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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 4 of 57

POULTRY Green Feed Crops

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 2

The benefits to be derived from a satisfactory green feed crop can hardly be over-estimated, but on many farms insufficient attention is…

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

The Young Chronicle · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 6

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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Wool Report

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 4

The Farmers & Graziers Co-operative Co. Ltd. reports on the 18th instant: Our appraisement Catalogue No. 11. comprising 12,653 bales was…

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Wool Appraisements

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 1

Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd. report: Our catalogue in Appraisement No. 10, which was finalised on January 11. It was an attractive catalogue of…

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No Wheat Storage Facilities Complaint Comes From Farmers At Old Junee

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 2

The fact that there are no bulk wheat storage facilities available at Old Junee for second grade products is causing considerable hardship in…

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Anthrax In Cattle Linked With Death Of Drover

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 8

A serious outbreak of anthrax In cattle is believed to be directly connected with the death in the Narrandera District Hospital of…

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Nazi Ultimatum To War-Time Farmers

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 1

"No green fodder must be lost. Every blade of grass must be put to the best use." So runs an instruction which was given to German farmers recently. Conservation of fodder supplies is one of the main points in the Nazi…

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Wheat Bounty Final Payments

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 1

The Rural Bank, which is the wheat bounty distributing authority in this State, announces that the rate of the final payment has been…

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The War, Day by Day Wheat Prices

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 24 January 1940 · page 8

The British Government has acceded to a request from the Australian Wheat Board that the price of the 1,500,000 tons of wheat sold to…

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Wool in London Merino Clip Goes By Secret Route

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 24 January 1940 · page 8

LONDON (A.A.P.): A large part of the Australian merino wool clip has reached England by secret routes, according to the Daily Mail…

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Agricultural Bureau Formed at Peelwood Address by Wool Expert

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 24 January 1940 · page 6

A large attendance was present at the Peelwood Hall on Monday night last, when Mr. Crand, of the Department of Agriculture…

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Grass Our Greatest Crop Method Of Checking Deterioration

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 24 January 1940 · page 6

Grass is Australia's greatest crop, but farmers and graziers have come to realise in recent years that our grasslands are not as good as they used to be. In many areas they are rapidly deteriorating, and it is…

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Big Money For Wool

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 2

The G.W.M. Vale View Estate wool which was appraised last week, averaged 18[?]d per Ib. right throughout the…

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"Using" Sheep Defined Appeal Against Court's Decision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 8

In the Orange Court, on Friday, Mr. R. Donaldson, P.M., made a decision that is unique in Australian legal history. After argument for three…

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Sheep Perish In Bushfire Small Grazier’s Loss

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 2

Of the landowners who suffered loss in the disastrous bushfire last Sunday and Monday, the hardest hit is Mr. Vincent McKinnon. Half his…

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Duffy Bros., Wool and Skin Dealers

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 7

It may seem paradoxical to assert that it is harder to buy goods than it is to sell them, yet ill some cases this is quite true. A notable…

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H. A. DUPROY Wool & Skin Merchant

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 7

The South being, as it is, among the largest sheep raising areas of the State, it is pleasing to find that there is a progressive local business…

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Potato Outlook Review Of Inland Crops

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday: "Potato growing should be a much bigger and a much better organised industry than it is in this State,"…

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Farm Labor Shortage an Acute Problem

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 3

Shortage of farm labor, due to enlistments in the 2nd. A.I.F., to compulsory training, and to other causes, has created a problem…

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Producer Gas Plant Operating On Grenfell Farm

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 3

A producer gas plant is in successful operation on a Grenfell farm. Mr. S. T. Starr, of Grenfell, has…

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