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

Farming & the land, 1868

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Dairy Management

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 8 August 1868 · page 2

DAIRY produce is just now attracting more than usual notice form all classes of consumers. Frequent complaints are being made, and not without good reason, of the…

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The Dairy

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 8 August 1868 · page 7

AFTER a farmer has chose the locality in which to establish his dairy, his next aim ought to be to build the most suitable factory. It is no use to have good grass lands,…

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London Wool Market

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 15 August 1868 · page 8

Since the 8th of June, the market has experienced a further decline, altogether cancelling the advance on March rates which the first week's sales had established…

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The Australian Wool Trade

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 15 August 1868 · page 2

THE Rev. Dr. Lang, M.L.A., having addressed a letter of congratulation to our respected colonist, Thomas Holt, Esq., on his return to the colony, and having reminded…

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Food for the Dairy Cow

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 15 August 1868 · page 2

As the butter and cheese question is now occupying more than usual the attention of consumers, it will be as well to go to the homesteads of the producers and see, if…

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Cattle Markets—where Should They Be?

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 22 August 1868 · page 2

A DISCUSSION has lately taken place in Sydney, in reference to a necessity that appears to have arisen for the establishment of one large central cattle market, in lieu of…

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Crops for the Cows

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 22 August 1868 · page 2

LAST week we spoke of the value of abundance of food for the successful carrying on of dairying operations; and now we purpose giving a few short instructions upon…

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The Wool Sales

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 8 September 1868 · page 3

JULY 17.-- The market has experienced no change in the interval that has elapsed since the close of of last sales. Manufacturers are fairly employed, but business generally allows no increase of spirit…

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The Experimental Farm

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 10 October 1868 · page 7

THIS part of our agricultural department has boon brought into notice again by some members of the board proposing lately to resume occupation of the farm they were…

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Sheep-washing on Improved Principles

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 18 November 1868 · page 4

OUR attention having been directed to certain Inaccuracies in a description recently given in the Braidwood Dispatch of Mr. Rutlodge's new sheep-wash, at Carwoola, Molonglo, at…

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Wool-washing

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 21 November 1868 · page 2

THAT the production of wool is steadily on the increase is now acknowledged by all interested; but although a reduction of price was reported by the August mail, our most…

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"Red Court Farm." Mrs Henry Wood's New Novel

The Yass Courier · Friday 27 November 1868 · page 4

THE number of novels from female pens which issue menth by month from the press would have been deemed incredible in the often-quoted "good old times," when to be able to read and…

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Wool

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 28 November 1868 · page 3

Superior wool is two pence, medium three pence, and inferior fourpence below Juno rates. [The above was delivered to our town subscribers…

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Green Crops As Manure

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 28 November 1868 · page 2

THIS is a subject of so much importance to farmers here, that we need no excuse for returning to it again and again. Even in the old country, it is being discovered that…

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Local & General Intelligence Wool Washing at Frankfield, Near Gunning

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 1 December 1868 · page 2

WE have been favoured with a description of the sheep-washing process by Messrs. Clayton, Hume, and Clayton, of Frankfield, on the oust side of the head of the Gunning Creek: --…

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Sheep-stealing

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 2 December 1868 · page 4

SHEEP-STEALING.—At the Wagga Wagga police court on Friday, before Messrs. Tompson and Mali, Charles Church was brought up on remand from the Yass bench for stealing 1016 sheep, the property of…

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Wool Washing at Frankfield Near Gunning

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 5 December 1868 · page 2

WE have been favoured with a description of the sheep washing process by Messrs. Clayton, Hume, and Clayton, of Frankfield, on the east side of the head of the Gunning…

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The Fall in Wool

The Yass Courier · Friday 18 December 1868 · page 3

THE opinion that the late depreciation in the value of wool was caused solely by a glut in the principal markets of Europe, has unfortunately been confirmed by the advices and…

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