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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1940

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Sheep in Queensland Merinos and Crossbreds

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 12 April 1940 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. write:— Queensland stock returns show that in every year but one since 1929 the State has pastured over 20,000,000…

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Pastoral Better Pasture Means Better Products Methods of Improvement

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 12 April 1940 · page 4

The most critical period in a sheep's life is during the first 12 months of its existence, for it is then that the animal largely builds up its…

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The Role of Trade Fashion Displays in a Wool Publicity Scheme

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 12 April 1940 · page 1

The International Wool Secretariat has made the headlines quite often with reports of its fashion displays. The value of a displays like the Wool…

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Dairying Subdivision of Paddocks Essential to Effective Pasture Management

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 12 April 1940 · page 4

Subdivision of paddocks has much to recommend it, and represents, in fact, the first step in efficient pasture management. Pasture improvement,…

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Farmers Must Watch Trend

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 April 1940 · page 2

A farmer as much as a fashion. designer, a hairdresser, or a merchant, must be everlastingly watchful for changes and trends in his business…

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Wool Report

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

The Farmers & Graziers' Co-op. Co., Ltd., reports on the 15th inst.:— we submitted our 20th Appraisement catalogue and the final offering…

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Big Cattle Sale

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1940 · page 2

On Friday next Messrs. Hassall & Macdonald will yard 1500 head or local bred cattle. The cattle are a particularly fine lot and comprise…

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Record Wool Turnover The American Clip

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 April 1940 · page 2

The turnover at appraisement of over 1,300,000 bales of wool on the Sydney market this season is a record in quantity and the fifteenth selling year…

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"Cost Back in One Year" a Farmer's Experience of Subdivision of Paddocks

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1940 · page 1

Prefacing an address at a recent farmers' conference on the subject of the subdivision of his property, Mr. G. W. Evans, of Tumbarumba,…

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Butter and Margarine Tasting Competition

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 April 1940 · page 2

By the time this war ends, butter will be forgotten if the present boosting of margarine and the discreet retirement of butter into the background…

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Wool for Civilian Consumption in Britain

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 April 1940 · page 2

Recently the Director-General of Equipment and Stores to the British Ministry of Supply, by name Lord Woolton, made a statement which must…

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Record Wool Turnover the American Clip

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

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. write:— The turnover at appraisement of over 1,300,900 bales of wool on the Sydney market this season is a…

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Dairy Cows Shelter a Necessity

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 April 1940 · page 3

A team of agricultural scientists in the United States set out to study the effect of extremes of heat and cold upon the production of dairy cows…

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Record Cattle Prices

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 30 April 1940 · page 2

Last week's record for one fat cow was soon broken, as at Hassall and Macdonald's sale on Friday £12/18/per bead was secured for two cows…

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Wool for Civilian Consumption in Britain

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 30 April 1940 · page 1

Recently the Director-General or Equipment and Stores to the British Ministry of Supply, by name Lord Woolton, made a statement which…

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The Stable Wool Outlook Buyers in South America

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 April 1940 · page 3

The grower with wool for disposal next season is safe in the knowledge that no slump in prices, can severely curtail his returns, reports…

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Farmers Must Be Self Reliant Vast Scope For Improvement

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 April 1940 · page 4

There are few, if any, industries whose position cannot be enormously improved by careful stocktaking and a revision of methods…

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Carriage of Wool by Rail Supply of Tarpaulins

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

The following resolution was passed by the Annual Conference of the Graziers' Association in March:— "That the Association protest to the…

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The Stable Wool Outlook Buyers in South America

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

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. write:— The grower with wool for disposal next season is safe in the knowledge that no slump in prices can…

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Wool and War-needs Australian Sheep Totals

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 May 1940 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:— As far as the wearing capacity of wool is concerned, it is definitely securing a good advertisement out of the war…

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