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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1917

308 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 15 of 16

Coping with Sheep-fly. Queensland Experiments

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 27 November 1917 · page 4

The Queensland Department on Agriculture and Stock has issued a pamphlet containing suggestions for dealing with the sheep-fly…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Industry Award

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 November 1917 · page 2

The Secretary, Prime Minister's Department, advises the Hon. Austin Chapman as follows:—I am directed to acknowledge receipt of the…

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Special Sheep Sale at Goulburn

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 November 1917 · page 2

Following the cattle sale, W. H. Wheatley, who has the confidence of buyers throughout the whole [?] the Commonwealth, announces a big…

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The World's Wool Supply

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 November 1917 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report The importance of Australia as a source of wool supply is forcibly demonstrated in some recently…

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Highly Successful Cattle Sale at Goulburn

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 November 1917 · page 7

Messrs. 0. H. Furner and Co. and the Pastoral Finance Association, Ltd. (Goulburn Branch), agents in conjunction, report having…

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Auction Sales. Big Cattle Sale at Goulburn

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 November 1917 · page 2

In this issue, W. H. Wheatley, Goulburn's leading auctioneer, advertises two special sales. The first is a big sale of 5,000 head of…

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Wool Sales Resume. Shipments for America

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 November 1917 · page 2
Also in The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., write: Wool appraisements were resumed in Sydney last Monday and will continue right on to Christmas…

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Wool Appraisements

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 4 December 1917 · page 2

There are to be two further series of wool appraisements in Sydney prior to Christmas (reports Chute, Bell & Co.) our sale days being on…

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Orange Cattle Sale

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 December 1917 · page 7

Messrs. Bedford, Taylor, and Weston, Ltd., stock and property salesmen of Orange and Wellington, draw special attention to their…

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Warning to Farmers. "Does It Concern You ?

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 December 1917 · page 7

J. P. Lynch, M.P., writes :— If conscription is carried on the 20th, owing to the disfranchisement of thousands and thousands…

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Hughes—Bungler. to Wheat Farmers, Woolgrowers, Dairymen, and Orchardists

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 December 1917 · page 3

Mr. J. P. Lynch, M.P., writes:— How have you been treated by the Arch-Conscriptionist Hughes, the man who asks you to trust him…

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Wool for the Army. Appraisements Progressing

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 11 December 1917 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. write: "Some interesting statistics have recently been made public which show how essential good supplies of wool…

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Resumption of Wool Carriage

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 14 December 1917 · page 2

The position in regard to congestion in Sydney Wool Stores having improved to some extent, it has been arranged by the Sydney Wool Selling Brokers that the…

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Australian wool for AMERICA

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 December 1917 · page 7

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. write: "American journals to hand complain of the delay in sending promised wool from Great Britain to…

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Important to Holders of Wool

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 14 December 1917 · page 2

Word was received in Queanbeyan on Wednesday that the railway authorities had resumed the trucking of a limited quantity of wool until further notice…

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For Farmers "Yes," or Destruction of Rural Industries

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 14 December 1917 · page 6

There was never a more audacious political move than the desperate attempts made to stampede the farmers of the State into voting "No."…

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Special Sheep Sale

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 18 December 1917 · page 2

W. H. Wheatley reports having yarded over 80,000 sheep on Tuesday, the 11th instant. There was a fairly good. attendance of buyers from all local districts…

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Resumption of Wool Carriage

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 18 December 1917 · page 4

The position in regard to congestion in Sydney wool stores having improved to some extent, it has been arranged by the…

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Goulburn Stock Sale Reports. Special Cattle Sale

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 18 December 1917 · page 2

W. H. Wheatley reports having yarded over 4000 head of cattle on Thursday last, the 6th instant, to a very large and representative attendance of buyers from…

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