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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land
91 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 5
Figures released this week by the National Council of Wool Selling Brokers reveal that the season just closed was the second biggest on record. Sales totalling the 40.79 m…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A twelve-year-old girl in first year has won the St. Gregory’s School section of the Wool Week Essay Competition conducted by J. B. Young’s Ltd…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The most Arduous and difficult period since its inception early 30 years ago was experienced at the Goulburn centre during the season 1958/59 but, despite the problems with which it was confronted, 60,516 bales were sold — an increase…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the third annual conference of Junior Farmers at Coff’s Harbour recently, the semi-final and finals of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miss Shirley Kemp of Dondingalong-Sherwood Junior Farmer’ Club has been chosen by the Junior Farmers’ Clubs Council of N.S.W. to represent her fellow…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A forecast of receipts of wool into Australian brokers’ stores in 1959/69 suggested at 4,963,000 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Judging has been completed in four of the 25 districts in the 1959 “Star” Junior Farmer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Winchcombe, Carson Ltd, reported at their sale on Thursday, September 3, we cleared 11,586 bales at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A workman’s cottage on the property of Mr. W. G. Towse at Gundaroo was destroyed by fire in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →With wool values firm and the best of this States wool yet to be offered for sale the overall [?] seems bright for the 1959-60 sale series…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wool has reached the highroad along which it may now make a swift progress into the greatest era in its age-old history. Overshadowing even its…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Two further winning entries in the Wool Week Essay Competition conducted by J. B. Young’s Pty. Ltd., have been judged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wooders and Carthorse Limited and W. J. Gibbs and Co., report having offered 100 head of eattle at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the annual meeting of Wool Export (Goulburn) Limited in Goulburn on Friday on Friday night it was forecast that Goulburn wool selling market would expand rapidly following the virtual lifting of the ban by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two outstanding Junior Farmers from New South Wales this week won a four months’ tour of New…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The annual Beef Cattle Breeders’ Competition, conducted by the Agricultural Bureau of New South Wales and the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The 1959-60 wool selling season opened in Goulburn on Wednesday and Thursday, 7th and 8th October, when Farmers’ and Graziers’ offered a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australia, for many years the world’s largest wool producer, had no sheep prior to 1770. The country’s first flocks…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Africa produces about 6 per of the entire world production of wool and although there is a tendency to irregularity in length, due to different periods…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is generally claimed that there is little scope for the use of electricity on the sheep farm. This was probably said of the dairying industry…
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