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

Farming & the land, 1940

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SABOTAGE? Explosion Near A Sub-Station at Warwick Farm

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: A gelignite bomb to which a long fuse was attached was used in an tempt to destroy the electric…

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Wool Report

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 4

The Farmers & Graziers’ Co-operative Co. Ltd. reports on the tenth instant: Our Appraisement Catalogue No. 10 comprising 12,638 bales, was…

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Wool Appraisements

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 1

Schute Bell Badgery Lumby Limited report: The Central Wool Committee has now issued a statement to the effect that for the first half of…

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Wheat Men on Strike at Dubbo

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 7

DUBBO, Monday: About 60 motor lorry drivers staged a "sit-down" strike at Eumungerie siding to protest against "aggravated delays" in…

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Bound Over for Three Years Sheep Stealing At Tallong

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 1

"Sheep stealing is so easy to accomplish and so hard to detect, particularly in these rough mountainous country places," remarked the P.M., Mr. M. J. Ryan, at the Goulburn Police Court on Friday when, at the close of…

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Farmer Offers Everything To His Country

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 January 1940 · page 1

A farmer in Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, has written to the Voluntary Registration Bureau at Ottawa. says Exchange, offering his…

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Wool Report

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 17 January 1940 · page 2

The Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Co., Ltd., reports on the 10th instant: Our Appraisement Catalogue No…

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Sheep Fly Dressing New Compound Satisfactory

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 17 January 1940 · page 6

SYDNEY, wednesday: Tests carried out with a new sheep-fly dressing compound by officers of the McMaster Laboratory have given…

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Wheat Sale 56 Million Bushels for United Kingdom

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 17 January 1940 · page 8

The sale to the United Kingdom of 56,000,000 bushels of wheat and 150,000 tons of flour at a price which is regarded as very…

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Australian Wool Clip Advantages Of Sale To Britain

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 17 January 1940 · page 7

Winchcombe Carson Limited report: The wool market in the United States and elsewhere has not shown signs of booming. The…

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Wool to 3O½d

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 2

The Farmers and Graziers’ Co-operative Company Ltd. reports that prices realised at their appraisement on Tuesday included on account E…

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Australia’s Wool Sale Its Advantages

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 5

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report 16/1/1940:— The wool market in the United States and elsewhere has not shown…

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Bulk Wheat Storage Sudden Change In Policy

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 7

An air of mystery surrounds the Australian Wheat Board's decision not to stroke bulk wheat at different points in the…

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Sale of Wheat to Britain 3s. 9d. a Bushel Expected. for 15,000,000 BUSHELS

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 4

It is anticipated that within the next few days an agreement will be reached between Australia and Great Britain for the sale of portion…

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Junior Farmers Tablelands To Coast

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 1

The first of a series of Inspection tours by members of the Tablelands branches of the Junior Farmers' movement is at present…

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Are Killing Their Cows British Farmers Cant Get Fodder London (by Air Mail)

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 2

English farmers, who are being asked to grow more food and to breed more cattle, are complainting that, because of the…

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Junior Farmers’ Tour

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 2

Misses M. and F. Crowe, members of the Junior Farmers’ Club, and Gordon Butt, secretary, Murrumbateman branch, are touring with…

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Local and General Junior Farmers’ Field Day

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 2

The field day which was to be held by the Murrumbateman branch of the Junior Farmers’ Club, on January 23, has been abandoned as…

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Planting Of Trees Riverina Young Farmers' Work

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 3

One of the projects worked by junior farmers in the Riverina is tree planting. Since the clubs were established…

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Leguminous Crops Improving The Soil

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 3

in any scheme of cropping designed to maintain the fertility of the land, the group of plants know as legumes (of which the best known are lucerne, clovers, cowpeas, field peas, vetches, lupins, soy-beans and peanuts) must play the major…

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