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

Farming & the land, 1955

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This Week in Wool Prediction Comes True (From Dalgety’s News Service)

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 6 October 1955 · page 4

As predicted a week ago, the trend to sellers favour is now being activated by the…

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Yass Wool 80¾d

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 13 October 1955 · page 3

Winchcombe Carson Limited, Sydney, wired yesterday: We sold 8000 bales of wool at auction and privately at our…

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Russia Buying Wool Sydney

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 13 October 1955 · page 2

Dictating the bidding on two successive days and lifting double the weight of any other country Japan steadied wool…

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Sydney Wool Auction

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 20 October 1955 · page 2

Winchcombe. Carson Ltd. wired this morning: We sold 5800 bales of wool at auction and privately at…

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Blakney Creek Clips One Pound Per Sheep More

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 20 October 1955 · page 2

Graziers in the Blakney Creek district estimate that their wool clips this season will be about one pound per sheep…

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This Week in Wool Japan’s Effect on MARKET(Dalgety’s News Service)

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 20 October 1955 · page 5

Japan opened the second half of her fiscal year with a burst of buying at Sydney wool sales, and dictated the…

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Floor Price for Wool

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 24 October 1955 · page 9

Australia may be asked to come into line with Britain, South Africa, New Zealand and U.S.A…

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Cost 3/5½ Per Head to Shear Sheep

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 24 October 1955 · page 14

During the year ended June 30, Grazcos carried out shearings at an average cost of 3/5½ per head for flock sheep in…

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GUNNING Junior Farmers Field Day

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 24 October 1955 · page 14

The second field day of the Gunning Junior Farmers’ Club, held on Mr. Ray White’s property, resulted in some very…

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Wool Fleeces

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 27 October 1955 · page 6

Don’t forget that fleece for the Competitive Exhibition at the St. Clement’s Flower Show next Thursday, November 3rd…

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“No Reflection on Yass Firm” P.P. Board Director Clarifies Statement On Dead Wool

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 27 October 1955 · page 10

“As far as the firm of R. H. Hancock Pty. Ltd. is concerned I withdraw anything I said or did which might have been a reflection on that firm” Dir. G. Johnson said at the last meeting…

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Wool Festival

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 3 November 1955 · page 2

Next meeting of Yass Wool Festival committee will be at the Municipal Council Chambers next Monday at 8. p.m…

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Bookham Wool

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 3 November 1955 · page 12

Dalgety’s realised to 90d a lb. for the clip of Julian and Stevens, Bookham. CYCLOPS Toys, Cars,…

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Goulburn Wool Sales

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 3 November 1955 · page 10

The Current Wool Selling season opened in Goulburn on Wednesday and Thursday, 26th and 27th October, when…

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Superfine Wool From Kangiara

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 3 November 1955 · page 1

Our Kangiara correspondent has forwarded a sample of superfine wool shorn from ewes and wethers by Mr. K…

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Widening Demand For Wool (Dalgety’s News Service)

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 3 November 1955 · page 2

Demand widened last week in Newcastle, Geelong and London for best fine wools of spinners’ style, and at Geelong…

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State Wool Record Equalled

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 7 November 1955 · page 1

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report that at their wool auction in Sydney last Thursday they sold 9,000 bales and…

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State Wool Record Equalled

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 10 November 1955 · page 6

At Winchcombe Carson’s wool auction last Thursday the State record was equalled with 132d for E. O. & R…

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Rotational Grazing Means Healthier Sheep

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 14 November 1955 · page 1

“The most important preventive measure against internal parasites in sheep is rotational grazing, or changing the…

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Sheep Travelled Without Permit Summons From P.P. Board

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 14 November 1955 · page 8

Yass P.P. Board will issue a summons against B. Farraway, of “Gulanbar,” near Gurrundah, in charge of sheep…

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