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

Farming & the land, 1952

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Work on Wheat Silo Deferred

Boorowa News · Friday 1 August 1952 · page 1

The Boorowa Shire Council last week received notice from Mr. E. Graham, Minister for Agriculture, per Mr…

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Cheque for Wool Cut in Half

Boorowa News · Friday 1 August 1952 · page 6

The Australian wool cheque for 1951-52 season was £307, 787,401. This was less than he If the cheque for the boom year 1950-51 (£636,330,574), but was still the second larg-est in history…

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Heavy Horses Disappear From Our Farms Urgent Warning To Breeders

Boorowa News · Friday 1 August 1952 · page 8

Heavy horses are so fast disappearing from our rural Countryside that in six or eight years time the youngest of Them still at work will be over 15 years of age. A Denartment of Agriculture…

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Sheep Dog Trials Decision Deferred

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 4 August 1952 · page 2

The P. .& A. committee on Saturday night deferred a decision on the date of the 1953 sheep dog trials at Yass…

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Selecting a Good Type of Dairy Calf

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 4 August 1952 · page 4

If a calf is to mature into a good dairy cow it should poshes all the physical requirements necessary in an animal which will be expected to produce a large output of milk season after season—according to an article in the latest issue of the “Herd Recorders’ Letter,” published by the Department of Agriculture…

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Govt. Help Reduced For Farm Blocks

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 4 August 1952 · page 2

The Minister for Lands (Mr. Hawkins) to-day released details of cuts in financial aid for soldier settlers under the war service land settlement scheme. Principal cuts apply to…

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Junior Farmers To Meet This Month

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 5 August 1952 · page 1

Young people in the 15 to 25 age group will be invited to attend a meeting this month to revive Junior Farmers' Club activities in Goulburn…

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Sheep Mustering

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 4

We understand there are several ways in which you can, muster sheep, but the lass concerned in the following incident…

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Local Wool Store Will Be One Of Australia's Finest

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 7 August 1952 · page 2

Goulburn will have one of the largest and most modern wool stores in the Commonwealth when a building at present being erected in Sloane Street is completed…

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Letters to the Editor Railway and Tax: Junior Farmers: Colours

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 7 August 1952 · page 2

To-day's mailings to the Editor include comments on the Railways and road tax, the Junior Farmers' Movement, and a quip about Belmore Park and its colour scheme…

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Vic. Crop Prospects

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 7 August 1952 · page 1

A deep green carpet nearly 6in. thick is waving to-day over Malee wheat lands, where a prospective record crop is growing…

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Farmer Killed In Shooting Affray

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 7 August 1952 · page 3

LEETON: A retired farmer was shot dead and a share farmer was seriously wounded in a shooting affray on a farm at…

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Wool Review

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 7

After more mature consideration the wool trade is now less apprehensive regarding the probability of a sharp slump in wool values…

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"Miracle" Fibres Still Need Wool

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 7

Although the newly-arrived and self-designated "miracle' man-made, fibres were still being produced in; what represented laboratory quantities, at least 75 per cent. of them were already being blended with wool to…

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Wage Spiral Might Price Out Even Our Farmers

Boorowa News · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 5

What happens to Australia when even the primary producer is "priced"' out of business - when his…

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Former Junior Farmer Heads Advisory Group

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 1

A former junior farmer was on Wednesday night elected president of Crookwell Junior Farmers' Club Advisory Committee. He is Mr. Pierce Campbell of…

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Wool Outlook Improving

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 11 August 1952 · page 5

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report: Although no greatly revived trade in goods made from wool is evident, the raw material…

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“Straying Sheep” Were Wrong Type

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 11 August 1952 · page 1

Father McKenna, of Braidwood, and formerly of Yass, got the shock of his life the other Sunday…

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Farmers Should Breed Fish

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 11 August 1952 · page 4

New South Wales farmers should consider fish as a sideline, an Agricultural Bureau official contended last…

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To the Editor J. Farmers' Movement

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 11 August 1952 · page 2

Sir: On behalf of the Junior Farmers' Club movement in N.S.W. I wish to draw attention to matters in your editorial of…

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