Car Kills Cattle
Yesterday, while' Mr. Norman Blundell was driving- a mob of 70 cattle towards Araluen a motor car ran-into the cattle…
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Farming & the land, 1951
333 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 8 of 17
Wool Sales
Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:— We sold 7,500 bales of wool at our closing. Sydney auction on Thursday. Values for merinos and crossbreds…
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The final Sydney series for 1950-51 wool season opened on Monday under widespread competition, chiefly from Great Britain and the Continent…
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New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:—The U.S. Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations estimates world sheep population at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Is Dutch "Milk Wool" Practicable?"
A wool fibre made directly from skimmed milk is being manufactured, in Holland, according to an Edinburgh journal. Chemically, the process is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →World's Wool Use. Merino and Crossbred Cups
Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:—A British authority at the recent International Wool Conference estimated that 1950 world consumption of virgin…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Wool Plan Strongly Opposed by Braidwood District Graziers
There was a large attendance at the meeting in the Institute on Saturday afternoon convened by Mr. R. T. Hassall, President of the Braidwood branch…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Airlift
The butter airlift from Victoria .has doubled within a week Sydney people rationed to 4 oz a week, are getting it in parcels,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Basically Sound Confidence Needed
Although prices for wool at June auctions were higher than those ruling at closing sales a year ago, the market did not show the fully…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cattle Sale Postponed
As a result of the heavy rain New Zealand Loan and Mercantile. Agency found it compulsory to postpone their big special Braidwood cattle sale until…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Chiffon and Lace
Angele Delanghe dreamt up the angelic evening dress made of bitter sweet pink wool chiffon and exquisite gold Brussels lace over…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Basically Sound. Confidence Needed
Winchcombe, Carson. Ltd., report:—Although prices for wool at June auctions were higher than those ruling at closing sales a year ago, the market…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farmers and Graziers Co-operative Grain Insurance & Agency Company Ltd. 22nd June, 1951 Wool Report
At the concluding round of auctions in the Sydney market which opened on Monday. the 18th instant, while widespread competition, mainly from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Decline in Wheat Acreages New South Wales Largely Responsible
Since the post-war peak of 13,880,000 acres was reached in the 1947-48 season, areas sown to wheat in Australia have steadily declined, writes P. C. Druce, Economics Research Officer, of the Department of Agriculture, in the June issue of “The Agricultural Gazette, of N.S.W.”…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Record Prices at Gundagai Cattle Sale
last week's cattle sale at Gundagai was the best ever held locally, reports the "Independent" Over 2,000 bead or fat and store cattle were yarded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Averages £183 Per Bale
At the final series of sales for the 1950-51 wool year, held last month, New Zealand Loan and M.A. Co. Ltd. brought forward a catalogue totalling…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Trade Aspects Raw Material Position
The wool market has suffered from the height it reached three months ago. Time has proved that traders could not pass increased costs on to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Open Season For Destroying Wood Ducks Heavy Damage to Crops and Pastures
In view of the serious damage being done to pastures and crops in various parts of the State by enormous numbers of wood ducks, Country Party…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep at Sixpence Each
News that ordinary sheep have changed hands at from 210 to £14 each makes old timers think, says a writer in a Sydney weekly. Back In the days…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Notes and News Special Cattle Sale
Many of the lines of cattle to be yarded at New Zealand Loan's sale at Braidwood on Saturday next, July 7, have been specially reserved for this…
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