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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1940

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Big Sheep Sale in Goulburn

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 2

Attention is directed to W. H. Wheatley's big sale in Goulburn on Tuesday, 30th January, when 25,000 station bred sheep will be offered…

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Australia's Wool Sale It's Advantages

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. write:—The wool market in the United States and elsewhere has not shown signs of booming. The New York…

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Telegraphic News Sydney, 2 p.m. Wheat Prices

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 2

MELBOURNE.—The Minister for Commerce, Mr. McLeay, announced that the average price for half the wheat sold to the United Kingdom,…

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Pastoral Conservation of Grass and Herbage an Example Prom the Central-west

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 1

A good example of what can oe done by way of fodder conservation in the Central-west is quoted by the Inspector of Stock located at…

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Agricultural Leguminous Crops As Soil Improvers Condittions Governing Nitrogen Building Ability

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 1

In any scheme of cropping designed to maintain the fertility of the land, the group of plants known as legumes (of which the best known…

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Crocodiles Kill Cattle

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 2
Also in The Braidwood Review and District Advocate

It is reported that the record floods in the Roper River Valley are gradually receding. No deaths of aborigines or white people have been reported…

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Wool Report

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 6
Also in Queanbeyan Age

The Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Co., Ltd., reports on the 12th inst.:—Our appraisement catalogue No. 11, compiling 12,663 bales, was…

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Australian Wool Reaches England

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 3

A large part of the Australian merino wool clip has reached England by secret routes, according to the “Daily Mail.” Following the arrival of this…

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TheWar-Day by Day Wheat Prices

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 4

The British Government has acceded to a request from the Australian Wheat Board that the price of the 1,500,000 tons of wheat sold to Britain…

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Provision Against Drought An Essential Part of Sheep Husbandry

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 3

Lush and bountiful feed at the beginning of the summer is no guarantee that similar conditions will remain throughout the season. Summer can…

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British Wool Needs Effects on Rag Trade

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 3

Winchcombe, Garson, Ltd. report:— The mills in the United Kingdom .are running at high pressure. Raw material has been made available…

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Wool Appraisements

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 3

Schute Bell Badgery Lumby Limited report:—The following prices refer to the principal realisations in our Appraisement No. 11 of 5,359 bales. This…

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The War Day by Day Wheat Prices

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 1

The British Government has acceded to a request from the Australian Wheat Board that the price of the 1,500,000 tons of wheat sold to…

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British Wool Needs Effects on Rag Trade

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. write:—The mills in the United Kingdom arc running at high pressure. Raw material has been made available…

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Less Dairy Cattle

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 4

At the 31st March, 1939, there were 2,812,000 cattle in New South Wales. Of these 1,069 000 were cows in registered dairies. From 1926 to 1935 there…

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Many Bush Fires Sheep Burnt Much Damage Done

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 1

Fire fighters in Yass during the week-end had a desperate task in endeavouring to cope with no fewer than four outbreaks which made the fire of…

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American Wool Consumption Avoiding Heavy Stocks

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 2

Winchcompe, Carson Ltd. report:— A downward variation has recently been experienced in wool prices in the United States. The New York Futures…

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Attacked by Pigs Farmer Dies From Injuries

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 3

Pigs attacked John Roberts aged 78 farmer ,of Lalbert, near Swan Hill Vic., on Saturday, and inflicted such severe wounds that he died later…

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