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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1955

187 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 6 of 10

Sheep Firm at Goulburn Sale

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 June 1955 · page 5

Goldsbrough Mort & Co. Ltd. report values generally were very firm and occasionally slightly higher particularly for second grade sheep at…

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Sheep and Ducks Killed by Foxes

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 June 1955 · page 4

With no rabbits to live on, foxes are killing sheep in the Yass district and ducks in the town, the Yass P.P. Board was told at its…

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Poison Danger To Sheep Grazing on Oats

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 June 1955 · page 4

A warning of the danger of nittrate poisoning of sheep grazing on oat crops was issued today by the District Agronomist at…

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Junior Farmer at Hawkesbury School

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 June 1955 · page 4

Canberra Junior Farmer J. T. Harding is attending the annual school of instruction at Hawkesbury Agricultural College…

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More ACT Sheep Killed by Dogs

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 June 1955 · page 2

More sheep losses by glaziers on the outskirts of Canberra have been reported despite the destruction of more than 30 dogs by the…

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Store Stock Market Boom Demand for Sheep and Cattle

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 July 1955 · page 4

With pastoral conditions conceeded to equal the best ever experienced in NSW in 25 years, store stock trading appeared this week…

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Noel Douglas Reports on the District Farm and Stock Outlook is Good

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 July 1955 · page 4

Reserves of soil moisture are the best for several years and, with reasonable rain during The winter and early spring, there is every possibility of the first normal Spring since 1952…

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Wool Worth £5¼m. Sold at Goulburn

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 July 1955 · page 4

Farmers and Graziers Goulburn, report another satisfactory wool selling year at that centre The firm disposed of 57,253 bales…

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Renard and the Rabbits Foxes Allies, or Killers of Sheep?

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 July 1955 · page 1

“Now that rabbits are scare. foxes are turning their attention to sheep,” Mr. Gordon Moore, of KT Flat, Queanbeyan, told the last meeting of Braidwood Pastures Protection Board…

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Few Sheep are Changing Hands

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 July 1955 · page 5

Between searon slackness again highlighted store stock markets this week when auction trading was restricted to total yardings of…

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Farmming and Stock Outlook Has Rarely Been Brighter

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 July 1955 · page 4

“Rarely has the agricultural and pastoral position been brighter at this time of the year,” said Stock Inspector F. J. Madden in a report to last meeting of Yass Pastures Protection Board…

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Store Stock Market Trading in Sheep Doubled

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 July 1955 · page 4

Store sheep auction trading was doubled this week, when yardings of about 100,000 sheep were offered mainly at Central Western,…

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Sheep Firm at Goulburn Sale

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 July 1955 · page 4

Values generally were very firm at the special sheep sale conducted by Goulbrough Mort & Co. Ltd. at Goulburn on July 14 in…

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The Week in the Store Stock Market Demand Keen for Scarce Sheep Lines

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 July 1955 · page 7

Demand for scarce top lines of station-bred sheep reached a new high level, this week. At the [?] clearing sale of 9,000 full wool sheep of Haddon Rig…

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Store Stock Marker Sheep Trading is Subdued

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 August 1955 · page 7

Another week of Quiet trading, with few auctions and restrained activity in paddock sheep sales, has underlined the contrasting…

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Birthday Party of Junior Farmer Clubs

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 August 1955 · page 2

Youthful laughter filled the Showground Pavilion on Tuesday night when the Advisory Committee of Queanbeyan Junior…

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Junior Farmers’ News Tharwa Show at Queanbeyan in December

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 August 1955 · page 5

Tharwa Junior Farmers’ Club will hold its annual Spring Show at Queanbeyan. Showground this year, on December 3…

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Store Stock Market More Sheep for Private Sale

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 August 1955 · page 4

With shearing activity becoming general in the Western Division, northwest and central west and Riverina more sheep came up for…

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Sheep Firm at Goulburn Sale

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 August 1955 · page 4

Despite the continual inclement weather over the previous week, making it impossible for owners to bring in several good lines of…

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Buovant Market for Cattle at Goulburn Sale

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 August 1955 · page 6

At a large special cattle sale held by NEW Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd at Goulburn last Tuesday over 1200…

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