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

Farming & the land, 1949

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Rain Good for Fruit Crop

The Burrowa News · Friday 23 September 1949 · page 6

Commenting on the recent fall of rain, the District Fruit Inspector, Mr. S. A. Thornell, said that it had been remarkably good, and…

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Sheep Moved

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 26 September 1949 · page 2

WALGETT: Graziers in this district have moved their sheep to safer ground as the Namoi River…

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Wool Statistically Strong To-day Demand Still Exceeds Supply

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 27 September 1949 · page 3

WINCHCOMBE CARSON Ltd. report: Wool has sold freely under a fully adequate flow of orders but prices for merinos have been about on the levels prevailing in October and May of last season, the lowest point of that selling year…

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Wool for Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 28 September 1949 · page 1

Large quantities of wool are being received at Goulburn for marketing in the coming season…

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Wool Not on Previous Peak Prices Good Demand Continues

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 28 September 1949 · page 8

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report: The well distributed demand experienced for wool since sterling and other currencies were devalued has given a fillip to wool values, but has not carried them to the peak levels recorded in September, 1948,…

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Additional Wheat Silos Wanted for Boorowa

The Burrowa News · Friday 30 September 1949 · page 1

Additional wheat silos are required at Boorowa Railway Station to handle the season's harvest…

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Tick Infested Sheep in Sale Yards Inspectors Will Stop Auction Sale

The Burrowa News · Friday 30 September 1949 · page 6

Stock inspectors have been instructed to stop the sale of tick infested sheep at any auction sale, stated, Mr. K. V…

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From Everywhere Butter Coupons

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 October 1949 · page 2

The Deputy-Director of Rationing Mr. E. E. Ford, said last night that he had ordered an inquiry into a reported…

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'Junior Farmers' Film Night

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 October 1949 · page 3

A film programme at Bourke Street School last Wednesday night was well attended by members of the Goulburn…

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Merryville-tooraweenah Wool

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 4 October 1949 · page 2

The Laurel Hills clip from Merryville Pty. Ltd., Tooraweenah was offered at Winchcombe Carson’s Sydney wool auction on…

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Electric Wool-Clippers Can Kill

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 October 1949 · page 6

A boy of seventeen was cleaning the blades of an electric sheep-shearing machine. He chanced to touch an iron fence…

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Wool and the Dollar Pacific Freights Now Up

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 October 1949 · page 5

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: Some contrasting experiences have been noticeable in wool values since devaluation of sterling and other currencies occurred. In Australia and other sterling areas prices moved upward. The New York Futures market trended…

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Hunter River Farmers in Despair Excessive Rain, Following Flood, Prevents Work

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 October 1949 · page 5

Because of the continued wet weather, many farmers, especially on the Lower Hunter and coastal areas, are beginning to despair of ever getting their land cultivated and cropped again…

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DAIRYING Herd Production

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 October 1949 · page 3

The Division of Dairying Department of Agriculture, supplies the following information under the rules…

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New Cattle Yards at Showground Difference About Suitable Site

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 5 October 1949 · page 4

Members of the committee of the A., P. and H. Society appear to be generally agreed as to the necessity for the erection of new cattle yards at the Crookwell showground,…

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Chifley Govt. And Farm Prices

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 5 October 1949 · page 5

"Mr. Fuller, Socialist member for Hume, and the Federal Minister for Agriculture, Mr. 'Pollard,…

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Farmers' Wives in U.s.a. Sight See Together

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 6 October 1949 · page 7

American farmers' wives no longer dream of far-off places; they now. organise tours and go sightseeing together. All over the country, groups of Home Demonstration Club members charter…

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Sheep Dog Trials

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 7 October 1949 · page 4

At noon to-day, R. Wade's "Bonny" was leading in the vice sheep dog trial division with 92 points at the spring…

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Goldsbrough Mort Yard 9,500 Sheep

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 7 October 1949 · page 4

Gouldsbrodgh Mort and C o. Ltd. report having conducted a special sheep sale at Goulburn yesterday, when a yarding comprising approximately 9,500 sheep was on hand. With the exception of several…

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The Farmers & Graziers’ Co.-Op. Grain Insurance & Agency Co. Ltd. 30th SEPTEMBER, 1949. Wool Report

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 10 October 1949 · page 4

We submitted a catalogue of 7,620 bales on Thursday, 29th inst, drawn largely from the Central-Western portions of the…

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