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

Farming & the land, 1947

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EELWORM Mustard Crop Control

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 22 July 1947 · page 5

Interesting reference to the problem of eelworm disease In potatoes is made by Mr. A. C. Orman, Special Agricultural…

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'Roos Do Damage to Bendigo Farms

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 22 July 1947 · page 1

BENDIGO: Mobs of kangaroos are doing so much damage to farms on the outskirts of the city that land-holders are…

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Sheep and Wool Examination

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 23 July 1947 · page 6

The following were candidates at the Technical College Sheep, and Wool examination held at Taralga Public School…

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"Queen Mary" to "Wear Wool"

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 23 July 1947 · page 3

Welsh all-wool quality furnishing fabrics are being featured in the post-war glamour refit now being carried out in the…

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2000 Sheep Average 526 at Braidwood Disposal Sale

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 23 July 1947 · page 2

On Saturday week last there was a large attendance of buyers and spectators at the disposal sale af the whole of the flock of high-class merino sheep…

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For the Man on the Land Sheep Classing: Characters Desirable In a Flock

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 23 July 1947 · page 2

However small the flock, periodical classing should be a feature of its management if it is to give maximum returns. The following desirable…

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No Shortage of Wool Packs Delegate's Assurance To Graziers' Meeting Delegate's Report Adopted

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 23 July 1947 · page 8

Eleven members of the Binda Branch of the Graziers' Association assembled at the Binda Hall on Tuesday night of last week to receive reports from their delegate to the 29th Annual Conference held in…

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Gundagai's First Crop

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 23 July 1947 · page 1

In mid-September next, the first asparagus from the Dalkeith farm of the Batlow Co-op. will be harvested. This will be the…

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Team of Farmers to Go on World Tour Plan Arranged by Rural Bank

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 23 July 1947 · page 1

The U.S.A., Canada, and Great Britain will be toured by three New South Wales farmers under a plan of the Rural Bank of' N.S.W. An economist will accompany the team…

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Taralga Dairy Co. Ltd. Giant Responsibilities Invoked In Maintaining Milk Supplies

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 23 July 1947 · page 6

Figures released by the Board of Directors of the Taralga Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd. give some indication of the high standard of organisation entailed in the present set-up, and of the…

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Australia's Record Wool Clip Volume Below But Prices Were High

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 24 July 1947 · page 1

The Australian 1946-47 wool clip will realise £95 million, easily a record return for this or any other country. Volume of 3,100,000 bales is considerably below the…

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A Tumblong Sheep Grows Grass on Its Back

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 July 1947 · page 1

On Mr. M. G. Smart's property at Tumblong is a Corriedale Wether which besides growing wool is also sporting an excellent crop of grass…

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District Graziers Asked to Give Fleeces From Black Sheep

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 July 1947 · page 1

Farmers and graziers of Boorowa district are asked to donate fleeces from the black sheep on their-properties to the war…

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Wool Demand Is Now Stronger Japan in the Market

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 25 July 1947 · page 8

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: A definite strengthening in the demand privately for the better merino fellmongered…

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How It Works Farmers and Settlers' Association

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 July 1947 · page 7

Early next month men from all the branches of Rural Industry and from every corner of the State, will be gathering in…

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Scene on U.s. Farm

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 30 July 1947 · page 1

The best farming country in America will be visited by the winners of the Rural Bank's Progressive Farmer Competition This photo of "Croushocks and Ge[?]ees" on a farm near Marlon Virginia. Published in support of the competition, was supplied…

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Taralga Farm Machinery Pool Passes to P.G. Co-op. Society Agreement Completed

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 30 July 1947 · page 6

On 23rd July a meeting of directors of Taralga Potato. Growers' Co-operative Society attended by Messrs Donald…

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Scoured Wool Showed Rise Average of 74 per cent

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 31 July 1947 · page 1

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: The average price secured for wool in Australia during the past season offers an illustration of the degree to which the world is at present short of plants for the treatment and…

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Trained Men Needed in Farming Science and Agriculture

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 31 July 1947 · page 1

In all countries there is an ever-increasing need for trained agriculturists. In a country, such as New Zealand, technical agriculture should offer the best of openings to the cream of our University students. We…

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Pudman News Fox Corners Sheep

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 August 1947 · page 6

Whilst Ned Fuller was driving along in his truck be noticed a fox which, bad several of Mr Frost's sheep and lambs in a corner of the…

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