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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1959

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Bungendore Grazier Arranges Wool Exhibit At Famous Polish Fair

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 May 1959 · page 1

A Bungendore woolgrower, Mr. P. J. B. Osborne, of “Currandooley” will go to Poznan in Poland next month to arrange an exhibit on behalf of Wool Export “Goulburn” Limited of which he is chairman of directors…

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Diamond Jubilee Sheep Show “Wales” Branch

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 May 1959 · page 4

The 1959 Sheep Show and the Bam Sales will be held in Sydney from May 27 to June 3 inclusive…

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Tharwa Junior Farmer Club Celebrates Its Ninth Birthday

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 May 1959 · page 3

About 50 Junior Farmers and their friends gathered in the Carlton Lounge of the Hotel Ainslie-Rex on Friday night for the ninth birthday celebrations of the Tharwa Junior Farmer Club…

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Wool Bureau Exhibitions at Diamond Jubilee Sheep Show

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 May 1959 · page 6

Visitors to this year’s Sheep Show at the Sydney Showground will see wool in all its phases from the sheep’s back to the finished product —which ranges…

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This Week in Wool Japan Bought 25,000 Bales in Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 May 1959 · page 6

From its, depth of despair in mid-January, wool has more than regained its losses this season, and Values are closing the dismal chapter 30 to 35 per cent above the low points of five months ago…

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News For The man On The land Keen Demand At final Series of Goulburn Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 May 1959 · page 6

The seventh and final series of Goulburn Wool Sales for the current season were held, on Wednesday and Thursday, May 13 and 14 when Farmers and…

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Record Entry At Sydney Sheep Show

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 May 1959 · page 1

This year’s Sheep Show, being held at the R.A.S. Showgrounds, Sydney, this week, has attracted record…

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Goulburn Sheep Skin Auction

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 June 1959 · page 4

A catalogue of 10,000 sheep skins was submitted to buyers by Farmers and Graziers’ on Tuesday, June…

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This Week in Wool Wool Prices Easier

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 June 1959 · page 3

Dalgetys reported Japan, Eastern Europe and Western-Europe in more widespread competition…

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This Week in Wool Russia May Bolster Market Next Season

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 June 1959 · page 6

Under unexpectedly heavy weight of newly [?] clips [?] for end-of-season sales, buyers’ orders have filled rapidly, and are not being replenished…

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Safe Stolen From Local Wool Store

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 June 1959 · page 2

Thieves on Wednesday night entered the premises of Thos. W. Green Fly. Ltd. in Crawford Street and…

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Black Disease of Sheep

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 June 1959 · page 5

“The accepted Black Disease period has generally been regarded as from December to May with most deaths occurring in the autumn,” stated Mr. W. G…

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Visiting Junior Farmers Entertained By Local Clubs

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 June 1959 · page 2

On Friday last a touring coach containing 32 Junior Farmers and a supervisor from the Gippsland area of Victoria, arrived in Canberra and were conducted…

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Long Service From Wool

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 July 1959 · page 4

Her name may be Flax—but she is an enthusiast for wool. Mrs. A. Flax, of…

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One in Three Farms Raises More Than 100 Sheep (By the Minister for Primary Industry)

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 July 1959 · page 5

One out of every three farms — or more than 90,000 rural holdings — carry more than 100 sheep, and wool has accounted for 35 per cent of the total gross value of Australia’s rural production during the past five years…

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What Wool Means To Australia

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 July 1959 · page 4

Climatically near-perefct for sheep, Australia dominates the world wool horizon as the major wool producing and exporting country. Australia’s wool superiority…

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Wool Week Essay And Project Comp

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 July 1959 · page 4

In conjunction with Wool Week, J. B. Young’s, of Queanbeyan, have donated prizes to the value of £6/6/-…

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This Week in Wool Near Record 4.7 Million Bales Earned £299 Million

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 July 1959 · page 6

The curtain has fallen on the second biggest seasonal wool clearance of about 4.7 million bales, for an income provisionally estimated at £290 million. In weight of clip it was…

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Junior Farmer Returns From Overseas

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 July 1959 · page 6

His observations overseas had convinced him that Australian farmers were not making the fullest use of…

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Sheep Shorn In Local Department Store

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 July 1959 · page 1

Many Queanbeyan residents saw sheep being shorn for the first time last week. The shearing look place in J. B. Young’s Ltd. department store on Thursday and Friday afternoons and again on Saturday morning…

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