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

Farming & the land, 1883

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The Farmer. Tillage and Pasture

The Burrowa News · Friday 16 March 1883 · page 4

Whether it be intended to follow with another cereal crop on the stubbe land or prepare for a root crow, or sow down with such pasture grasses as may have been…

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A Word of Warning to Farmers

Southern Argus · Saturday 17 March 1883 · page 5

As the wheat-sowing season is at hand it is well to caution farmers who give their seed a dressing of bluestone to be on the alert to avoid imposition. It is believed…

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Yass Pastoral & Agricultural Association

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 20 March 1883 · page 2

A SPECIAL meeting of the committee was held yesterday. Present --Or. Campbell (President in the chair), Mr. Rees Jones, (vice president), and Messrs. Duffy, Davis, Dodds, Nichols,…

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Crookwell Agricultural and Pastoral Society

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 22 March 1883 · page 3

—The Crookwell annual show was hold on Tuesday, and notwithstanding the threatening aspect or the weather, the attendance numbered over a thousand. The exhibits were numerous and showed an…

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The Repeal of the Wool Tariff in America

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 24 March 1883 · page 6

A TELEGRAM from New York, of date the 3rd inst., states that the recommendations of the tariff committee have been definitely adopted by Congress, and that amongst the…

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Price of Wheat. to the Editor

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 29 March 1883 · page 3
Also in Southern Argus

SIR,—Being interested in the prices at which wheat is sold in Sydney, and having been many times misled by the prices I have seen quoted in the papers, myself and others having sent wheat to Sydney on…

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Rural Column. a Great American Farm. Reaping and Sowing From 40,000 ACRES

Southern Argus · Saturday 31 March 1883 · page 4

THE largest farm in the world is Mr. Hiram Sibley's 40,000 acres Burr Oak farm. It is situated in eastern Illinois, about sixteen miles…

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Goulburn Agricultural, Pastoral, and Horticultural Society. Third Annual Show

Southern Argus · Thursday 5 April 1883 · page 2
Also in Goulburn Herald

PATRON—His Excellency Lord Augustus Loftus, K.C.M.G.; President—the Hon. James Chisholm; Vice-Presidents—W. Douglas, Esq., A. F. Gibson, Esq., S. Emanuel, Esq., J. T…

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The Farmer. Improving the Flock

The Burrowa News · Friday 6 April 1883 · page 4

Some five years since I had a neighbor who was in same respects a good farmer. This farmers like his neighbors, kept sheep [?] lambs for market and…

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The Farmer's Horse—how to Breed Him

The Burrowa News · Friday 6 April 1883 · page 4

How shall we breed the farmer's horse is a question which may well begin to agitato the minds of farmers, especially throughout the states west of…

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Goulburn Agricultural, Pastoral, and Horticultural Society. Third Annual Show

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 7 April 1883 · page 3

PATRON—HIS Excellency Lord Augustus Loftus K.C.M.C.; President—the Ho. James Chisholm; Vice-Presidents— W. Douglas Esq., A. F. Gibson Esq., S. Emanuel Esq., J. T. Gannon Esq.; General Committee—T. Ayling, W. J…

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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, Saturday, April 7. Goulburn Agricultural, Pastoral, and Horticultural Third Annual Show. Society

Southern Argus · Saturday 7 April 1883 · page 2

PATRON—His Excellency Lord Augustus Loftus, K.C.M.G.; President—the Hon. James, Chis[?]holm; Vice-President—W. Douglas, Esq., A. F. Gibson, Esq., S. Emanuel, Esq., J. T…

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The Influence of Food on the Dairy

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 10 April 1883 · page 4

Professor Sheldon says that the proportion of butter in milk was much more easily influenced by changes of food than was the proportion of casein; so that it followed that…

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The Farmer. Sheep Dipping and Fleece Washing in Scotland

The Burrowa News · Friday 13 April 1883 · page 4

An account of some extensive sheep dippings carried out in the Duke of Sutherland's reclamation at Kimbrace, in the northof Scotland, at the end of…

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Burrawang and West Camden Farmers Club and Agricultural Society's Show

Southern Argus · Saturday 14 April 1883 · page 2

The Fourth Annual Show in connection with the Burrawang and West Camden Farmers' Club and Agricultural Society was held on Wednesday and Thursday last, and…

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Farm Calendar

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 24 April 1883 · page 4

THE following instructions are given in Maclvors Farmers' Annual for this month of April :--During the month it will be found profitable to put in additional…

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Review. Macivor's Farmers' Annual

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 26 April 1883 · page 3

MR. R. W. E. MacIvor, well known in Victoria and by repute throughout the colonies as a lecturer on agricultural chemistry and allied subjects, has recently issued a Farmers' Annual, or Australasian…

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Farming at Cullinga

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 26 April 1883 · page 2

As an evidence of the large increase in area being put under wheat this season at Cullinga, no less than five new double-furrow ploughs have just arrived at the Wallendbeen…

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