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

Farming & the land, 1882

174 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 9

Farm and Garden

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 January 1882 · page 4

THE FARM.—Wheat and outs will be ripening very fast, and no time should be lost in getting the work of reaping over. The crops should be bound and stocked at the same time of cutting,…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney, Tuesday, 8 a.m

The Yass Courier · Thursday 5 January 1882 · page 2

Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin report -- To-day we offered forty-four hundred bales of wool, and our sales at auction and privately amount to twenty-nine hundred bales…

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Farm and Garden

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 January 1882 · page 2

THE FARM.—Wheat and oats will be ripening very fast, and no time should be lost in getting the work of reaping over. The crops should be bound and stocked at the same time of cutting,…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney, Saturday, 9.25 a.m

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 10 January 1882 · page 2

Messrs. Mort and Co. report:--We have sold over 3500 bales of wool this week, at 8d. to 12¼d. per lb. for greasy, and 14d. to 20¼d. per lb. for scoured. There was an…

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Farm Produce. Sydney

Southern Argus · Saturday 14 January 1882 · page 2

At the various auction sales during the week scoured wool sold from [?] handwashed [?] superior clips, [?]…

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The Farmer. Horse Ailments in Summer

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 January 1882 · page 3

The hot weather proves trying to the health alike of men and animals. The lower animals, with a thicker bony skull, usually protected by hair or wool, and…

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Sheep Districts

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 28 January 1882 · page 2

THE following are the newly gazetted boundaries of the sheep districts of Carcoar, Yass, and Young. CARCOAR—Emoracing the Police District of…

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New Cattle Country

Southern Argus · Tuesday 31 January 1882 · page 2

The Gulf country says the Queenslander, promises are long to become one of the largest cattle producing districts of Australia. The determination of many runholders in the western districts to…

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The Southern Argus. Published in Goulburn. Truth, ever lovely since the world began, The foe of tyrants and the friend of man.—Campbell. Goulburn: Tuesday, Jan 31. Farming and Grazing Interests

Southern Argus · Tuesday 31 January 1882 · page 2

THE present season may probably suggest to farmers and graziers the necessity that exists for doing something in the way of guarding against those losses which are…

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Sheep Districts

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 February 1882 · page 2

THE following are the newly gazetted boundaries of the sheep district of Young. YOUNG.—Commencing on the Bland or…

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Imported Stud Sheep

Southern Argus · Saturday 4 February 1882 · page 2

We had the plasure yesterday of inspecting on the arrival of the train, ten pure bred Shropshire Down owen and two rams, imported to the order of [?] Shepherd Esq., South Hill, through Messrs…

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Shropshire Down Sheep

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 4 February 1882 · page 4

We had the pleasure yesterday of inspecting at the Goulburn railway-station two pure-bred Shropshire Down ewes and two rams, imported to the order of Mr. I. Shepherd,…

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A Farmer Burnt Out

Southern Argus · Saturday 4 February 1882 · page 2

On Friday last (the Bathurst Free Press states) a farmer, named Cornelius Dwyer, living about eight miles from Rockley, had his all destroyed by fire. He had come into Bathurst with his wife, and…

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Farm and Gardening Operations for the Month

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 February 1882 · page 6

THRESHING operations will engage the attention of the farming community during the month; and if our advice has been acted upon in reference to selecting a portion of the crop for seed,…

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Farm and Gardening Operations for the Month

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 February 1882 · page 6

THRESHING operations will engage the attention of the farming community during the month; and if our advice has been acted upon in reference to selecting a portion of the crop for seed…

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Inquest on the Late Fire at Setzer's Farm

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 February 1882 · page 4

An inquest was held at Setzer's farm this afternoon by John Davidson Esq., the newly-appointed coroner, and a jury of six. John Setzer deposed: I am a farmer, and…

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The Farm Horse

The Burrowa News · Friday 17 February 1882 · page 4

FROM an article on the Farm Horse, published in Wallace's Monthly, an American publication, we take the following extract:—"From the fact that…

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A Novel Method of Depasturing Sheep

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 18 February 1882 · page 7

EXPERIMENTS are now being made in the old country on a new system of sheep-farming by means of the chevaux-de-frise, or turn-over hurdle, which, although not likely to be…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Friday, 7 p.m

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 21 February 1882 · page 2

Messrs. Mort and Co. report:--Tallow has advanced about £1 per ton. Hides are firm at late rates. Monday. 7 p.m…

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Keeping Sheep in Dry Seasons

Southern Argus · Saturday 25 February 1882 · page 2

Toward the close of last Summer the Wagga Advertiser cited an instance where a farmer residing at Junee kept a mob of 700 store sheep in excellent condition throughout the dry season by providing…

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