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

Farming & the land, 1950

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British Sheep Show

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 2 January 1950 · page 1

The second annual British Breed sheep show and sales will be held at the Recreation Area on Thursday, January 12…

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Wheat Flattened

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 2 January 1950 · page 2

A 40-miles-an-hour gale late yesterday afternoon flattened thousands of acres of wheat, and unroofed farm buildings…

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Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 2 January 1950 · page 3

The Country Producers Selling Company Ltd. Report: The wool trade is at present passing through a short recess. Business…

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Farms in America

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 3 January 1950 · page 3

Four out of five United States farms are now electrified. Recently (November 1949) the three-millionth rural consumer began receiving power from lines financed by the Rural Electrification Administration, an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture…

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Wheat Harvest

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 2

Wheat crops in the Wimmera and Mallee, Victoria, are so big that they are filling the silos quicker than the railways can…

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Wool Delays

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 2

A ban on overtime by storemen at several wool-dumping stores was seriously delaying the shipment of wool overseas, it…

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Gunning Wool Brings 143d

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 3

Whencombe carson, Ltd. report having sold 9,300 bales, of wool at their Sydney auctions on Tuesday, December 20; when values were…

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Record Load of Wool

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 1

A record load of wool was hauled into the crookwell Railway yards Just prior to,Christmas by Messrs G Thorn and…

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21,449 Sheep Averaged 519 Per Head

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 6

Goldsbrough Mort & Coy. Ltd., report having conducted their Annual Special Off Shears Sheep Sale at Goulburn on Tuesday,…

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17-Year-old Farmer in a Review

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 2

The following interesting article has been written by Robert Sonter, 17-year-old Junior Farmer from Cooranbong Club. The world to-day is totering…

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Australian Wheat

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 8

Wheat deliveries in all States to date from this season's crop total about 122 m. bushels, said Mr. F. H. R. Cullen, Chairman…

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WOOL New Zealand Loan Report

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 2

On Tuesday, December 20, New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited brought forward a…

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Five-Year Dairy Plan Demonstrations On Farms In Wagga District

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 8

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. E. H. Graham) recently released details of the progress made in the Wagga district under the New South Wales Government's five-year plan for…

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Stud Sheep Farm

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 10 January 1950 · page 1

More than 120 Border Leicester sheep from the Bulganna stud at Coldstream, Victoria, were sold at Dubbo last week…

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Cattle for Royal Show

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 7

All dairy and beef cattle entries for the Royal Easter Show on April 1 to 12 must be in by February 13 next. The…

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Wool Position Sound

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 6

No auction sales have taken place in Sydney since 21st December, but there has been a sustained enquiry, from…

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Nearly 400 Sheep For Exhibition

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 4

Nearly 400 rams, comprising stud and flock Emperor Leicesters, Romneys, South-downs and Dorset. Horn…

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Those New Cattle Yards Generous Offer by A. A. McIntosh

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 1

Although the site of the proposed new cattle yards at the Crookwell Showground was decided upon at a meeting of the A.P. & H. Committee late last year, the generous offer made by the Society's patron, Mr. A. A…

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Crookwell Dairy Co-Op. Expands

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 7

By a recent decision at a Board of Directors meeting the Crookwell Dairy Co-operative Society intends expanding their…

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Drenching Sheep for Worms: Precautions

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 3

Sheep being drenched for worms should be kept in a standing position with head held horizontally or slightly raised, points out the Dvision of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture…

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