It was a far-seeing man who wrote…

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Quality Sheep Wanted

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 22 January 1918 · page 2

Buyers' attention was mainly devoted to prime sheep at Homebush last Thursday. Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report that any lines showing good condition…

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