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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 27 of 63

Butter Supplies Decline Surplus Apple Stocks Clearing SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 30 May 1928 · page 4

Butter supplies reaching city dairy produce houses yesterday showed that a steady decline in production with in progress, particularly on the…

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Wool Market Schute, Bell & Co., Ltd., report: SYDNEY, May 24

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 30 May 1928 · page 9

Another quiet week in the wool trade. Very little wool has changed hands, most of the buyers apparently content to wait until the June sales…

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Bad Dairy Practice

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 30 May 1928 · page 5

The mixing of warm, freshly separated cream with a cold, ripe cream from a previous separation is very often accompanied with disastrous…

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Farm and Orchard Goulburn District Activities

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 30 May 1928 · page 5

Potato digging throughout the Goulburn and Crookwell districts is now in full swing, but the large amount of rain that has fallen this year has…

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"Lot of Rot" Wheat Man on Farming Train FORBES

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 May 1928 · page 2

One of the biggest wheat growers in the Forbes district, Mr. T. Thornton, stated at the P.A. and H. Association meeting at the…

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New Zealand Butter Forage Business Quiet SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 May 1928 · page 4

Although local butter production was decreasing fast, supplies were being largely supplemented by imports from New Zealand. Some 14,060 boxes…

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Butter As a Skin Ointment

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 June 1928 · page 10

Scientists have made another discovery regarding the use of butter. The Greeks and Romans of long ago did not use butter as a food but as the…

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South Coast Sheep Numbers Show Increase

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 June 1928 · page 10

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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Crookwell Cattle Realise Low Rates CROOKWELL

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 1 June 1928 · page 4

Rates for cattle were on a very low level when the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. offered 90 head at Crookwell to-day…

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Wool Improves Under Closer Settlement

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 June 1928 · page 10

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

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Goulburn Market Potato Quality Poor Local Butter Supplies Good

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 1 June 1928 · page 3

Goulburn merchants report that business is still fairly good in the farm section. Chaff and oats are meeting with fairly good demand,…

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Wool and Woollen Goods Where Interests Clash

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 June 1928 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., writing 30/6/'28, report:— As far as can be seen the variation in prices for wool over the past…

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Brighter Wool Demand Sydney and London Prices

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 June 1928 · page 10

Winchcombe, Canon, Ltd., writing 23/5/'28, report:—Judging by the hardening tendency seen in prices as wool Miss progressed in London the…

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Mail Bag Stolen £700 Cheque Missing Bag Hidden in Wheat Truck

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 June 1928 · page 4

West Wyalong residents waited in vain for their mail from Goulburn on May 10. Thieves had stolen the mailbag, it is thought from Goulburn…

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Two Crops on the Same Tree

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 June 1928 · page 10

An apple tree growing in the orchard of Mr. William Ryan, of Middle Arm Road, Goulburn, is producing the second crop of fruit…

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Forbes Farmer "Slugs" Grasshoppers

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 June 1928 · page 10

Forbes.—Heaps of dead grasshoppers, 10 inches thick, spread over a large paddock, is the result of an experiment carried out in this…

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"Lot of Rot" Better Farming Train

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 June 1928 · page 4

One of the biggest wheat-growers in the Forbes district, Mr. T. Thornton, stated at the P.A. and H. Association meeting at the week-end that the Better Farming Train scheme was "a lot of rot." It would be far better, he said, if the wheat farmers in the west were…

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Dirty Dairy Prosecution At Crookwell CROOKWELL

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 1 June 1928 · page 4

Convicted on a charge of failing to keep his dairy in a condition complying with the Act, Torrington William Bensley at the Crookwell…

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Sheep Students

The Yass Courier · Monday 4 June 1928 · page 5

About 20 students of the sheep and wool clas[?] at Cowra and Young, conducted by the Education Department, visited Mr Rowan’s stud at [?]endick…

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Country Wool Buying

The Yass Courier · Monday 4 June 1928 · page 4

A[?]correspondent writes as follows to ‘The Bulletin’ :— “Bud-G’s” (B.2/6/28) remarks are typical of the arguments advanced…

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