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

Farming & the land, 1940

1,125 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 33 of 57

Insufficient Rain Dairy Instructor's Report

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 16 July 1940 · page 6

Mr. A. T. R. Brown, senior dairy instructor in charge of the Dairy Branch district, Illawarra and Southern Tablelands, with headquarters at…

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Junior Farmer Activities

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 16 July 1940 · page 1

The Monteagle Junior Farmers' Club has 22 members, who have taken up different projects, viz., poultry, pigs, vegetables, flowers, bees, fat…

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Solid Rain Badly Needed Crops at Standstill; Feed Shortage

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 16 July 1940 · page 2

Lack of rain practically throughout N.S.W. is causing increased anxiety among crop growers and pastoralists…

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Wool Markets Crossbreds From S. America

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 17 July 1940 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., reported. The United States, though more or less isolated from European hostilities, can…

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Pastoral Award Another Sixpence For Shearers

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

The Full Bench of the Federal Arbitration Court on Tuesday issued an interim judgment in an application by the A.W.U. for a new award…

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Solid Rain Badly Needed Crops at Standstill--feed Shortage

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 18 July 1940 · page 1

Lack of rain practically through out N.S.W., is causing increased anxiety among crop growers and pastoralists…

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Special Sheep Sale

The Young Chronicle · Friday 19 July 1940 · page 2

Messrs. H. M. Troup and Co., stock agents of Young, draw the attention of all graziers to the large special sheep sale to be held at Young next…

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Wool Appraisements

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 July 1940 · page 8

The Country Producers' Selling Co. Ltd. report on the 11th July:—Shearing is now in full swing in the North-west and Western districts…

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Wool Appraisements

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 July 1940 · page 5

Schute Bell Badgery Lumby Ltd. report on July 17th:—With the new wool appraisement season due to commence in a month…

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Wool Exams

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 19 July 1940 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: Following are the results of the 2nd Year Sheep and Wool Certificates Examination conducted by the Sydney Technical…

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Rats and Mice Attack Stacked Wheat

The Young Chronicle · Friday 19 July 1940 · page 1

Millions of mice and hundreds of large rats have damaged almost every bag of wheat in the stacks between West Wyalong and Lake Cargellico,…

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Sheep Blowfly Control Selective Breeding the Mules Operation

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 July 1940 · page 6

Blowfly strike in merino sheep may be reduced by subjecting them to what is known as the Mules operation…

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American Wool Markets Crossbreds From South America

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 July 1940 · page 8

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report on the 16th instant:—The United States, though more or less isolated from European…

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Send in Your Wheat Form Failure May Result In £20 Fine

The Young Chronicle · Friday 19 July 1940 · page 2

Farmers who recently received wheat statistic forms are reminded that they should be filled in and returned to the police immediately…

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Farming Facts By C. Walkden-Brown, Cowra District Agricultural Instructor

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 July 1940 · page 6

HOPPING INTO IT! Our grasshopper problem seems very limited to that of America. In U.S.A. swarms may be uniformly scattered…

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Farm for Ulse of W.a.n.s

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 22 July 1940 · page 2

The Government of New South Wales has placed Scheyville Farm, at Windsor, at the disposal of the Women’s Australian National…

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Sale of Sheep for War Fund

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 23 July 1940 · page 1

CROOKWELL: At the Crookwell saleyards on Friday, the N.Z. Loan and M.A. Co., Ltd., sold 26 sheep on behalf of the Jerrawa branch of the…

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Notice to Quit Case Against Dairyman

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 23 July 1940 · page 1

At the close of a lengthy tenancy issue at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday, William Charles Howarth Redman, dairyman,…

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Wool Report

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 24 July 1940 · page 6

Schute, Bell, Badgery, Lumby, Ltd., report: SYDNEY, July 17. -- With the new wool appraisement season due to…

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Control of Wool Suppliers And Consumers

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 24 July 1940 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: In Australia, those interested in wool are anxious to see a steady flow of shipments maintained in the first…

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