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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1947

272 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 9 of 14

Local and General Wool-classing, Dressmaking, Millinery and Cooking Classes

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 August 1947 · page 2

Mr. Roulston, Principal Goulburn Technical College, and Miss Kelly, Mistress in charge of the Women s College, will be visiting Braidwood on…

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Wool Demand Strong Dingo Lessens Sheep Numbers

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 August 1947 · page 1

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report:—The Inquiry for local fellmongered wools has considerably extended during the past week. Originally it was…

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Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 August 1947 · page 4

The 1947-48 wool sales will open in Sydney on Monday, September 1. The National Council of Wool Selling Brokers of Australia has announced…

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Wool Demand Strong Ravages of the Dingo

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 August 1947 · page 3

The inquiry for local fellmongered wools has considerably extended during the past week, Originally it was confined to the better three-quarter…

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Our Most Important Crop Advances in Pasture Improvement

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 August 1947 · page 4

"It is more necessary now than at any previous time that we should realise that pasture Is our most Important crop—not only because of the…

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Control of Sheep Ked Use of D.d.t. Dip

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 19 August 1947 · page 4

Woolgrowers who are contemplating using D.D.T. as an antlked dipping agent this season will be interested in the following departmental statement…

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Freight Increase Hits Farmers

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 19 August 1947 · page 4

Woolgrowers from to-day were subsidising other rail freight more heavily than before, the president of the Graziers' Association of N.S.W…

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Britain’s Harvest Hopes Speed-up of Farm Mechanisation

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 August 1947 · page 3

Farm machines are being worked every possible hour just now in Britain and harvesting in the South of England at least started in fine…

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Importance of Sheep Classing in Relation to Auctioning of Wool

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 22 August 1947 · page 1

Every breeder would be better off if he discarded all sheep of less than average standard in his flock—in many cases the increase in feed…

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Wool Fabrics Needed a New Wool Pack

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 August 1947 · page 4
Also in The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal

The impelling force behind the demand for wool is the world’s need for good. Australia is among the most favourably situated countries…

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Farmers Bring Salvation

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 22 August 1947 · page 2

"An agriculture in full production, with its products distributed in an orderly manner, introduces to the world the way to economic and social…

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Spring Cattle Sale

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 26 August 1947 · page 2

Attention is drawn to the yarding for Farmers and Graziers' first spring cattle sale at Braidwood oh Saturday, 6th September. Already 700 head of…

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Position of Dairying Industry "Very Serio[?] Continued Heav[?]

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 26 August 1947 · page 4

The de[?]ne in [?] ying [?] and the serious dec[?]ber of dairy farms [?]…

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Wool Is Wanted Aspects of Present Position

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 August 1947 · page 4

The future of wool is bright if its sale remains unaffected by monetary conditions abroad report Winchcombe Carson Ltd. Governments…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 5 September 1947 · page 3
Also in Queanbeyan Age

Winchcombe, Carson wired us yesterday:—We sold 9,500 bales of wool by auction and privately at Sydney on Wednesday. Values were fully…

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Wool Prices Rise

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 5 September 1947 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson wired us on Tuesday:—Yorkshire and the Continent were strong buyers at the opening Sydney sales to-day, prices for average…

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Wheat And Flour Export Surplus Sold

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 September 1947 · page 3

Mr J. S. Teasdale, acting chairman of the…

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Control of Worms in Sheep Value of Regular Drenching

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 5 September 1947 · page 4

For control of worms, sheep should be drenched before they get too low in condition. On the first sign of infestation, the whole flock should be…

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