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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1923

220 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 11

Shooting Cattle

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 27 April 1923 · page 2

Conditions in the whole of the western districts are serious. Many stockowners are beginning to cut scrub to feed their sheep and cattle,…

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Brisbane Wool Sales

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 27 April 1923 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., received the following wire from their Brisbane office:—Very few super wools on offer opening sales…

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Wool

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 1 May 1923 · page 2

The Farmers and Graziers' Co-op Co report:—At the series just closed the tendency of values throughout was…

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The World's Wool Clip Declining Consumption Rising

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 1 May 1923 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: In allotting reasons for the recent high level of wool values, expanding consumption of wool has been given…

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Wool

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 May 1923 · page 2

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Ltd report under date 3rd May 1923 :— The season having practically closed in Sydney…

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Knew Nothing about Sheep

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 May 1923 · page 8

"Now, Harold," said the teacher, "if there were eleven sheep in a field and six jumped the fence, how many would be left?"…

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Stinkwort Splendid Sheep Fodder

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 4 May 1923 · page 2

In this district quite recently says the Murrumburrah "Signal" a practical farmer declared that the noxious plant known, as Stinkwort…

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Goulburn Sheep Sale

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 8 May 1923 · page 4

W. H. Wheatley report a very large attendance at last Tuesday's sheep sales. Prices generally showed little alteration from the range of values…

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Markets. Wool

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 8 May 1923 · page 4

Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd., report under date 5th May:— For the time being, prospects for the series of wool sales to…

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The Wool Position

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 8 May 1923 · page 2

There has been considerable discussion recently in wool-using centres as to the prospects of increasing the world's production of wool so…

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Local and General News Local Sheep

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 8 May 1923 · page 2

Supplies totalled 42,000 sheep at Homebush last Thursday. Prime sorts were more plentiful than of late, and realised recent figures…

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Wool Still Wanted Its Dominant Market Position

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 8 May 1923 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., write: Absence of supplies is the only check on business on the wool market. If offerings were available buyers could…

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Rabbit Skins The Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Co., Ltd., reports:—

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 May 1923 · page 2

Fifty-eight tons forward. The market opened firm, but became [?] and weaker towards the close. Generally speaking, does, autumns…

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London Wool Sales

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 15 May 1923 · page 4
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Winchcombe Carson, Ltd., received the following wire from their London agents: "Wool sales closed on Friday…

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Wool Stocks Low Mills Depleting Reserve Holdings

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 15 May 1923 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., write: No waning in the strength of the wool market is in sight Passed-in greasy merinos and medium and fine…

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Wool Production

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 22 May 1923 · page 5

There is ample evidence that consumption has outstripped production (remarks a well-informed authority), and that, providing no upheaval…

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Wool and Clothing Prices Raw Material Cost Small

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 22 May 1923 · page 3

Wincbcombe, Carson, Ltd., write: A limit, without doubt, exists regarding the level to which wool prices can go without retarding…

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Sheep-fly Pest

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 May 1923 · page 3

The results of the sheep-fly investigations of the past ten years are summed up by Mr. W. W. Froggart, Government Entomologist in a final…

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Sheep Skins Eagerly Sought After

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 May 1923 · page 5

The Farmers aud Graziers' Co-op. Co. report:— At the last auctions in Sydney close upon 60,000 sheepskins were…

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