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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1974

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Wales at sheep show - stud sale

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 5 June 1974 · page 20

The Bank of NSW will have an agency at the 1974 Sydney Sheep Show and Stud Sales at the R.A.S. Showground from June 10 to 13, the…

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Sheep Down $1.20 Head

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 June 1974 · page 9

Values for [?] descriptions of sheep dropped at this [?] Goulburn sales [?]…

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Rural Bank at Sydney Sheep Show

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 June 1974 · page 12

Queanbeyan Visitors to Sydney for this year’s Sheep Show will find the Rural Bank occupying a…

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Wool Is Seen As Good Oil

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 June 1974 · page 4

Oil company, BP Australia Ltd., reports moving into the sheep and cattle business as an investment for its staff pension fund…

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News for the Man on the Land Fine Wool Drops 5% at Goulburn

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 June 1974 · page 8

Fine wools were 5% cheaper with medium and broad merinos, comeback and crossbred fleeces 2½ to 5% cheaper at Goulburn’s seventh and final wool sale of the season this week…

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Trout Farm for Public

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 19 June 1974 · page 10

Queanbeyan and district residents are advised that a trout farm eight miles south of Tumut, and…

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Cattle Tb Outbreaks

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 24 June 1974 · page 9

Several major outbreaks of tuberculosis in cattle herds have been detected in the central…

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Good Farm Fish Dams

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 24 June 1974 · page 9

Farm dams and ponds can ho developed as an additional source of food and sport, by the…

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Living Hobby Farmlets Are a Nuisance

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 24 June 1974 · page 9

Hobby farms of five to 40 acres were of nuisance value and could not be incorporated into the agricultural system, claims farm management consultant, Paul McGowan…

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Farm Course Now Offered

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 26 June 1974 · page 17

Regional Director of Agriculture, Mr. Bob Shelley, said today that Orange Agricultural College offered a unique opportunity to young men and women intending to…

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Lift Values Of The Wool

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 8 July 1974 · page 16

Good presentation could lift the value of a wool clip by about 10c a kilogram, says F & G…

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Switch to Beef After 100 Years with Wool

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 8 July 1974 · page 15

A century in sheep breeding has ended with a decision by Mr. D. L. Jones and family of…

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“Flat Salary for Farmers”

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 8 July 1974 · page 2

Sir, — As Australia is now in a crucial state with high inflation, exhorbitant food prices and shortages I have the following suggestion to put to our Prime…

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Sheep knock

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 July 1974 · page 8

Lamb values at this week’s Goulburn sales dropped by up to $2 a head with the prices for grown sheep down by 50c to 80c a head…

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Cattle Up $8

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 17 July 1974 · page 13

The prices for all descriptions of cattle sold at yesterday's Goulburn Sales were up by $6 to $8…

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Wool Drop

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 17 July 1974 · page 13

Statistics released by Goulburn Wool Selling Brokers Association show a continuing decline in…

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Sheep Market Rally

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 22 July 1974 · page 9

The local sheep market regained the loss of up to $3 a head and was up to $4 a head higher at the…

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More Than 100 Sheep Are Killed

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 22 July 1974 · page 2

The Snowy River Shire Council has called on surrounding local government councils to help it…

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Parliamentary wrangle Whan accused of campaign against wool corporation

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 24 July 1974 · page 3

Member for Eden-Monaro, Mr. Bob Whan, was accused in Parliament yesterday of being involved in a “plot to discredit the…

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Metric farming

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 24 July 1974 · page 19

Farmers can plan their change to the Metric System with Metric Farming Booklets now…

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