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

Farming & the land, 1948

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 23 September 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY: At the wool sales in Sydney yesterday the market was unchanged from the previous day. The Sydney wool selling…

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Wheat Referendum

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 September 1948 · page 8

Last week, your Branch President gave a brief review of both sides of the referendum issue. Now I wish to answer some of the…

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Wool Refund

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 September 1948 · page 4

The annual report of the Country Producers' Selling Company Limited published elsewhere in this issue, reveals that the trading profit for the…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 24 September 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY: Competition was shade wider yesterday at the closing wool sales of the week in Sydney. British and Continental buyers…

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General Wool Buying Supplies For All Quarters

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 September 1948 · page 8

"Ready sales of wool and practically full clearances at auction have been registered at Australian selling centres since the…

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Dairy Cows Registered

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 September 1948 · page 2

The total number of dairy cows (including heifers one year and over) in registered dairies in New South Wales at March 31, 1948, was 965,000,…

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Tore Drain Apart to Get Soap Australian Farmers In England

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 September 1948 · page 7

When an English housewife lost a tiny piece of soap down the drain her husband unscrewed the piping to find it again…

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Points in Classing of Sheep Various Features To Be Considered

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 27 September 1948 · page 8

However small the flock, periodical classing is necessary to ensure maximum returns. The following desirable characters should be kept mind when culling. 1.—Good strong heads,…

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Russia Breeds a New Sheep Result Of 13 Years' Work

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 27 September 1948 · page 7

Written specially for the International Wool Secretariat by Prof Ivan Kuznetsov. Director of the U.S.S.R. Institute of Animal Husbandry. In 1936 the U.S.S.R. Institute…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 28 September 1948 · page 6

SYDNEY: At the Sydney wool sales yesterday the market ruled from par to five per cent below the closing rates of last…

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3,000,000 Bags Of Wheat Waiting

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 28 September 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY: About three million bags of wheat from the last harvest will still be held at country railway yards by the…

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Committee to Help Junior Farmers

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 28 September 1948 · page 3

At a meeting held in the Bourke Street Public School, on Friday night, an adult advisory committee of the Goulburn…

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White Sheer Wool

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 29 September 1948 · page 2

Peignoir ensemble of white sheer wool—the robe lined with pink satin and a demure…

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Newcastle Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 29 September 1948 · page 1

NEWCASTLE: Almost full clearances were effected of 800 bales of star lots submitted by Winchcombe Carson Ltd. at…

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Season's First Wool Sale To-morrow

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 29 September 1948 · page 1

Although district shearing operations will not reach a peak until next month, Goulburn's first wool sale of the season will be held tomorrow when Farmers and Graziers will offer 3000 bales…

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Petrol For Farm Work: Farmers Can Apply to Bd

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 29 September 1948 · page 2

Primary producers who find that they will be unable to carry out essential operations on their reduced petrol ration…

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Decline in Wool Market Conservative Optimism In Note

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 30 September 1948 · page 5

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: Wool sales have been recently proceeding in Australia. London and elsewhere and the market has shown a decline. The reduction, however, is chiefly attributable to the difficulty millmen and merchants have…

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Newcastle Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 1 October 1948 · page 1

NEWCASTLE: Values at Newcastle wool sales were unchanged from the closing rates of Monday's sale in Sydney…

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Taralga Dairy Company Growing Distribution Centre

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 1 October 1948 · page 4

All the directors were present at the annual meeting of the Taralga Co-operative Dairy Co., held in the company's offices on Tuesday last. There was a fair attendance of shareholders. Messrs. W. B…

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Britain Harvests Her Crop

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 1 October 1948 · page 1

Sown in land waterlogged by the serious flooding which devastated large areas of Britain's farmlands during the spring of 1947, emergency crops of linseed are now being cut. The crop can be sown the later than other grains, so that, as well as…

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