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

Farming & the land, 1930

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Cattle Sale Local And District Buyers Market Equal to Previous Sale

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 7

The second cattle sale since the opening of the new saleyards, on the Yass-Sydney road, on “Douro,” eventuated on Tuesday, in very hot…

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Wool Sales Resumed Little Change in Pre-Holiday Conditions

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 5

The Secretary, Farmers and Graziers’ Co-operative Coy. writes on the 6th January:— Much interest centred in the…

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Sheep and Wool Form, 1929

The Burrowa News · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 10

In the course of the next few days 26,000 forms for the supply of the sheep and wool returns for 1929 will be posted to sheepowners by the…

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Wool Report

The Burrowa News · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 10

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., Ltd., writing 2nd January, report:— Since the sales closed on 19th December, the whole trade has been at…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Burrowa News · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 2

Winchcombe Carson, report, 6th January:—we sold 6000 bales of wool at our Sydney sales today. Competition was keen and general from…

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Wool and Cotton Cotton Relatively Dearer

The Burrowa News · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 8

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: —The most heartening aspect of the wool position is that the value of the world's other great natural textile…

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The Man on the Land. Wool Report

The Burrowa News · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 10

Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd., writing 2nd January, report: Hope for better times in 1930 supersedes unregretful farewell to…

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Wool Sales Resumed Little Change in Preholiday Conditions

The Burrowa News · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 3

The Secretary, Farmers & Grazers' Co-operative Coy., writes on the 6th January. Much interest centred in the…

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Improved Pastures and Effect on Sheep Dry Season Conditions Hamper Work in Extensive Experiments

The Burrowa News · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 3

The first year's work in testing the effect on sheep of topdressing of pastures has been largely nullified by the dry…

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Varieties of Wheat Departmental Recommendations for Different Districts South-western Slopes and Eastern Riverina

The Burrowa News · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 4

(Of which Wagga, Temora, Wyalong and Barellan are representative.) For Grain or Hay— Yandilla King (early sowing)…

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Exeter Farmer Injured While Ploughing Field

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 8

When Robert N. Alkrigg, a farmer of Excter, was ploughing a field with a team of horses on Wednesday, he collided with a stump. The handle of…

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Binalong Sheep

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 2

Sheep and lamb rates were without change at Homebush on Thursday. On the hoof at the yards mutton made 3¼d to 3[?]d, suckers 4d to 5d…

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Wool Sales

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 4

Schute, Bell and Co. Ltd. report:— Since auction sales were resumed on the 6th inst., prices have ruled practically on a par with the closing rates…

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Wool Sales General Demand Good Prices

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 4

Winchcome, Carson, Ltd., report: Competition was widely distribution at our Sydney wool sale on Wednesday Demand has not shown better breadth…

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Potato Crop

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 2

Crookwell and district potato crops look promising since the recent good rainfall…

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Wheeo Crops Some Splendid Yields

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 2

The Wheeo crops have all been harvested, and in many cases splendid yields have resulted. Grass is plentiful, and with a further rainfall during…

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Liver Fluke In Cattle and Sheep Kill the Snail

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 15 January 1930 · page 5

Some interesting points have recently been raised in connection with the control of fluke, particularly on properties on which both…

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Butter Bounty

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 15 January 1930 · page 5

The Australian Butter Stabilisation committee decided that the export bounty on butter should remain unaltered at 4½d per lb for 1930. The…

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Crossing Sheep

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 15 January 1930 · page 5

In crossing sheep it is usually best to begin with the ewes of the breed most adapted to the soil of the district, but that if the object of…

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Blowfly in Sheep Specifics Discussed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 15 January 1930 · page 5

The recent statement of the Chairman of the Council of Industrial and Scientific Research (Sir Gee. Julius) before the Public Works Committee,…

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