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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1941

382 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 11 of 20

Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 July 1941 · page 3

The receipt of wool in the Sydney market during the season just closed were 60,000 bales below the record figures of the previous season (report…

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America’s Use of Wool Prices for Australian Mills

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 July 1941 · page 3

Record shipments of wool have been made from Australia to the United States this season, the total easily exceeding any previous quantity (reports…

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Burn Charcoal to Help Nation Farms Should Build Own Gas Producer Units

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 July 1941 · page 2

M:. George Wilson, Country Party member for Dubbo, and primary producers representative on the Commonwealth Liquid Fuel control Board…

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Helping the Farmer Government Action

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 July 1941 · page 2

Drought is the eldest and fi[?] enemy of agriculture in this State. Mv Government regards as one of its most important duties that of fighting this…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 July 1941 · page 2

Pitt, Son & Badgery, Ltd. report:—New clip wools are coming into store with a fair degree of freedom, mainly from the west and far west. It is…

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America's Use of Wool Prices for Australian Mills

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 July 1941 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., write:—Record shipments of wool have been made from Australia to the United States this season, the total easily…

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Fuel From Wheat Plans Approved

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 22 July 1941 · page 2

A decision to establish distilleries to produce 10,000,000 gallons of power alcohol a year from wheat was reached by Federal and State…

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Empire Use of Wool Russian Mill Output

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 July 1941 · page 3

The war has produced contrasting experiences in the activity of woollen mills and the consumption of wool in various parts of the British .Empire (reports…

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More Petrol for Distant Farmers

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 22 July 1941 · page 3

The chairman of the Commonwealth Liquid Fuel Control Board has advised that as the result of representation made on behalf of men…

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Empire Use of Wool Russian Mill Output

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 July 1941 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:—The war has produced contrasting experiences in the activity of woollen mills and the consumption of wool in…

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Guarding Britain’s Cornfields How Farmworkers Will Fight Nazi Fire Bombs

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 July 1941 · page 3

With 12,500,000 acres under the plough this spring—32 millions more than in 1939—Britain’s agricultural leaders are planning how to protect her…

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Record Sheep Population

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 July 1941 · page 3

Australias’ sheep population has now reached the gigantic total of 123,0.00,000, a figure far in advance of any previous records. It is not so many years…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 July 1941 · page 2

Cheques will go cut to growers this week covering the retention money and the equalisation dividend in connection with the 1940-41 season, report Pitt,…

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Record Sheep Population

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 3

Australia's sheep population has now reached the gigantic total of 123,000,000, a figure far in advance of any previous records. It is not so…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 2

Pitt, Son & Badgery, Ltd. report:—In common with other Brokers we have had the pleasure this week of forwarding clients their cheques representing…

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Seven Sheep Supply Gut For One Tennis Rac[?]ue[?]

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 2

Five million yards of British music strings are shipped every year from London to countries as far apart as Iceland and the Fiji Islands, and not…

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Wool Without "Tickle" British Textile Experts Solve an Old Problem

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 1

A wool-fixing process which takes ell the "tickle" out of garments made from it has been evolved by British textile experts…

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Telegraphic News Petrol for Country Farmers

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 2

Two important decisions affecting country motor users under the petrol rationing which will enable the farmer to visit his usual town of…

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Mineral Deficiency Serious Cause of Wastage in Cattle

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 5 August 1941 · page 1

It is from the apparently minor complaints of cattle neglected until their consequences can no longer be ignored, that the most serious…

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Wool and Top Prices Differing War-Time Policies

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 August 1941 · page 2

The home issue price of average 64’s tops in Great Britain is 43¾d per lb., or 17d higher than the pre-war 1939 figure. In 1917/18 the quotation was…

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