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

Farming & the land, 1948

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Wool Maximum for Coming Year

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 25 June 1948 · page 1

The National Council of Wool Selling Brokers of Australia announces, with the approval of the Australian Wool Realisation…

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Sheep Average 56/10 Per Head Boorowa Monthly Sale

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 June 1948 · page 1

A total yarding of 7,000 head of sheep at Messrs. W. M. Owyer and Company and Pitt, Son & Badgery Ltd., auctioneers In…

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A Season's Wool Rise' Skirtings Show Greatest Advance

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 June 1948 · page 2

WINCHOMBE Carson Ltd, report:— The Sydney wool season closed with values for average to best merino topmaking fleeces wools 46 per…

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More District Farmers and Graziers Should Be Interested Boorowa Branch of F. & S. Has Only 27 Members

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 June 1948 · page 1

Out of the large number of farmers and graziers of Boorowa district, only twenty-seven are members of the local branch,…

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Many Potato Crops Are Under Water

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 25 June 1948 · page 1

Many potato crops were under water in the Crookwell Taralga districts as a result of recent heavy rain, the District Agriculture Inspector (Mr. T. N. Powell) said to-day…

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Bad Roads A Cause For Farmers Leaving Land

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 25 June 1948 · page 4

SYDNEY: Farmers were leaving the land and schools were being closed because of the bad condition of country roads, delegates said at a meeting of the central executive of, the Primary Producers' Union…

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Farmer's Death

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 25 June 1948 · page 5

A well-known farmer of West Mandamah, near Ariah Park, died on Sunday from bullet wounds in the head. Police…

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Loss of Sheep in Goulburn District

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 28 June 1948 · page 2

Many sheep had died from tetanus following crutching and inoculation, the Goulburn Stock Inspector (Mr. F. Hildred) stated…

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Dairy Farm That Pays

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 28 June 1948 · page 3

On one 84-acre farm, milking 36 cows, cheques for five months have never been less than three figures according, to…

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Life And Work On A Sheep Property Mr. H. F. Prell Gives Benefit Of His Experience

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 28 June 1948 · page 4

It is well to be reminded sometimes how others live and have their being and at the Rotary Club meeting recently, members were taken for a time to a sheep property by Mr. H. F. Prell. of "Argunyah."…

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Wool in Brisbane

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 30 June 1948 · page 8

The C.P.S. Co. report: In Brisbane values generally were on a similar basis to those ruling at the closing sales in…

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Mice in Wheat Areas

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 30 June 1948 · page 4

Cold weather has driven field mice into homes and wheat stacks in some of the central and north-western townships of New…

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Branding of Sheep How It Is Viewed By Experts In Bradford

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 30 June 1948 · page 4

The Agent-General for N.S.W. Mr. J. M. Tully, writes enclosing, letters to him from Mr. E. J. Thompson, formerly, of the Queenbeyan-Yass, district, His remarks are of importance to all wool-men as Mr…

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Discreet Wool Fabrics An Offset To Extravagance In Parisian Design This Spring

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 30 June 1948 · page 3

Springtime in Paris and, women who make fashion news are wearing wool with worsted suitings, crepes, alpacas, jerseys and mousselines among their favourites…

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Rabbits Menace Mallee Crops

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 30 June 1948 · page 5

Rabbits are causing widespread damage to young wheat crops in the Mallec. Victorian Wheat and Wool Growers'…

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Have Farmers the Right to Strike? Poser For Mr. Chifley

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 30 June 1948 · page 6

The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) may be asked by the Farmers and Settlers' Association if farmers, when they have a just grievance,…

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Pastoral Wages Big Increase

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 1 July 1948 · page 2

About 40,000 workers in the pastoral industry in all States except Queensland are given large wage…

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Kangaroos and Sheep

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 1 July 1948 · page 3

“If the killing of kangaroos was stopped for five years it would do the sheep industry more harm than the dingoes ever…

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Wool Supply and Demand Merino Position Favours Sellers

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 1 July 1948 · page 3

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report:—The wool market has lost the special sport resulting from additional very keen Japanese and…

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Little Price Change Shown For British Wool Clip

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 1 July 1948 · page 2

Average price paid to farmers for the 1947 wool clip would be approximately the same as in 1946, about…

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