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

Farming & the land, 1918

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Pastoral Products

The Yass Courier · Thursday 17 January 1918 · page 2

Harrison, Jones & Devlin, Ltd., report as follows; Wool: Appraisements are progressing satisfactorily and large quantities of wool…

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Wheat and the Weevil

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 January 1918 · page 4

It would be difficult to over-estimate the importance to Australia of the very definite and emphatic statement of Professor Maxwell Lefroy, that the weevil problem, as it applies to…

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Local and General Wool Season

The Yass Courier · Thursday 17 January 1918 · page 2

The wool season is drawing to a close in the Yass district, and on the whole has been a good one. During November no fewer than 1469 bales…

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Wheat at Goulburn

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 2

On Tuesday there were 1,361,118 begs of wheat from the Smith in the stacks at South Goulburn, and 216 trucks were in the siding awaiting attention. Work is…

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The Wheat Outlook

Young Witness · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 3

When the Federal Government can spare the time from political manoeuvring and party bickering, one of the most difficult and Important…

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The Price of Wheat

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 1

The Farmers and Settlers' Association has approached the Prime Minister in an endeavor to obtain a higher guaranteed price for wheat for the next…

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Wheat or Meat? the Farmers' Dilemma. Well Known Commercial Man's Views

Young Witness · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 6

Referring to the tendency of the farmers to forsake wheat for stock, and its probable consequences, Mr. R. M. Pitt, of Pitt, Son and Badgery,…

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This Season's Wheat State's Part in Finance

Young Witness · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—In the financing of the scheme for the guarantee of the 4/ f.o.b., to farmers for this season's wheat some doubt has…

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Cost in Wheat Production a Basis of Calculation

Young Witness · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 4

In the articles of the pas two weeks under this heading, it has been admitted that the operations incldental to the production of a crop of…

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Blowflies on Sheep

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 4

The following circular has been received by the Goulburn Pastures Production. Board from the Under Secretary for Agriculture:—In connection with the investigations which are…

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Pastoral News

The Yass Courier · Monday 21 January 1918 · page 2

Attractive , cattle auction. 1200 choice head, including Durhams and Shorthorns, for sale Galong saleyards January 25. Winchcombe…

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Wool Report

Young Witness · Tuesday 22 January 1918 · page 4

John Bridge and Co., Ltd., report:—The wool appraisements are prosgressing expeditiously and the present rate of progress warrants the expectation…

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Wheat or Stock? Views of Riverina Farmers

Young Witness · Tuesday 22 January 1918 · page 2

AUBTPRY, Monday.—Extraordinary Interest has been aroused amongst farmers in the Hiverina in the proposal of Mr. iHbgelthorn, ex-Minister for…

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Wheat Verses Meat

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 22 January 1918 · page 2

The latest discovery that has been made in the "Wheat or Meat?" controversy has been made by those people who profess to know everything, but…

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Goulburn Wheat Stacks

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 January 1918 · page 4

There are at present 1,476,480 bags of wheat stacked at the South Goulburn railway yards; end there are 236 trucks of grain there. The new wheat coming from the Temora district is…

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Australian Wheat Oversea Freights

Young Witness · Tuesday 22 January 1918 · page 2

In a memorandum to the Prime Minister the general manager of the Commonwealth Jine of steamers states that the Australian farmer is very…

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Poultry Farming

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 22 January 1918 · page 2

Another incident of some importance was the visit of a number of poultry "experts" to the Grantham Stud Poultry Farm, and to the farms…

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Goulburn Wheat Stacks

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 January 1918 · page 4

The Sydney Mail publishers photographs which show a property constructed wheat stack at Goulburn, air space being provided underneath, and other stacks lacking this requisite…

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Wheat or Meat. Big Figures

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 January 1918 · page 4

The relative importance of stock-raising and wheat-growing and the position of the wheat industry as affected by abnormal times was the subject of an important conference at…

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Wheat Lumpers. Strike for 2/6 an Hour

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 January 1918 · page 1

Dubbo, Tuesday.—Yesterday morning the wheat lumpers for the milling company struck work. The men naked for 2/6 per hour. The company refused to accede to the…

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