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

Farming & the land, 1928

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Farm Expert Investigating Australia

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 15 June 1928 · page 7

Professor Sir John Russell, director of the Rothamsted Experimental Station, England, which was founded in 1843, and is the oldest agricultural…

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Butter Falling Off Market Apples Are Lower SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 June 1928 · page 4

Delayed arrivals of South Coast boats, the result of bad weather, left city dairy produce houses with badly depleted supplies to face an active…

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Kialla Farm Sold

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 June 1928 · page 6

At Crookwell on Friday, W. H. Wheatley sold on account of the trustees of the estate of the late A. A. Dalglish, a farm at Kialla, known as…

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High Schools "for the Small Minority." Provocative Issue Raised By Farmers and Settlers. Vocational Training for Country Children Urged. Need for Technical Agricultural and Domestic Science Courses

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 19 June 1928 · page 1

A provocative issue has been raised by the Ariah Park branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, who have submitted the following resolution for discussion at the annual conference:--"That the Government be urged to encourage rural and…

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Farmers & Settlers Annual Meeting of Local Council

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 19 June 1928 · page 2

At Young to-day there was held the annual meeting of the Farmers and Settlers' Burrangong District Council. The delegates present…

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Sheep and Crops

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 20 June 1928 · page 5

The value of fallowing is now recognised by all capable farmers. Fallowing, however, can only give the best returns when combined with…

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Wool Market Wool Auctions Pitt, Son & Badgery, Ltd., report: Sydney, June 15

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 20 June 1928 · page 9

Buyers are now forwarding reports to their principals of the offerings for next week, and the inquiry from the Continent, although not by any…

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Primary Producers Agricultural, Pastoral and Horticultural Notes Homebush Market Changes Foreshadowed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 20 June 1928 · page 5

It is the opinion of one of our greatest meat industry authorities that better returns can be secured to our meat producers by making…

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Old Wool Chart Prices of Other Days

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 20 June 1928 · page 5

When W. S. millard and Sons took over the premises at Burrowa Street, Young, formerly occupied by W. F. Weeden, a very interesting…

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Dairy Trade Steady Apple Market Weaker SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 20 June 1928 · page 4

City dairy produce houses reported steady business at unchanged rates yesterday. Cheese consignments from the South Coast had not come to…

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Home Garden Work with the Roses Growing Root Crops

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 20 June 1928 · page 5

The harder you or I cut back our roses the stronger do they grow. Therefore, if it is a strong-growing sort like Frau Karl Druschki or…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Yass Courier · Thursday 21 June 1928 · page 6

T[?]e Sydney Wool Selling Brokers report :— Under good general competitions all good to medium fleece wools and all descriptions of s[?]irtings ruled firm of…

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June Wool Sales Japan Buys Keenly

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 June 1928 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report:— Experiences at recent Sydney wool sales confirm the opinions expressed in most quarters that the staple is…

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Wheat Wool, or a Wage Job?

The Burrowa News · Friday 22 June 1928 · page 9

"D.J." advises tho wheatgrower to buy sheep (writes a "Bulletin" scribe). He takes for a basis 500 acres of "good, red soil" likely to…

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Wool Report

The Burrowa News · Friday 22 June 1928 · page 12

Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd., writing 15th June, report:— Buyers are now forwarding reports to their principals of the offerings for…

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Wool Sales Reports by Brokers

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 22 June 1928 · page 3

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co report:—The final series of sales for the statistical wool year were held on Monday and Tuesday…

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Rider Hurt Racing After Cattle Rescuer's Trials Black Boy's Ride for Help

The Burrowa News · Friday 22 June 1928 · page 1

What trying ordeals settlers, even in what is regarded as a settled part of Queensland, have to endure is well illustrated by…

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The Man on the Land. The World's Wool Clip Force of Wider Demand

The Burrowa News · Friday 22 June 1928 · page 12

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., writing 13/6/'28, report:—The total wool clip of the world in 1927 is estimated to have reached the approximate…

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Dad's Record Crop (With Apologies to Steel Rudd.)

The Burrowa News · Friday 22 June 1928 · page 12

There's a cloud of dust approaching, You can see it from afar, Caused by agents for machinery, Each one in a separate car…

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More Farms Budgery Estate Subdivision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 22 June 1928 · page 3

In this issue of tie "Penny Post" will be found an advertisement of the subdivisional sale of. Mr. .A. W. Scott's "Budgery" Estate situated…

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