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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1920

339 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 7 of 17

Farmers' Relief

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

A progress statement issued yesterday by the Minister for Agriculture, shows that up to date the Rural Industries Board had…

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Farm and Field. Geurnseys and Butterfat

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 21 May 1920 · page 4

A writer in a Guernsey contemporary states that there are in Great Britain some very heavy yielding Guernsey cattle producing a high…

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Electricity and Farming

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 21 May 1920 · page 4

There is not a doubt that it is the coming power on the farm. One can gather how the transmission of electric power on farms in Kansas County…

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Business in Farming

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 21 May 1920 · page 4

Someone said to us the other day (recently remarked Mark Lane Express), that every farmer's son should go into a commercial business house…

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The Wool Pool!

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 25 May 1920 · page 7

Mr. Watt has had preliminary conversations wish Mr. Austen Chamberlain in respect to the Commonwealth's indebtedness to…

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Profit on Wool Pool. (To the Editor of the "Review")

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 25 May 1920 · page 3

Sir,—On this question it seems to me clear beyond the possibility of dispute that 50 per cent. of the profits of the iterate of Australian…

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Farmers & Graziers' Co. What Co-operation Has Done. Commendable Records

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 25 May 1920 · page 3

The Secretary pf the Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Grain, Insurance, and Agency Co., Ltd. writes:—…

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Farmers and Graziers' Co. Advanced Co-operation. Producers Interests Well Guarded

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 25 May 1920 · page 4

The secretary of the Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Grain, Insurance and Agency Co., Ltd., writes:—…

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Farmers & Graziers' Co. What Co-operation Has Done. Commendable Records

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 May 1920 · page 6

The Secretary of the Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Grain, Insurance, and Agency Co., Ltd. writes:—…

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Farm and Field Mating Heifers

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 28 May 1920 · page 4

Opinions differ as to whether a heifer should produce her first calf at about 27 months or 36 months old. In Holland and America heifers are…

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Prospects of Dairying

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 28 May 1920 · page 4

Lord Ernie, late President of the British Board of Agriculture, in proposing the toast of "Success to Dairy Instruction and Dairy Farming," at…

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Butter Supplies

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 1 June 1920 · page 7

Arrangements have been made by the Commonwealth Pool to make available sufficient supplies of butter to meet local…

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Wheat for N.s.w

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 1 June 1920 · page 7

Arrangements have been made for the despatch of 25 trucks of wheat per day from Victoria to N.S.W…

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Wool Prices Abroad. Work for German Spinners

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 1 June 1920 · page 4

Winchcombe, Caroson Ltd., report: Recent news of wool markets abroad is a little disquieting. Bradford reports a…

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Sheep Sales. Prices Firm

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 June 1920 · page 6
Also in The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer

The Secretary of the farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Co. writes: "Sheep continue to pour into Flemington, in spite of the heavy…

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Correspondence. It is to be always understood that newspapers do not necessarily endorse the views expressed by correspondents, who are fairly entitled to criticism in all public matters.—Editor. Wheat Famine. (To the Editor.)

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 June 1920 · page 3

SIR,—A wheat famine is imminent. As a wheat grower, let me point out to the public our serious position owing to…

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Wool Report

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 8 June 1920 · page 4

Schute, Bell & Co., Ltd., report under date 5th June: At last rain has fallen over a large area of the State, and…

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Sheep Sales. Prices Firm

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 8 June 1920 · page 3

The Secretary of the Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Co. writes: "Sheep continue to pour into Flemington, in spite of the heavy…

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Fall in Wool Prices. Is It Permanent?

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 8 June 1920 · page 4

The decline of from 15 to 20 per cent. in the price of merinos, and from 10 to 15 per cent. in the price of crossbreds at the London sales,…

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