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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1954

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Sheep Dips Killing Fish

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 January 1954 · page 1

A report from Mr R. Krchner of Tharwa that dead trout were being found in the Goodradigbee and Murrumbidgee Rivers…

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Poulton Case Wool Profits go to Growers

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 January 1954 · page 2

Judgement, given last week, by the Full Court in what has become known as the Poulton Case, means that the Wool Realisation…

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Steady Wool Market Reported

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 3

The conclusion of the first half of the Sydney wool selling season brings to a close one of the steadiest marketing periods for many years,…

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Prices Unchanged at Wool Safes

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 January 1954 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.— Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report:—We sold. 11,000 bales at auction and privately at our Sydney wool sale…

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New Year Wool Sales Prospects Encouraging

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1954 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:— Wool sales continue in recess, New Tear sales not being scheduled to commence until Monday, January 11,…

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Farm Expert Slates Fire Lighters

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 January 1954 · page 1

“Despite the tremendous amount of publicity given to fire prevention, there still appears to be a large number of people prepared…

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Targhee Sheep

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 1

The same scientific breeding that put Targhee sheep on American western ranges, to meet a special need of wool and mutton growers, now points…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., wired us on Tuesday:—We sold 11,000 bales of wool by auction and privately at our Sydney sale on Monday. There was…

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Price Cutting in Synthetics Wool's Position

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:— That price cutting would eventuate in the United States amongst manufacturers of synthetics was only to be…

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Bank Help for Junior Farmers

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 19 January 1954 · page 2

The Bank of New South Wales has announced its programme of financial support for the Junior Farmer Movement in N.S.W. during 1954…

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Big Sheep Sale

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 2

Special attention is drawn to the quality of the yarding at the special Sale at Goulburn on Tuesday, 26th January, when Goldsbrough Mort and…

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Wool Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 1

The first catalogues for the second of the selling season were submitted in Sydney on Monday, the 11th instant, were upwards of 17,000 bales…

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Wool Report

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 3

On Tuesday, 14th January, New Zealand loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. brought forward a catalogue totalling 6,888 bales. The selection in…

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Brisbane Wool Sales

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 1

The ninth series of sales, or the first for the second half of the 1953/ 54 wool selling season opened in Sydney last week, January 11th. On the…

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U.s. Wool Tariff. No Change Proposed

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:— The statement by the United States Secretary of Agriculture on behalf of the Elsenhower Administration, that…

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Sheep Guessing Competition

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 2

A great deal of interest Was created at the Show rodeo on Saturday in the live weight-guessing of a fat sheep, kindly loaned by Mr. Ed. Bunn, sen.,…

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Goulburn Wool Sales Medium and Fine Wools Show Rise

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 3

At the fourth series of Goulburn [?] sales conducted by Farmers and [?] on 2Oth/21st. January, the market for crossbred wools and all…

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How War History Was Written Official Team Worked 6 Years at Sheep Station

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 2

Years spent at Tuggranong Station homestead writing several volumes of the official history of World War I were recalled by Mr AW. Bazley in a talk to Queanbeyan Rotary Club last week…

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Good Prices for Local Clips How District Wool Sold at Goulburn

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 4

Many ACT and Queanbeyan district clips were included in the fourth series of Goulburn wool sales conducted by Farmers and Graziers Co-op Co. Ltd. last week…

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Farm Scarcities Fading Record Outputs

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 4

Record amounts of fencing wire, galvanised iron and steel fence posts were made in the year to June 30th last, announces the Federal Liberal…

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