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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1954

374 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 12 of 19

Dispersal of J.0. Wool Profits

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 20 August 1954 · page 4

The final dispersal of J.O. wool profits would probably be made in March or April of the current financial year, the Minister for Commerce…

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World Demand As New Wool Season Afproaches

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 20 August 1954 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report:— With less than a fortnight before the opening auctions of the 1954-55 Australian wool season, stores are now actively…

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T.B. Testing of Cattle Shire Council Protests Against New System

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 20 August 1954 · page 2

At last Shire meeting a letter was read from the Dept. of Agriculture re T.B. testing of cattle. It was stated that in future this would be done by…

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College Teams in Radio Farm Debate

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 August 1954 · page 2

The grand final of the ABC’s 1954 series of inter-agricultural college debates will be broadcast in The Land and Its People…

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Sheep with Cattle. Cotton's View

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 27 August 1954 · page 4

It would pay many sheep farmers to run beef cattle with their sheep on improved pastures, said Mr. R. C. Cotton yesterday…

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First Wool Series Increase in Wool Production

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 27 August 1954 · page 1

The 1954/55 wool selling season will open in Sydney on Monday, August 30th. Sixty-five thousand bales will be offered during the first series…

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Radio Talk on Footrot in Sheep

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 27 August 1954 · page 4

Fred Widdows will discuss preventative and curative measures in the control of footrot in sheep with a district Veterinary Officer of the…

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Wool Sales to Start Next Week

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 27 August 1954 · page 4

Next week’s first offerings of the new wool season will be very representative of the earlier shearing districts of the State and most wools…

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A Serious Complaint Impounded Sheep Without Water of Feed? Lambing Ewes Die

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 27 August 1954 · page 1

A serious [?] was made at last shire meeting regarding [?] [?]ty to [?], which, if [?] will [?]bly have [?]…

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Junior Farmer Told Meeting of Overseas Trip

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 27 August 1954 · page 3

Guest speaker at the Queanbeyan Junior Farmer Club’s monthly meeting on Wednesday night was Miss Felicity Gownig, a Junior Farmer…

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Opening of Wool Sales

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 31 August 1954 · page 4

The first sale comprises wool fr[?] early shearing districts and uns[?] wool from last season, reports N.Z[?] This Company's first catalogue [?]…

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Wool Down at Opening Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 31 August 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—Wool prices were 5 to 7½ per cent, lower, compared with Sydney closing rates of June when. Dalgety’s opened the…

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Commercial Possibilities for Intensive Hand Feeding of Sheep

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 31 August 1954 · page 4

Commercial possibilities exist for the growing and fattening of sheep by intensive hand feeding, Dr. G. L. McClymont, special veterinary research…

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Cattle Trek

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 3 September 1954 · page 2

The Bairnsdale "Advertiser" reports the trek of one of the largest mobs of aged bullocks to travel from Monaro to Bairnsdale. The draft numbers 982…

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When Cattle Was Chattel

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 3 September 1954 · page 4

In the course of a fact-finding excursion into the history and origin of cattle, it is interesting to note that the word cattle, which in its common…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 3 September 1954 · page 4

Wincbcombe, Carson, wired us on Tuesday:—We sold 11.750 bales of wool at auction and privately at our Sydney wool sale today. Competition…

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Sheep Block for Soldier Settler

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 September 1954 · page 4

A 2017-acre sheep breeding and woolgrowing block near Tullamoret will be open for application on Monday, September 6, under…

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Optimistic on Wool Values

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 September 1954 · page 4

Now that the new wool selling season has opened, many of the questions and speculations as to the market level will soon be…

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Science and Wool Prodduction

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 September 1954 · page 1

The importance of scientific wool measurement in raising output is emphasised by Miss Helen Newton Turner (Principal Reserch…

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Opening Wool Sales—1954-55

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 3 September 1954 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report:— Now that the new selling season has opened, many of the questions and speculations as to the market level will…

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