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

Farming & the land, 1926

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The Orchard Stocks of Plums and Prunes Experiments mt Yanco Experiment Farm

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 December 1926 · page 3

Experiments were commenced at Yanco Experiment Farm in 1917 to determine the most suitable stocks for plums and prunes. A plot not…

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Products and Prices New Season's Potatoes in Demand Brisk Business in Dairy Section

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 3 December 1926 · page 7

There is very little to report in the forage market this week. Adequate supplies of chaff are now coming forward, but prices in all…

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Wool at Darling Harbour Million Bales in Five Months

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 6 December 1926 · page 5

From July 1 up till Friday the Number of bales of wool received at Darling Harbour totalled 1,004,243. This is in excess of the highest…

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Concrete on the Farm

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 6 December 1926 · page 6

Any farmer who has had experience with pigs realises how difficult it is to get a feeding trough that will stand the usage—unless he has tried…

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Bungendore Fires Grass Lands and Sheep Destroyed BUNGENDORE

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 8 December 1926 · page 2

The bush fires which occurred on Saturday at Arnfield near Bungendore, destroyed over 800. acres of well grassed grazing land. The principal…

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Murrumburrah's Wheat Champion

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 9 December 1926 · page 4

Congratulations are offered by the " Signal " to Mr. B. J. Stocks, of " Linden Hills," who has been successful in…

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Brisbane Wool Sales

The Yass Courier · Thursday 9 December 1926 · page 5

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. received the following wire from their Brishane office :—“Good average selection available opening Brisbane wool sales…

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Wool Report. Schute, Bell & Co. Ltd. report: --

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 9 December 1926 · page 1

We offered at our sale a catalogue consisting mostly of good wools, with a few very choice lines included, the…

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Wool Report

The Burrowa News · Friday 10 December 1926 · page 1

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., writing on 1st December, report:-More than the usual amount of…

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Wheat Cowra Bred Variety

The Burrowa News · Friday 10 December 1926 · page 10

Thus the "S.M. Herald," referring to the Parkes wheat growing com-petition:-Bena, a variety which had already…

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Pastoral News Price of Meat a Remarkable Disparity

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 10 December 1926 · page 3

We are told by the Government Statistician that the retail' price of meat in Sydney from November 1926 was 7 per cent. lower than from…

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Products and Prices Butter Still Rising Bran and Pollard Scarce

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 10 December 1926 · page 7

Plentiful supplies of forage lines have been forthcoming during the week. Of good quality, the lines are…

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Wool Trade Influences the Law of Supply and Demand

The Burrowa News · Friday 10 December 1926 · page 10

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: —Recent events at local wool sales forcibly illustrate the effects of the law of supply and demand. Choice…

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Crop Championships Keen Competition Boorowa Improves

The Burrowa News · Friday 10 December 1926 · page 7

The next stage of the judging was at Boorowa. This centre, of course, is devoted primarily to wool-growing, in which it shares with its neighbor,…

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Pioneer Share-farming

The Burrowa News · Friday 10 December 1926 · page 10

The completion of the subdivision and disposal of landra; in the Grenfell district, is of particular interest, because of the historic part played…

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Advances for Wire Netting Government Aid to Farmers

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 10 December 1926 · page 1

The small lanholders of the district are taking full advantage of the Government's aid in obtaining wire netting…

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Pastoral Awards

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 13 December 1926 · page 4

Some graziers who are now bound by the State Pastoral Award are saying that the Graziers' Association made a mistake in not having all of…

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Fire Sticks Found? Sensation at Wagga Two Farmers Die From Burns SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 13 December 1926 · page 2

A sensation has been caused in the Wagga district by the reported finding of phosphorus sticks near the scene of a fresh outbreak of fire at…

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Machinery on Farm More Foodless Labour

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 13 December 1926 · page 4

The way in which machinery sets labour free from farming work and enables it to be applied to the production of manufactures, is shown…

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Price of Butter Increases

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 15 December 1926 · page 5

The Butter Stablishing Committee has directed a further rise in the price of butter, bringing the wholesale price to 191/4 per cwt…

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