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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1916

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

The Wool Position. Despatch Clips to Sydney

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 8 December 1916 · page 5

Realising the anxiety which must be felt in the country by wool growers, John Bridge & Co., Ltd., ask us to announce that the…

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The Government Wool Deal. Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:—

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

The plan on which the sale of the wool clip to the Government will be carried out has not yet been announced by the…

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The Potato Crop

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 8 December 1916 · page 2

Owing to the wet weather conditions which have prevailed, a number of farmers on the South Coast have lost heavily through the potato crops being destroyed…

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Cattle Dearer

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 December 1916 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:—Beef prices were on the rise at Homebush last Thursday…

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Buoyant Prices for Sheep

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

The sheep forward for sale last Thursday at Homebush were eagerly snapped up by buyers. Winch combe, Carson, Ltd. state that…

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The Wool Deal

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

John Bridge and Co., Ltd., report: The delay in connection with the confirmation of the scheme for the purchase of the Australian wool clip…

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Sheep Prices Hold

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 December 1916 · page 6

Recent high rates were well maintained at last Monday's sheep sales. Supplies only totalled 11,000 head, and many operators left…

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Local and General. the Wheat Crop

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 December 1916 · page 2

Australia's new wheat, crop and the balance of the last season's grain lias been sold to Great Britain at 4s 9d a bushel f.o.b…

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Wool Report

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 15 December 1916 · page 4

Schute, Bell & Co., Ltd., report;—The political crisis in England has no doubt delayed finality as regards completion of purchase of the clip…

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The Wool Clip

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

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. report by wire that the British Government has decided to purchase the unsold balance of the Australian wool clip…

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Blowflies Kill Sheep

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 19 December 1916 · page 3

Heavy losses have been caused among sheep-owners in various parts of the State owing to the ravages of the blowfly, which is unusually prevalent, as a result…

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Wheat Growing

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

The regrettable disaster which has overtaken the wheat crop in so many parts of the State suggests the revision, or even the abandonment, of…

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Goulburn Special Cattle Sale

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

W. H. Wheatley reports having held their seventeenth special cattle sale for 1916 on Friday last, 15th inst.; 2900 cattle were yarded to a…

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Sheep Demand Still Brisk

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 19 December 1916 · page 5

Owners with sheep forward for sale at Homebush last Thursday met a buoyant market. Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., state that…

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The Wool Position

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 19 December 1916 · page 5
Also in The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. write under date Dec. 16th:—The Prime Minister has announced that the Imperial Government had…

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Wool. Purchase of Australian Clip

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 19 December 1916 · page 4

The long-looked-for announcement by the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) in regard to the disposal of the Australian wool clip…

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Central Wool Committee

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 22 December 1916 · page 2

The Central Wool Committee, to be appointed by the Prime Minister, will comprise Messrs. J. H. Higgins (chairman), E. Jowett and J. T. Campbell…

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The Wool Question. What It Means

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 22 December 1916 · page 3

In regard to the purchase of the Australian wool clip at the announced price of l5½d per lb., a good deal of misconception of…

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Special Cattle Sale at Gungahleen

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 29 December 1916 · page 2

W. H. Wheatley reports having held a special sale of store cattle and sheep on account of Mr, A. P. Wade at "Gungahleen" station on…

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