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

Farming & the land, 1953

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New Wheat Plan Growers Will Have Early Vote

Boorowa News · Friday 7 August 1953 · page 3

The Minister for Agriculture and Food Production the Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A., said on his return…

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Junior Farmers' Club Advisory Committee Meets

Boorowa News · Friday 7 August 1953 · page 2

A meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Boorowa Junior Farmers' Club was held at the Central School on Thursday night of last week…

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Enthusiastic Gathering Of Young People Form Junior Farmers' Club

Boorowa News · Friday 7 August 1953 · page 1

The main business of the meeting at Boorowa Central School on Thursday night of last week, was the actual formation of the Boorowa Junior Farmers'Club…

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Crop Prospects Worst In 50 Years

Boorowa News · Friday 7 August 1953 · page 6

A trundle farmer, Mr. Keith Mazoudier, considers that the present wheat season in the Central West is the worst for…

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New wool chairman

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 10 August 1953 · page 3

Mr. C. B. Ball, who has been elected chairman of the Australian Wool Bureau…

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The Week in Wool

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 10 August 1953 · page 4

With the opening of the new wool-selling season only a month off, there is conflict of opinion in Bradford and Boston regarding…

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Trace Elements Key to Richer Pastures Vast Opportunities of Multiplying Tablelands Sheep Carrying Capacity

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 10 August 1953 · page 4

On some millions of acres in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales the addition of phosphorus, sulphur, calcium and molybdenum could increase the carrying capacity from a sheep to two acres or more to…

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Only on Fringe of Farm Mechanisation Harry Ferguson and His Famous Tractor

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 10 August 1953 · page 4

Harry Ferguson, inventor of the Ferguson tractor, believes that the world is still only on the fringe of farm mechanisation. Ferguson, whose own life story…

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Big Butter Buying By Russia

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 11 August 1953 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday: Russia has become an important buyer of butter on an unprecedented scale from the…

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Wheat Men Worried Over Slump

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 11 August 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY: The Farmers and Settlers' Association would press for a referendum on orderly wheat marketing,…

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Soviet Demand May Influence Wool

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 11 August 1953 · page 2

With the opening of the new wool-selling season only a month off, there is conflict of opinion in Bradford and Boston regarding the probable effect of the Korean truce and possible general easing of cold-war pressure,…

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Wool Dresses

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 12 August 1953 · page 7

Charming teenage dress in checked wool. Douglas Cox presents it in toast and gold…

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Goulburn Wool Prices

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 12 August 1953 · page 6

In the list of growers who secured best prices for wool at Goulburn during the past season it was stated that Messrs. A. and R. Cupitt,…

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Wheat Gains In Chicago

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 12 August 1953 · page 3

CHICAGO, Tuesday: Wheat gained 2½ to 3¼ cents a bushel yesterday in a rebound from the sharp losses…

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Progress in Potato Research At Bathurst Farm

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 12 August 1953 · page 2

The recent appointment of Mr. Ernest Friend, B.Sc, Agr., to Bathurst Experimental Farm is greatly stimulating the potato…

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Sheep Killer Caught

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 13 August 1953 · page 1

A district grazier on Tuesday killed a half-bred dingo which is believed to have destroyed over 100 sheep in…

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Wool Dates For Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 14 August 1953 · page 1

The wool selling programme for the 1953-54 season, released by the Australian National Council of Wool Selling Brokers…

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Confidence On Wool's Future

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 14 August 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY: Wool's future was as sure as the future of meat, despite synthetics. Mr. Ewan Waterman. Chairman…

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Wool Values "Not Hit by Korean Truce"

Boorowa News · Friday 14 August 1953 · page 2

Wool values should be maintained for some time, a leading Sydney broker said last week. The Korea truce did not seem…

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Wheat Futures Tumble in America: Lowest Rate Since January, 1947

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 14 August 1953 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Thursday: Wheat, futures tumbled to-day to the lowest price in more than six years under a heavy barrage of selling on the Chicago Board of Trade…

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