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

Farming & the land, 1880

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Yass Courier · Friday 29 October 1880 · page 4

MJ over NSW, 8 bales greasy at 8½d.; NSL over Mudgee, 29 superior fleece at 26d., 6 pieces at 16½d., 2 locks at 13d., 1 bellies and black at 13d., 1 locks and pieces at 13d.; half-circle over E over Ironbong,…

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The Farmers of America and a Policy of Protection

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Monday 1 November 1880 · page 4

THE tendency of protective tariffs, especially in new countries, is to divert labour from the channels into which it would naturally and legitimately gravitate into others where…

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Soliciting for Wool

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 3 November 1880 · page 2

A squatter who clips his hundreds of thousands of sheep within a not very great distance of this town (observes the Wagga Advertiser) lately received a telegram from a…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

The Yass Courier · Friday 5 November 1880 · page 2

MESSRS. MORT AND Co. report:-- There was an active demand at our sale yesterday. Greasy wool realised up tp 13½d.; washed fleece, 20d. Amongst the lots sold were SLO, in grease,…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Monday, November 1

The Yass Courier · Friday 5 November 1880 · page 4

H over Bolero over Scoured, 10 scoured firsts at 17d., 10 scoured seconds at 14½d., 11 scoured bellies at 13¾d.; C over [?] 6 fleece at 16½d., 1 bellies and pieces at 10¼d.; AE over P. 7 greasy at 11½d., 1…

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The Railway Rates for Farm Produce

The Yass Courier · Friday 5 November 1880 · page 4

THE friends of the squatters have lately been exerting their faculties with the object of proving that their protégés are ill-used by the railway authorities-- if not absolutely, at all…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 9 November 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday, 5.40 p.m. MESSRS HARRISON, JONES, AND DEVLIN report:--Our sales to-day were again largely attended, and the competition was even more…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne

The Yass Courier · Friday 12 November 1880 · page 2

Messrs. GOLDSBROUGH AND Co. report:-- We sold 4600 bales this week, at firm prices-- greasy realising 7d. to 14⅜d.-- latter price for 125 bales. From Ramsay's Narrow Plains,…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Monday, November 8

The Yass Courier · Friday 12 November 1880 · page 3

RJR over Barwang, 4 bales locks and pieces at 10½d.; IA over New England, 1 greasy black and pieces at 5d; TM, 20 fleece at 19¼d.: A over JB, 8 scoured fleece at 18½d.; JBS, 22 greasy at 12d, 4…

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Sydney Wool Market. Sydney, Thursday, 2.30 p.m

The Yass Courier · Friday 12 November 1880 · page 2

Messrs. MORT AND Co. report:-- At our sale yesterday greasy fleece realised up to 15d. per lb.-- the highest price yet obtained here this season-- for 17 bales of the well known W…

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Seasonable Farming Notes for November

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 November 1880 · page 3

THE planting of fodder atop required by the fanner for the use of his stock this season has been very favorable? and in good situations, well-tilled and well…

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Sydney Wool Sales. the Highest Price Ever Realised in Australia. Sydney

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 16 November 1880 · page 2

Messrs, HARRISON, JONES, AND DEVLIN report:-- We catalogued to-day seventeen hundred bales, and sold privately and at auction eleven hundred bales. One line of greasy wool reached…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

The Yass Courier · Friday 19 November 1880 · page 2

Messrs. MORT AND CO., offered three thousand bales of wool at their sale yesterday. There was a lively demand. Greasy brought u[to 14¼d., and washed fleece up to 21¾d…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney, Monday, 6.45 p.m

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 23 November 1880 · page 2

report:--Our catalogue to-day numbered twenty-five hundred bales. The tone of the market was rather easier for good wools. Our sales amounted to about fourteen hundred…

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Show Sheep

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 24 November 1880 · page 4

A CORRESPONDENT who signs himself a “North-West Sheep, Farmer ” writes as a long letter about the exhibition lately held at Toowoomba, from which we extract the…

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Sydney Wool Sales. by Messrs. Harrison, Jones, & Devlin. Monday, November 22

The Yass Courier · Friday 26 November 1880 · page 4

CMcLM, 2 bales pieces and locks at 5d.; FGT over Terrible Vale, 2 pieces at 7d.; RSS, 23 pieces at 11½d., 1 pieces at 4d.; Ulgoba, 5 crossbred at 10¾d, 6 bellies and pieces at 5½d., 1 crossbred lambs…

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Action for False Charge of Sheep Stealing

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 30 November 1880 · page 4

IN the Supreme Court, Sydney, last Thursday, before the Chief Justice and a jury of four an action was brought by John Kildea, to recover damages from John Francis Jenkins,…

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Testing Greasy Wool

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 1 December 1880 · page 4

Having previously made a preparation of water and soap, or alkali, heated to the necessary temperature to dissolve and free the grease…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

The Yass Courier · Friday 3 December 1880 · page 2

MESSRS. MORT AND CO, report having offered over three thousand bales of wool at their sales yesterday. There was active com. petition, and fleece realised 15d. to 20½d. per…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Monday, November 29

The Yass Courier · Friday 3 December 1880 · page 4

SI over B, 24 bales Bcourod at 17¼d.; PL over Yammatree, 3 bellies at 7d.; HMD, 2 lambs at 12d,; Bouyeo, 35 fleece at 19d., 2 lambs at 1243., 2 washed pieces at 11d., 1 greasy pieces at 5d.; AAA, 3 lambs…

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