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

Farming & the land, 1924

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Hampstead. Picnic Race Club.—busy Harvesters.—tractor Farming.—energetic Townsman.—cricket

Daily Witness · Tuesday 15 January 1924 · page 2

A meeting of the Hampstead Picnic Race Club was held at Mr. F. King's residence on Saturday night to make arrangements for the…

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Fight with Flames Farmer's Terrible Experience Body Badly Burned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 January 1924 · page 1

C. Foodey, a farmer, was out looking at Gundamana, in the Hawkesbury district, when he suddenly found himself cut off by flames, which were…

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Tubbul. Changeable Weather.— Harvesting Operations. —Wheat Pooled.—better Roads.—cricket

Daily Witness · Wednesday 16 January 1924 · page 1

The weather of the past week has been very changeable, Saturday being more like a winter's day. At 7.30 a.m. the thermometer…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Yass Courier · Thursday 17 January 1924 · page 5

The Sydney wool market was animated on Monday and very firm[?] Dalgety and Co. Ltd [?]ad a large effe[?]ing including :—…

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Goulburn's Butter Argyle Co.'s December Output

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 January 1924 · page 4

The output at the Argyle Co-operative Central Dairy Company's factory in December was 43,615 lbs. of butter. Cream suppliers were paid at the rate…

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Wool Prices Market Excited Record Season Prices

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 January 1924 · page 4

Keen competition prevailed at the wool sales in Sydney on Tuesday and the market was excited. Values ruled at the highest point of…

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Canberra Wheat

Daily Witness · Friday 18 January 1924 · page 6

Should the Federal capital make the rapid strides that the wheat of that name promises to do in this district, all would be well. As…

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Anthrax at Nyngan. Cattle Dying

Daily Witness · Friday 18 January 1924 · page 4

An outbroak of anffirax has occurred among 700 head of cattle on Nial Bros. Buceinguy station, Nyngan. The cases are very acute and 19…

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Bendick Murrell Heavy Wheat Yields

The Young Chronicle · Friday 18 January 1924 · page 2

Canberra wheat is yielding crops of special merit round here this season. On Mountain View, Mr. J. T…

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Money and Wool. Contrasts in Results

Daily Witness · Friday 18 January 1924 · page 4

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report:— Super fleece wools have of late come into their own in decided fashion. For a time this season they were the…

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Local Wool Prices. Toompang and Yanterilla Clips

The Young Chronicle · Friday 18 January 1924 · page 2

Messrs Pitt, Son and Badgery report an exceptionally strong market at their sale on Wednesday, disposing of Mr. D. J. McFarlane's…

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Bendick Murrell. Cricket—meetings.—accident.—good Wheat Yield

Daily Witness · Friday 18 January 1924 · page 6

Bendlck Murrell v Bulla Creek. in the competition match played at Bulla Creek on Sunday, Bendlck Murrell were defeated by 95 runs on the…

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New Wool Record. Greasy Merino Brings Big Price

Daily Witness · Friday 18 January 1924 · page 4

American operators at the Sydney wool sales, established a new record for the past two seasons in paying 41d. for five bales of a parcel of…

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A Suggestion for the Mixed Farm

The Young Chronicle · Friday 18 January 1924 · page 6

The cheap[?]ess of the seed, and the ease with which a crop of Swedes can be grown in the table land areas, offer considerable inducements to those…

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The Dairyman's Greatest Enemy

The Young Chronicle · Friday 18 January 1924 · page 6

Dairymen sometimes lose the best coms in their herd through the disease known as mammitis. The prevalence of mammitis in…

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Markets and Marts Splendid Cereal Crops

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 4

The heat this week has undoubtedly affcted business which is quiet. Chaff is coming 'forward in large quantities and in the Crookwell…

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Taralga Dairy Co. Weather Affects Output

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 4

For the month of December over 33,000lb of butter were manufactured at the works. For choicest 1/8 per lb. was; paid, 1/7 for first, and an…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Yass Courier · Monday 21 January 1924 · page 3

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited report:— With the freer wools becoming available from both the North and…

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Bush Fires. Big Fire at Marengo. Thousands of Acres Burnt. Wheat Crop and Telephone Lines Destroyed

Daily Witness · Monday 21 January 1924 · page 2

The whole countryside round Marengo was veiled in heavy, pungent smoke on Saturday, caused by the big bush fire which swept through…

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Fire in a Crop

Daily Witness · Monday 21 January 1924 · page 2

On Thursday a fire broke, out on Mr. A. Brophy's property, near the Bribharee gold mines. The loss included stubble, three or four tons of…

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