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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1940

400 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 18 of 20

Goulburn Sheep Sale

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 1 November 1940 · page 3

As many district graziers are at present fully occupied with shearing operations, there was a very restricted attendance of buyers at the special…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 November 1940 · page 2
Also in The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal

The Farmers & Graziers’ Co-operative Co. Ltd. reports on the 30th inst.: We submitted our Appraisement Catalogue No. 33 (the 9th of the…

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Wool Stocks and Prices Post-war Position

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 1 November 1940 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., write:—The world has vast armies to clothe in war time, but as far as Great Britain is concerned the call on her mills…

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C.W.A. APPEAL 10,000 Sheep Skin Pelts Are Wanted

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 November 1940 · page 3

The Queanbeyan branch of the Country Women’s Association is appealing to sheepowners, slaughtermen, and skin buyers, for donations of…

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Blazing Butter

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 November 1940 · page 3

Blazing butter halted traffic, destroyed a transport truck, and started a forest fire in Philadelphia. U.S.A., recently. The blaze started when a…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 November 1940 · page 2
Also in The Braidwood Review and District Advocate

Pitt, Son & Badgery Ltd. report:— Presumably with idea of catering for the U.S.A. demand the Central Wool Committee has made a number…

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Wool and Uniforms Greece’s Requirements

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 November 1940 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:— Recently some comment has appeared regarding the number of women now wearing uniforms and its possible effect…

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Unshrinkable Wool Torridon Plant to Be Imported Defence Supplies

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 5 November 1940 · page 2

As a definite step towards the. production of cheap unshrinkable wool in Australia so that it will be available for the Army, Navy and Air Force,…

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British Scientists at Australia's Service Crop Failures Diagnosed Free in English Laboratory

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 November 1940 · page 2

An English scientific laboratory offers Australian farmers a unique service without charge. Any farmer in Australia can now…

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Wool Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 3

Schute Bell Badgery Lumby Ltd. report:-Under the arrangements recently entered into with America for the storage of approximately 800,000…

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Wool Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 1

The Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Co., Ltd, reports on 30th inst.:— We submitted our Appraisement Catalogue No. 33 (the ninth of the…

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Wool and Uniforms Greece's Requirements

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson( Ltd. report:—Recently some comment has appeared regarding the number of women now wearing uniforms and its possible…

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Wool—greasy and Clean Its Yield

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 November 1940 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:— Wool, like most raw materials, loses considerable weight in its preparation for manufacture. It is shorn,…

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Waste on the Farm Loss Through the Neglect of Machinery

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 November 1940 · page 5

A serious cause of loss on many farms is that due to neglect of farm machinery. Such loss takes place in many ways. It may be put down to…

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Wool Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 November 1940 · page 1

The Farmers & Graziers' Co-op. Co. Ltd., reports in the 8th inst.:— We submitted our Appraisement Satalogue No. 34 (the 10th of the…

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Wheat for Feeding Starving Stock

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 November 1940 · page 1

Graziers nave expressed concern about the short supplies of necessities for feeding starving stock. Linseed, the bulk of which is imported from…

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Wool, Greasy and Clean Its Yield

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 November 1940 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., write:—Wool, like most raw materials, loses considerable weight in its preparat on for manufacture. It is shorn,…

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The Good Old Days Wool Pressing Styles

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 November 1940 · page 2

Mr. W. H. Maynard, of "Budjong," writes in the Goulburn paper:— "I was very interested in a letter in last Wednesday's 'Post' taken from…

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