Pastoral Show at Young
The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 28 August 1872 · page 2
THIS show was held on Thursday last. The weather was all that could be desired, and the influx of visitors to the town has exceeded by far anything that we have witnessed for a very long time past. Long before…
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The Yass Courier · Friday 30 August 1872 · page 2
A MEETING of the committee of the above society was held at the Court-house, Yass, on Tuesday, 27th instant. Present -- Messrs. J. Ramsay (president), R. W. Pearson. D. Davis R. A…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 4 September 1872 · page 4
THE Lord Bishop of Sydney, on a late occasion, expressed himself to the effect, that the people of the county of Cumberland and the adjacent districts, were undergoing a…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 11 September 1872 · page 4
GRANTED all the almost unsurpassable excellence of the Mudgee merinos, it must be conceded that the wool-growers of New South Wales are largely indebted to Tasmania for…
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The Yass Courier · Friday 4 October 1872 · page 2
A SEVERAL meeting of the committee was held at the Court-house yesterday afternoon. Present -- Messrs. J. Ramsay (President), R. W. Pearson A. MacCallum, T. Colls, D. Davis, R. A. Barber…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 5 October 1872 · page 3
We regret to say that a very virulent disease known as the blackleg has made its appearance amongst the cattle in some part, of the district, At all events we know of one settler…
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The Yass Courier · Tuesday 8 October 1872 · page 3
A new method of cleaning wool, preparatory to its manufacture, was shown in operation a few days since at Cleg Hall Mills, near Rochdale, by the patentees, Messrs. Paul Toepler…
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The Yass Courier · Tuesday 15 October 1872 · page 4
AT the Queanbeyan Police Court, on the 2nd instant, John Howell and Caleb Gamage appeared on summons to answer to a charge of having, in the month of August last, at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Feather Farm. [From Chambers’s Journal.] Chapter I.—continued
The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 19 October 1872 · page 4
SOME dismay, and somewhat of a compassionate feeling, spread through the county when it was known that the good old house of Crump and Warburton could no longer…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 26 October 1872 · page 7
Messrs. W. Mort and Co. of London; under date of September 5, report as follows:—We Lave little to report by this mail with regard to the wool market, transactions since the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Our Feather Farm. [From Chambers’s Journal.] Chapter Ii.—continued
The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 26 October 1872 · page 4
JUAN, a lathy, dark-visaged lad, whose lank hair denoted that the Spanish blood in his veins was mingled with that of the Indian, swung himself into the saddle of the horse…
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The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 2 November 1872 · page 4
[?]ENTS which it takes many words to des[?]ibe, even inadequately, sometimes occupy [?]t a very few seconds or minutes of actual [?]ne; and from the period of my hurrying…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 6 November 1872 · page 4
SHORTHORNS do not appear to suffer from the effects of long-continued in-and-in breeding. Favourite (252), himself the result of close in-breeding, was used successfully upon his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Feather Farm. [From Chambers’s Journal.] Chapter Iv.—continued
The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 9 November 1872 · page 4
WHEN first the grey-bearded German, speaking with all the emphas[?]s of [?] Mephistopheles sugg[?]sting radiant visions to a young Faust, told me that this ther[?]hed…
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The Yass Courier · Friday 15 November 1872 · page 2
THE sub-committee of the Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association, appointed to procure dies for prize medals, have instructed…
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The Yass Courier · Friday 22 November 1872 · page 2
A MEETING of the committee of the Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Society was hld at the Commercial Hotel on Wednesday, at noon. Those present were--Mr. Shaw (hon. secretary), Mr…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 23 November 1872 · page 2
THE gentleman whose name heads this notice is reputed, and we believe truly, to be the most extensive cultivator of the soil the world has ever seen. There may perhaps be some…
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The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 30 November 1872 · page 4
ON Monday last the eight annual exhibition of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association was held at the yards enjoining the race course, under especially favourable auspices…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 7 December 1872 · page 2
THE practice in the United States, of cultivating one species of grain—wheat, for instance—year after year for in some oases as many as twenty years or more continuously…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 14 December 1872 · page 6
IT may seem fantastic to couple these two things together; but we honestly believe that a more sensible method of dealing with the former will only be attained by an…
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