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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1952

332 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 17

The Farmers and Gra[?] Co-operative Grain Insurance & Agency Company Ltd. 7th March, 1925. Wool Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 March 1952 · page 1

We submitted our catalogue No. 12 on Thursday, 6th Marion. The selection to a large extent consisted of late shorn clips from the Tablelands…

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Annual Show Wool (Continued from front page)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 March 1952 · page 4

Judge: Mr. H. Mills, Technical College, Goulburn. Stewards: Norman King (Chief), Jeff Grigg, C. Thorne, S. Tate…

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Wool Supply Position. a Source of Strength

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 March 1952 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd.. report:—Stronger trends in the demand for wool experienced from time to time are more attributable to fear of…

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Farms and Factories Must Both Grow Answer to Food Shortage

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 March 1952 · page 4

The way to overcome the food shortage was not to expand primary production while restricting secondary industries, but to expand them…

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Two Junior Farmer Schools at Yanco

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 March 1952 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. E. H. Graham; ,M.L.A., said to-day that a Junior Farmers’ School for boys would be held at…

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Goulburn Sheep Skin Sale

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 18 March 1952 · page 3

The regular Sheep Skin Auction conducted by Farmers and Graziers, Goulburn, was held on Tuesday, llth March. A very good catalogue of 5500…

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Price of Butter

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 March 1952 · page 2

Butter would be 10/- a pound in New South Wales toy the end of the Tear unless the Federal Government subsidised dairy fanners, the Macleay…

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Wool Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 March 1952 · page 4

On Thursday, 8th March, New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., brought forward a catalogue to tailing 8,033 bales. The selection was…

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World Cattle Herds in Per[?]

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 March 1952 · page 1

World livestock herds are gravely threatened by foot-and-month disease, warned Professor Gaston Ramon, Director of the Pasteur Institute in Paris…

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Wool and Top Prices Boom and Current Figures

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 March 1952 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:—At this time last year wool prices were on phenomenal levels. Average 64's merino tops were then quoted at…

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In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Bread and Butter Worries

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 March 1952 · page 2

Bread and butter budgeting is still occupying Ministerial minds. Drastic dramatic import cuts along lines frequently forecast here have been…

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Distinction for Local Junior Farmers

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 March 1952 · page 2

Among the Junior. Farmers selected to attend the Sydney Royal Show Camp and Junior Farmers’ Day are Mavis Gibbs of Queanbeyan and…

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District Sheep

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 March 1952 · page 2

Mr. R. P. Edmonds, Bungendore, secured 73/1 for 37 crossbred hoggets. 55/1 for 26 xbred suckers and 38/1 per head for 43 wethers at Winchcombe…

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Surplus Sheep Sale

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 March 1952 · page 2

At “London Bridge” woolshed yards on Thursday next, at 2.30 p.m., a special sale of [?] sheep will be conducted by [?] & Calthorpe…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 March 1952 · page 2
Also in Queanbeyan Age

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., wired us on Wednesday:—We sold 700 bales of wool at auction and privately in Sydney on Tuesday to good general…

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Cattle Perish in N. T. Drought

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 March 1952 · page 2

More than 1000 prime beef cattle have already died as a result of the Northern Territory drought. The drought is the most severe in the…

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The Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Grain Insurance & Agency Company Ltd. 25th March, 1952. Wool Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 March 1952 · page 3

We submitted, a catalogue of 3,336 bales on Monday, 24th instant. The selection was drawn mainly from the late shearing districts, more especially…

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Wool and Other Fibres. General Textile Decrease

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 March 1952 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:—Wool is not the only textile fibre which has experienced reduced consumption. The amount of cotton…

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Wool Jacket Dresses Return As a Suit As a Dress

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 March 1952 · page 4

Peter Russell designed the Jacket dress of woven jersey in beige and brown pin stripes; tailored but femine, the ensemble dos duty as a suit and has the longer, fitting Jacket seen in later co [?] and four [?]uttoned patch pockets. The dress has a straight [?] a panel…

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