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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1950

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Sheep Drenching Mortalities Some Precautions When Using Carson Tetrachloride

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 1 September 1950 · page 4

The heavy sheep mortalities sometimes sustained by graziers after drenching their flocks with tetrachloride against liver fluke are still…

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The New Wool Levy Reasons for the "Grab."

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 1 September 1950 · page 1

This is how a writer in the Sydney "Bulletin" sums up the position:— The Federal Government's proposal to make a compulsory levy on the…

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Tax on Wool Urged

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 5 September 1950 · page 1

Sir Douglas Copland, Vice-Chanllor or the Australian National University, suggests that an export tax of 33 1-3 per cent, should be charged…

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Sheep Stealing Rife on Monaro. £600 Reward Offered by Graziers

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 5 September 1950 · page 4

£500 reward will be offered immediately by the graders off Monaro for information leading to the conviction of any person or persons caught…

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Farming Film Wins International Distinction

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 September 1950 · page 4

A British dacumentary film produced [?] t[?]e Central Office of Information was awarded a first prize at [?] International Exhibition of…

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Wool Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 1
Also in Queanbeyan Age

We submitted a cataiogus of 5.400 bales drawn mainly from the Central and far-Western Rive[?] and the North-Western Plaint. For the most…

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Synthetic and Natural Wool

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 4

Soaring wool prices again raise the question whether substitutes can be found for the sheep's stage…

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Spectacular Rise in Wool Values

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 3

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:— At the opening sales of the 1950/51 wool selling season in Sydney on August 25…

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Who Makes Wool Valves? Present Market Aspects

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:— The extraordinary rise in the wool market even gave surprise to some of the optimists. Values for the raw…

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The Wool Scheme Graziers' General Secretary Explains Working

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 8 September 1950 · page 1

At a recent meeting of the Young branch of the Graziers' Association, called for the purpose of hearing an Informative address on the Post J.O…

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Important Cattle Sale

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 September 1950 · page 2

Attention is drawn to Goldsbrough. Mort's special spring cattle sale at Goulburn on Thursday. 28th September. when 1500, outstandingly…

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Wool Stocks "Tight." Smaller Cotton Crop

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 September 1950 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:— The strength of the wool supply position from consumers' viewpoint is best Illustrated by the fact that stocks of…

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Fluke in Sheep Losses Heavy This Year

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 September 1950 · page 4

The District Veterinary Offirer, Mr. S. L. Black, whose headquarters are at Goulburn, writes:— “Many owners in this district have…

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Farmers' View on 40-Hour Week

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 September 1950 · page 2

Strong comment, was indulged in when the Raymond Terrace branch of the Primary Producer's Union discussed the effects of the 40-hour…

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Junior Farmers’ Schools

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 September 1950 · page 4

The Minister for Agriculture (the Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A.), announced last week that he had decided to hold a school for Junior…

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Wool and its Critics Pastoral Prosperity Varies

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 September 1950 · page 2

The New York Futures Top Market covering parcels delivery a short time ahead reached 300 cents per lb., a record figure and 80 per cent,…

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Attractive Sheep

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 19 September 1950 · page 2

Buyers of good quality sheep are reminded not to miss the important sale at Goulburn on Tuesday, 26th September, when New Zealand Loan…

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Wool Prices Reach All-time High

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 September 1950 · page 4

Wool auctions were resumed in Sydney on Monday, September 11, [?] the second series of sales for the current season in this centre…

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Farmers and Graziers' Record Sale £9/15/- for Yard of Wethers

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 19 September 1950 · page 4

Farmers and Graders report: At the special sheep sale held at Goulburn on Tuesday last, over 7000 local[?] bred sheep were penned. With the…

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