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

Farming & the land, 1941

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Local and General Tick Infested Sheep

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 1 May 1941 · page 2

P. C. Byfield, of Gundaroo, was prosecuted at Gunning, under the Stock Diseases Act, and fined £5 for allowing tick infected sheep to stray…

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DAIRYING Effects Of The War

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 2 May 1941 · page 3

The following notes upon the effect of the war on the dairying industry in England are taken from the Australian Milk and Dairy Products…

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Rain and Wheat Anxious Waiting

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 6 May 1941 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Mr. A. H. McDonald, chief of the division of plant industry in the Department of Agriculture, said to-day that the general…

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Diseased Cattle Compensation Question District Court Ruling

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 7 May 1941 · page 7

Since the year 1922 each selling agent at the Homebush market has deducted 1 per cent, from the price received for live…

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Wool Prices Upward Movement In America

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 7 May 1941 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report; An easing tendency in the New York Further to market has been replaced by an upward movement which has…

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Our Sheep Skins Quest for Markets New Uses Suggested

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 7 May 1941 · page 8

When France fell the market for nearly 70 per cent, of our exports of sheepskins was closed. The Australian Wool Board…

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Japan and Wool Sir Earle Page On The Barter System

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 7 May 1941 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The Minister for Customs, Sir Earle Page, in replying to Japan's expressed desire for bigger supplies of wool, points…

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Standardisation of Australian Farming Products

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 7 May 1941 · page 6

Speaking recently of the beneficial influence of agricultural shows on the quality of livestook and other primary products, Col, G. C…

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Irrigation Farming Relation of Salt Sterility to Bad Drainage

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 7 May 1941 · page 6

Bad drainage is a serious obstacle to successful irrigation practice, resulting in the land becoming water-logged and sour. It…

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Dairying and Pigs Silage Means Herd Insurance

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 7 May 1941 · page 7

A consideration which must weigh heavily In favour of silage is the insurance it offers against the loss of valuable cows during…

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Wheat Harvest Railway Returns

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 8 May 1941 · page 4

Only 421 bagged lots of wheat were received in the Goulburn railway district during last week, bringing the total number of bagged lots…

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Managing Director of Wool Firm Enlists

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 8 May 1941 · page 2

Mr. J. D. MacLeod, managing director of Pitt, Son & Badgery Ltd., has enlisted in the A.I.F., and is now in camp at Goulburn. During…

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Sheep Fly Problem Discussed By Young Graziers Appeal to C.l.S.R. for Decoy

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 8 May 1941 · page 6

The sheep fly pest came in for illuminating discussion at a meeting of the Young Graziers’ Association, the subject being opened up by…

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Wool Industry Annual Review

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 12 May 1941 · page 4

The 1939-40 clip was a record totalling 3,669,000 sales. Indications are that for the year ending June 30, 1941, the number…

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Wool and Meat Differing Results

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 14 May 1941 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: The May A Australian wool appraisements will proceed without any cause for fears in regard to values. It is…

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Wheat Traffic

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 15 May 1941 · page 4

Figures made available to-day by the Railway Department show that to Saturday last 989,050 bags of wheat had been received at the…

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Wool and Meat Contracts

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 15 May 1941 · page 6

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report:— The May Australian wool appraisements will proceed without any cause for fears in regards to values,…

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Stud Sheep Embargo Opposed By P.P. Board Spur of Competition

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 15 May 1941 · page 5

At the meeting of the Yass P.P. Board on Tuesday, the continuance of the embargo on merino stud sheep was opposed and…

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Paris Fashions In New York Headquarters Change : Wool Plays Big Part In Modes : Accessories

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 15 May 1941 · page 3

The famous Parisian dress resigner, Mainbocher, who hats transferred his headquarters to New York, informs his followers, per medium of "Life," that the long, sleek wearable lines of the clothes he used to chow in the French…

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All Wool Uniforms

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 16 May 1941 · page 7

Two young American privates, approximately the same age, but 20 years apart in army style. The soldiers on the left is wearing a uniform issued in 1918, the one on the right is wearing a 1940 uniform of woollen materials…

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