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

Farming & the land, 1938

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State Junior Champion Allan Banfield Won J.F. Potato Crop Competition

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 17 August 1938 · page 4

Residents of the Gullen district are justly proud of Junior Farmer Allan Banfield, whose success in the State potato crop…

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Wool Report

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 18 August 1938 · page 7

The Farmers & Graziers Co-operative Co. Ltd. reports on the 12th instant. The clip is now coming forward from the early shearing districts in…

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Those Sheep Parasites How To Eradicate Ticks And Lice

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 August 1938 · page 3

External parasites of the sheep are no less important than internal parasites such as worms, liver fluke, &c. Indeed, it is probable that the former are responsible for the more…

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Junior Farmers, Valets To Vealers

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 August 1938 · page 3

Boys under 15 years of age "should not be forced into the junior farmers club movement to become handmaids to hens or valets to vealers," said Mr…

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Australia's Oldest House Elizabeth Farm House, Parramatta

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 18 August 1938 · page 4

Built in 1793, Elizabeth Farm House, the oldest existing house in Australia, looks little the worse for the worse for the battering of the storms of one…

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Wool Report

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 August 1938 · page 7

The Farmers and Graziers Co-operative Co. Ltd. reports on the 12th instant:— The clip is now coming forward…

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Wool Report

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 August 1938 · page 8

Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd. report on on August 12th:— With only another fortnight to go before the opening of the wool…

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Cattle Die in Railway Trucks

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 August 1938 · page 8

Cattle from Tarago and Bungendore, consigned to Harefield, were in such a weak condition, states a Wagga message, that…

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Wool Prices Better American Trade

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 August 1938 · page 6

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report on August 16th:— Feelings in regard to the future of the wool market are…

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Sheep Classing Desirable Characteristics in the Merino Flock

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 August 1938 · page 3

However small the flock, periodical classing should be a feature of its management if it is to give maximum returns…

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Japs. Not to Buy Any Wool

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 19 August 1938 · page 7

SYDNEY, Friday: A statement that Japan is unlikely to be a buyer at the opening of the Sydney wool sales on August 29 was…

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Record Wheat Sowing? 920 Acres in 129 Hours

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 August 1938 · page 12

The Commonwealth record[?] sowing wheat is claimed by Mr. George Valance, of 5th Lake. Victoria…

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Taralga Dairy Co. Annual Election Of Directors

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 19 August 1938 · page 1

Taralga: Messrs. C. D. Keith, G. C. Goodhew and J. A. Duncan were elected directors of the Taralga Dairy Co at the annual…

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Sheep Dogs Poisoned

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 22 August 1938 · page 2

Two valuable sheep dogs, the property of Mr. Cecil Walker, were poisoned last week. They were evidently the victims of baits laid for…

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Wool Report

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 22 August 1938 · page 3
Also in Goulburn Evening Penny Post

The Farmers & Graziers Co-operative Co. Ltd. reports on the 19th instant. The past week has not produced…

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Wool Prices

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 22 August 1938 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report: Feelings in regard to the future of the wool market are unquestionably more cheerful than two to three…

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LUCERNE Gaining Favour Among Sheep Men

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 22 August 1938 · page 2

Rye grasses and clovers have made beautiful pastures on many properties, but following the dry spell, stud masters of…

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Overloaded Sheepvan Carriage Of Sheep From Goulburn to Moss Vale Cruelty to Animals Alleged

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 22 August 1938 · page 1

A variety of opinion as to the loading capacity of the ordinary railway sheepvan was expressed at the Moss Vale Police Court Thursday morning, when Donlad Leslie McDobald, employed by the New zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency company, Ltd.,…

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Cattle and Winter

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 August 1938 · page 7

In a report to the Bathurst Pastures Protection Board, the Stock Inspector, Mr. C. O. Furness, said that one peculiar effect of the winter this…

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