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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1956

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

115½d. Top Wool Price

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 October 1956 · page 4

A top price of 115½ pence was secured by Winchcombe Carson at the wool sales in Sydney last week,…

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High Prices at Goulburn Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 November 1956 · page 4

The current wool selling season opened, in Goulburn on October 24 when Farmers & Graziers’ offered a catalogue…

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Junior Farmers’ Annual Show

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 November 1956 · page 2

Tharwa Junior Farmers’ Club will hold its sixth Annual Show on Saturday, December 6 on the Queanbeyan…

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Wartime Atmosphere at Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 November 1956 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday: A wartime atmosphere pervaded Sydney wool sales to-day when competition for best fine…

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Feverish Demand Still Hardening the Wool Market

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 November 1956 · page 5

A hardening tendency continued in Sydney wool sales on Wednesday when cumulative rise for week reached between…

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Good Husbandry-Farm Management Minister Addresses Conference on Weeds

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 November 1956 · page 5

The Minister for Agriculture and Minister for Food Production (Mr. E. H. Graham, M.L.A.) said last week that good husbandry and efficient farm management were of…

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Schute Bell Wool Sale

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 November 1956 · page 2

Competition at the Schute Bell, Badgery, Lumby Ltd. wool sale on Wednesday was widespread, with keen…

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This Week in Wool Market Calm As Tension Eass

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 November 1956 · page 4

With commendable restraint in the face of provocative buying for Iron Curtain countries, buyers at Sydney wool sales and at Geelong cleared the catalogues without causing more than a very slight hardening in wool values…

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Goulburn Sales Amaze World Buyers Southern Tablelands Wool Creates Record

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 November 1956 · page 4

Goulburn and district wool growers and local agents shocked Australian and overseas wool interests with a sensational series of last week In which the world record price was broken five times…

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Barber’s Pole Worm Causing Sheep Loss

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 December 1956 · page 4

“During the, last three weeks, deaths in sheep have occurred on several properties result of heavy Barbers’ Pole Worm infestation in the Goulburn and Braidwood…

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Judges Praise Tharwa Junior Farmess’ Show

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 December 1956 · page 4

This show is a credit to the Tharwa Club and one of the biggest Junior enterprises in the state ,” the state president of the Council of Junior Farmers (Mr. Frank McTackett) said on Saturday…

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Junior Farmer Girls at Homemaking Course

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 December 1956 · page 3

I know it may be a tall order, but it is up to you to make country living more attractive ”Mrs. H. Crisp told girls from Southern Tablelands Junior Farmer Clubs on Wednesday. Mrs. Crisp who broadcasts…

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Bloat in Cattle is a Seasonal Disease

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 December 1956 · page 4

Although the bloat season is usually a short one, this disease is most troublesome can cause much anxiety and may result in economic loss to the farmer said Mr. George J. Skillman District Veterinary Officer Goulburn today…

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Sydney Wool Auction Report

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 December 1956 · page 4

At Sydney on the 26th November, Pitt Son & Badgery offered a well balanced catalogue covering a large range…

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This Week in Wool Wool Prices May Be at Peak

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 December 1956 · page 5

Inflationary influences in the wool market which have over recent weeks stemmed from the Middle East tension, are now being counter-balanced by an improvement in the international outlook and more…

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