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

Farming & the land, 1919

826 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 42

Help for Farmers

The Yass Courier · Thursday 16 January 1919 · page 3

The matter of helping farmers who have been, hard fait by the drought is receiving the attention of the Cabinet. Mr. Ashford,…

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WHEAT CLASSEs at the Jubilee Show

Young Witness · Friday 17 January 1919 · page 6

Additions have ben made to the wheat section of th Royal show and prizes have also been increased. One of the important changes in the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes For the Man on the Land

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 17 January 1919 · page 2

Those Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the…

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Wheat Guarantee Payment Next Week. Sydney

Young Witness · Friday 17 January 1919 · page 2

The Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) hoped to make the payment of the 4/ wheat guarantee, involving about 14 million pounds, next week…

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Dairying. "Pick the Best Five." And the Response

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 17 January 1919 · page 2

The invitation was extended to visitors to the National Dairy Show at Columbus, U.S.A., in October last. Eleven Jersey cows were stalled for…

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Wheat Stacks

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 January 1919 · page 4

At present there are stored at Cook's Cutting 794,222 bags of wheat. At the South Goulburn depot only wheat cleaning operations are in progress, and no additional grain is…

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A Deal in Cattle

The Yass Courier · Monday 20 January 1919 · page 4

Recently a man representing himself as the owner of certain cattle on the Hastings [?]phoned to a Kempsey auctioneer, stating that he…

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Alleged Conspiracy. Goulburn Wheat Cases

The Yass Courier · Monday 20 January 1919 · page 2

At the Goulburn Police Court on Wednesday afternoon, before Mr. L. A. McDougall, C.M., Charles Barnes and Allan McCarthy were…

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Wheat Payments 4/4 Per Bushel on Friday. Sydney

Young Witness · Tuesday 21 January 1919 · page 2

The Commonwealth Government has arranged to pay on account in connection with the wheat guaranted, 4/4 a bushel, on Friday next…

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Bush Fires. Settler Found Dead. Wheat Stacks Destroyed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 January 1919 · page 2

Mount Victoria, Wednesday.—A bush fire this afternoon, fanned by a strong breeze, leapt the railway bank and caught the wheat stacks at Mount Victoria railway station. The three…

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To Help Farmers

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 January 1919 · page 4

The State Government has set aside £100,000, out of which advances will be made to farmers in necessitous circumstances. The Agricultural Department has already made advances of seed…

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World's Wheat Position

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 January 1919 · page 2

The following letter from Lindley Walker and Co., Ltd., has been received by all wheat agents throughout the State:—…

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The Wheat Industry

Young Witness · Friday 24 January 1919 · page 4

That the Sydney Press require eduuating on the cultivation of wheat, cutt easily be seen whon the Sydney Morning Herald says there are…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes For the Man on the Land

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 24 January 1919 · page 3

Those Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the…

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Alleged Wheat Frauds Further Arrests at Goulburn

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 January 1919 · page 1

Additional arrests have been made in connection with the alleged wheat frauds. On Wednesday morning of last…

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Government Assistance to Necessitous Farmers

Young Witness · Friday 24 January 1919 · page 2

Councillor Crichton, the President of the Burrangong Shire haus received a letter from the Minister of Lands stating that the Government were…

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Dairying. When Heifers Should Freshen. Profit by Experiments

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 24 January 1919 · page 3

The age at which heifers should freshen is a fertile subject of discussion among dairy farmers and studmasters, there being advocates of early breeding…

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Agricultural. Grow Rape for Profit. a Farmer's Results

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 24 January 1919 · page 3

Amongst those who have proved the value of rape as a feature of the wheat and sheep farm and who have esteemed the results so good as to…

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Gift of Sheep

Young Witness · Tuesday 28 January 1919 · page 2

Mr. H. E. Barritt, of Burrangong has notified the Secretary of the Local Repatriation Committee that he will donate 50 sheep of a suitable…

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Advance in Wheat

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 28 January 1919 · page 3

Mr Grahame, Minister for Agriculture, returned to Sydney on Thursday from Melbourne, where he attended a meeting of the Federal Wheat Board…

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