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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1968

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Increased Yarding of Fat Cattle

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 January 1968 · page 6

An increased yarding of approximately 870 head of cattle were on offer with most types well…

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Goulburn Cattle Sale

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 January 1968 · page 4

Approximately 1100 cattle were yarded at Goulburn on Tuesday Quality overall was very…

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Fat Sheep Market

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 January 1968 · page 4

A heavier yarding of fat sheep was submitted for auction at the Goulburn market on…

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Interim Report on Wool Marketing

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 January 1968 · page 6

It is expected that the Wool Committed of the Graziers’ Association of NSW will complete an interim report on the Australian Wool Board’s wool…

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Farm accidents can be avoided

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 January 1968 · page 6

New South Wales Department of Agriculture machinery officer Mr. Doug Lackie, and today that farm accidents were increasing each year, but he felt…

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Strong cattle demand

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 January 1968 · page 4

Particularly strong competition at the Goulburn cattle market on Tuesday resulted in all…

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Goulburn Sale Sheep yarding lighter

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 January 1968 · page 4

There was a much lighter yarding of approximately 14,000 sheep and lambs on offer at the…

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Noted beef cattle authority to judge

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 January 1968 · page 4

Mr. W. J. B. Murphy, who is the Principal Beef Cattle Officer with the Department of Agriculture,…

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Cattle values remain firm

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 January 1968 · page 5

Values for all classes remained firm at the Goulburn sale on Tuesday when competition…

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District Wool Clips Sold

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 January 1968 · page 6

On the second day of the fifth series of Goulburn wool sales a number of Queanbeyan and district clips were offered by Elder smith , Goldsbrought…

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Technical ; Courses for Farmers

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 January 1968 · page 5

A total of 96 students enrolled in the short courses for farmers in 1967 . Following this…

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Rural Bank Trophy for Beef Cattle

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 February 1968 · page 5

Exhibitors in the beef cattle section at the Queanbeyan P. A. and H. Association’s show will…

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Cattle market

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 February 1968 · page 4

There was a slightly heavier yarding of approximately 1,100 cattle offered for sale at the…

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Show Opens with Record Horse and Sheep Entry

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 February 1968 · page 1

Queanbeyan’s 1968 annual show and the 73rd conducted by the P.A. & H. Association got under way this morning with an all-time record entry in the horse section and the best sheep show…

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Farm Produce Good

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 February 1968 · page 2

E. J. Beaver was. the most. successful exhibitor in the farm produce section at the Queanbeyan…

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News for the man on the land First local applications under farm build-up plan

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 February 1968 · page 13

The first local applications under the State Government Farming Land Build-up Scheme are to foe made soon. They will come from a group of 14 Closer Settlement lease farmers in two estates near Bungendore and Michelago…

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Famous sheep stud took catle honours

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 February 1968 · page 5

Merryville Pty. Ltd., famous breeder of merino sheep, proved at Queanbeyan show Saturday that it also breeds cattle of high standard by taking out top honours-in this section with its shorthorns…

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Wool a credit to district

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 February 1968 · page 5

There was keen competition in many sections at the Queanbeyan show and wool was no…

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District wool sold in Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 February 1968 · page 5

Schute Bell Badgery Lumby Ltd. report the following district sales of wool at Sydney last week…

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World-famous Stud at the Show Top sheep honours to Merryville Pty. Ltd

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 February 1968 · page 5

The world famous merino stud Merryville Pty. Ltd. took out the honours in the sheep section at the 1968 Queanbeyan show, but only after very strong competition from several other well known Southern Tablelands studs. Merryville exhibited the…

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