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

Farming & the land, 1888

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Mr. S[?]rinder Out Farmers’ Grievances

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 19 May 1888 · page 4

SIR,— A few issues back you favoured us with Mr. Rinder’s letter on the farmers’ grievances grievances in Victoria. Will you now kindly oblige me by printing the annexed reply to…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 May 1888 · page 4

John Bridge reports:—I held my usual fortnightly sale of wool on Tuesday, submitting a catalogue of 74 bales, comprising low quality greasy and odd parcels of country scoured. The…

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The American Wheat Yield. LONDON, May 21

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 May 1888 · page 4

The yield of the American winter wheat harvest is estimated at 27 per cent. below the average…

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The European Beet Crop. LONDON, May 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 May 1888 · page 4

Licht estimates that the European sugar beet crop for the current campaign will be 329,000 tons below the yield of the last crop…

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The Wool Sales. LONDON, May 24

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 May 1888 · page 6

The next series of wool sales open on June 19, and already 300,O00 bales have arrived…

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Australian Pastoral Company. LONDON, May 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 May 1888 · page 4

An Australian Pastoral Company is being formed with a capital of £2,000,000…

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Free Trade v. Protection for Farmers. to the Editor of the Melbourne ‘ ARGUS. ’

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 30 May 1888 · page 4

SIR,—In your issue of the 11th inst. appears the admirable address of Mr. Jowett, [?] the above subject ; also your remarks in the leading article of same date. And as you…

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Cattle Sales at Maffra, Gippsland, Victoria

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 May 1888 · page 4

MESSRS. Pearson, Rowe, Smith, and Co., of Melbourne, report having sold by auctions, at Maffra, on Friday, 25th instant, on account of Mr. Walter Douglas, of Inveralochy, Goulburn,…

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The Siberian Cattle Plague. LONDON, May 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 May 1888 · page 4

M. Pasteur, the eminent French scientist, has for some time past been conducting experiments with the view of discovering a remedy for the Siberian cattle plague…

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Prize Cattle. LONDON, June 4

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 June 1888 · page 2

Mr. William M'Culloch, M.L.C., Victoria, has purchased several prize cattle for export to Australia…

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The Botany Irrigation Farm

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 5 June 1888 · page 3

WHEN the 1.6 p.m. tram from Sydney stopped at Lord's-road, Botany, on Saturday, 26th instant, the large number of stalwart mean who alighted made it evident that something unusual was coming off…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 June 1888 · page 4

John Bridge reports.—At my fortnightly sales of wool on Tuesday I offered a small catalogue of 48 bales of country-scoured and greasy oddments. The usual attendance of buyers at…

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Making Good Butter

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 8 June 1888 · page 3

IN a recent paper on this subject, an undoubted authority writes as follows: -- " In making 1 lb. of butter you take just the same constituents from your land as in making 1 lb…

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Parkes or Protection. to Our Farmers and Free Selectors

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 June 1888 · page 7

PROBABLY no class in New South Wales would benefit more by the adoption of a Protective tariff than our farmers and free selectors. Yet, strange to say, a large…

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The Wool Sales. LONDON, June 9

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 June 1888 · page 4

The list for the next series of wool sales has closed with a total of 365,000 bales. Fiftyeight thousand bales have arrived. The wool cargoes of the Torridon, Sobraon, and Barossa…

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London Wool Sales. LONDON, June 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 June 1888 · page 4

The proposal to the effect that in future the biddings at the London colonial wool sales should rise by not less than a farthing at a time, instead of a half-penny, as bus hitherto…

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Model Farms

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 15 June 1888 · page 2

THE question of the establishment of an agricultural college and model farms is now engaging the attention of the Minister for Mines. Mr. Abigail has obtained a vast amount of…

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Pastoral Letter by Dr. Lanigan, Bishop of Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 June 1888 · page 4

THE following circular has been addressed by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Goulburn to the priests throughout the diocese, to be read to the various congregations:—…

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Australian Pastoral Company. LONDON, June 20

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 June 1888 · page 2

The Australian Pastoral Company is announced with a capital of £1,050,000. The object of the company is to acquire Mr. C. B. Fisher's pastoral properties in Queensland and New South…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 June 1888 · page 2

Messrs. Mort and Co. submitted a catalogue consisting principally of small lots of greasy and scoured oddments at their fortnightly wool sales on Wednesday. Competition was very brisk in…

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