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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1939

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Too Much Inferior Wool

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 April 1939 · page 2

A writer in a Sydney daily paper touches on a matter vitally concerning the great wool industry in Australia. He says…

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Advertising of Wool Within Australia Important Decision by Australian Wool Board

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 April 1939 · page 4

For some considerable time the Australian Wool Board has been considering a publicity campaign with the object of promoting the sale of…

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Wool and Free Trading Poland and Czechoslovakia

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 April 1939 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., write:— As a result of the Easter recess, wool transactions in Sydney have been limited, but the market tone has…

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Goulburn Cattle Sale

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 18 April 1939 · page 6

Buyers from Victoria, as well as many parts of New South Wales operated freely for cattle on Thursday, when the Goulburn branch of the…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 April 1939 · page 4

Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd. report: The wool selling season, in Sydney entered upon its final stages this week when the semi-final round of…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 4

New Zealand Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. report —The concluding series of the regular wool selling season for 1833-39 was entered upon on Monday,…

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Pastoral Pastures in the North-west Methods of Improvement

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 1

Discussing at a recent conference of farmers at Bingara the question of pasture improvement, the Senior Assistant Agrostologist of the…

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Wool and Existing Position Wisdom of Ready Selling

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 4
Also in The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal

The wisdom of Australian growers and producers in other countries freely meeting the market with their clips during the current season, is apparent…

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Trend to More Diversified Farming Increases the Need for Fodder Conservation

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 1

Livestock were becoming increasingly important in the farming programme, and fodder conservation was becoming proportionately…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 April 1939 · page 2

Pitt, Son & Badgery Ltd. report:— The wool selling season in Sydney is now at a very advanced stage and a few more days’ selling will see the end…

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Notes and News Braidwood Cattle

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 25 April 1939 · page 3

Cattle values were up to 10/- higher at Homebush on Thursday, supplies totalling 2283. Messrs. Owen Bros., Braidwood, obtained to £7…

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Wool Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 1

The Farmers & Glaziers' Co-operative Co., Ltd., reports on the 21st April:— We submitted at our sale on…

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Wool Values Unchanged

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. report: Values were unchanged on late levels at our Sydney wool auction on Monday. Well distributed…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson Limited report: We sold 6600 bales of wool at our sale in Sydney on Monday. Values were unchanged at last week’s levels and…

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Pastoral Conservation of Fodder Three Primary Purposes

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 1

The Ideal food for sheep and cattle is good pasture, and grazing on pasture is undoubtedly the most economical method of providing feed, as…

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Japanese Imports of Wool

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 2

Political changes in Europe latterly have been of so sudden and violent a nature that often optimistic hopes held one week are completely dispelled…

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Wool Prices Stabilised Sustained Demand

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 2

Rarely indeed has a wool selling season been experienced in which values were stabilised to such a degree and free from even minor fluctuations…

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The Demand for Wool Japan and France

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 1

Winchcombe Carson, Ltd., write:— The advantage arising from the large number of countries which consume Australian wool has again been…

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Shelter for Dairy Stock As a Factor in Feeding Economy

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 1

Where proper shelter is not provided for stock not only is their resistance to disease reduced, but much food material is wasted in…

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