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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1940

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Wheat and Flour Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 August 1940 · page 3

Sales of wheat and flour for overseas destinations, though making some headway are falling behind the anticipated programme, said Mr. C…

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Notes and News Alleged Cattle Stealing

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 20 August 1940 · page 2

On 9th August, at the Milton Police Court, Frank Lockhart Cribb, of Tabourie Lake, was charged that he did steal certain cattle, to wit, one cow of…

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Crossbred Wool to Have Priority

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 20 August 1940 · page 1

So that the urgent requirements of the United Kingdom Government and the Australian Government can be met, wool selling brokers are…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing Two Men Committed for Trial

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 August 1940 · page 2

After a hearing lasting several hours at Cooma Court of Petty Sessions on Thursday, Mr. M. J. Ryan, P.M,, committed T. J…

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Wool Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 23 August 1940 · page 2

The Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Co., Ltd., reports on the 16th instant:— Cataloguing arrangements are now well in hand for the opening…

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Pastoral Waste of Farmyard Manure a Reflection on Local Farming Practice

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 23 August 1940 · page 4

Neglect to make systematic use of farmyard manure on coastal farms means a waste of material worth 3½ millions annually and of an…

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Wool and Its Sale Planning For the Future

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 August 1940 · page 3
Also in The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal

The great necessity during the war is to keep wool moving into consumption as freely as possible. Its appraisement is assured under the British…

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Wool Appraisements

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 August 1940 · page 2

Pitts Son and Badgery- Ltd., report :— The first round of catalogues of the Sydney wool appraisement season is now in progress and work is…

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Wool Report

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 27 August 1940 · page 6

The Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Co., Ltd., reports on 21st tost.:—We submitted the opening catalogue of the 1940-41 season in Sydney on…

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World Wool Prices Lower Markets

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 August 1940 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:— Developments ahead will show more definitely the trend of the world’s open wool markets, but present indications…

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Price of Knitting Wool

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 August 1940 · page 2

Protests against prices charged for knitting wools received from local branches at a meeting of the executive committee of the Grazlers ’ Association…

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Sheep as Carriers of Noxious Weeds

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 August 1940 · page 4

Spreading of noxious weed seeds by travelling stock came .under the attention of Marthaguy Shire Council when the stock inspector [?]…

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World Wool Prices Lower Markets

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 August 1940 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., write:—Developments ahead will show more definitely the trend of the world's open wool markets, but present…

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Wool Report

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 September 1940 · page 6

The Fanners & Graziers' Co-operative Co., Ltd., reports on 29th inst.:— We submitted our second Appraisement Catalogue of the 1940-41 season…

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Australia's Wool Clip Wool Firm Chairmans Address

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 September 1940 · page 1

Speaking at the annual meeting of; Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., on Thus .day, the chairman, Mr. said:—…

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Price of Knitting Wool

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 September 1940 · page 6

Protests against prices charged for knitting wools were received from local branches at a meeting of the executive committee of the Graziers'…

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War Effects on Wool Smaller Clips—Larger Receipts

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 September 1940 · page 2

Those interested in the sale of purchase of wool, not controlled by the British Government, have a difficult task to judge the probable trend in…

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More Than 7,000,000 “Edge Tools” To Be Made By Britain for World’s Farmers

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 September 1940 · page 1

Britain’s edge tool industry has organised its own Export Group to send overseas this year more than 7,000,000 “pieces,” nearly all of them…

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Wheat Guarantee

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 September 1940 · page 3

An unqualified assurance that the Government will not allow the wheat industry to be destroyed by war time difficulties in marketing…

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