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

Farming & the land, 1947

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Wool Prices and Wages New Year Sales

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 1 January 1947 · page 3

Wincheombe Carson Ltd., report:—Good selling prospects exist for New Year sales for well grown merinos…

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Milk Price Canberra Dairymen Favour Increase

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 1 January 1947 · page 2

Canberra dairymen are prepared to support the claim of metropolitan suppliers for a rise in the minimum price per gallon…

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Wheat Harvest in A.c.t

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 2 January 1947 · page 1

CANBERRA Wheat yielding six bags to the acre where a good season gives ten is being stripped from the fields in the A .C. T…

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Infertility of Sheep on Sub. Clover Pasture Management as Means of Control

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 7

A recent statement by the Western Australian Department of Agriculture describing further investigations concerning the detrimental effect observed on the reproductive processes of sheep heavily grazed on…

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Research Work Sheep And Wool

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 4

The Minister for Post-War Reconstruction referred to the programme of scientific and economic research being undertaken in…

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WOOL Is It Too High?

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 6

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: Demand for wool in Australia has been well sustained this season, although at any one time it has not…

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Promising Wool Outlook Special American Activity

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 4

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: Buyers have shown more discrimination in purchasing particular lots of wool at recent sales. It is…

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Extend for Ten Years Wheat Request By Harden F. & S. Wheat Scheme Supported by Mr. Sheahan

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 4

Harden Farmers and Settlers’ Association not only endorsed the Government’s wheat stabilization scheme but it…

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Excessive Clover And Losses In Sheep Concern Felt in Victoria

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 6

Loss of sheep through eating excessive clover has been reported in Victoria as well as in Western Australia and…

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Britain's Dwindling Farm Area About ½ Acre Per Person

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 6

"Much has been written and said concerning the land being our heritage," observes a news bulletin of the British Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. "To What." it asks, "does this heritage amount?"…

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The Tree Car Visual Education for Farmers

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 1

Some scientists genuinely fear sheer exhaustion of the world's cultivable soil and tracts of erosion of its surface such as…

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Wool Prospects Are Brighter Decline in Stocks

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 January 1947 · page 8

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report; Carry-over stocks of wool from the war years have not only dimished in the…

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£27,000 in Freight Wool Firm's Big Bill

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 January 1947 · page 5

The Farmers and Graziers' firm at Goulburn has paid out more than £27,000 to the Railway Department…

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Firm Seeks Sheep for D.d.t. Experimnent

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 9 January 1947 · page 3

It was announced in Goulburn yesterday that a well-known Australian firm is anxious to obtain at least 1000 sheep in the Taralga district to be used in experiments with a new dip which contains D.D.T…

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92,000 Bushels of Wheat At M'bah Flour Mill

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 9 January 1947 · page 1

Since their opening on December 3, about 92,610 bushels of wheat have been delivered to the silos at Murrumburrah Flour Mills. This makes a total of 30,870…

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Dutch Farmers Coming to Australia to Live

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 9 January 1947 · page 1

Some 50 farmers sons will emigrate from-Holland to Australia next May or June. It is to be hoped that they will be the…

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Junior Farmers to Tour North Coast

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 9 January 1947 · page 4

SYDNEY: The winning team of the recently conducted Junior Farmer Radio Speaking Contest will commence a conducted tour of the North Coast and New England districts tomorrow…

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U.S. Tariff on Wool

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 10 January 1947 · page 4

The change to Republican control in Congress is unlikely to result in higher tariffs on Australian or other Empire wool, in spite…

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Fairbridge Farm Boys

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 10 January 1947 · page 5

These boys of the Fairbridge Farm Preparation School in Britain are studying a map of Canada before their departure for the Farm School on Vancouver Island. This method of preparing suitable children of poor families for emigration to either Canada…

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Rising Costs In Sheep And Wool Industry

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 14 January 1947 · page 1

The effect of any general rise in costs is particularly important to the wool…

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