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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1931

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 January 1931 · page 3

Schute, Bell & Go. Ltd. report:— This being the Christmas recess, there is practically nothing doing in the trade, most buyers being out of town…

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Wool Position

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 3

The official representative of the Woolbrokers Association in London thinks the position of wool is slightly more hopeful, both to England…

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Sheep Blow-Fly Control Value of Trapping and Poisoning

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 2

Discussing m a recent report the prevalence and need for control of sheep blowfly, the Chief Veterinary Surgeon of the Department of Agriculture…

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Australia's Wool Clip Its Size of Motional Benefit

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 5

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. write:—If wool markets could recover as quickly as the Australian pastoral industry can recover after a drought,…

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Farmers Take a Hand

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 3

A New York message states that as the result of the late disastrous drought in the United States a dramatic sequel occurred at the…

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Dairying Increased Dairying Production

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 5

As a means of increasing the margin of profit, greater production per acre should be the aim of every dairy farmer. The following…

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Grass the Most Important of All Crops

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 3

The economic significance of pasture become evident when the values of our agricultural and animal products are compared hand-feeding being still a…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 2

Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd. report:— The second half of the selling season opened on Monday, when three catalogues, totalling 10,844 bales, were…

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Wool and Money Exchange a Market Help

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. report:— The increase in the money exchange rate to £115/7/6 is the best development the wool trade has experienced for…

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Pastoral During the Hot Weather

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 4

During the hot weather (writes the Sheep and Wool Expert of the Department of Agriculture) the flock should be bandied as little as…

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Sheep Blow-fly Control

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 4

Discussing in a recent report the prevalence and need for control of sheep blow-fly, the Chief Veterinary, Surgeon of the Department of…

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The Wheat Harvest

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 2

When the trucks now loading wheat at country sidings are brought , to Sydney it is stated the silos there will be filled to their utmost…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 2

Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd. report:— At our sale on Monday last, we submitted a catalogue of 2142 bales, consisting of a few good wools, the…

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Wool Market General Tone Better

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 2

The Secretary, Farmers and Graziers’ Co-operative Coy. writes:— At our sale on 7th January, we offered 6416 bales, comprising a good…

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Queanbeyan Tubercle-free Area Regulations Governing Entry of Cattle

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 1

“Towards the latter part of last year it came under my notice that one or two daily cattle had been brought into the district without first being…

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Wool and Money Exchange a Market Help

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. write:- The increase in the money exchange rate to £115/7/6 is the best development the wool trade has…

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Farmers Owe Three Millions

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 1

The Minister also stated that there was now £3,000,000 owing to the Rural Industries’ Board by farmers all over New South Wales. There did not…

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Bartering Wheat

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 4

So desperate is the money position with fanners of the Griffith and Hillston districts that they have been forced to trade wheat for other…

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Wool Market General Tone Better

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 1

The Secretary, Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Coy., writes:— At our sale on 7th January we offered 6416 bales, comprising a good…

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"The Tocsin" an Open Letter to the Farmer

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 5

Many of you helped to put Messrs. Lang, Anstey, Beasley, Garden & Co. Unlimited, in the position where they can, and will, belt Hell out of you,…

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