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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1954

374 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 16 of 19

Speed-up Sought Cattle Payment Delays

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

An appeal has been made in the N.S.W. Parliament for removal of delays in inspections of diseased stock under the Cattle Compensation Act…

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Branding of Sheep

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 26 October 1954 · page 1

If branding off shears is necessary, it is important that a scourable branding fluid be used. The L.B.E. (lanoline base emulsion) type of branding fluid…

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World Wool Demand and Russia's Needs

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 29 October 1954 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report:— Last week's wool market indicated that the slight weakness in the demand at the earlier sales was not to continue…

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Wool Report Values Firm at N.Z.L's Second Newcastle Sale

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 29 October 1954 · page 4

During the past week auctions have been conducted at Newcastle where on Tuesday, October 19th, the second series of sales for the present season…

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Sydney Wool Sale

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 2 November 1954 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., wired us on Friday:-We sold 9700 bales of wool at auction and privately in Sydney yesterday. There was good competition…

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One Way to Preserve Butter

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 2 November 1954 · page 3

When the North. Coast Steam Navigation Co.'s passenger ship "Wollongbar" was torpedoed off Port Macquarie about 11 years ago, during the war,…

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Vitamin A Requirements of Sheep

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 2 November 1954 · page 4

Vitamin A supplements can be very, valuable when given to sheep in the right circumstances. However, reports indicate that graziers may be wasting…

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Filmed Wool Industry in Act

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 November 1954 · page 1

WOOL INDUSTRY sequences on Mr. F. Sim Bennet’s property, Kambah, were filmed on Sunday by the newly formed Australian…

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"Shoot at Sight" Order by Cobar Grazier for Sh Sheep Thieves

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 2 November 1954 · page 4

A grazier et Cobar is giving guns to his rouseabouts to catch sheep stealers, who have cost him hundreds or pounds…

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Will Zenith Sheep Be The Greatest in Australia? Few Graziers Have Heard of Them

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 2 November 1954 · page 4

A new breed of sheep, called the Zenith, is being hailed as becoming probably Australia's greatest, by a breeder, Mr. G. W. Hogg, of "Truro,"…

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New Sheep Breed ‘Good Woolcutter’

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 November 1954 · page 4

A new breed of sheep, called the Zenith, was exhibited competitively for the first time at the recent Albury show…

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Wool Lace Cocktail Frock

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 5 November 1954 · page 4

This beautiful hand-knitted wool face ballet length cocktail frock in midnight blue comes from Madeleine and has a matching stole…

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Will Use Guns on Sheep Thieves

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 November 1954 · page 4

A Cobar grazier has given guns to his stationhands to catch sheep stealers, who have cost him hundreds of pounds…

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U.s. Wool Support Scheme

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 5 November 1954 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report: While wool values last week in Sydney did not show any material alteration— competition appears to be widening…

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World's Biggest Sheep Station COVERS 2,000,000 ACRES

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 5 November 1954 · page 3

Australia possesses something like 125,000,000 sheep, and hundreds of sheep stations—some large and some small. She also possesses…

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Junior Farmer Getting Ready for Tharwa Show

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 November 1954 · page 4

Members of the Tharwa Junior Farmers Club are in the final stages of arrangements for their fourth annual show on November…

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Sheep Thieves Ear-tattooing As a Check

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 9 November 1954 · page 2

A system of tattooing sheep's ears is being investigated by the Graziers" Association of N.S.W. an a possible deterrent to sheep stealing…

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Budding Inspector in Bother Threatened by Farmer "Big and All As You Are, I Ought to Knock You Down"

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 9 November 1954 · page 1

"Big and all as you are, I ought to knock you down," Waugoola Shire Council's Building Inspector was told when he west to question a Broula…

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Rams for Men on War. Settlement Farms

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 9 November 1954 · page 1

Seventy merino flock rams nave been donated to men on war service land settlement forms by Freehold and Leasehold Lands (Ply.) Ltd…

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Sheep in America

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 November 1954 · page 2

Mr. Digby: Crozier, a Victorian grazier, compares sheen breeding and production methods in Australia in his Country Hour, talk…

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