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

Farming & the land, 1888

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The Crops and Pastures

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 14 December 1888 · page 2

AFTER all, the cereals in this district will in many instances pay for harvesting, The rain a fow days ago has had a wonderful effect upon the wheat and oats, and several of our farmers…

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The Crops in the Clarence District

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 December 1888 · page 7

GRAFTON, Tuesday.—Each day since Thursday last this district has been visited with thunder storms, with very vivid lightning and heavy rain and but little wind to do harm and no hail…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 December 1888 · page 4

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., Limited, brought forward on Friday the largest catalogue submitted this season, viz., 5600 bales. The attendance of buyers was largo and competition very…

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The Wool Sales. LONDON, Dec. 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 December 1888 · page 4

At the wool sales to-day 10,000 bales were offered. Dec. 15. Foreign buyers during the wool sales just…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Messrs. Goldsbrough, ; Mort & Co., Report:--

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 18 December 1888 · page 2

We offered 4000 bales at our wool sales today. The market was active, especially for fair to good. Greasy sold— Campbell's Yarralumla, from Queanbeyan. first combine…

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The Old Rambouillet Sheep Breeding Farm

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 19 December 1888 · page 4

M. GUSTAVE H[?]UZE contributes to a French journal an interesting account of the national sheep-breeding farm (bergerie) at Ramboullct, which has now been in existence for more…

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Important Case for Sheep-owners and Drovers

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 19 December 1888 · page 4

A CASE under the Diseases in Sheep, Act of 1878, of great importance to owners and drovers of sheep, was brought in Wagga on Thursday by the inspector of stock for the…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Burrowa News · Friday 21 December 1888 · page 2

Harrison, Jones, aud Devlin, report:—For our sale on Monday we brought, forward a catalogue of 3,572 bales. The bulk of the lots were in the grease. A…

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How to Tell the Age of Cattle

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 21 December 1888 · page 4

A HEIFER has no rings on her horns until she is two years of ago, and one is added each year thereafter. You can therefore toll the ago of a cow with tolerable…

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A Prolific and Early Wheat

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 December 1888 · page 6

THE result of an experiment made with a new variety of wheat at the Dookie Experimental Farm, Victoria, has proved alike useful and interesting to the whole of Australasia. The…

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Amateur Farming. Some of the Idiosyncracies of the Ordinary Milk Cow, Frequently Called by Connoisscurs the Milch Cow

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 December 1888 · page 5

THE cow has much to answer for. I believe that the cow has caused more hitherto guileless city people to take to amateur farming than any other animal on the farm. The cow is generally…

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