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

Farming & the land, 1920

1,046 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 3 of 53

Insurance on Fruit Crops

Young Witness · Friday 16 January 1920 · page 6

Mr. C. L. Curnow, manager of the Bank of N.S.W. Orange (and at one time an officer in the bank at Young) is the author of a scheme for the insurance of fruit crops. which…

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Sheep Struck by Lightning

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 January 1920 · page 2

Mr. M. Dignam, of Wingello, had the misfortune to have eight valuable sheep struck dead by lightning during a thunderstorm at the place on Tuesday night…

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Poultry Farmers Penalised

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 January 1920 · page 4

Poultry farmers are dissatisfied with the conditions obtaining in their industry. They claim that Although they are securing record prices for their eggs for this…

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Indignant Poultry Farmers

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 January 1920 · page 4

Poultry farmers express their indignation and amazement at the recent increase of 3/ to 7/6 per ton on mill offal. They intend to ask the…

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Poultry Farmers

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Monday 19 January 1920 · page 4

Poultry farmers are dissatisfied with the conditions obtaining now in their industry. They claim that although…

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For Necessitous Farmers Payment of Advances. Minister Explains Position

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Monday 19 January 1920 · page 2

Mr. Ashford said on Thursday, that the delay in the payment of advances under the necessitous farmers scheme was due primarily…

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Goulburn Special Sheep and Cattle Sale

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 January 1920 · page 2

W. H, Wheatley reports having yarded 37,000 sheep and 300 cattle on Friday last to a very large and representative attendance of buyers from southern and…

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Loss of Cattle

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 January 1920 · page 1

Broken Hill, Sunday.—Out of 800 cattle being travelled last week from a drought stricken station property near Wllcannia to feed in South Australia, 50 of the…

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Wheat For Islands. 8/7½ per Bushel. MELBOURNE

Young Witness · Tuesday 20 January 1920 · page 2

Mitters have beeb informed by the Victorian Wheat Commission that quotations for wheat for flour may now be obtained for the Island trade…

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Nationalists and Farmers

Young Witness · Tuesday 20 January 1920 · page 1

Sir.—Apropes of your report of the proceedings of the National Conferenco at Cootamundra, I would like to make it clear that I'did not object to…

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Wallendbeen, Monday. Farmers and Settlers

Young Witness · Tuesday 20 January 1920 · page 2

The members of the local branch of the Farmers and Settlers Association met on Saturday, 17th Inst and after the general business had…

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High Prices for Sheep

The Yass Courier · Thursday 22 January 1920 · page 5

As an illustration of the value ruling for sheep at the [?]oggera yards, Brisbane, Winchconibe, Ca[?]son Ltd. quote the fact that they…

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Sheep Struck by Lightning

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 January 1920 · page 4

Eight sheep belonging to Mr. H. A. Hartley of "Acton," Tarlo, were last Friday struck by lightning while they were standing under a hickory tree. In the same…

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Profiteering in Wool

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 January 1920 · page 4

Prefits on wool varying from 400 to 3200 percent were disclosed before the British profiteering committee. Mr. Sidney Webb said that when the public…

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Unemployment in Goulburn. Wheat Stacks Dwindling

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 January 1920 · page 2

There is much unemployment in Goulburn at present. A good deal of this is the result of work at the wheat stacks…

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Japan Wants Wheat Offer of 8/10½ Bushel Sydney

Young Witness · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 2

It is stated that Japan has offered 8/10½ per bushel to the Victorian Wheat Commission for 250,000 bushels of wheat. It is understood,…

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English Wool Scandal Profiteers Rob Australia 3000 per cent. Above Allowance

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 4

The Sydney "Sun's" special correspondendent cables an extraordinary story as to the profiteering going on in connection with Australian wool…

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Farm and Field. Garget in Cows

The Burrowa News · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 2

Genuine cases of garget, or pus formation in a-quarter are rare as compared with painful and indurated udders arising from other causes. The…

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State Elections. Cootamundra Electorate. Farmers on Their Own

The Burrowa News · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 4

The Progressive Electoral Council of the Cootamundra Electorate met at Harden on 21st inst. Present Messers. Tout (chair), Hicks Denyer, Fitspatrick…

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Crookwell Special Sheep and Cattle Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 January 1920 · page 4

W. H. Wheatley reports having yarded 6000 sheep and 400 cattle at Crookwell on Thursday last to a large and representative attendance of local and outside buyers,…

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