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

Farming & the land, 1874

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Wednesday, August 26Th. (Before W. D. Campbell and W. J. E. Wotton, Esquires.) Sheep Stealing

The Burrowa News · Saturday 29 August 1874 · page 2

John Percival and William Randall were charged with stealing one sheep the property of James Hardyman. Mr. Donovan appeared for the prosecution…

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Example Farming in Victoria

The Burrowa News · Saturday 29 August 1874 · page 4

THE following sketch is from the Leader :— Mr. Dougall's farm is the largest in the district, comprising the pre-emptive sections of the blacks station, and 298 acres in addition, or 938 acres in…

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Stock Sale-yards Bill.--meeting of Cattle and Sheep Owners

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 1 September 1874 · page 2

ON last Friday afternoon a meeting of owners of sheep and cattle, called by Mr. Thos. Turner, inspector of sheep, was held at the Court-house, Yass, for the purpose of considering the…

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Sheep-killing Dogs

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 15 September 1874 · page 4

THE Burrangong Chronicle says:-- A case of considerable importance to sheepowners was decided in the Young Small Debts Court on Monday week (7th inst.) which fully…

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Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 15 September 1874 · page 2

YESTERDAY afternoon, at two o clock, the annual general meeting of this society should have been held in the Court-house, Yass. Owing to that building being required until a later hour for the…

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Me. Parkes As a Sheep-washer. To the Editor of the Evening News

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 15 September 1874 · page 4

SIR,-- When Mr. Parkes announced at a public meeting, that he began his Australian career as a labouring man, and had dabbled in sheep-washing, all true men were ready to…

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Annual Stock Report-sheep

The Burrowa News · Saturday 19 September 1874 · page 4

The Chief Inspector reports the total number of sheep in Now South Wales to" be 18,717,648. He says:—The official returns show that, not withstanding the large numbers of sheep killed…

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Local and General. Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 29 September 1874 · page 2

THE adjourned annual general meeting of members of this association was hold last Friday afternoon, at four o'clock, in the Court-house, Yass…

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English Mail News. W. Mort and CO.'s Wool Report. London July 27th, 1874

The Burrowa News · Saturday 3 October 1874 · page 4

Since we last wrote there has been considerable private enquiry for Wool both from Yorkshire and the Continent, and for the time of year more business than usual has been done, Sales in all…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 7 October 1874 · page 2

We shall be obliged to any of our country friends who will send us for publication such items upon either of the above subjects as they may deem likely to prove of interest to our…

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Model Farming

The Burrowa News · Saturday 10 October 1874 · page 1

It is a striking fact that the judges of competing farms at the Bedford meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of England preferred old-fashioned management to the new—that style in…

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Principles of Sheep Breeding

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 13 October 1874 · page 4

Mr. W. P. Gordon read the following paper on "The principles that should guide breeders and graziers of sheep for long wool and mutton," at a recent meeting of the…

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Butter-making

The Burrowa News · Saturday 24 October 1874 · page 1

In his practical directions for butter-making Mr. James Manning says:— In churning cream, I would wish to say that dairymen, who use barrel churns, cannot be too…

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London Wool Reports. W. Mort & Co's Wool Report

The Burrowa News · Saturday 24 October 1874 · page 3

The third series of Wool Sales of the present year opened on 18th inst, the New Sale Rooms in Coleman Street, being used for the first time, with the exception of an experimental Sale in…

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Local and General. Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 27 October 1874 · page 2

A SPECIAL meeting of members of the above society was hold at tho Court-house on last Saturday afternoon. Those in attendance wore Dr. Campbell (in the chair), Aldermen Jones…

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To Prevent Blotched Brands on Horses and Cattle

The Burrowa News · Saturday 31 October 1874 · page 1

The subjoined paragraph appeared in the Queenslander, of the 19th ultimo, in reference to a circular issued by the Registrar of Brands, Brisbane, to each of the sheep and cattle inspectors…

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Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 3 November 1874 · page 2

A MEETING of the committee of the above association was hold in the Court-house, Yass, on Saturday afternoon, the business being the election of office-bearers, as the previous election had…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 4 November 1874 · page 2

We shall ne [?]ed of the country f[?] who will send us for publication such [?] upon [?]er of the above [?] as they [?] to [?] of [?]…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 7 November 1874 · page 2

We shall be obliged to any of our country friends who will send us for publication, such items upon either of the above subjects as they may deem likely to prove of interest to our…

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Paddocking Sheep Versus Shepherding

The Burrowa News · Saturday 7 November 1874 · page 4

THE following communication appeared in the Town and Country Journal of 31st. ult.:— SIR,—There is one portion of Mr. Bruce's able report upon the stock of the colony, on which I…

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