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

Farming & the land, 1952

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Cattle Breeders' State Contest

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 12 August 1952 · page 3

A State-wide beef cattle breeders competition has been promited by the Agricultural Bureau of N.S.W…

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Featherweight Wool Makes News In Paris

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 13 August 1952 · page 7

Featherweight wool fabrics are scoring enormous success in Paris this summer and range from delicate wool muslins to…

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New Act Should Help Stamp Out T.B. In Cattle

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 13 August 1952 · page 2

An Act which conies into force next month will do a great deal to eradicate tuberculosis in cattle, Mr…

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Two Men Charged with Sheep Stealing Sequel to Persistent Police Investigations

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 13 August 1952 · page 1

The culmination of persistent police inquiries into reports of single sheep disappearing from properties in the district was the arrest of two Crookwell men on Thursday…

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Move to Re-form Junior Farmer Club Successful Public Meeting Well Supported

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 13 August 1952 · page 1

The first hurdle along the road to successfully reviving the Junior Farmer Club in Crookwell and district, and arousing a greater public interest in the Junior Farmer movement, was successfully negotiated on Wednesday evening last when there was a good…

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P.P. Board's Help To Junior Farmers Taralga Project

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 13 August 1952 · page 2

The Junior Farmer movement should be encouraged, the Stock Inspector, Mr. F. Hildred, told Goulburn Pastures Protection Board yesterday after-noon…

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Wheat And Oat Crops Reduced

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 14 August 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: The State wheat and oat crop to be harvested this year will be from 300,000 to 400,000 acres less than last year, according to a report issued by the Agriculture Department…

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Hume Park Pleasure Resort Sold to Oberon Farmer

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 14 August 1952 · page 2

HUME PARK pleasure resort, 10 miles from Yass on the Murrumbidgee, which Charlie Robertson from a barren rabbit warren to a prosperous business, attracting tourists from all parts of the…

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Letters to the Editor Junior Farmers' Movement

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 14 August 1952 · page 2

Sir; I thank Mr. Mills for the information given in his letter of the 11th inst. and a pure him that I have no intention of…

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World Wants Wool

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 15 August 1952 · page 2

Referring to closing' wool sales of the Australian season, the Bradford correspondent of the Australian Wool Board states…

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More Sheep Mortalities This Year

Boorowa News · Friday 15 August 1952 · page 4

"Although Entero Toxaemia occurs much more frequently than Juandice, owners of non merino sheep…

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'Straying Sheep' Were Wrong Type

Boorowa News · Friday 15 August 1952 · page 3

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

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Road Tax Cut On Sheep Skins

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 15 August 1952 · page 3

Manager of Joppa Abattoits, Mr. A. E. Towns, told a meeting of Goulburn City Council last night that road…

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Sheep Thieves Active

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 18 August 1952 · page 8

Sheep thieves have been active of late at the Gilgandra trucking yards and have stolen a number of sheep from the trucks. Police…

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Big Sale of Stud Sheep

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 18 August 1952 · page 5

A Queensland pastoralist has paid nearly 10,000 for 453 pedigree sheep from the 72-year-old Haddon Rig merino stud at…

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U.S. Is Buying More Australian Wool

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 18 August 1952 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Sunday: Although the United States wool imports were down in the early months of this year, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa were talking a much larger share of the dollar wool…

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Dogs Causing Severe Sheep Losses YASS P.P. Board is concerned at reports of serious sheep losses by marauding dogs, mainly of the “nondescript mongrel” variety. Losses of up to £100 have occurred

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 18 August 1952 · page 1

Dir. G. Johnson said severe losses of sheep killed by dogs had been reported to him. One mat; had lost 40 good ewes, and in the…

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It's 'Back To The Farm' For Rhodes Scholar

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 19 August 1952 · page 3

Dr. R. C. R. Cuninghame, N.S.W. Rhodes Scholar for 1949; who has just returned from Oxford ford, says he plans to go back…

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Gunning Wool Building

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 20 August 1952 · page 8

At a meeting of Gunning P. A. and I. Society last week it was decided to erect a building to serve the dual purpose of…

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Wet Weather Complaints in Sheep

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 21 August 1952 · page 5

“This district has had a very wet autumn and winter, and stock have had to exist under very unpleasant weather conditions. The…

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