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

Farming & the land, 1928

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Strength of Wool Position Supply the Strong Factor

The Burrowa News · Friday 13 April 1928 · page 9

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., writing 3/4/'28, repoht:—Wool consumers now have a month ahead of them, in which no auctions will be held in…

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Goulburn Market Produce Slow of Sale Dairy Produce in Demand

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 13 April 1928 · page 2

Little or no inquiry is being made for fodder. Potatoes are meeting with fairly good inquiries, although the quality is not very good. Prices are…

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Outlook for Sheep

The Yass Courier · Monday 16 April 1928 · page 4

The stook inspector for the Car[?]soar P.P. Board (Mr V. H. Pillinger) report that from examination made of several flocks, he is of the opinion that internal…

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Sheep Transport Railways' Great Feat

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 2

By rail 23,000 sheep the property of the Manfred Pastoral Company, have been returned from Cooma to original pastures near…

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Lucerne at Parkes Rotation Wheat Crops

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 18 April 1928 · page 5

What is probably the first competition in the State designed to encourage the growing of lucerne on upland soils is being conducted by the Parkes…

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Tasteless Butter Pasteurised Milk Blamed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 18 April 1928 · page 5

"The butter of to-day is tasteless and flat compared to the butter' of 20 years ago," said Mr. T. Hanmer (Tamworht) durilng discussion at the…

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At Newcastle Proposed Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 18 April 1928 · page 5

"Scores of New England and northern graziers havepromised their next season's wool clip for auction at Newcastle for the coming season," said the…

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Primary Producers Agricultural, Pastoral and Horticultural Notes the Garden

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 18 April 1928 · page 5

Every housewife appreciates the value of having a few fruit trees growing on the holding. and even where space is limited it is quite possible…

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Wool Auctions Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd., report

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 18 April 1928 · page 9

Business in passed in lots and scoured skin wools is still brisk and the market is very nearly bare of stocks. Lines of skin wool are not…

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Wool Market Schute, Bell & Co., Ltd., report:-- SYDNEY, April 12

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 18 April 1928 · page 9

Owing to the incidence of the Easter holidays there is little to report in the wool market. Sales will be held again early in May, when…

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Dairy Pastures Decline in Fertility

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 18 April 1928 · page 5

The directors of the Alstonville Co-operative Dairy Society are making a progressive effort to enhance the returns from the rich…

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Motor Transport versus Crookwell Railway. a Few Facts to the Farmers, Hotel and Storekeepers

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 18 April 1928 · page 4

Patronise your Railways that carry your produce and manures at a very low rate of freight, which don't pay for axle grease…

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Wool Consumption France Leads the World Further High Prices Likely

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 April 1928 · page 6

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. report: In Sydney and Brisbane the Continent takes pride as a consumer of wool. The fineness of the clip renders it…

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Time Sheets Farmers Object to Them

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 April 1928 · page 6

At a recent meeting of the Culcairn District Council of the Farmers and Settlers' Association a resolution was passed, asking that the section in the…

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PASTORAL Fluke in Sheep. Departmental Caution As to Treatment

The Young Chronicle · Friday 20 April 1928 · page 6

The use of carbon tetrachloride for the treatment of fluke in sheep continues to increase, writes the Chief Veterinary Surgeon of the…

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Sheep "Lifted"

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 April 1928 · page 10

The mustering of starving sheep brought up in October from the plain country of New South Wales to the relief country above Tallangatta, is…

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Wool Report

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 April 1928 · page 10

Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd., writ 13th April, report:— Business in passed-in lots and scoured skin wools is still brisk and…

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Wool Report

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 April 1928 · page 10

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., writing 11th April, report:— The chief item of interest during…

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Wool Report

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 April 1928 · page 10

Schute, Bell & Co., Ltd., report under date 12th April:— Owing to the incidence of the Easter holidays, there is little to…

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Handling and Selling Wheat How a Cowra Farmer Does It

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 April 1928 · page 6

Mr. E. S. Twigg, Cowra, gives his experience of handling and selling wheat:—I have put my wheat in the silos…

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