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

Farming & the land, 1939

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Transhipping Wheat

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 2

How the broken railway gauge hampers interstate transport. This picture, taken at Albury, shows New South Wales wheat being shovelled by hand into Victorian trucks. The inventor of a break-of-gauge device (Mr. J. C. T. Boock) has just given evidence before a…

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Wool Report

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 4

The Farmers & Graziers’ Co-operative Co. Ltd. reports on the 31st March. We submitted at our sale on…

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Review of Wool Market

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: The wool market has again proved its strength by withstanding the effects of…

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The Strength of Wool World’s Needs Equal Clip

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 6

Winchcombe, Carbon Ltd. report:-The wool market has again proved its strength by withstanding the effects of disturbing European…

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Cure for Cancer Irish Farmer's Claim London, March 14

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 2

A farmer's secret cure for cancer was mentioned this week in an Irish court when a workman's compensation claim was…

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Junior Farmers' Exhibit

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 2

These Junior Farmers preparing an exhibit of vari-colored maize for the Royal Easter Show are, from left Bryant Crosby (West Ryde), Ken Shaw (Harris Park), and Jack Carpenter (Carlingford). Jack Carpenter has 53 uncles, all farmers…

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Wool Reports Pitt, Son & Badgery Ltd

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 12 April 1939 · page 10

SYDNEY, April 6th, 1939.--The wool market is in recess for the Easter holidays and, apart from a few odd sales of passed-in lots…

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Sheep Classing for Greater Profits Ewes to Breed From

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 12 April 1939 · page 10

However small the flock, it pays to class It periodically. The best time to class is just before shearing, as the sheep are then…

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Wool and Free Trade Czechoslovakia And Poland

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 12 April 1939 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson. Ltd., report As a result of the Easter recess, wool transactions in Sydney have been limited but…

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On Farm and Station Aust. Illawarra Shorthorn Australia's Own Dairy Breed Complete Survey of Cost

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 12 April 1939 · page 10

A comprehensive review of the Australian Illawarra Shorthorn Society's £300 Lactation Herd Test competition, conducted from…

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Gullen Junior Farmer's Success

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 12 April 1939 · page 7

IRENE CLEAVER, a prominent member of Gullen Junior Farmers' Club, who won five firsts and eight seconds for…

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Dairy Science Schools, 1939

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 12 April 1939 · page 10

PERSONS wishing to attend departmental dairy science schools during the winter months should make written application, accompanied by…

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Sheep for Japan

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 13 April 1939 · page 7

The stock inspector (Mr. A. Doust) reported to the last meeting of the P.P. Board, having inspected sheep at Chatswood, being…

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Recipes Lemon Butter Cake

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 April 1939 · page 2

Take 1/2 lb. sugar, a litle, grated lemon rind, oz. butter, 2 eggs, the juice of 2 lemons. Beat the sugar, butter, and lemon rind together,…

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Sheep Killed Sheep Trucks Derailed At Gunning Railway Men Save Others

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 13 April 1939 · page 6

As a special train comprising a number of sheep trucks was leaving the trucking yards at Gunning on Friday afternoon, after loading a…

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Advances to Farmers

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 13 April 1939 · page 4

The Colonial Treasurer (Mr Mair) writes to Mr W,. F.Ross, M.L.A:-- "Referring to your personal representations, and the discussion I had…

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Blowflies and Sheep To Prepare Jet Mixture

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 14 April 1939 · page 3

The recent abnormally abundant rains make a severe wave of blowfly strike probable during during April and May, and it is…

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Wool Sales Final Stages

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 17 April 1939 · page 4

Messrs. Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd. report on April 14: The wool selling season in Sydney enters upon its final stages next week when the…

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Ajax Scores Another Win Sensational Run By Champion At Randwick On Saturday Cropper Plate

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 17 April 1939 · page 8

When Ajax returned to scale at Randwick after he had run the C. W. Cropper Plate in half a Second outside the Australasian record for…

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Snakes Guard Farm Transvaal Farmer’s Pets

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 17 April 1939 · page 3

The London “Evening Standard” states that Pict Venter, a farmer in the Transvaal, South Africa, has two snakes of the cobra variety, which…

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