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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1942

384 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 16 of 20

Wool Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 October 1942 · page 3

The Farmers & Graziers' Co-op. Co., Ltd., reports on the 6th instant.:We submitted our Appraisement Catalogue No. 87 on the 1st instant,…

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Wool Transport Problem Less Sales

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 October 1942 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. write:—The New South Wales clip is arriving at the seaboard in much slower volume, the receipts at the Sydney…

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Brown Vegetable Weevil a Menace to Vegetable Crops

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 October 1942 · page 2

The Chief Entomologist off the Department of Agriculture reminds vegetable growers to be on the lockout for the brown vegetable…

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Team-work in Food Production Schoolboys Do Good Job on Farming. Front

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 October 1942 · page 4

Encouraging news from Britain shows that in spite of an acute labour shortage the best harvest for years is being gathered in record…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 October 1942 · page 2

Wool appraisements are now proceeding steadily in all the Australian reports Pitt, Son & Badgery Limited…

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Aid for Farmers Public Meeting To Be Called

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 October 1942 · page 1

A meeting called at the instigation of Queanbeyan P. and A. Association was held on Saturday night in the Showground pavilion. Mr. J…

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Farmers’ Clients

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 October 1942 · page 4

Carnegie once said that the man who earned the money seldom received it. In a recent letter to the Press a poultry farmer said that he…

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Goulburn Sheep Sale

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 16 October 1942 · page 3

A strong market ruled for the 10,503 sheep on offer at the Municipal Saleyards on Tuesday afternoon, when the two Goulburn firms, W. H…

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Wool Records in U.s.a

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 October 1942 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. report: Consumption of wool in the United States during the first six months of 1942 was 14% higher than for…

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Concerning Stock Licks Some Pacts About Salt and Sheep

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 16 October 1942 · page 1

The Federal Government's decision to prohibit the manufacture of stock licks ard restrict the use of salt for sheep, while inevitably disturbing to…

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Wool Records in U.s.a. Australian Mills

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 16 October 1942 · page 1

Consumption of wool in the United . States during the first six months of 1942 was 10 per cent, higher than for the similar period of 1941. The…

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Treatment of Worms in Sheep Conservation Op Supplies of Nicotine Sulphate

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 16 October 1942 · page 3

Nicotine sulphate, next to phenothiazine, is the most effective drug available for treatment of black scours of sheep, that is, infestation…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 October 1942 · page 4

The wool appraisement scheme is now working with automatic smoothness in all centres and something like 700,000 bales of the…

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Aid for Farmers Public Meeting

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 October 1942 · page 2

There was an attendance of 20 persons at the meeting called for last Saturday night. The Mayor, who presided, tendered…

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Huge American Wool Needs Store Sheep Position

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 October 1942 · page 4
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The government wool requirements of the United States for the fighting forces during 1942 are estimated to be equal to the entire…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 October 1942 · page 2

At our Sydney appraisement No. 88 finalised on the 15th inst., we submitted a selection of 4,012 bales. The selection comprised average to…

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Purchase of Salt for Sheep Permit Officers

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 23 October 1942 · page 1

There is still a certain amount of confusion in the minds of stockowners concerning the order controlling stock licks recently issued by the…

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Farmers' Clients

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 23 October 1942 · page 1

Carnegie once said that the man who earned the money seldom received it. In a recent letter to the Press a poultry farmer said that he was…

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Manpower and the Farm Wartime Problems Must Be Met by Wartime Methods

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 23 October 1942 · page 4

A blunt appeal to farmers for more realistic thinking and more rational planning with respect to the manpower problem is made by the…

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