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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1939

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The Wool Problem

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 August 1939 · page 3

The Australian Agricultural Council is meeting on the 11th August, and will consider the pressing problems of our primary industries. The Agricultural…

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For California Local Wool Exhibit

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 August 1939 · page 2

District wool will find a place at the olden Gate International Exposition Wool Show to be held at Treasure Island, California, from September 23…

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Points in Wool Classing Convenience in Working

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 August 1939 · page 4

In wool classing, as in other operations, convenience in working is an important consideration. A wool rolling table should not be against the…

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Wool Like Silk Stockings to Be Imported

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 August 1939 · page 2

Woollen stockings and underwear which are almost indistinguishable from silk, will be imported into Australia in the near future, said the…

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The Empire and Wool Prices and Prosperity

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 August 1939 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. write:— The British Empire is the greatest wool producing and the largest wool consuming aggregation of people in…

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Cheaper Wool and More Why Not Other Commodities

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 August 1939 · page 1

In ten years two-fifths of Britain's export trade in wool has vanished That is bad; but it is offset by the fact that since 1928 the…

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Pasture Improvement Value of Farmyard Manure

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 August 1939 · page 2

Discussing, in the “Agricultural Gazette” the importance of pastures in relation to soil fertility uplift and maintenance, the Agrostologist of the…

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Wool Bounty

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 8 August 1939 · page 1

The Australian Agricultural Council is meeting on 11th August ana will consider the pressing problems of our primary industries. The…

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Wool Prospects Brighter British-American Trade

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 August 1939 · page 2

Australia faces brighter prospects for the sale of the new clip than was the case a year ago. reports Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. She will produce…

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Threat of Wool Substitutes Science to the Rescue "Chemists to Fight Back"

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 8 August 1939 · page 8

"In my opinion, wool still has a great lead over its competitors, though the pace it which the latter are advancing is quickening…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 August 1939 · page 4

Schute Bell Badgery Lumby Limited report:—Only two weeks have now to elapse before the new season's wool auctions will be in full swing the first…

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Dairying Cattle Tick Eradication Arrangements for the Coming Season

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 August 1939 · page 4

In order that stockowners on the North Coast may be able to make arrangements for the coming season states the Minister for Agriculture…

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Wool Prospects Better British American Trade

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 August 1939 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. write:— Australia faces brighter prospects for the sale of the new clip than was the case a year ago. She will…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 August 1939 · page 3

Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd., Sydney, report:—Although the buying side of the trade is still very quiet in Sydney, with most operators in holiday mood,…

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Japanese Wool Buying

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 August 1939 · page 3

A moderate quantity of good top-making and average spinners’ greasy fleece wools have recently been purchased by Japan in Sydney. The…

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Master Farmer Competition 1939

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 August 1939 · page 3

Entries for the above competition (conducted by the Farmers & Settlers Association) from, the Far South and Tableland have not been forthcoming…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 August 1939 · page 2

Schute Bell Badgery Lumby Limited report:—The main activity in the wool trade at the moment is the arrival of daily-increasing quantities of wool into…

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Bounty on Wool

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 August 1939 · page 1

Although the request for a bounty on wool is in accord with the express wish of the annual conference of the Graziers' Association, there are…

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Coming Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 August 1939 · page 3

The wool selling season is close on us again—one more week and the wool saleroom will ring with the bids of the world’s buyers and we shall have an…

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Pastoral Spring Care of Sown Pastures Regulation of Grazing Necessary

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 August 1939 · page 1

Proper management is imperative if the full benefit is to be obtained from money spent on pasture improvement. If pasture mixtures sown in…

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