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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1915

297 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 9 of 15

The Cattle Demand

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 6 July 1915 · page 2

Cattle owners found results highly gratifying at last Thursday's Homebush auctions. Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report that beef was dearer…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 6 July 1915 · page 2

John Bridge & Co. Ltd. report under date 3rd July:—Firm prices characterised the closing wool sales of the statistical year. Both cross…

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Sydney Sheep Show. District Prize Winners

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 6 July 1915 · page 2

The entries in the various classes at the Sheepbreeders' Show, show an increase over last year. The quality of the exhibits is very good, although…

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Stud Sheep Sales

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 9 July 1915 · page 2

Prices were again very unsatisfactory at the sheep sales yesterday. Many good Tasmanian rams only brought one guinea. For New South…

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Excited Wool Market

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 9 July 1915 · page 2

Winchcome, Carson Ltd., have received the following wire from their Brisbane office :—Wool market excited. Prices 10 to 15 percent, above…

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Bigger Sheep Supplies

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 13 July 1915 · page 2

Buyers were better catered for in the sheep section at Homebush last Thursday. Winchcombe, Carson Ltd, report that offerings totalled 23,000 head. Nearly four…

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Agricultural, Pastoral, Dairging and Manufacturing Returns

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 13 July 1915 · page 4

During July the Police Officers throughout the State will be engaged in collecting the annual returns relating to Agricultural, Pastoral,…

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Foxes Eat Sheep

The Queanbeyan Leader · Monday 19 July 1915 · page 2

The dispute that has been going on among stockowners as to whether foxes will eat mutton, seems to have been…

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Wool From Tharwa

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 20 July 1915 · page 2

Yorkshire buyers secured Mr. S: J. Flint's Rock Valley, wool clip from Tharwa which sold at 13d per 1b at Winchcombe, Carson's auction last…

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Tharwa Wool

The Queanbeyan Leader · Thursday 22 July 1915 · page 4

Yorkshire buyers secured Mr. S. J. Flint's Rock Valley wool clip from Tharwa which sold at 13d per lb. at Winch combe, Carson's auction last…

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Wet Wool. Commissioners' Statements

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 23 July 1915 · page 3

John Bridge & Co. Limited have handed us the following correspondence for publication:— Sydney, 10th June, 1915…

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Russians Destroy Crops During Retreat

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 23 July 1915 · page 3

The Germans complain that the Russians are destroying evacuated villages and crops during retreat. The Russians frustrated a German attempt to advance on right bank…

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Wet Wool Grievance. What the Commissioners' Say

The Queanbeyan Leader · Monday 26 July 1915 · page 2

John Bridge and Co., Ltd., have sent us the following letters. with a request for their publication:—Sydney, 10th June, 1915…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Association at Canberra

The Queanbeyan Leader · Thursday 5 August 1915 · page 2

A family large gathering of farmers and others interested in the Federal Capital Territory, assembled at the Recreation Hall, last week, to…

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Prime Sheep at Homebush

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 6 August 1915 · page 2

In quality the sheep offering a Homebush last Monday left little to be desired. Quantity was the trouble. Only 8000 head were forward…

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The Attorney-General on the Wheat Seizure

The Queanbeyan Leader · Monday 16 August 1915 · page 2

No doubt the hon. members think that the commission has acted illegally, but I can show them that when we struck this…

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Fall of Warsaw. Celebrated by Gerogery Farmer

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 17 August 1915 · page 2

At the Albury Police Court on Thursday, Frederick Heppner, a well known farmer of Gerogery, was charged under the War Precautions,…

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The Liberals and the Farmers and Settlers. a Farmers' Union Advocated

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 20 August 1915 · page 2

It is seriously proposed by these bodies—the one purely political; and the other, partly political and partly industrial, to confer and possibly…

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Auction Sale of Cattle

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 24 August 1915 · page 3

Despite most unfavorable weather the auction sale at Moss Vale on Thursday last which Messrs. John Bridge & Co. Ltd. held in…

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The Wool Market

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 24 August 1915 · page 3

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency. Co. Ltd. report:—The third week of the recess has closed, and reports show that a very fair amount…

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