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

Farming & the land, 1952

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Sheep Market Firm

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 11 September 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: Thursday: over 25,000 sheep were, yarded at Homebush to-day. The market was unaltered. Lambs…

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Goulburn Sheep Skin Auctions

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 11 September 1952 · page 1

Farimers and Graders, Goulburn, submitted a very attractive catalogue of 9091 skins on Tuesday…

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Wool Prices Firm

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 11 September 1952 · page 3

Firm prices ruled for 14,462 bales of wool at Brisbane yesterday when a complete clearance was effected…

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District Wheat Crops Menaced by Heavy Growth of Weeds

Boorowa News · Friday 12 September 1952 · page 8

If the late Spring season is dry, says the District Agronomist (Mr. F. Autry-Hall) in his report for August, wheat crops will face very severe competition from weed growth. Mr. Autry-Hall said weed growth was now assuming…

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Cattle Comp. in Young District

Boorowa News · Friday 12 September 1952 · page 8

Beef farmers in the Young P.P. District have been asked to enter a competition to stimulate greater interest in the…

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Special Sheep Sale for Sept. 24

Boorowa News · Friday 12 September 1952 · page 8

A special off-shears sheep sale will be conducted at Boorowa on Wednesday, September 24. Already there are 4,000…

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Good Wool Average at Sydney Sales

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 12 September 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: Wool values at the opening of Sydney sales last week had the highest average since February this year, although the market was quoted as being below, June closing rates…

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Broke Leg Working on Wool Press

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 15 September 1952 · page 3

When preparing for shearing yesterday, the top of a wool press slipped and struck Mr. Athol Davis of Murrumbateman, on the leg…

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Atomic Plants To Power Farms In 5-10 Years

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 15 September 1952 · page 3

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Sunday: Atomic plants to power farms and industries could be in operation in the next five to 10 years, a leading American Physicist, Professor William Watson, of Yale University, said…

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Wool Prices

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 16 September 1952 · page 3

Prices for broader merino wools fell five per cent at Sydney sales yesterday, but values for comeback and crossbred types were…

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Cattle Disease in South

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 16 September 1952 · page 5

Dairy herds in the Wagga and surrounding districts have so far not been affected by the milk fever and allied ailments which…

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More Trees For Farms

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 16 September 1952 · page 3

A farm without trees is bleak, barren and forbidding. If such a farm is still fertile and profitable, then the owner is fortunate…

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First London Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 17 September 1952 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday: First sales of the new London, wool selling season opened yesterday on a…

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[?]Empt to Form Junior Farmer Club Fails or Response by Young People

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 17 September 1952 · page 1

The attendance at the meeting called Thursday evening last to form a branch of Junior Farmer movement in Crookwell s so poor that it was impossible to proceed…

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Dogs Kill Sheep

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 18 September 1952 · page 3

A report from Lithgow yesterday stated that landholders at Bowenfels had formed the Bowenfels Dog Destruction…

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Pleuro Pneumonia In Cattle

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 18 September 1952 · page 6

Cattle in seven southern New South Wales districts have been affected recently by pleuropneumonia. The disease was spread by…

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Wool Market More Buoyant

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 18 September 1952 · page 6

Winchcombe Carson wired yesterday: We sold 10,600 bales of wool at auction and privately at our Sydney sale on Tuesday. The…

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28,000 Ex-soldiers “Wait for Farms”

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 18 September 1952 · page 4

MR. HAYLEN (LAB., N.S.W.) TOLD THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THAT 28,000 QUALIFIED EX-SERVICEMEN WERE WAITING FOR FARMS IN NEW SOUTH WALES…

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Editorial It's Up to the Farmers

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 18 September 1952 · page 2

Recent negotiations between primary producers and the Government regarding food production programmes have revealed a glaring weakness in the ranks of producers…

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Farm Experts Study Land Credit In U.S.

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 18 September 1952 · page 3

Farm representatives of 34 countries will meet with American officials in Washington from September 29 to…

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