Local and General. Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Society
The Yass Courier · Tuesday 10 January 1871 · page 2
THE adjourned meeting of members of this association Was held at the Court-house on last Friday. Those present were--Dr. Campbell (president), Ven. Archdeacon Lillingston, and…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 14 January 1871 · page 5
WHEN rust was very bad some years ago, a gentleman on whose accuracy could rely, informed me that he cut a large paddock of wheat shortly before it was ripe, which was so seriously affected by the…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 18 January 1871 · page 4
A farmer is Ohio writes that he has some Cotswold and Lincoln sheep that have produced wool seventeen inches long, and he has twin lambs that at four months old weighed…
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The Yass Courier · Tuesday 24 January 1871 · page 3
A SPECIAL general meeting of the members of this association was hold at the Court-house on Friday last. There were between twenty and thirty persons present…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 28 January 1871 · page 3
FEED the soil first—this will feed crops, cattle, and men. Paint of any sort laid on green timber rather hastens than arrests decay…
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The Yass Courier · Tuesday 31 January 1871 · page 2
A MEETING of the committee of the Yass Agricultural and Pastoral Association was held at the Court-house, Yass, on Saturday last, at [?] Those present were--Archdeacon Lillingston,…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 1 February 1871 · page 4
FRANCE sends England annually, except when invaded by Prussia, more than 50,000,000 eggs, and gets for them an average of 9d. a dozen…
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The Yass Courier · Friday 3 February 1871 · page 4
THE following terrible revelations were made by a witness in a case wherein a woman named Mary Hall was charged with murder:-- Matilda Barrett was then called, and said…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mark Twain at the Farmers’ Club. (From the Buffalo Express.)
The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 4 February 1871 · page 4
Ex-Constable Quinn desired the club to inform him how to make hogs root. Dr. Slow had been a practical farmer for the last six weeks, and in all the varied…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 8 February 1871 · page 4
AGRICULTURE correspondent to that degree of exercise which is the best preservative of health. It requires no hurtful fatigue on the one hand, nor indulges on the other…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 8 February 1871 · page 4
THE omnibus and street-car companies in New York city have found that a horse weighing 1000 1b. or 1100 1 b. is the most serviceable, and the best food for him is 12 lb…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 18 February 1871 · page 3
A few days ago forty head of fat cattle were stolen out of the paddock at Galong, near Burrown, the property of Mr. Ryan. The police, we understand, are on the…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 18 February 1871 · page 2
THE great difficulty that agriculture labours under is the neglect of opportunities for making the knowledge and experience gained by one man available to others. A…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 25 February 1871 · page 6
SOME experimental cultivators have discovered a new method of growing potatoes, which is said to answer remarkably well and to save a great deal of labour both…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 1 March 1871 · page 4
As the prospects of wheat-growing decrease in attractiveness, the use of the land for grazing-paddocks continues to find favour with the comparatively few…
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The Yass Courier · Friday 10 March 1871 · page 2
LAST week the secretary of the above association forwarded to the President and Council of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales a letter from the president (Dr. Campbell)…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 11 March 1871 · page 8
To cure beef or pork for family use there is no better method than the following:—To one galion of water add one and a half pound of sugar, half an ounce of saltpetre,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Arrival of the English Mail. Paris Surrendered. Franco-prussian War Over. Peace Restored. Prussian Victory Most Complete Thiers Elected President French Republic. Commission to Settle Alabama Claims. Wool Advanced. the Parisian Forts and French Regular Army Surrendered. German Troops Marched Through Paris. Paris Starved Into Capitulation. Famine Averted by England and Germany
The Yass Courier · Friday 17 March 1871 · page 4
The branch steamer with the English News has reached Adelaide. The latest intelligence is to noon of the 21st February…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Local and General. Yass General Sessions. Tuesday, March 21. Before Judge McFarland. Cattle Stealing Near Yass
The Yass Courier · Friday 24 March 1871 · page 2
David Marshall, who was found guilty on Monday of stealing a cow and two heifers, the property of James Gallagher, of Jones's Crook, near Yass, was placed in the dock for sentence…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 25 March 1871 · page 2
THE greater number of Australian farmers have not yet been taught, and do not fully comprehend, that the cultivator's art consists mainly in adding to the soil, in a crude…
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