Italy Buys More Wool
With the absence of wool auctions to allow of the usual recess for the Christmas and New Year holidays, quietness had prevailed in local wool…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1949
285 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 15
Bright Wool Prospects Position Sound
Both United States and Australia mill[?] have bought fair quantities of wool in Australia this season, but their operations have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cooperative Farming Enterprise
A group of farmers at Readings Berkshire, who, having experienced the harvest of 1946, when the combine harvesters brought to their barns loads of grain so Wet that much of it. was wasted, decided to co-operate in setting up a factory equipped with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Anthrax in Sheep a Timely Warning to Stock-owners
With the approach of the anthrax season, stockowners are warned by the Division of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More Wool Needed In U.S.A.
Large-scale American wool-buying will be necessary if wool stocks in U.S.A. to be brought into line with mill consumption, says…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sheep's Strange Diet
Billy, not goat, but a sheep,, for twelve years lived around the home in, and out of the shop of Mr. Les Cooper, of South Marulan. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sheep Markets Rising
The recent improvement in seasonal conditions has had a decided effect on the sheep markets, and with the sustained bidding at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Notes and News Braidwood Wool
The A.M.L. & P. Co., Ltd. report having sold the following district clips in their sale in Sydney on 16th December, 1948:âHN/D. from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bright Wool Outlook Consumption Exceeding Production
Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:— The outlook for the second half of the Australian wool selling season is promising. Great Britain and the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cattle for Footballs
“ A full-sized match ball takes two and a half square feet of leather. The best balls are made from English cow-hide and they're…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Values Very Firm
There was strong and widespread competition at the Brisbane wool sales yesterday, reports Winchcombe, Carson Limited. Values were very firm on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Notes and News Special Sheep Sale
Attention is directed to the special sale to beheld at Braidwood by Farmers & Graziers on Friday next, 21st January, when 2500 good quality sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Metal Detecting in Cattle
A metal detector used extensively during the war is now proving its peace-time value by helping in the problem of tracing metal and other substances swallowed by cattle while grazing. Dr. Eugen Kormendy, famous Hungariam veterinary Professor is now in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WOOL 1948 & 1949 Prices arid Stocks
Wool values show good prospects of continuing on attractive levels this season. Prices for Bradford tops give a sound indication of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool 1948 and 1949 Prices and Stocks
Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:—Wool values show good prospects of continuing on attractive levels this season. Prices for Bradford tops give…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dairy Herds Will Soon Be a Novelty-———
“Very soon, on present appearance a good dairy in this district will be a novelty,” declared the Stock Inspector (Mr. F. Hildred) at Wednesday's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Desert Turned Into Farmland
A rush of applicants for land in the 90-Mile Desert of South Australia has resulted from the Successful soil experiments carried out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Herds Will Soon Be a Novelty
"Very soon, on present appearances, a good dairy in this district will be a novelty," declared the Stock Inspector (Mr. P. Hildred) at last meeting of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£450 Millions for Britain's Farming Expansion Rapid Increase in Output of Agricultural Machinery
During the next four years, £450 millions sterling will be invested in Britain’s farms. This is the figure given in the Government’s interim report on Britain's share in the European Economic Co-operation plan…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmers’ and Smallholders' All-purpose Tractor
The Public Health and Municipal Engineering Congress and . Exhibition was recently held at Olympia, London. At the Exhibition, were many interesting exhibits, including this “Gunsmith” tractor that can be used for hoeing, spraying, cutting, hedging, and many…
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