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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1960

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

Major Competition for Young Junior Farmers

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 September 1960 · page 4

The Bank of New South Wales is to sponsor a major competition for the younger age group members of the Junior Farmers Clubs' Organisation in N.S.W…

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Mills Seek Unbranded Wool

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 September 1960 · page 5

Mills in two European countries were stipulating in their orders that they required unbranded wool, Mr…

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Cattle To Be Tested For T.B.

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 September 1960 · page 5

Tentative arrangements have been made for the T.B. testing of all cattle within the Municipality to…

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Queanbeyan Sheep Alive with Ticks and Lice. “Cruelty,” Alleges Insp

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 September 1960 · page 5

Two Braidwood P.P. Board Officials this week started a flock of sheep in Queanbeyan was alive with lice and ticks. “They were so heavily infested that…

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Ranger Reports Sharp Decline in Suspect District Cattle

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 October 1960 · page 4

“There has been a sharp decline in the number of suspect cattie notified since the last Board meeting.” Ranger G. McGrath told the…

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Wool Market Still Firm And Sready

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 October 1960 · page 4

Woolbrokers, Dalgety’s report that market prices showed no change on Monday’s slightly firmer levels…

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Wool Bureau Chief to Attend District Council

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 October 1960 · page 4

The chairman of the Australian Wool Bureau (Mr. W. A. Gunn) is making a special trip from Brisbane to attend the first meeting of the newly formed Southern…

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Goulburn Wool Sales

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 October 1960 · page 5

Winchcombe, Carson Limited, offered their first catalogue in Goulburn on Thursday last when they sold…

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Efficienf Wool Pressing For Only 3d, A Bale

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 October 1960 · page 5

Even under the best of conditions, wool-bale pressing is probably the hardest work done in the shearing sheds…

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Beef Cattle Breeders’ Competition

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 October 1960 · page 6

Entries close on November 30 in the 1950-61 Beef Cattle the Breeders’ Competition conducted by the…

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Sheep Skin Prices Remain Firm

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 October 1960 · page 6

Sheep skin prices at Goulburn early this week remained on average without much change on those of last…

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Wool Values Remain Firm

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 October 1960 · page 6

Farmers and Graziers’ wool brokers, report values for all descriptions ruled at their recent sale in…

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Bungendore Wool Entries Close Early

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 October 1960 · page 2

Queanbeyan, Bungendore and district sheepmen are reminded that entries for the wool section of the 1961…

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Cattle Tasted For T.B. Were Free Of Disease

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 November 1960 · page 3

A total of 65 cattle were recently tested within the Municipality of Queanbeyan for T.B. and were found…

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Wool Up 2½ Per Cent. at Mid-week Goulburn Sale

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 November 1960 · page 4

At the opening of the second series of wool sales for the season in Goulburn the operators forced fine to superfine spinners’ types up to two and a half per cent,…

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Wool Sales Season’s State Record Price at Goulburn

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 November 1960 · page 6

The second series of Goulburn Wool for the current season were held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, November 1 to 3, with, catalogues totalling…

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New Cattle Pavilion Approved

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 November 1960 · page 7

Queanbeyan Show Society has decided to accept a quote from a Young Company for the supply and…

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New Director For Wool Export Firm

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 November 1960 · page 4

Mr. J. K. Williams, who, was Associated with the establishment of the wool selling floor in Goulburn…

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Wool Committee Chairman At Bungendore Meeting Of Graziers’ Association

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 November 1960 · page 2

Chairman of the Australian Wool Committee, Mr. A. W. Scott, was present at the meeting of the Bungendore Branch of the Graziers’ Association of New South…

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Wool Sale

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 November 1960 · page 4

On Wednesday, 23rd. November, New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., brought forward a…

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