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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1954

374 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 9 of 19

Tharwa Junior Farmers To Attend “School”

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 2

Reuben Tyric and Ted Green, members of the Tharwa Junior Farmers’ Club, have been selected to attend the annual school…

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Young Farmers Had Intersting Camp at Lanyon Station

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 2

THE ONLY JUDGING COMPETITION HELD DURING THE FOUR-DAYS CAMP OF JUNIOR FARMERS AT LANYON STATION WAS WON BY RUEBEN TYRIE OF THARWA JUNIOR FARMER CLUB,…

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Radio Talk on Cattle in North

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 4

Mr. J. Malcolm Newman, who is not only recognised as a leading authority on northern cattle breeding, but is also prominent in…

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Start Feeding Sheep Early Graziers Told

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 4

The importance of commencing [?]of sheep early, before they have lost condition and strength, was emphasised by the…

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Close of 1953-1954 Wool Season Market Still Firm

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report:— With the wool trade nearing the final week of the 1953-54 selling season in Australia, buyers are still finding that…

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Dept. Trials Triple Wool Production Vast Potential for Improved Methods

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 3

Experiments undertaken by the Department of Agriculture have shown that it is possible to triple wool production over millions of acres of the…

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Wool Prices Firm

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 June 1954 · page 4

Sydney, Friday—Winchcombe Carson Ltd report:—We sold 7850 bales of wool at auction and privately at the closing sales of the…

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Wool Market Firm

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 June 1954 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, wired us on Friday:—We sold 7850 bales of wool at auction and privately in the closing sales of the season yesterday. The…

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Wool Sales at Brisbane This Week

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 June 1954 · page 2

Wool auctions were resumed in Sydney on Tuesday, June 22nd, when the eighteenth and final series of sales for the 1953/54 season in this centre…

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Film Night for Young Farmers

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 June 1954 · page 4

Queanbeyan Junior Farmers had a film showing at their monthly meeting at the Showground last Wednesday…

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American Advertising of Wool

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report:— With this week's auctions in Brisbane, Geelong and Perth, the 1953-54 Australian wool selling season ends. Apart…

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Dry Season Forced Sale of More Cattle

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 4

Seasonal conditions now in the Goulburn and surrounding districts were the worst in his experience, an executive of a pastoral…

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Farm Tragedy Man Killed When Tractor Overturns Pinked Under Heavy Machine

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

Braidwood district was shocked on Tuesday when word was received that one of its best-known residents, Mr. Martin Galligan, of "The Springs…

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Fat Cattle to £53 at Qbn Sale

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 July 1954 · page 4

Woodgers & Calthorpe Limited and W. J. Gibbs & Co. report a fir market at the fortnightly stock sal held in the Queanbeyan saleyard…

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Tb Testing of Cattle Free

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 July 1954 · page 4

T.B. testing of cattle will be carried out in Queanbeyan as usual this year, although a charge of £10 per 100 head of cattle will…

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Wool Values Firm at Brisbane

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 July 1954 · page 3

N.Z.L. reports:—During the past week wool auctions were held at Brisbane. It was originally intended that the sales would extend over four…

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Optimistic About Outlook for Wool

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 July 1954 · page 4

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: The level of the wool market at the closing sales in Australia last week maintained the steady [?]…

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Closing Values, Australian Wool Auctions

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 July 1954 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report:— The level of the wool market at the closing Sales in Australia last week maintained the steady tenor of the…

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Heavy Lag in Farm Material Supply

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 July 1954 · page 3

The supply of most—steel products required for the farm has deteriorated very markedly in the last six months. In a report on the machinery and…

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Farming in NT

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 July 1954 · page 4

Mr. W. Nixon-Smith, a Northern Territory agricultural officer, speaks on Agriculture in the Northern Territory in the Country Hour on…

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