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

Farming & the land, 1928

1,255 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 25 of 63

Better Farming Train Not Coming to Boorowa Galong the Nearest Point

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 May 1928 · page 10

Despite the request for the Better Faming Train to visit Boorowa the Department cannot see their way clear to accede to the wishes of the…

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Better Farming Tour of the Train "University on Wheels"

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 18 May 1928 · page 3

Farmers, stockowners, and everyone interested in primary production should make a special note of the date fixed for the visit…

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Good Health Interesting Farming Train Exhibit. Will Be Seen at Young

The Young Chronicle · Friday 18 May 1928 · page 6

The Health Department's contribution to the Better Farming Train, coming to Young next Thursday, though comparatively…

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Sheep in Goulburn District

The Yass Courier · Monday 21 May 1928 · page 6

At the last meeting of the Goulburn P.P. Board the report of the acting stock inspector, Mr W. Webster, stated that there had been no serious outbreak…

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South Coast Sheep Numbers Show Increase

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 21 May 1928 · page 4

Three or four years ago there were only about 6000 sheep in the section of the Bega land district, embracing Bemboka, Wyndham and Towamba…

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Wool Market Easier Prices Likely

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 21 May 1928 · page 1

Goldsbrough. Mort and Company, Limited report that everything connected with wool has been very quiet recently and buyers generally are so…

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Better Farming Goulburn Visits Train Educational Display

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 21 May 1928 · page 2

Today the Better Farming Train, organised by the Department of Agriculture and the N.S.W. Railway Commissioners, was inspected at Goulburn by farmers, graziers, and others interested in primary production…

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Butter Scarcer Potatoes 10/ Dearer SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 May 1928 · page 4

Butter sd plies, especially those received from the North Coast, showed a market falling-off among city dairy produce [?]uses yesterday. Demand…

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Great Clocks Depict U.S.A. HISTORY Made by Artisan Farmers

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 May 1928 · page 6

Popular tradition says that the American farmer is handy with a jackknife and this is exemplflied in a remarkable American history clock…

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Our Farmers (To the Editor)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 May 1928 · page 6

Sir,—There are hopes for Mr. Percy Meggy, who has made the astonishing discovery that Australia is not the only country which has a tariff. Could…

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Better Farming

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 May 1928 · page 2

It is cheering to notice that the primary producers displayed keen interest in the lectures given by departmental experts accompanying the…

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Danger From 'Hoppers Will They Carry Off the Crop?

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 22 May 1928 · page 1

The grasshopper plague during March has left in its trail additional worries for the farmer, so it appears in this early stage of the cropping…

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Awarded £3253103 Alectown Farmer Succeeds. Claim Against Railway Commissioners

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 22 May 1928 · page 1

Alfred Ernest Woods, farmer, of "The Ranch" and "Mountain View," Alectown, was awarded £3252103 damages against the…

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Wool Improves Under Closer Settlement

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 23 May 1928 · page 5

When Bibbenluke, on the N.S.W. southern tablelands, was subdivided, the wool, instead of deteriorating improved. The settlers hold…

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London Wool Prices Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 23 May 1928 · page 4

Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson and Co. have received cable advice that at the London wool sales prices for greasy merinos showed an upward…

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Primary Producers Agricultural, Pastoral and Horticultural Notes Braidwood P.p. Board

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 23 May 1928 · page 5

At the last meeting of the Braidwood P.P. Board a letter was read from Henry Molloy, of Bimbimbi, complaining that he was pestered…

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The Wool Clip Mr. Cantrill on Its Treatment

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 23 May 1928 · page 4

It is necessary that a certain amount of preparation should be given to the wool clip in order to meet, as far as possible, the requirements…

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Wool Auctions Pitt, Son & Badger[?], Ltd., report: SYDNEY, May 18

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 23 May 1928 · page 11

Activities in wool in the Sydney market are confined to scoured wools, for which there is a fair demand at slightly lower levels. The London…

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Wool Market Schute, Bell & Co., Ltd., report: SYDNEY, May 17

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 23 May 1928 · page 11

Business in wool circles in the Sydney market at present is decidedly quiet. The buyers, generally speaking, are on pleasure bent, and even…

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Wool Clip Mr. Elliott's Lecture How It Should Be Treated

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 23 May 1928 · page 4

A lecture delivered at the Batter Farming Train by Mr. E. A. Elliott, sheep and wool expert:— It is necessary that a certain…

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