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

Farming & the land, 1888

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Victorian Wheat Yield

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 20 January 1888 · page 2

FROM recent statistics we find that the yield of wheat in Victoria this season is the best they have had for four years, and there will be 193,412 tons available for export. At the…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

The Yass Courier · Friday 20 January 1888 · page 2

Messrs. Mort and Co. telegraph as follows:-- We have sold 3870 bales wool this week at firm rates, lop price for greasy, 9¼d., realised for Messrs. Friend Brothers, Bendenine clip…

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Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 4

R. Goldsbrough and Co., Limited, offered on Friday 1537 bales wool, and sold at auction 1022, making, with 296 bales sold privately, 1318 bales disposed…

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The Camden Butter Factory

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 3

CAMDEN, Thursday.—Operations in connection with the Camden Butter Factory commenced on Thursday, when Mr. Josephson (of Waugh and Josephson)…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 January 1888 · page 6

MESSRS. J. H. GEDDES AND Co. REPORT:—At our usual wool sales we submitted a catalogue of 703 bales, and sold by auction privately since our last sale 741 bales under keen competition,…

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Anglican Pastoral Address

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 25 January 1888 · page 4

THE following pastoral was read in the Anglican Churches throughout the colony on Sunday last ;— “Dearly-Beloved in the Lord,—We, the…

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The Antwerp Wool Sales. ANTWERP, Jan. 23

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 January 1888 · page 4

The wool sales opened here to-day. Good business was done at an advance of 1d to 1½d higher for all descriptions…

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Sheep-shearing by Machinery

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 1 February 1888 · page 4

MR. F. G. WOLSELEV, the inventor of the now memorable sheep-shearing machine, writes as follows to the Herald :—Some 16 years ago I first conceived the idea of…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 February 1888 · page 2

Messrs. Mort and Co., Limited, report having brought forward 3840 bales of wool for their sales on Wednesday, but as in many case buyers were indisposed to bid up to owners'…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 February 1888 · page 4

Mr. John Bridge reports:—I submitted 1437 bales wool on Tuesday. There was a very large attendance of buyers. The market still maintains the increased…

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The London Wool Sales. LONDON, Jan. 31

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 February 1888 · page 2

The first series of wool sales opened to-day, when there was a large attendance of buyers, especially from the Continent. Prices are fully equal to those obtained at the December…

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Wheat and Sheep Farming

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 3 February 1888 · page 2

AT a recent meeting of the committee of the Crookwell Pastoral and Agricultural Association it was decided to accept the offer of the Technical College, Sydney, to…

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Wheat

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 3 February 1888 · page 2

JUDGING from reports that have reached us during the week, we think we can safely state that the surplus quantity of wheat available for export will not be equal to that of last year…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Yass Courier · Friday 3 February 1888 · page 2

Messrs. Mort and Co. telegraph as follows: -- We offered 3800 bales at our wool sale today (Wednesday), and prices were about the same as last reported. Greasy fleece, inferior…

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Australian Wheat for England

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 3 February 1888 · page 4

"ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN " in the European Mail writes:--I have on many occasions pointed out the very great mercantile advantages that the Austral colonics might…

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The Crops

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 3 February 1888 · page 2

HARVESTING operations may be said to be nearly completed, and the threshing-machine has finished a few stacks of grain. The results so far prove the yield to be a light one. The…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 February 1888 · page 4

MESSRS. R. GOLDSBROUGH AND CO., Limited, report having catalogued on Friday 880 bales of wool, and sold at auction 724, making, with 294 bales disposed…

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The Unprotected Wheat Growers of Victoria

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 4 February 1888 · page 4

WE have more than once drawn the attention of our readers to the cruel pressure of the protective policy of Victoria upon the. agricultural class in that colony. It takes…

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London Wool Sales. LONDON, Feb. 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 February 1888 · page 6

At the colonial wool sales this afternoon there was an average attendance of home and foreign buyers. Bidding was keen. Prices generally were maintained at…

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Farmers and Protectionism

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 4 February 1888 · page 6

THE position of the agriculturists of Victoria, as expounded by themselves, and not by the protectionist orators of New South Wales, is a very serious one, and worthy of the…

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