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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1956

115 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 5 of 6

Unclean Sheep Are Rejected

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 August 1956 · page 2

Sydney Fat Stock Salesmen are encountering difficulty in selling consignments of sheep which are in unclean…

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This Week in Wool Suez May Cause Heavier Buying Values Firm at New Season’s First Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 August 1956 · page 4

First wool sales of the new season have opened in New Zealand where at [?] Napier and Dunedin moderate offerings mostly of crossbred crutchings have confirmed the strength of world demand at values firm on closing rates of last…

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T. B. Testing of Cattle

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 August 1956 · page 4

All calls over he age of six months in Queanbeyan Municipality will be tested for T.B. on Tuesday [?]…

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Wool Market at Firm level

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 August 1956 · page 4

Winchcombe Carson Ltd report having sold 10,200 bales of two at auction and [?] in Sydney on [?]…

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New Season Wool at £88 Bale Average

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 September 1956 · page 4

Strong opening of the new season’s wool market has had a much-needed tonic effect on sagging confidence in the…

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Sheep Skin Auction in Goulburn

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 September 1956 · page 1

The Farmers & Graziers’, Goulburn, held their monthly sheep skin auction on Tuesday a strong demand…

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N.s.w. Junior Farmer Selected for Perth

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 September 1956 · page 2

Miss Ruth Jarrott, of the Bribaree Junior Farmers’ Club, has been selected to represent N.S.W. Junior Farmers at the Perth Royal Show from 6th to 11th October, 1956…

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Store Cattle were Firm at Goulburn

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 September 1956 · page 6

Farmers & Graziers’ Co-op. Co. Ltd. Conducted their special spring cattle sale at Goulburn on September 13…

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This Week in Wool Wool Prices at Highest Peak for Two Years

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 September 1956 · page 6

Wool values continued to harden this week in Sydney, Geelong and, London and there is world-wide confidence that prices are firmly based…

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Tharwa Junior Farmers’ Show

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 September 1956 · page 2

Tharwa Junior Farmers will conduct their show on Queanbeyan showground on December 1…

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Butter Cup

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 September 1956 · page 1

Yarraview Golden Daffodil the most famous living Guernsey cow in Australia, has aggregated 7,389 lb of butter fat…

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Wheat and Weeds

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 October 1956 · page 1

N.S.W. wheat and wool farmers will lose more than £1,000,000 of this season’s yields unless they begin to…

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New Method of Improving Beef Cattle

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 October 1956 · page 1

Special Veterinary Officer of the the Department of Agriculture (Mr. Lloyd G. Williams) who recently visited…

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This Week in Wool Will the High Prices Last?

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 October 1956 · page 4

At sales this week in Newcastle Melbourne and Perth, wool prices continued their gains for all qualities with Merinos at the highest level for two years although comebacks and crossbreds still have a few pence to pick up…

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8,900 Wool Bales Sold

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 October 1956 · page 4

Winchcombe Carson sold [?]0 8,900 bales of wool at auction ;and privately in Sydney last week…

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Flood-proof Fence for Farmers

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 October 1956 · page 4

The Department of Agriculture has announced that there is now a special flood-proof type of fence available;…

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Epidemic Fears Expressed by Aiderman Some District Cattle Not Tested for T. B

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 October 1956 · page 1

At least five head of cattle were not submitted examination at the bovine tuberculosis tests carried out in Queanbeyan recently, the Health Inspector (Mr. R. L. Howlett) told the week’s meeting of the Municipal…

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Single-unit Farm Review

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 October 1956 · page 4

The Minister for lands (Mr. R. B. Nott) was asked recently [?]review the procedure of ingle-unit farm acquisition…

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farmers’ Visit to Queanbeyan

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 October 1956 · page 3

A party of Junior Farmers from the Newcastle district will be visiting Queanbeyan next month…

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Jun. Farmers’ Tour Contest

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 October 1956 · page 4

Mr. Stanley J. Kingham, of “Daisy Glen,” Tichborne, winner of the Junior. Farmers’ New Zealand tour contest…

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