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

Farming & the land, 1887

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 June 1887 · page 4

A catalogue of 142 bales was offered on Tuesday. It was principally made up of odd lots, and remnants of last year's clip. The demand was keen, and every line met with good…

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The Farm Produce Depot

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 June 1887 · page 4

THE Minister for Works, the Minister for Mines, and the Minister for Justice, accompanied by Mr. Tonkin and Mr. Sydney Smith, proceeded on Tuesday to Darling Harbour for…

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Sheep Worms

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 1 July 1887 · page 2

IN consequence of this season being excessively wet sheep-owners have much trouble with their flocks, owing to their sheep becoming affected with worms, and…

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Farm and Pasture. Farm Calender for July

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 July 1887 · page 4

The unusual severity of the weather in the early part of the present month, accompanied as it was by rain and snow almost unprecedented in quantity, put a…

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The Wool Sales. London, June 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 July 1887 · page 4

At the wool sales to-day 11,000 bales were offered. The market is firm. The present series close on 15th July…

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Stud Sheep Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 July 1887 · page 2

MESSRS. Brunker and Wolfe on Wednesday resumed the annual sales of stud sheep, which had been commenced on Tuesday by Messrs. Mort and Co., Limited. The total amount of…

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The Wool Sales. London, July 5

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 July 1887 · page 2

At the wool sales to-day 11.500 bales were offered. The market is firm. THIE FRENOH BUDGET. PARIS, July 6…

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The Wool Sales. London, July 4

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 July 1887 · page 4

At the wool sales to-day 12,800 bales were offered. The market is firm…

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The Best Paying Farmers' Sheep

The Burrowa News · Friday 8 July 1887 · page 2

Sir,—In the last issue of your paper you deservedly give Mr. F. W. Hume, Tarengo, praise for his worthy example to the sheepowners of the district in…

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The Branding of Cattle

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 July 1887 · page 2

A deputation, introduced by Mr. Street, M.P., and representing those interested in the shipment of hides, and tanners in the colony, on Friday waited upon the Minister for Mines, and…

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The Wool Sales. London, July 6

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 July 1887 · page 4

At the wool sales to-day 11,100 bales were offed. The market is firm…

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The Hop Crop. London, July 7

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 July 1887 · page 4

The hops are suffering from the drought…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 July 1887 · page 4

A CATALOGUE of 194 bales wool was brought forward on Tuesday. The demand was very fair, and prices ruled about equal to those obtained at last fortnight's sales. There were…

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Braidwood Fat Cattle

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 July 1887 · page 7

ON Friday last Mr. R. C. Cooper, of Willeroo, Lake George, arrived in Braidwood, and on Saturday proceeded to Bedervale, having purchased from Mr…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 July 1887 · page 7

AN animated demand prevailed at the wool auction on Wednesday. The bulk of the wool offered consisted of fair average scoured skin-wools, with a few lots of greasy, and the usual…

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The Electric Light on a Sheep Station

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 July 1887 · page 4

THE first electric lights to be used upon a sheep station in the colonies have just been fixed in Mr. J. M'Caughey's wool-scouring shed at Toorale, near…

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The Wool Sales. London, July 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 July 1887 · page 3

At the wool sales to-day 7600 bales were offered. The market is firm…

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Concession to Farmers

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 July 1887 · page 7

Mr. Sydney Smith, one of the members for East Macquarie, has been successful lately in obtaining what must be regarded as a very substantial concession to the…

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The Wool Sales. London, July 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 July 1887 · page 2

The colonial wool sales have closed; 349,500 bales were offered during the series, and 30,000 bales were reserved. The decline in prices shown at the opening of the sales has been entirely…

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The Minister Lands and Pastoral Rents

The Burrowa News · Friday 22 July 1887 · page 2

THE speeches delivered in the Legislative Assembly by Mr. M'Millan and Mr. Garrett on the 7th June, on the subject of the determination of pastoral…

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