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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1920

339 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 6 of 17

The Wool Ballot

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 7 May 1920 · page 5

The wool ballot resulted in insufficient votes to carry the scheme, although 78 per cent of the votes cast favored it…

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The Wool Scheme

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 May 1920 · page 2

Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson & Co., Ltd., wired us yesterday:—"It is unofficially, stated that the wool ballot rejected the proposed…

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Wheat 18s per Bushel. Record Price

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 7 May 1920 · page 6

What is believed to be a record price for wheat was obtained at a sale at the farm of Mr. James Goodacre of…

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Customs in Farming

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 7 May 1920 · page 3

Surely, says the "Mark Lane Ex. press;" there can be no line of business in which there are so many existing relics of ancient customs as i…

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Farm and Field. Udder Troubles

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 7 May 1920 · page 3

A good cows is worth looking after nowadays, and if a caked udder develops after the cow has ealved, handrubbing for half or three-quarters of…

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Orchard Cover-crops

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 7 May 1920 · page 3

It is generally recognised that most soils are greatly benefited by the growing and ploughing in of leguminous cover-crops. This practice is of special…

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Wool Growers' Ballot

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 11 May 1920 · page 4

The result of the poll of woolgrowers on the proposed scheme of the control of wool has been announced as follows:…

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Seed Wheat for Soldiers

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 11 May 1920 · page 2

The Minister for Home and Territories advises the Hon. Austin Chapman as follows:—In reply to your letter of the 20th April, and…

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Result of Wool Ballot

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 May 1920 · page 5

As a result of the ballot the proposed scheme for controlling the disposal of wool has been rejected. In Victoria 7,123 voted…

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Homebush Sheep Sales. Prime Quality Prices

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 May 1920 · page 3

The sheep handled at Homebush on 3rd inst. were, generally, not in prime condition. A consignment, however, from…

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Not Enough Wheat

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 14 May 1920 · page 2

Millers in this State complain that they are not receiving enough wheat from Melbourne to keep them going…

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The Wool Pool

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 May 1920 · page 5

Replying to a question in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, Mr. Hughes said that the Government was not in favor of…

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Starving Sheep. Grazing in Park

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 14 May 1920 · page 6

The experiment of bringing sheep from the drought-stricken areas and putting them in Centennial Park to graze has…

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Homebush Sheep Sales. Prime Quality Prices

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 May 1920 · page 3

The sheep handled at Homebush on 3rd inst. were, generally, not in prime condition. A consignment, however, from…

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Wool Scheme. Prime Minister's Ideas

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 May 1920 · page 7

The scheme of the Prime Minister, which was outlined on Tuesday, provides, inter alia: "(1) No export of 1920-1921 clip from…

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Telegraphic News. Thursday, 4 p.m. Assisting the Farmer

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 May 1920 · page 7

The State Treasurer said yesterday that at the instance of the Government Commissioner of Taxation he had derided to grant most…

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Fiji Sugar Crops

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 14 May 1920 · page 2

New Zealand has purchased the whole of the Fiji sugar crops from the Sugar Company…

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Shortage of Wheat and Flour

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 18 May 1920 · page 2

The mill owners of Sydney have sent a strongly worded appeal to Mr. Hughes regarding the shortage of wheat and…

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Meo and Women V Cattle

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 May 1920 · page 2

During a discussion at the last meeting of the Braidwood P.P. Board upon the merits of two areas of land on the Araluen…

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Our Wool. Offer to British Government

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 May 1920 · page 1

Sir Arthur Goldfinch (Director of Raw Materials in Great Britain), in a special interview, said that Mr. Hughes's project was…

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