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

Farming & the land, 1919

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Cross-breeding Experiments with Sheep

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 February 1919 · page 5

A progress report on the cross-breeding experiments will sheep eat Bathurst experiment farm, with which is afforded combination of the results obtained to date at Wagga, Bathurst, and…

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75,000 Bags of Wheat Destroyed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 February 1919 · page 2

Temora, Friday.—A mysterious fire occurred in an old wheat stack at Mirrool at 12 o'clock to-day. It is estimated that 75,000 bags of old wheat were destroyed. The residents of the…

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Pastoral Cross-breeding Experiments with Sheep. Some Combined Results

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 18 February 1919 · page 1

A progress report on the cross-breeding experiments with sheep at Bathurst experiment farm, with which is afforded a combination of the…

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Wheat-lumpers

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 February 1919 · page 2

The wheat-lumpers who went on strike last week at Dalling Island for an increase in wages offered themselves for work on Monday morning, on the advice of the officials of the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes For the Man on the Land

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 18 February 1919 · page 1

These 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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Coming P.p. Elections Harden Farmers Active. Two Candidates Chosen

Young Witness · Tuesday 18 February 1919 · page 1

Our Harden correspondent writes:— At a well attended joint meeting of the Harden Branch of F. and. S. Association and Wheatgrowers in the…

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Share Farming Mr. Ashford's Intentions

Young Witness · Tuesday 18 February 1919 · page 2

Mr. Ashford, Minister for Lands, is of opinion that a small conference or committee will do the most effective work in connection with the…

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Agricultural. Temora Demonstration Farm a Suggested Rotation

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 18 February 1919 · page 1

Where the farmer is catering for the grain and the hay markets, it is possible to adopt a rotation that will give two crops every three years…

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Dairying. Ten-year-old Silage a Profitable Venture

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 18 February 1919 · page 1

A sample of silage that has been made from green maize in April, 1909--nearly ten years ago--was recently forwarded to the Department of…

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Starving Sheep

The Yass Courier · Thursday 20 February 1919 · page 2

At the Young P.P. Board meeting the Stock Inspector reported he had received a complaint that a lot of sheep were remaining on the…

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The Question of Wheat Growing

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 February 1919 · page 4

At a well-attended meeting of wheatgrowers hold at Harden on 15th inst., Mr. Neville Graham (president of the Shire of Demondrille) in the chair, it was unanimously…

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Success in Dairying

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 February 1919 · page 4

The desire to be successful naturally appeals to everybody in all fields of activity and enterprise, and stimulates everybody to put forward his beat efforts in the hope that they…

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Pastoral Cross-breeding Experiments with Sheep. More Combined Results

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 21 February 1919 · page 1

Last week's review of the results of the cross-breeding experiments at Wagga, Bathurst and Cowra experiment farms was limited to the wethers,…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes For the Man on the Land

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 21 February 1919 · page 1

These 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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German Substitute for Wool and Cotton

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 21 February 1919 · page 4

Spinners and weavers of Germany claim that they have found in their own country an inexpensive and satisfactory substitute for cotton, wool,…

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Agricultural. "Take-all" The Wheat-Growers' Worst Enemy

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 21 February 1919 · page 1

For some years the Plant Breeder of the Department of Agriculture has observed the prevalence of "take-all" in the wheat breeding plots at Cowra…

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Future of Wheat Conference of Growers. Big Gathering to Be Hbdd at Harden

Young Witness · Friday 21 February 1919 · page 1

At the wheat growers meeting at Harden on Saturday last on the question of the Government continuing the present wheat pool, Mr. A. J…

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The Orchard. to Maintain Soil Fertility. Green Manuring Crops

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 21 February 1919 · page 1

The maintenance of fertility, notwithstanding the loss of plant food that results from constant cropping, is one of the problems that confront…

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Wheat Stacks

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 February 1919 · page 4

Wheat-loading operations are proceeding briskly at Cook's Cutting. At the No. 2 depot there 1,168,2303 bags of wheat aro stacked, and at No. 1 depot 2,812,720 begs. At South…

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Wheat Stacks Destroyed the Smoking Practice

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 February 1919 · page 4

Tomora, Thursday.—Mr. J. A. Bradley, coroner of Tomora, held an inquest at Mirrool on Wednesday concerning the fire which destroyed two wheat stacks at that place on Friday…

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