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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1931

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Sydney Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 15 January 1931 · page 1

Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd. reort:— The average price for wool sold in Sydney last week was 7½d per lb. . At our sale on Monday, we submitted a…

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Wool and Woollen Prices the Process of Reform

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 15 January 1931 · page 1

Winchcombe. Carson Ltd. report:— When world wool supplies were small compared with recent times and prices were high, large quantities of raw…

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Pastoral Pasture Management

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 1

Many of the shortcomings of our pastures can be traced to mismanagement, points out the Assistant Agrostologist of the Department of…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 2

Schutte, Bell & Co. Ltd.. report: — We offered a catalogue of 2,320 bales last Monday consisting principally of top-making sorts, with several above…

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Watering of Sheep the Advantage of Troughs

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 1

Watering of sheep, at all times and seasons, is far better carried out by , troughs. Even in the western districts it is often possible to silk…

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Wool Values Inclined to Harden

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 1

The Secretary, Farmers and Graziers’ Co-operative Coy. reports:— On 14th January, we offered 6505 bales drawn principally from, the Scone,…

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Wool and Woollen Prices the Process of Reform

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. write:- When world wool supplies were small compared with recent times, and prices were high, large…

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Worms in Sheep

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 3

Following investigation into treatment for internal parasites, particularly stomach worms in sheep, the Council for Scientific and Industrial…

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Wheat Guarantee

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 7

If Mr. Dunn's promise of a guarantee of 4/ a bushel for wheat is carried out it will probably lead to an increase of ¾d or 1d in the price…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 3

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. report:—The catalouge brought forward by us last week was the second we have submitted…

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Wool Values Inclined to Harden

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 3

The Secretary, Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Coy., reports:— On 14th January, we offered 6505 bales, drawn principally from the…

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Unusual Wool Position Money Exchange Effects

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 22 January 1931 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:— Australian wool markets have never been in a similar position to that existing to-day. With the oversea money…

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Pastoral Pasture Improvement

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 23 January 1931 · page 1

In the effort to recover as soon as possible the expenditure incurred in laying down. the pasture, many of those who go in for pasture…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 January 1931 · page 1

Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd. report:— Owing to sales in Brisbane this week, there were no auctions in the local market. These will be resumed on the…

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Wool Market

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 23 January 1931 · page 3

Competition was extremely keen at the Brisbane wool sales on Tuesday, accoriding to Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., The demand being more…

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The Sheep Skin Tax

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 23 January 1931 · page 2

Mr. Nairn, M.P., has written to the Prime Minister that pastoralists in Western Australia are burning their sheepskins as the result of the port…

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Ruination Prices for Fat Sheep

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 23 January 1931 · page 2

The extraordinary low wholesale price of meat was the subject of comment on Tuesday by Mr. F. H. Tout, president of the Graziers'…

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Unusual Wool Position Money Exchange Effects

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 23 January 1931 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. write:- Australian wool markets have never been in a Similar position to that existing to-day. With the oversea…

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Telegraphic News (Australian Press Association Message) London Wool Sales Large Withdrawals LONDON

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 January 1931 · page 1

At to-day’s wool sales, 9,612 bales were offered, approximately 4,150 being sold. There was a large offering of greasy merinos, principally super-style…

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Government Experiment Farms Their Relation to Commercial Agriculture

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 January 1931 · page 4

Replying some years ago to the charge that its experiment farms did not “pay”, the Canadian Department of Agriculture advanced some reasons…

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