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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1954

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Big Survey of Sheep and Wool Industry

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 July 1954 · page 4

An economic survey of the sheep and wool industry being undertaken by the Commonwealth Bureau of Agricultural Economics…

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Sheep Quality by Measurement

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 July 1954 · page 4

Appraising .Sheep Quality by Measurement is the subject of-a talk by Miss Helen Newton-Turner, Principal Research Officer at the ,…

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Vitamin A in Supplementary Feed for Sheep

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 July 1954 · page 4

Increasing interest in the use of Vitamin A supplementary for sheep, particularly with in lamb ewes was reported by the cooma…

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Faulty Feeding May Kill Sheep in Drought Time

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 16 July 1954 · page 4

Graziers should remember that starvation it not the only cause from which sheep die to time of drought, points out Mr. F. W…

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Wool Production and a Widening Demand

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 16 July 1954 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report:— At the recent Annual Meeting of the Australian Wool Growers' Council and the National Council of Wool Selling…

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U.s. Campaign for Wool Promotion

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 16 July 1954 · page 3

A high-pressure advertising compaign to promote the use of wool in the United States will begin in August. The campaign will be sponsored by…

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Store Stock Market Sheep Values Respond to Northern Rain

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 July 1954 · page 4

Rain unexpectedly developed in Central and Southern Queensland last weekend and extended INTO Northern N.S.W. to as far south…

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Macleay Dairy Farmer Saved £50 a Month by Improving Pastures

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 16 July 1954 · page 3

Macleay dairy farmers, especially those on the lower river reaches, would do well to study improved pasture demonstrations on Mr. P. J. Riddell's…

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"Common Owned by Farmers and Dealers"

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 20 July 1954 · page 4

The Minister for Lands has approved of the revocation of an area of 265 acres of Bega common. Formerly the common comprised 448 acres, having…

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Govt. Accused of Apathy to Farming

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 July 1954 · page 6

“A statement by the N.S.W. Minister for Lands (Mr. Hawkins), to the recent N.S.W. Labor Party conference may give the Cahill…

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Wool Cheque of £300 Million

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 July 1954 · page 4

With a cheque for £390 million Australian woolgrowers closed their books last week for the third richest season in wool’s…

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Big Crop of Sub Clover

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 July 1954 · page 3

Enough certified subterranean clover seed has been produced in the Southern Agricultural Region in the season just ended to sow…

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London Wool Sales

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 July 1954 · page 4

Although rain has been widespread over most of New South Wales recently, falls have been generally only light to moderate. Good rains are still…

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Yass Sheep are Holding Condition

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 July 1954 · page 3

Sheep in the Yass Pastures Protection District are mostly in fair to good condition, and were holding remarkably well, Stock Inspector…

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Here and There Praise for "Glendaruel" Cattle

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 July 1954 · page 2

Flattering comment was made by a Commonwealth meat inspector recently at Goulburn on the quality of cattle bred and fattened by Mr. R. T. Hassall…

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Store Stock Markets Slackening Demand For Sheep

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 July 1954 · page 4

Lack of ram to assure the spring has now brought a slackening tendency to the store sheep market and this trend is extending into…

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New Season’s Wool Outlook

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 July 1954 · page 4

Early July shearings are now reaching Sydney and Newcastle stores, and if this rate of receivals is maintained, sufficient quantities…

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The Approaching New Wool Season

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 July 1954 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report:—Early July shearings are now reaching Sydney and Newcastle stores, and if this rate of receivals is maintained,…

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OVER £6m. for Season’s Wool at Goulburn

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 July 1954 · page 4

A record quantity of wool, 57,832 bales, was sold, at Goulburn for a total of £6,155,314/10/9 during the 1953-54 season…

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Cattle Need Drenching for Fluke Control

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 August 1954 · page 4

One of the first things to impress Ccoma's new Stock Inspector, Mr. Michael Robinson, is that while local stockowners are awake to the need…

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