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

Farming & the land, 1950

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For District Graziers Details Of New Pastoral Award

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 10 May 1950 · page 4

The following details of the Federal Pastoral Award, to operate from May 22, have been supplied by the Graziers' Association of N.S.W. Details are:…

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Record Heights at Wool Auctions 124¼d For Pieces

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 10 May 1950 · page 4

Record heights were reached at Goulburn wool sales yesterday, when the last catalogue of the main selling season was submitted. compared with the last…

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High Prices For "Somervale" Dairy Herd

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 10 May 1950 · page 1

Exceptionally good prices were realised for registered cows and heifers at last Saturday's sale of the well-known Somervale dairy herd, on behalf of Messrs. G. and H. Churchill, of Kialla Road, Crookwell…

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Feeding of Sheep

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 11 May 1950 · page 3

Young sheep or weaners fed on these relatively calcium-deficient rations, fail to develop normally. Their growth is…

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Pay Increases for Pastoral Workers

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 11 May 1950 · page 2

Substantial pay increases for about 50,000 employees in the pastoral industry in all States, except Queensland, were granted by Mr. J. R. Donovan, Federal Conciliation Commissioner, in an interim award issued in…

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Goulburn Wool Sales Market Soars to Record Levels

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 11 May 1950 · page 5

The last Catalogue of the main selling season was submitted by Farmers & Graziers’ in Goulburn on 9th May, when a Catalogue of…

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Junior Farmers “Quiz” by Mr. V. Jelliman

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 11 May 1950 · page 2

A meeting of Yass Junior Farmers was held in the Memorial Hall last Saturday. There were twelve present, also Messrs N. C. Barber…

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Worms Cause Losses in District Sheep Inspector Recommends Routine Drenches

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 May 1950 · page 6

Large stomach worm and Black Scour worm are both causing losses in sheep throughout the Boorowa…

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Body Strike in District Sheep "One Of The Worst Outbreaks On Record"

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 May 1950 · page 7

Recent excessive rains in this district have led to one of the worst outbreaks of body strike on record…

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Butter and Tea Coupons

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 15 May 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY: The Minister for Trade and Customs, Senator N O'Sullivan, announced in Canberra last night that butter and…

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Sheep Losses Fewer Deaths In Surgical Births

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 15 May 1950 · page 1

PITTSBURGH: A panel of leading American baby doctors reports birth by caesarean section—surgical delivery of a baby—has become safer for a mother than for her child…

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Wheat Research Institute Move At Wagga

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 15 May 1950 · page 1

The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. E. H. Graham, M.L.A., will perform the ceremony of unveiling the foundation" stone of…

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Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 16 May 1950 · page 8

Goldsbrough Mort and Co., Ltd., report included in their No. 15 catalogue a good selection of top-making wools from…

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Rise in Wool Prices Short Supplies Responsible

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 16 May 1950 · page 2

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report:—The rise in wool values at May sales puts the market on record post-war levels. In Bradford the highest point previously recorded for average 64's merino tops was 145d last January. The price now is 158d…

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Sydney Sheep Show

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 17 May 1950 · page 2

There will be a strong Interstate flavour about the Sydney Show from May 25 to 27 next, Victoria being strongly…

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Wheeo News Stud Cattle

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 17 May 1950 · page 4

At a recent dispersal sale of stud Hereford stock at "Midgeon", Mr. Culley, of Woodbine Park, Wheeo, purchased two stud heifers, both…

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Red Cross Wool Drive Finalised

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 18 May 1950 · page 2

The Yass Red Cross wool committee finalised the drive for wool this week when two bales of wool consigned to Grazcos for…

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Girl, 23, to Take Cattle 1400 Miles

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 May 1950 · page 5

A 23-year-old girl has taken charge of droving 1,250 cattle 1,400 miles from the Kimberleys district in Western…

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Local Wool Brings Over £5,000,000

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 19 May 1950 · page 1

Over 58,000 bales of wool, valued at about £5,000,000, were sold in Goulburn in the season just concluded. Mr. Harry Bladwell, manager of Farmers and Graziers,…

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To the Editor a Word to Wool-growers

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 May 1950 · page 1

Sir,—The younger generation of woo]growers, won't remember the time when, for every 112 lbs. of wool we sold the buyer…

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