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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1959

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Wool Needs Only Confidence And Promotion

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 March 1959 · page 5

“There is nothing wrong with wool confidence and sound promotion cannot cure,” Mr. Ewen Waterman said in Melbourne this week…

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District Wool Clips Sold At City Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 March 1959 · page 6

A considerable quantity of district wool was offered at city sales last week. Reports from the various…

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Sheep Skin Auction

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 March 1959 · page 5

A catalogue of 11,400 sheep skins was submitted to buyers by Farmers and Graziers, on Tuesday,…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 March 1959 · page 5

At our Sydney wool sale yesterday there was strong and widespread competition from Eastern Europe,…

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Good Clearance At Goulburn Sheep Sale

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 March 1959 · page 5

Goldsbrough Mort & Co. Ltd., report having conducted a special sheep sale at the Goulburn saleyards,…

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Firm Market For All Types At Goulburn Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 March 1959 · page 5

The sixth series of Goulburn wool sales for the current season were held on Wednesday and Thursday, March 18 and 19, when Farmers and Graziers’…

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District Wool Sold In Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 April 1959 · page 6

[?] Bell, Badgery Lumby Ltd. report that at their sale 13 and 13a catalogues comprised of the best…

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Junior Farmers Wed At Christ Church

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 April 1959 · page 3

Christ Church, Queanbeyan, was attractively decorated with Easter daisies and dahlias.for the marriage of two popular Junior Farmers last Saturday, when…

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Wool Up 5 to 7½% at Yesterday’s Sales SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 April 1959 · page 2

Dalgety’s reported all wools 5 to 7½ per cent dearer when Sydney sales ended final quarter selling season on…

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Goulburn Sheep Skin Auction

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 April 1959 · page 4

A catalogue of 8,600 sheep skins was submitted to buyers by Farmers & Graziers on Tuesday, April 7,…

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Wool Prices Up

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 April 1959 · page 1

Wool trade authorities say that the increases in wool prices at this week’s Sydney sales are the sharpest since the big increases of 1951. Prices have now recovered…

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Beef Cattle Field Day Next

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 April 1959 · page 4

A Held day will be held on the propert [?] Gundary Plains Pty. Ltd.,Goulburn, which submitted the winning entry District Judging for the 1953/59 Beef…

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Federal Interest In Goulburn Wool Sale Inquiry

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 May 1959 · page 7

Developments at the Goulburn wool sales inquiry were raised by Mr. Allan Fraser, M.H.R., in the House of…

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Big Decrease In Southern Tablelands Wool production

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 May 1959 · page 7

Wool produced from shearing and crutching on the Southern Tablelands in 1958 dropped by over nine million pounds in weight compared to 1957…

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Crop Rotation Still Important in Farming

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 May 1959 · page 7

Crop rotation plays the same Important part in successful farming these days as it did in ancient times. Unfortunately some…

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News For The Man On The Land Plans for Wool Promotion in Australia and Overseas

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 May 1959 · page 7

Every penny per pound rise in the price of wool meant another five and a half million to the Australian wool cheque. This was stated by Mr. R. McMurchie, an officer of the Australian Wool Bureau in his address to delegates and visitors…

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District Wool Sold In Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 May 1959 · page 6

Values for all deser[?] at Schute Bell Badgery Lumby Ltd. on the 23rd April were fully 2½ per cent,…

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This Week in Wool Outlook Is Bright for Next Season

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 May 1959 · page 4

Straws in the wind from overseas mill centres seem to portend that wool prices [?] level out over the remaining weeks of the selling season…

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Susped Cattle Have Increased In Numbers, Says Ranger

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 May 1959 · page 5

Notification of suspect cattle has increased considerably over the past six weeks, according to the Braidwood P.P. Board Ranger, Mr. G. McGrath…

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Graziers Discuss School of Wool Technology

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 May 1959 · page 4

The School of Wool Technology of the University of New South Wales will be holding a four-day session of lectures on Sheep and Wool Improvement from May…

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