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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1918

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Good Crops at Greenwich Park

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 May 1918 · page 4

Mr. Theo Emerton, of "Summer Hill," Greenwich Park, has threshed this season some good vields of oats and wheat. From 4½ acres he has obtained 69 bags of oats (50 bushels…

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Wheat Stacking

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 May 1918 · page 2

Largo quantities of wheat are being forwarded from the South Goulburn stacks to the metropolis. In addition for some time past trucks of grain arriving at Goulburn have been…

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Wool Spinning in Goulburn. Work Started

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 May 1918 · page 2

Wool spinning operations under the auspices of the Goulburn War Chest committee commenced this morning in a room over the offices of Messrs. Betts and Son. The instructors…

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Share Farmers. (To the Editor)

Young Witness · Tuesday 28 May 1918 · page 1

Sir,—It must be rocognised that only by increased production can we survive this tremendous ordeal caused by the war. And all in the State are…

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Wheat Depot Football Teams

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 May 1918 · page 2

Football teams have been formed from among the employers at the wheat depots at Murray's Flats and Cook's Cutting. Some interstate men are employed at the depots. On…

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Britain's Food. Record Crops

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 May 1918 · page 4

The Press Bureau reports:— The April census shows that the total acreage under wheat in England and Wales is the highest on record since 1882. The area under barley and oats is…

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Wool

The Burrowa News · Friday 31 May 1918 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. report:— Though much wool, already appraised and paid for by the…

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Commercial. WOOL

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 31 May 1918 · page 3

Schute, Bell & Co., Ltd. repot t under date 27th May:-- Our appraisement last week of 1290 bales brought our total to rather…

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Wool Report

Young Witness · Friday 31 May 1918 · page 6

The Australian, Mercantile, Land and Finance Co., Ltd., report:—"The arrangements for next month's appraisements have not been definitely…

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Wool Market

The Burrowa News · Friday 31 May 1918 · page 1

John Bridge & Co., Ltd., report under date 25th May, 1918:— A further appraisement of…

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Doctrine of a Few Sheep

Young Witness · Friday 31 May 1918 · page 4

Japan, we are informed, is now busy preaching the doctrine or a few sheep on the farm, and has gone so far as to encourage even the keeping of…

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Farmers and Settlers

Young Witness · Friday 31 May 1918 · page 4

The monthly meeting of the F. and S. Association, Young Branch, was held on Saturday afternoon Present Messrs C. Rule (president), A. Chant,…

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Wheat Experiments at Tubbul

Young Witness · Tuesday 4 June 1918 · page 1

Wheat experiments are being conducted by the Department of Agriculture on the property of Mr. E. W. L. Gordon, "Yanterilla," Tubbul, and the…

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Price of Butter. Increase To-day. (Country Press Telegram). SYDNEY

Young Witness · Tuesday 4 June 1918 · page 2

The price of butter was advanced 4/8 per cwt. to-day. Such of the cable news on this page so headed has been published in The…

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Government Assists Farmers 5/ Per Acre for Fallowing

Young Witness · Tuesday 4 June 1918 · page 3

"For some time past," said Wr. Grahame, Minister for Agriculture, "my Department has been conducting experiment plots throughout the wheat…

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Battle of the Axes. Voluntary Workers at Pritchard's Farm

Young Witness · Tuesday 4 June 1918 · page 2

The Young branch of the Voluntary Workers' Association, after a period of comparative inactivity, launched a big offensive yesterday at Pritchard'a…

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Wheat Pools

Young Witness · Friday 7 June 1918 · page 2

The secretary of the Farmers and Settlers Association has received the following communication from the Prime Minister's Department in…

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Meat and Wheat. -

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 7 June 1918 · page 3

Why doesn't the Government commandeer live stock as it did wheat? one is tempted to ask. The Commision has reported that the price given…

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Knitting Wool

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 June 1918 · page 1

Melbourne, Wednesday.—The Minister for Customs (Mr. Jenson) informed Mr. Lamond (N.S.W.) in the House of Representatives to-day that importers of knitting wool were…

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Wheat Crop Ouarantee. State Government Anxious

Young Witness · Tuesday 11 June 1918 · page 1

Tho Federal Government and the State Government are in direct conflict over the guarantee for the 191819 and the 1919-20 whea't crops. The…

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