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

Farming & the land, 1931

1,260 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 63

The Post! Financing A Wheat Crop Mr. Hall's Plan To the Editor

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 January 1931 · page 2

Sir: When the Senate rejected the Wheat Marketing Bill, I submitted a scheme, whereby our wheat farmers might have been saved the present…

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Wheat Orders Better Time Ahead

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 January 1931 · page 2

Several large orders for trucks have been placed with the railway department in the southern districts for transport of wheat…

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Union by Farmers In Canada Government Aid Big Company Formed Vancouver, Wed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 January 1931 · page 3

Farmers financial difficulties are to be met by the creation of a private corporation. A message film Regina…

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Wool Report

The Burrowa News · Friday 2 January 1931 · page 4

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited, writing 18th December, 1930 report:— The closing series of sales for the…

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Wool Report

The Burrowa News · Friday 2 January 1931 · page 4

Schute. Bell and Co., Ltd., writing 22nd December, 1930, report:— This is now the Christmas recess, in the trade, so that little is being…

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The Past Wool Year What of the Future

The Burrowa News · Friday 2 January 1931 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., writing 22/12/30 report:— The woolgrowing industry can with decided heartiness say Goodbye 1930,…

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How Butter Originated

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 5

Probably most people know the story of the fly who fell in a bowl of milk and saved himself by swimming round and round until he stepped to…

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OVERFLOWING Wheat Silos Relieving Position Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 3

Rationing has now been applied to the wheat industry. In the country 51 out of 99 silos are overflowing…

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Wool Production No Prospect For Low Grades

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 1

The advantages of improving wool to reduce the costs of production are many. The most important is that it would bring increased money into…

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Farmers on the March Food Demanded at Arkansas "Merry England" England, Arkansas

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 3

The prolonged drought that ruined hundreds of central United States farms last summer had a dramatic sequel…

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Wheat Crop Where Will It Go? Goulburn's Share

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 3

With the terminal wheat silos at Rozelle and many country silos full the big question at the present is what to do with the wheat…

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Increase in Butter Post Office in Line Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 3

Local butter traders announce an increase of 4/8 per cwt. in the price of butter, about ½d rise on retail prices following the bank increase in…

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Cattle Sale Altered

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 3

Messrs. W. H. Wheatley intimate per advertisement that the date of their opening special cattle sale has been altered from January 15 to…

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World Pool Wheat Supplies Mr. Moloney's Plan London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 3

The suggestion of the Australian Minister for Trade, Mr. Moloney, cabled from Vancouver for 100 per cent, pooling of wheat,…

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Crop Conditions At Crookwell

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 4

Potato crops in the Crookwel district are looking wonderfully well but a fortnight's hot weather would benefit them considerable…

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Wool

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 3

Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd. report: The second half of the selling season opened on Monday, when three catalogues, totalling 10,844 bales, were…

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Wool and Money Exchange a Market Help

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:— The increase in the money exchange rate to £115/7/6 is the best development the wool trade has experienced…

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Taxing Farmers Off The land

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 1

Henry Ford, when he wrote these lines for a New York paper, as a warning to the American government gave also a warning to Australia:—…

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Wool Report

The Burrowa News · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 3

Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd., writing 5th January, report:— The second half of the selling season opened to-day, when three…

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The Man on the Land. PASTORAL Grass the Most Important of All Crops

The Burrowa News · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 10

The economic significance of pasture becomes evident when the values of our agricultural and animal products are compared, hand-feeding…

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