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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1944

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1944 Sheep Year Wool Transport Improves

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 January 1944 · page 2

Wool prices on present levels in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa are asured for the whole of 1944 and at least to June 30, 1945…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 January 1944 · page 4

Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd. report: The wool trade is now in recess and all sections are enjoying a short respite from the strenuous work of…

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Transport of Wool

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 January 1944 · page 3

The Minister for Transport, Mr. O’Sullivan, in a letter to Mr. J. W. Seiffert, M.L.A., states:—“In connection with your personal…

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Wool Appraisements in Goulburn

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 January 1944 · page 2

Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Grain Insurance and Agency Co. Ltd. report: Our Appraisement No. 55 was finalised on December 21st…

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The 1944 Sheep Year. Wool Transport Improves

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. write:—Wool prices on present levels in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa are assured for the whole of 1944 and…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 2

Appraisements will be resumed in Sydney on Monday next after the Christmas and New Year recess and the work will continue steadily from…

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Transport of Wool

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 2
Also in Queanbeyan Age

The Minister for Transport, Mr. M. O'Sullivan, has written to Mr. J. W. Seiffert, member for Moraro, as fol-lows:—…

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Federal Ban on State Wool Haulage by Road

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 1

Because the Commonwealth Land Transport Board requires wool to be transported by rail, the N.S.W. Transport Commissioner (Mr. Neale)…

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Grand Wool Conference at Armidale on Jan. 29 & 30

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 3

A grand Wool Conference of the greatest importance to woolgrowers, not only in the North and Northw-est, but throughout New South…

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Grand Wool Conference At Armidale, January 29 and 30

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 3

A Grand Wool Conference of the greatest importance to wool-growers, not only in the North and north-west, but throughout New South Wales and…

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A New Curse Black Beetle Attacks Corn Crops

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 2

During a recent visit to Nowra our representative was given an opportunity of inspecting the ravages caused by the latest pest, a black beetle…

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Murrumbidgee Rice Crops Supply Needs of Asiatic Allies

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 3

Brides prefer confetti to rice, but when they settle down in the kitchen their ideas change. Modern brides, however, are finding very little confetti caught up in their bridal veils and no rice at all—not even on the shelves of their pantries…

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Meat and Sheep Previous Vicissitudes

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 1

The advent of meat rationing on January 17 is the first occasion in the history of Australian sheep industry when local demand for lamb…

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Dairy Cows in Australia

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 2

Throughout the war years the number of dairy cows in Australia has remained in the vicinity of 3,200,000, but the Commonwealth…

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Where Dairy Cows Score Over Beef Animals

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 4

A frequent question fired at me by townsmen frineds is, “Why all this national concentration on milk as apart from meat?” states a writer…

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Turnips and Swedes for Dairy Cows Value as Winter Feed

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 4

Farmers in both coastal and tableland districts have found swedes and white (field) turnips a useful fodder for cows. Turnips provide a…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 January 1944 · page 3

Pitt, Son and Badgery, Limited report:—Our first Sydney catalogue of the New Year is being gsubmitted today and will be finalised on Monday…

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Meat and Sheep. Previous Vicissitudes

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 January 1944 · page 3

Winchoombe, Carson, Ltd. write:—The advent of meat rationing on 17th January is the first occasion in the history of the Australian sheep…

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Supply of Salt for Sheep

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 January 1944 · page 1

"Work in connection with the use of salt as a lick for sheep is still being carried out by the Department," states Mr. Max Henry, Chief of the…

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