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

Farming & the land, 1939

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Profit of £25663 Cootamundra--harden Cooperative Dairy. Society, Annual General Meeting

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 19 October 1939 · page 1

The annual general meeting of the Ccotamundia-Harden Co-Operative Daily Society, Ltd., was held in the Mechanics' institute, on Saturday…

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Field Day Winning Farm At Burrowa Pasture Improvement And Agriculture

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 19 October 1939 · page 5

Judging of the Master farmer Competition, promoted by the Department of Agriculture, having been Completed in the South Western…

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Fly Strike Dressings For Sheep

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 20 October 1939 · page 3

The ideal blowfly dressing should possess the following essentials:— I should be a stable compound, not altering chemically or physically…

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Delays in Shipping Wool Steamers Leave Only Partly Filled

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 20 October 1939 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: Serious delays have occurred in shipping Australian wool to England under the British purchase plan…

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Junior Farmers Richland Branch's Day

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 20 October 1939 · page 4

The annual field day and demonstration of the above club took place at "Allambi," Mr. C. J. Bell's property on Friday…

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Canadian Wheat Bumper Crop Expected

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 23 October 1939 · page 2

Prospects of a “bumper” wheat crop in Canada grows with continued favourable weather, and storage and transportation…

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Wool and Currency Prices May Be Adversely Affected

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 23 October 1939 · page 4

The opinion is expressed in wool circles that there is a possibility of an appreciation of Australian currency in relation to sterling, This…

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Appraising Wool Some Financial Effects

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 October 1939 · page 7

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report:—The appraisements of the Australian clip now proceeding in all marketing centres will…

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War Time Wool 13.4375d Per. Lb. Av. Under Appraisement Scheme

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 25 October 1939 · page 8

It is an extraordinary fact that fears of war during the past two years have disturbed wool markets, but actual war has placed…

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£21,000,000 Wool Clip

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 26 October 1939 · page 2

The New South Wales wool cheque this season is expected to be about £21,000,000, or about £2,000,000 more than was at first…

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Wool Industry Post War Markets Moderate Control Favoured

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 26 October 1939 · page 7

“The acquisition of Australian wool by the British Government provides merely a temporary lull in marketing difficulties,” declares the…

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Unfounded Rumors Sufficient Wheat Bags Available Major Reid Confident

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 26 October 1939 · page 2

Interviewed on Saturday, Major A. D. Reid, Minister for Agriculture, expressed the opinion that there would be an…

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Coastal Potatoes Early Crop Is Disappointing

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 October 1939 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday: The coastal potato crop in New South Wales is not as promising as growers had hoped it would be by mid-October…

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The Dairy Farm Superphosphate As Germicide

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 27 October 1939 · page 3

From time to time there have appeared in the press references to the use of superphosphate as a germicide in cow-balls…

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Grass Our Greatest Crop Better Use of the Soil

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 27 October 1939 · page 3

Grass is Australia's greatest crop, but farmers and graziers have come to realise in recent years that our grasslands are…

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Champion Producer of Wool

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 30 October 1939 · page 1

McGinty, the famous wether owned by Mr. J. C. of "Greenfield Farm." Yass River, maintains his extraordinary record as a wool…

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Meat and Butter Big Purchase By England

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 30 October 1939 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday: Prices of meat and butter, and an approximate price for cheese, to be paid by the British Government for…

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Wool Clip Price Not Generous Says Mr. Walter Merriman Growers Score on Yield

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 30 October 1939 · page 2

Mr. W. T. Merriman, of Yass, went down to Sydney to see how a small offering of his wool appealed to the appraisers. It consisted mainly of…

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£13,723,503 for Farm Relief

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 30 October 1939 · page 2

According to the annual report of the Lands Department for 1939-39, which was tabled in the Legislative Assembly, relief amounting to…

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What Graziers Asked for Wool Sellers Not Consulted By The Government

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 October 1939 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: It is now revealed that the price asked by the Australian Woolgrowers' Council for our wool clip was 15½d for a contract of one year, and 17½d for a contract for the duration of the war and twelve months…

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