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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1944

385 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 20

U.S.A. Sheep Slaughtering Meat Demand Decreasing Flocks

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 3

The quantity of wool received at New South Wales apppraising centres this season is now nearly 1,100,000 bales and shows an increase on the…

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Proved by Practice. the Mechanisation Scheme a Boon to Dairy Farmers

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 4

It gives me particular pleasure to be able to report that the Farm Mechanisation Scheme, introduced by my Government eight months ago…

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Catch-crop of Chickens

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 4

A poultry expert has pointed out that although the normal hatching season is still four or five months off the urgent need for eggs…

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£60,000,000 Fall In Farm Debts

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 1

Australian farmers have reduced their debts by £60,000,000 during the war, according to the Minister for War Organisation of Industry, Mr…

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Wool Report

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 February 1944 · page 3
Also in The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal

Our Sydney Appraisement Catalogue No. 128 was finally appraised on Wednesday last and the proceeds will be made available for distribution…

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Wool Quality Not Appreciably Affected

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 February 1944 · page 1

It is usually admitted that the plainer type of ewe is the better "doer" and mother, and generally requires less attention, but always the doubt…

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T.B. Test for Cattle Next Monday and

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 February 1944 · page 1

By advertisement in this issue the owners of dairy cattle are notified that on Monday and Tuesday next animals owned by them are to be…

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Control of Sheep Blowfly Combination of Methods Necessary

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 February 1944 · page 3

No single satisfactory method of control is ever likely to be evolved that will solve the sheep blowfly problem, points out the Division of…

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Record Ram Sale Ram and Sheep Sale at Canberra

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 February 1944 · page 2

Woodgers, and Calthorpe Limited, Queanbeyan and Canberra, held their annual ram sale at Canberra Saleyards on Thursday last, 17th inst.,…

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Machine Farming

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 February 1944 · page 4

Although some farmers were slow to appreciate the advantages of the Government-sponsored scheme of community-owned plant, nearly 40…

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Zoning of Sheep Shearing

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 3

The Minister for Labour Mr. Holloway, has announced new conditions for the zoning of sheep shearing this year in New South Wales, Victoria…

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State Wool Record

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 3

Submitted for appraisement last week on account of Theo w. Storey, of Yass, the Werong/Yass wool—clip was successful in establishing a new…

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Irish Wool Prices Demand Exceeds Supply

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 3

The wool growers in Eire have probably secured the greatest advance in prices for their product of any sheepgrowers in the world,…

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Irish Wool Prices. Demand Exceeds Supply

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. write:— The wool growers in Eire have probably secured the greatest advance in prices for their product of any…

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Record Ram Sale. Ram and Sheep Sale at Canberra

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 3

Woodgers and Calthorpe, Limited, Queanbeyan and Canberra, held their annual ram sale at Canberra saleyards on Thursday last, 17th inst.,…

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Wool Report

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 4

The Farmers & Graziers' Co-op Co., Ltd., reports on 23rd inst:—We submitted our Appraisement Catalogue. No. 129 on Monday, 21st…

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Need for Better Wheat

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 1

At the bread inquiry in Sydney yesterday, the Government cereal expert, Dr. S. L. Macindoe, said as the foundation of better bread,…

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Other States Interested. N.s.w. Farm Mechanisation Scheme

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 4

It is particularly gratifying to me to learn that at the recent meeting of the Commonwealth Agricultural Council a direct approach was made…

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Mechanical Farming

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 3

“Farm mechanisation is w[?]ring satisfactorily in almost every centre in which it has been introduced,” said Mr. A. H. E. McDonald, Chief of the…

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