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

Farming & the land, 1950

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Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 13 September 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY: At the Sydney wool sales yesterday, 16,211 bales were catalogued. At auction 16,098 bales were sold and the…

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Price of Wool

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 13 September 1950 · page 4

It is just as well that the chairman of the Australian Wool Growers' Council, Mr. R. D. Bakewell, has…

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£9'15' for Yard of 1000 Sheep

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 13 September 1950 · page 1

Sheep prices soared at a special sale conducted in Goulburn yesterday by Farmers and Graziers…

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For the Small Farmer

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 13 September 1950 · page 5

A demanstration of new equipment intended for the use of the small farmer was recently held under the auspices of the Worcestershire Agricultural Executive Committee at a farm near Evesham. This picture shows one of the machines…

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Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 14 September 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY: Prices for comeback and crossbred wools moved at times in sellers' favour at the Sydney wool sales yesterday…

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£7371 for 702 Sheep in Paddock

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 14 September 1950 · page 1

WHAT is probably a record sale of sheep in the paddock here was effected last Saturday when £10/10/- per head was secured for 702 four tooth wethers, on account of Mr. T.R. Heffernan, of “The Poplars,” Gunning…

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£5 Million Yass Wool Clip Cheque

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 14 September 1950 · page 1

A group of Yass graziers and businessmen started doing some pencilling over their beers in a pub…

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Loading Wheat in U.s.a

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 15 September 1950 · page 5

The photograph shows a hoist (left foreground) unloading from a Missippi River barge that was towed more than 1000 miles from the middentinental area of the United States, The marine equipment used for the unloading operation scoops…

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Keep an Eye Out for Wool Thieves

The Burrowa News · Friday 15 September 1950 · page 1

Several thefts of wool have been reported to the police in country districts in the past twelve months, and as wool…

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£88/2/9 Per Acre for Tumut Plains Farm

The Burrowa News · Friday 15 September 1950 · page 2

Messrs. A. J. Downing and Herron, Webb and Holmes, auctioneers in conjunction, submitted for sale by public auction, the…

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Smuggling Sheep

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 18 September 1950 · page 5

MELBOURNE: Police will patrol small country roads on the N.S.W. -Victorian border in an attempt to stamp out sheep…

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Wool Research

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 18 September 1950 · page 3

WOOL is being replaced by synthetic fibres, says Professor T. G. Hunter, Professor of Chemical…

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Wool Levy Protest Meeting

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 18 September 1950 · page 1

A protest meeting, called by the Binda branch of the N.S.W. Graziers' Association will be held in the Crookwell School…

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Mr. McEwen In London For Wool Conference

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 18 September 1950 · page 5

LONDON, Mon.: The Australian Minister for Commerce and Agriculture, Mr. McEwen, arrived in London yesterday by air to attend the International Wool Conference, opening on October 2…

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Radios on Farms

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 18 September 1950 · page 5

Most of the 2200 local radio stations in the United States begin in the day with market news, weather forecasts and music of special interest to the farmers of their area. Farmers who get up early to milk their cows and tend to other chores, are…

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Bredbo Sheep Competition

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 19 September 1950 · page 3

A crowd, estimated to be around 150, heard Mr. B. J. Fitzsimons, Goulburn Sheep and Wool Instructor, give his…

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Wool Buyers Object to Decentralisation the Reply

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 19 September 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY: The chairman of the Australian Council of Woolbuyers, Mr. W. H. Lempriere, said woolbuyers were opposed to the extension of country wool-selling centres…

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Letters to the Editor Wool Plan Levy

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 19 September 1950 · page 3

Sir,—As a wool grower of many years, I am astounded that some people including the responsible. Minister,…

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Stud Cattle Equal Best

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 20 September 1950 · page 8

Mr. John Rymill, well-known cattle breeder and former Antarctic explorer, said on his return to…

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Wool Rises Again at Brisbane

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 20 September 1950 · page 5

BRISBANE: At the opening 1950-51 wool-sales here to-day prices generally were 50 to 60 per cent higher than at closing…

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