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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1920

339 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 17

Dairy Farm Medicines

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 4

Cleansing Drench: Aloes, 1oz.; ginger, 1oz.; bole, ½oz.; Epsom salts, 12oz. To be given in three pints of warm water soon after calving. Anti-Milk…

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Handling Farm Horses

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 4

An Australian, during a recent lecture on the management of horses, said most horses were fairly easily caught if the correct methods were…

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Farm and Field. Cooling Milk and Cream

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 4

A factory manager says:—If dairymen are supplying milk or cream, I cannot too forcibly impress upon them the necessity for cooling the raw…

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Wool Experiments

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 February 1920 · page 7

Experiments with sheep lead to the expectation that a new treatment will increase the wool yield possibly 75 per cent…

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Wool Offerings Reopen

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 3 February 1920 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:—Wool appraisements re-open in Sydney this week. Offerings at the series will total…

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The Markets. WOOL

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 3 February 1920 · page 4

A break in appraisements in Sydney has occurred to enable another series to be held in Brisbane. The resultant delay…

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Financing the Farmer. What the Labor Party Will Do. Mr. John Storey Explains. I

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 February 1920 · page 5

The needs of the farmer in the matter of credit are different in one vital particular from the needs of the ordinary commercial trader…

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Wool

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 6 February 1920 · page 6

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report under date of February 4th:—Appraisements have…

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Goulburn Special Sheep Sale

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 6 February 1920 · page 6

W. H. Wheatley reports having yarded 25,000 sheep on Thursday last to a large attendance of buyers from…

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Farmers & Graziers' Co. Remarkable Growth. Triumph of Co-operation

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 6 February 1920 · page 4
Also in The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer

The Secretary of the Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Grain, Insurance & Agency Co., Ltd, writes:—"The completion, at the end…

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Farm and Field. Garget in Cows

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 6 February 1920 · page 3

Genuine cases of garget, or pus formation in a quarter are rune as compared with painful and indurated udders arising from other causes. The…

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Hughes and Farmers

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 10 February 1920 · page 5

Replying to a deputation of farmers, Mr. Hughes flatly refused to agree to a compulsory wheat pool on the ground that it was against…

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Farmers & Graziers' Co. Remarkable Growth. Triumph of Co-operation

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 10 February 1920 · page 3

The Secretary of the Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Grain, Insurance & Agency Co., Ltd., writes:—"The completion, at the end…

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Butter Flavor

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 13 February 1920 · page 3

The flavor of butter depends upon certain delicate and characteristic fats which are combined in milk fats with fats common in all animal matter…

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Wheat Payments

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 13 February 1920 · page 2

Senator Russell announced that arrangements have been concluded for payment on the 1st March of further advances on wheat recently…

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Wool Report

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 13 February 1920 · page 6

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd. report under date Feb. 11th:— Appraisements are being…

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Purchase of Wheat

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 13 February 1920 · page 2

The Victorian Government has purchased from the Australian Wheat Board nine million bushels of wheat to cover the requirements of…

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Return of Wheat and Flour

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 13 February 1920 · page 2

All persons or companies owning more than 100 bushels of wheat, and (or) one ton of flour must send in a return of same by 13th February. Forms can be obtained…

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Farm and Field. Successful Farming

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 13 February 1920 · page 3

One of the essentials for success in farming is manure. The soil must contain a sufficient proportion of humus, or the plants cannot utilise the elements…

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