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

Farming & the land, 1890

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Another Butter Factory

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 January 1890 · page 4

ON Saturday evening a meeting of those favourable to the establishment of a butter factory in the Crookwell district was held. Land for a site at £10 per acre was chosen at Cottawalla,…

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Australian Butter in London. LONDON, Dec. 31

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 January 1890 · page 2

There is a continued good demand for Australian butter, and shipments are selling at previous high rates…

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Farmers' Calendar, Compiled by an Experienced Practical Farmer Specially for This and Adjacent Districts

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 2 January 1890 · page 1

COMPILED BY AN EXPERIENCE PRACTICAL FARMER SPECIALLY FOR THIS AND ADJACENT DISTRICTS. JANUARY.—Finish all harvesting work not previously done, and secure by thatching or otherwise…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 January 1890 · page 2

AT the auction sales on Monday there was a good demand for wool. the number of bales actually catalogued was 7861, but the sales, of course including private transactions, amounted…

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England and Dairy Produce

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 7 January 1890 · page 2

A LONDON correspondent writes:-- It may interest some of your farmers to learn that there is an excellent market for antipodean dairy produce in London…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 January 1890 · page 4

AT Tuesday's wool auctions there were large attendances, and the competition was animated. Values in many instances showed an advance on the prices realised before the holidays, especially…

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Wheat in Victoria

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 10 January 1890 · page 2

So far as the yield of wheat in Victoria is concerned, the result according to the Leader, will be very disappointing. Referring to the harvest prospects it says: --…

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The Wheat Market

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 10 January 1890 · page 2

LOCALLY there is next to nothing doing. At Sydney the price stands at 36 for prime samples. At Adelaide and Melbourne the rates are the same. Goulburn…

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Sydney Wool Market. the New Zealand L. AND M. Company Report:-- Sydney

The Yass Courier · Friday 10 January 1890 · page 2

We offered yesterday 2700 bales of wool, and cleared 2500 bales. The competition was brisk, and graesy fleece brought up to 11d. SYDNEY, Wednesday…

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A Note for Farmers

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 10 January 1890 · page 2

IN hundreds of places in Sydney good butter is soiling at 12 per 1b. retail, a price it never before reached, much less maintained, in the summer season…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 4

THE wool sales on Friday were well attended. Biddings were brisk, and there was an advance in prices. The number of bales catalogued was 7012, and the bales sold amounted to 5573. The…

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The Dakota Farmer Under Protection

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 3

When a man deliberately stops into a vat of boiling water, it is impossible to help pitying the wretch, even if he is a fool, and so it is impossible to restrain a feeling of…

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Model Farm in Argyle

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 4

Lieutenant-Colonel Holborow has been advised as follows:—"Department of Mines, Stock Branch, Sydney, 9th January, 1890. Sir,—I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your…

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Something for Farmers and Stockowners

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 January 1890 · page 8

WE are just now in New South Wales opening a great trade with the United Kingdom in frozen meat and butter: but very few, and none of the small-minded political gentry, know what…

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Wool and Grass Seeds

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 14 January 1890 · page 2

SHEEP-FARMERS this year have a serious trouble with tho grass-seed. A small paddock should always be provided to put the sheep in before the seed begins to fall…

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London Wheat Market. LONDON, Jan. 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 January 1890 · page 4

Six thousand five hundred quarters of January shipment of wheat have been sold at 35s 6d per quarter…

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The Crops about Albury

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 14 January 1890 · page 2

THE following reports were received at Albury last week from the various agricultural centres in tho district:--Yerong Crook: There are about 2000 acres under…

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Victorian Butter. LONDON, Jan. 13

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 January 1890 · page 4

The shipment of Victorian butter per the Ormuz, consisting of 35 tone, has been sold at 88s to 104s…

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The Wool Market. LONDON, Jan. 13

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 January 1890 · page 4

The wool market continues firm, and the demand is steadily improving…

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Influenza From Wool. (To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 January 1890 · page 4

SIR,—The theory just started by Dr. Haynes, of Gunnedah, that the influenza epidemic now prevailing throughout Europe was caused through the germs of the disease being contained…

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