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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1944

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Ill-treating a Sheep. Man Fined £5

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 January 1944 · page 2

Charged at the Goulburn Police Court on Monday with cruelly ill-treating a sheep, Horace Claud Hawkins was convicted and toed £5 and…

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Fined Five Pounds For Ill-Treating Sheep

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 January 1944 · page 3

Charged at the Goulburn Police Court this week with cruelly ill-treating a sheep. Horace Claud Hawkins was convicted and fined £5…

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Queanbeyan Wool

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 January 1944 · page 1

District clips appraised in Winchcombe Carson’s Sydney wool catalogue last Friday included the West Yeumburra section of W. T. Walker…

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Wool Report

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1944 · page 1

The Farmers & Graziers' Co-op. Co., Ltd. reports on 13th inst.:—We submitted out Appraisement catalogue No. 125 on Tuesday, 11th…

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Wool Industry in Goulburn

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1944 · page 2

The Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Co. announces that the first wool appraisement series since the holiday recess will take place on…

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In New South Wales Thousands of Sheep Burnt

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 January 1944 · page 1

A big bush fire near Cootamundra last night was being fought by nearly 1000 men, including several hundred soldiers. The fire was south of the…

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Wool and Competing Fibres Position in Belgium

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 January 1944 · page 4

In Great Britain a textile authority seeks to correct extreme statements that artificial fibres are ousting wool reports Winchcombe, Carson Ltd…

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Food Production Drive. Further Assistance for Dairy Farmers

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1944 · page 1

The State Government has decided that it will give additional assistance to the drive for increased production of essential foods by making…

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Local Wool

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 1

Prices obtained at Winchoombe, Carson's Sydney wool appraisement last Friday included Dr. Francis Guy Antill Pockley, Pylara, Tarago, ewes…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 3

Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd., report: we submitted for final appraisement a most representative catalogue drawn from many parts of the State on…

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Wool and Competing Fibres. Position in Belgium

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. write:—In Great Britain a textile authority seeks to correct extreme statements that artificial fibres are ousting wool…

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Losses of Sheep From Winter Malnutrition. Reduction by Later Lambing

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 3

Winter losses of sheep in tableland districts could be enormously reduced by the adoption of supplementary feeding, and in this, as in other…

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Meat Rationing on Farms and Stations

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 2
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There is no restriction on the amount of meat which a grazier may kill for consumption by members of his household. The term "household"…

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Stored Wool Quantites Increasing

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 2

The supply position has been improved by increased transport facilities lately, reports Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd. Much of the wool…

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Dairy Production

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 2

It is estimated that to supply the minimum needs of Britain, of the Allied forces the Pacific and of our own population, every cow in…

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Big Sheep Sale

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 January 1944 · page 2

There will be a highly attractive yarding of sound, healthy, well-bred sheep at W. H. Wheatley's big sale at Goulburn on Thursday next, 3rd…

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Wool Appraisements

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 January 1944 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report: 4975 bales wool were appraised of our Sydney catalogue on Tuesday. Merryville Propriety, Merryville…

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Sheep [?] Control. Recommended Methods Cheapest

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 January 1944 · page 1

In seasons when the blowfly is bad the cost incurred by the average grazier in combating fly-strike has been estimated at $35 per 1,000 flock sheep…

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Most Wool Transported. Rationing and Stock Prices

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 January 1944 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. write:—The wool transport position improved so much in late December and January that arrivals of the clip to date…

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