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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1928

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Successful Woman Farmer

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 31 July 1928 · page 3

Meet a bard-working woman farmer, Miss Henrietta Rose, who does her own ploughing, and who is assisted on her homestead farm by two girl…

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The Coming Wool Season

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 2 August 1928 · page 3

The secretary, Farmers and Graziers’ Co-operative Co. writes: It has been decided to give the new “Zone” system a trial this…

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Silage for Sheep Commence with Small Quantities

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 2 August 1928 · page 3

Silage forms an excellent basis of conserved fodders for feeding sheep during drought periods — not only does it provide a succulent laxative…

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Internal Parasites of Sheep the Efficacy of Drenching

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 2 August 1928 · page 3

The season being favourable to them, internal parasites of sheep have been giving considerable trouble even in districts west of the usual…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 August 1928 · page 2

Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd., report: Rains over a wide area of pastoral country whilst doing an immense amount of good have interfered…

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Goulburn Special Sheep Sale

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 August 1928 · page 2

W. H. Wheatley will hold a special sheep sale at Goulburn next Tuesday, 7th August, when 12,000 superior store sheep will be yarded. The…

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The Coming Wool Season

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 3 August 1928 · page 2

The Secretary, Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Co., writes:— It has been decided to give the new "Zone" system a trial this coming…

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Pastoral Control of Grasshoppers Prepare Now for the Spding Campaign

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 3 August 1928 · page 2

It has often been said that grasshopper control is essentially a community problem, but community effort is only the multiplication of…

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Three Tons More Potatoes Fertilising Value of Farmyard Manure

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 August 1928 · page 4

In a trial carried out recently on a farmer’s experiment plot on the lower north coast a dressing of farmyard manure at the rate of 5 tons…

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Butter Factory Surroundings

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 9 August 1928 · page 2

In this column last November, also later in P.D.S. Market Pulse, was pointed out what might be done to improve and brighten surroundings…

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Goulburn Special Sheep Sale

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 9 August 1928 · page 1

W. H. Wheately report:—With the exception of one lot of crossbreds which were not offered, the whole of the sheep yarded for our…

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Pastoral Deleterious Substances in Wool

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 10 August 1928 · page 4

More or less regularly each year a general complaint reaches Australia regarding the amount of foreign matter—principally Jute fibres—which…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 August 1928 · page 4

Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd, report:— Wool is arriving into Store in good volume and we [?] being able to offer our full quota at the…

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Goulburn Special Sheep Sale

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 10 August 1928 · page 2

W. H. Wheatley report:—With the exception of one lot of crossbreds, which were not offered, the whole of the sheep yarded for our special sale…

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Deleterious Substances in Wool

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 August 1928 · page 4

More or less regularly, each year a general complaint reaches Australia regarding the amount of foreign matter—principally [?]…

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Tops and Wool Prices Japan’s Expanded Influence

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 August 1928 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report: Some bulky lines of local [?] wool have recently been sold to Continental operators. The prices…

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Assistance for Necessitous Farmers

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 August 1928 · page 2

There is no truth in the rumours that have gained currency in the wheat areas of the State that the Department of Agriculture has…

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Wool Auctions

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 August 1928 · page 4

Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd. report: The arrivals of wool into stores have increased somewhat the last Week, and the fears that only half qauntities…

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Tops and Wool Prices Japan's Expanded Influence

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 August 1928 · page 6

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. write:— Some bulky lines of local fellmongered wool have recently been sold to Continental operators. The prices…

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Pat Butter in England

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 16 August 1928 · page 2

Recent in this column was mentioned the special efforts being made by Danish interests to market that country’s exported butter in pats. The New…

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