Good News for Farmers
WE notice that the prices for wheat and flour have advanced in Melbourne, Sydney, and Goulburn. At this latter market new wheat is realising 49 per bushel…
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Farming & the land, 1886
173 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 5 of 9
The Question of the Farmers
AT the quarterly meeting of the Hume Farmers' Union at Albury last Saturday, the financial proposals of the Government were considered, and the following…
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WE are glad to notice that Mr. F. Shepherd of Kingsdale, near Goulburn (the president of the Crookwell Agricultural and Pastoral Association), has…
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FARMERS' TRAIN.—One of the cheap excursion trains entitled as above ran from Albury to Sydney on Thursday, being the train corresponding to the cheap tourists' train which ran from Sydney to…
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THE owner of a station on the Murrumbidgee reported the outbreak of chleate amongst his station-bred breeding ewes, many of them dying about the same…
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THE advocates of free-trade say it is the right of every citizen to buy where he can buy cheapest; and to sell where he cut sell dearest—a compound truism that needs no…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Protection for Farmers. to the Editor
SIR,--I have lately been asked by a great many persons both in Goulburn and in this district how it is that we Crookwell farmers are taking no part in the agitation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Kangaroos Versus Sheep
REFERRING to a statement that has been, made that at present kangaroos are better property than sheep, seeing that a good skin will bring more than a fleece, the Maitland…
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Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin, report:--6600 sheep were penne, and a further rise of one shilling took place. The following being the quotation:--Fifty-six pound…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The London Wool Sales. to the Editor
SIR,—I have just received from my agents, Brown and Co. of Spring-street, Sydney, copy of a telegram in reference to the wool sales now going on in London; and as the news will doubtless be very…
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THE news that the price of wool had increased at the opening of the London safes has indeed been the best the colony has had for many a long day, and has inspired…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yass Quarter Sessions. Friday, June 18. (Before his Honor Judge McFarland.) Sheep Stealing
John Thomas Best surrendered to his bail to answer the charge of having at Kangairoo on the llth of April last stolen two sheep the property of Nicholss…
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A RETURN was laid upon the table of the Assembly on Tuesday night relating to, the cost and earnings of farmers' special trains. The total cost, including charges of every kind, on the Southern Line was as…
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AGAINST the wooded hills it stands, Ghost of a dead home, staring through Its broken lights on wasted lands Where old-time harvests grew…
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Supplies were very limited at Darling Harbour on Thursday. The market was very slack, few buyers being present. On the wharves little business was doing, and values remained…
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The twelfth annual sales of stud sheep commenced in Sydney on Monday morning, by the offering, at auction, at Mr. N. L. Barker's wool stores, Circular Quay, of a choice catalogue of rams and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Why He Sold the Farm
"Then why do I sell I" you ask me again. Big cabin an' clearin', an' all ? Well, stranger, I'll tell you; though maybe you'll think…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hints to Farmers
Be sure and spr[?]k le a little p[?]lverised char coal bout the poultry quarters. The f[?]at that it soon disappears is evidence that more is required. The Germans are drying immense quantities of…
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A CABLEGRAM from London, dated July 17, says : -- The Bales closed firmly. Since close of last sales the following descriptions have advanced: -- Greasy, 2d. per…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yass Plains Freeselectors' and Farmers' Union
THE quarterly meeting of the committee of the Yass Plains Freeselectors' and Farmers' Union, was held on last Saturday, at the office of the secretary (Mr. Argyle McCallum…
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