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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 52 of 63

Wool Report

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 October 1928 · page 8

Pitt, Son & Badgery, Ltd., writing 12th October, report:— We held our first auction since the resumption of selling in Sydney on…

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Wheat Season 1928-29

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 October 1928 · page 3

The Farmers & Graziers' Cooperative Co., Ltd., will be operating extensively in the handling of wheat-throughout the State during the…

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Stronger Wool Market Well Distributed Competition

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 October 1928 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., writing 16th October, 1928, report:— Demand showed excellent strength at our Sydney wool sale on Tuesday…

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Japan and Wool Prices a Manufacturer Not a Grower

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 October 1928 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., writing 16/10/'28, report:—The wool market appears to be settling down into its season's stride. Latterly, just on…

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The Man on the Land. The Wool Market No Reason for "Cold Feet"

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 October 1928 · page 8

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., writing 10th October, report:—Despite the irregularity experienced in values for some classes of wool since the Sydney…

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Farmer's Son Wins Thousand Pound Prize

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 October 1928 · page 1

Mr. Thomas Reynolds, a farmer at Temora, took a ticket in the Golden Egg Art Union and gave it to his fifteen-year-old son. The ticket won…

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Sick Man Leaves Bed to Attend Court Instructs Solicitor Only 5 Minutes Before His Case. "Unreasonable," Mr. Giugni Tells Magistrate. Nine Bags Full of Wool

The Young Chronicle · Friday 19 October 1928 · page 1

If a sick man is served with a [?] is he expected to take action to defend himself? "I think it is absolutely…

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Rising Wool Market

The Yass Courier · Monday 22 October 1928 · page 2

The hardening tendency seen in values the previous week’s Sydney sales became more pronounced at this week’s auctions. Many merino wools made…

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Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 October 1928 · page 1

We have to report having held a very successful wool sale on Wednesday. Every oversea buyer operating in Sydney Was in attendance, and the…

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Used Wool

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 24 October 1928 · page 6

Wool that has been used before can be made fresh again by being steamed Put it in a cloth and place it in a colander with the ends of a…

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State Cattle Stud Ministry's Decision Criticised

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 24 October 1928 · page 7

Some criticism is being levelled at the State Government over its decision to establish an Aberdeen Angus beef cattle stud. The criticism…

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Southern Sheep Sale Large Cootamundra Yarding

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 24 October 1928 · page 3

Dalgety and Company, Ltd., Cootamundra report having held a special sheep sale in the municipal yards at Cootamundra on Friday last, when…

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Wool Market Schute, Bell & Co., Ltd., report: SYDNEY, October 18

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 24 October 1928 · page 9

Concurrently with practical cessation of strike interference with normal course of the wool trade, a heartening tendency towards…

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Primary Producers Agricultural, Pastoral and Horticultural Notes Home Garden Work to Be Done Now Planting of Dahlias

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 24 October 1928 · page 7

The present is a good time to start some of the old stools into growth previous to dividing. Some people cut off the tubers and plant them like…

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Breach of Contract Dairyman Sues Former Employer SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 24 October 1928 · page 4

In a case at the Parramatta Quarter sessions to-day William Noble sued E. Britten, a dairyman to recover £50 damages for breach of contract…

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The Farm Garden Utilising Animal Manure

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 24 October 1928 · page 7

Arimal manure is one of the most complete and universally-used garden fertilisers, but it is necessary, observes a writer in the Queensland…

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400 District Sheep

The Yass Courier · Thursday 25 October 1928 · page 5

Bidding was keener and rates about 1/ higher at the Homebush sheep and lamb auctions on Monday. Decreased supplies were the cause of the advance…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Yass Courier · Thursday 25 October 1928 · page 6

At the wool sales on Monday the Australian ercan[?]ile, Land & Finance Co., Ltd., catalogued some attractive clips from the Moree, Goondiwindi,…

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Synthetic Cream British Dairymen's Protest LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 October 1928 · page 2

When the question of synthetic cream was raised at a meeting of the British Dairy Farmer's Association, Mr. Bledisloe presiding said there…

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Pastoral. Effect of Top-dressed Pasture on Wool

The Young Chronicle · Friday 26 October 1928 · page 5

That top-dressing increases the feeding value of a pasture is established beyond question, but what the effect is on the wool of sheep…

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