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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1942

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 July 1942 · page 4

Pitt, Son & Badgery Ltd. report: The details which we were able to communicate to clients recently regarding the finalisation of the…

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No Surplus of Knitting Wool

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 July 1942 · page 3

Knitters should remember that Australia has no surplus of knitting wool, states an official of the Rationing Commission…

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Opening Wool Offerings Burr and Its Effects

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 July 1942 · page 3

Zone shearing has much accelerated the consignment of wool to the New South Wales seaboard though shed operations at present are…

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Teachers' Offer to Farmers Help During Vacation

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 14 July 1942 · page 1

New South Wales school teachers have offered to help farmers in the school holidays, which cover approximately the last week of August…

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Pastoral Supplies

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 July 1942 · page 2

The Graziers’ Federal Council has conveyed to the Minister for Supply the following resolution adopted by the 59th Convention of…

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Knitting Wool

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 July 1942 · page 4

Knitters should remember that Australia has no surplus of knitting wool, an official of the Rationing Commission stated this week…

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Opening Wool Offering Burr and Its Effects

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 July 1942 · page 1

Winchcotnbe,. Carson, Ltd. writer:—Zone shearing has much accelerated the consignment of wool to the Nev South Wales seaboard, though shed…

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Insects Menace Vegetable Crops Control Measures Not Adopted by Growers

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 July 1942 · page 1

Recent surveys of several important vegetable growing areas have shown that many growers have failed to take the necessary action to…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 July 1942 · page 3

Wool selling brokers are now busily employed in calculating and preparing documents in connection with the impending distribution of…

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Sheep on Reserve Stock Trespass Charge

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 July 1942 · page 1

At Cooma Police Court last week, before Mr. M. J. Ryan, P.M., Samuel Daniel, of Bredbo, pleaded guilty to a charge by D. J. Walker, Stock…

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Rationing of Wool Reduces Substitute Supply

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 July 1942 · page 2

The effects of wool rationing for civilian purposes and the economy in clothing being practised by the public are shown in the diminishing…

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Rationing of Wool Reduces Substitute Supply

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 24 July 1942 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. write:—The effects of wool rationing for civilian purposes and the economy in clothing being practised by the public…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 July 1942 · page 4

Pitt, Son & Badgery, Ltd. report: Another wool appraisement season will be inaugurated in Sydney this week, when the eightieth round of…

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Damp Wool in Bales Condemned by Appraisers

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 28 July 1942 · page 3

Wool appraisers have commented unfavourably on the amount of wool sent it in for appraisement when damp for wet throughout the State last…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 July 1942 · page 2

The early commencement of the wool appraisement season was robbed of much of the anticipated advantages owing to unforeseen…

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Branding Cattle Some Practical Hints

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 31 July 1942 · page 1

Useful hints on the branding of cattle are given by B. C. Veech, district veterinary officer of the Department of Agriculture, in an article in…

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American Wool Needs Huge Consumption

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 July 1942 · page 3
Also in The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal

United States wool markets have been maintained on the higher range of prices noticeable since the value of the Australian clip for this…

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New Season’s Wool Prices

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 July 1942 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report: 3786 bales of wool were appraised of our first catalogue at the new season’s prices submitted in Sydney on…

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Higher Wool Prices New Season's Appraisements

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 31 July 1942 · page 3

In the first Sydney wool appraisements under the new season's advanced prices, Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., submitted a catalogue of 3,786 bales…

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