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

Farming & the land, 1884

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Flictuations in English Prices of Wool

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 1 January 1884 · page 2

THE remarkable depression in the value of wool which exists at the present moment may remembered teresing a few facts showing the leading fluctuations in the value of this product during the last…

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Wheat Market of the World

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 3 January 1884 · page 4

DURING the last quarter of this year elaborate calculations were made by the corntrade statisticians of Europe and America with the object of discovering if during the…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

The Yass Courier · Friday 4 January 1884 · page 2

Messrs. Mort and Co. report as follows: -- We offered 4300 bales of wool at auction today, the competition being brisk. Medium greasy brought 7d. to 10¾d.; average fleece,…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Burrowa News · Friday 11 January 1884 · page 2

Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin, (limited), report:—We held our weekly sale of wool on Monday; 4431 bales were catalogued, the sales by auction and…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

The Yass Courier · Friday 11 January 1884 · page 2

Messrs. Hill, Clark, and Co. Report: We catalogued one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine bales of wool to-day, and sold one thousand and sixty eight bales. There was a…

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Farm Calendar for January

The Yass Courier · Friday 11 January 1884 · page 4

UPON every properly conducted farm a flock of well bred sheep should be one of the indispensables, and these should be turned into the stubbles immediately…

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Diseases of Liver in Sheep

Southern Argus · Saturday 12 January 1884 · page 4

Sheep are liable to disease of the liver from the consumption of an excessive quantity of unripe watery herbage or roots. The symptoms of the disorder are remarkably…

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Cattle Ranches in the Western States of America

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 12 January 1884 · page 3

A CATTLE ranch in America is nothing like an Australian cattle-station. If there were any points of resemblance I should state them first, but there are none. I was going…

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Our Agricultural & Pastoral Resources

Southern Argus · Saturday 19 January 1884 · page 6

Statistics relating to the agricultural and pastoral resources of Australasia have been publislied, and are worthy of the attendion of every colonist no matter what position he…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 22 January 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Saturday. Messrs. Hill, Clark, and Co. report: -- At our wool sale to-day there was a large attendance of buyers, and competition was extremely…

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Prospects of the Wheat Markets

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 January 1884 · page 2

The " Miller," of December 3,1883, has a couple of articles upon the future of the English wheat supply and the prospects of the corn and flour trades, which, read…

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Wool-growing

Southern Argus · Saturday 26 January 1884 · page 4

Mr. Herman Schmidt lectured before the Technical College on Friday night, on "Wool-growing." He observed: "As wool-growing is the special object of the…

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Sheep Director’s Meeting

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 26 January 1884 · page 2

THE Board of Director’s under the Stock and Pastures Act for the district of Young, met at the .court-house on the 23rd inst., present: Messrs. John Pring (in the chair) Alex. Mackay…

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Prolific Wheat

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 29 January 1884 · page 4

MR. HARDMAN, the manager of the Dockie Experimental Farm, Victoria, in a report just forwarded to the Minister of Agriculture, states that two seasons ago…

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Small Versus Large Farms

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 29 January 1884 · page 4

AN Illinois agricultural paper says it is encouraging to note that even in that State the tendency now is towards smaller farms and better cultivation. "In…

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Sheep and Their Wool

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 31 January 1884 · page 4

C. P. HAYWARD (of Tomlinson and Hayward, Lincoln, England, writes as follows to the Australasian :— " Of late years the practice is becoming…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Yass Courier · Friday 1 February 1884 · page 2

Messrs. Mort and Co. report:-- We offered 2600 bales of wool at auction to-day, and sold 1750 bales at from 7d. to 10¾d. for greaay, 12d. to 17¼d. for fleece, and 15d. to 20½d…

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Lecture on Wool-growing

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 7 February 1884 · page 2

In consequence of the non-attendance of an audience, the lecture on the Rational Principles of Stock-raising advertised to be given at the mechanics' institute on…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

The Yass Courier · Friday 8 February 1884 · page 2

Messrs. Mort and Co. report:--We offered 1800 bales of wool at auction to-day. There was a good attendance of buyers, and competition was brisk. Greasy realised up to…

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A Victorian Poultry Farm

Southern Argus · Saturday 9 February 1884 · page 4

The home production of poultry and eggs, from a commercial point of view, is a most important subjet, and a branch of industry which has been seriously neglected. The…

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