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

Farming & the land, 1944

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Yass Wool at 28¾d. Tops Appraisement

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 February 1944 · page 1

Messrs. Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd. report: We submitted for final appraisement on Monday last, a most…

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100,000 Acres Swept by Fire Thousands Of Sheep And Miles Of Fencing Burnt

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 18 February 1944 · page 1

About 100,000 acres of grass lands have been swept by a fire in the country between the Burrowa River and the Lachlan River on Wednesday and Thursday. It is held up on the Lachlan, but is still…

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From EVERYWHERE Barrallier Wool

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 23 February 1944 · page 2

Barrallier district wool prices included. Talbot Bros., Bullio, 21½d; H. J. Lang, Rocklily, Wombeyan Caves, 19½d…

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Firm Demand For Irish Wool

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 23 February 1944 · page 1

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: The wool growers, in Eire have probably secured the greatest advance in prices for their product of any sheep owners in the world. Values for the Irish clip, have been the rec to four times present…

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Proved by Practice Mechanisation Scheme Boon to Dairy Farmers

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 23 February 1944 · page 6

(By the Hon. W. J. McKell, M.L.A., Premier of New South Wales) It gives me particular pleasure to be able to report that the Farm…

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Wool Report

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 4

The Farmers & Graziers’ Co-op. Co. Ltd. reports on 23rd inst:— We submitted our Appraisement Catalogue No. 129 on Monday,…

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Federal Milk Subsidy Scheme Under Fire Views Of Robertson Farmers

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 2

The manner in which the reported subsidy to dairymen supplying the City, of Sydney with milk is agitating the minds of suppliers was emphasised at the Robertson show on Saturday, When a deputation of local producers…

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Claim for Damages Lorry Hits Cattle

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 1 March 1944 · page 2

Francis Kenneth Wallis, cattle dealer and agent, of Kangaroo Valley and Samuel Nelson, dairyfarmer and…

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American Wool Imports Sold

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 1 March 1944 · page 4

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: Recently fairly large supplies of imported wool held in stock by the United States Government were sold by auction in Boston. Judging by the New York Futures top market, the sale has…

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Potato Crop Conditions Bad In South

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 1 March 1944 · page 1

Good rains provided favourable Conditions in most New England potato-growing areas and the outlook is…

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Farm Labour Corps

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 1 March 1944 · page 6

The Australian Agricultural Council, at its meeting in Canberra recently, recommended the formation of an emergency rural labour corps, from which…

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Mechanical Farming

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 1 March 1944 · page 6

"Farm mechanism is working satisfactorily in almost every centre in which it has been introduced," said Mr. A. H. E. McDonald, Chief of the…

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Special Sheep Sale Competition Keen

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 3 March 1944 · page 2

W. H. Wheatley report that at their special sheep sale yesterday over 26,000 sheep were yarded to a large and…

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Coupon Scale Farmers' Working Clothes

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 3 March 1944 · page 3

Many dairyfarmers have asked why they should not receive a special issue of clothing coupons such as is given to workers in…

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Labour on Farms Tribute To Old People

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 3 March 1944 · page 1

Speaking at a recent meeting, the general president of the Primary Producers' Union. (Mr. R. C. Gibson), paid a high…

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WOOL Restriction of Civilian Clothing

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 6 March 1944 · page 4

Pitt, Son & Badgery Ltd. write: Judging by English trade press discussions leading lights of the English textile trade view with…

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Wool And Rationing : Real Publicity

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 March 1944 · page 1

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: Probably the best advertisement wool has ever had is the ability of the British Empire people to be reasonably well clad despite the rationing, of the War years…

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Wool

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 9 March 1944 · page 4

Pitt, Son & Badgery Ltd. submitted at their appraisement on Tuesday a selection of well grown wools drawn chiefly from the Southern…

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Wool Report

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 9 March 1944 · page 4

The Formers & Graziers' Co-op. Ltd. reports on 3rd inst: Our Appraisement No. 130 was submitted on the 1st inst., and…

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More Vitamin a in Summer Butter

The Burrowa News · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 4

That butter produced in summer is a better source of vitamin A than winter butter is clear from a study made at the University of Wisconsin…

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