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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1916

318 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 12 of 16

Women Farm Hands

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 15 August 1916 · page 3

On a farm of 500 acres near Coventry, to which eight young women were supplied by the Birmingham Labor Exchange, it was…

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Wool Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 August 1916 · page 3
Also in The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer

The Australian, Mercantile. Land and Finance Company, Ltd., report:—Rumors, arc still current as to…

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Wool Report

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 22 August 1916 · page 2
Also in The Braidwood Review and District Advocate

John Bridge and Co., Ltd., report that the wool market shows no change except for the feeling of uncertainty which exists in respect…

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The Wool Clip. Will It Be Commandeered?

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 August 1916 · page 5

When his attention was directed to a rumor that the Imperial Government intended to commandeer the Australian wool clip the…

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Wool Report

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 August 1916 · page 3
Also in The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer

The Australian, Mercantile, Land and Finance Company, Ltd., report:— Business has been very quiet…

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A Huge Wheat Stack

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 August 1916 · page 6

What is believed to be the largest stack of hay ever built in the Commonwealth was put together last season on Mr. E…

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The Government and the Farmers

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 August 1916 · page 3

The liberals, in their efforts to secure the vote of the farmer at the next elections, are giving circulation to all sorts of…

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Small Sheep Supplies

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 1 September 1916 · page 4

Offerings continue on the light side at the Homebush sheep sales. Winchcombe, Carson. Ltd.. report that only 10,000 head were…

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Cattle Values on the Rise

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 1 September 1916 · page 4

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

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Wool Report

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 5 September 1916 · page 4

The Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Company, Ltd., report:— The clip is now coming to hand…

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Brisbane Wool Sales

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 8 September 1916 · page 7

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., have received the following wire from their Brisbane office : Sales opened with good fleece wools and…

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Brisk Business in Cattle

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 12 September 1916 · page 2

Though business was almost at a standstill in the sheep section at Homebush last Thursday, owing to the slaughtermen's strike, cattle…

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Economy and Wool Selling

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 September 1916 · page 5

John Bridge and Co.'s waybills for the approaching season come to us enclosed in a cover which contains matter of more than…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 September 1916 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report. We sold 4000 bales of wool on Wednesday. Prices for all well grown wools were in sellers' favour. There…

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Special Cattle Sale

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 19 September 1916 · page 2

W. H. Wheatley reports having yarded over 2800 cattle at Goulburn on September 14th to a large and representative attendance of buyers…

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Wool Report

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 19 September 1916 · page 2

John Bridge & Co., Ltd., report: Last week's auction in Sydney disclosed a very keen demand for robust quality, sound, long-stapled…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 19 September 1916 · page 4

Harrison, Jones and Devlin. Ltd., offered, at auction last Thursday a catalogue of, 2070 bales. There was a full attendance of buyers but…

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