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

Farming & the land, 1890

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Butter - Makers Should Use Thermometers

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 8 March 1890 · page 3

"Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well." There are but few kinds of work in which this good old motto is more applicable than…

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The Frozen Sheep Sent Home

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 March 1890 · page 4

MESSRS. Pitt, Son and Badgery, agents for the Sydney Frozen Meat Export Syndicate, write to the S.M. Herald :—"To those persons who sent home a sheep or a lamb we made a…

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Improving Poor Farms

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 8 March 1890 · page 2

THE present fertility of his farm is the farmer's best capital. It is only after that fertility has been lost that most farmers appreciate this fact. Trying to build up…

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The Hop Crop. LONDON, March 7

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 March 1890 · page 4

A Select Committee of the House of Commons has been appointed to inquire into the cause of the decrease in the acreage under hops. The Right Hon. J. G. Shaw-Lefevre is chairman of…

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Butter Factory

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 11 March 1890 · page 2

A MEETING of the board of directors of the Crookwell Butter Factory was held on Saturday evening at Tattersall's Hotel, Mr. George McDonald in the chair. The…

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Rust in Wheat

Crookwell Gazette · Thursday 13 March 1890 · page 2

AN intercolonial conference mot at the Lands Office, Melbourne, on Monday, under the presidency of the Minister for Lands, to investigate and, if possible,…

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New South Wales Butter in London. LONDON, March 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 March 1890 · page 2

A shipment of butter from New South Wales sold to-day by auction at from 70s to 104s per cwt. A Pugilistic Challenge…

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The Victorian Farmers and Freetrade

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 March 1890 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A meeting of the Farmers' Protection Association was held in, Karimba on Saturday night to consider the proposed change in the fiscal policy. The meeting…

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Why Farming Dogs Not Pay. to the Editor

Crookwell Gazette · Thursday 13 March 1890 · page 2

SIR,--In trying to solve the above problem, I take it for granted that farming, unassisted by grazing, in Now South Wales does not pay, that is to say if the…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Burrowa News · Friday 14 March 1890 · page 2

Harrison, Jones and Devlin, Limited, report:—Our catalogue on Monday consisted of 1,098 bales wool The selection in the grease, with one or two exceptions,…

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Co-operation Amongst Farmers

The Burrowa News · Friday 14 March 1890 · page 2

A GREAT disadvantage under which the farmers of this colony have always labored is owing to the fact that though there exists in their class a…

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The Rust-in-Wheat Conference

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The intercolonial conference on rust in wheat concluded its sittings to-day, when the committee appointed yesterday brought up a series of recommends…

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Butter Factories of New South Wales. Gratifying Evidence of Progress Under Freetrade

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 3

ON Tuesday 11th March, the first consignment of butter from the Mudgee Co-operative Factory arrived in Sydney, and sold at the South Coast and…

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The Farmers' Dinner

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 3

Was held at, Mr. M. McAlister's Tattersall's Hotel in the evening, a large number representing different interests being present. The president (Mr. F. Shepherd) occupied the chair,…

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Rust in Wheat

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 18 March 1890 · page 4

THE intercolonial conference which has been discussing the prevalence of rust in wheat has been able to do little more than point out in what direction…

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The Farmers' Dinner

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 18 March 1890 · page 2

On the first evening of the show the annual farmers' dinner was held at Mc Alister's Tattersall's Hotel. About sixty persons sat down. Mr. F. Shepherd, president of the…

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Victorian Farmers and Protection

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 18 March 1890 · page 2

THE following important letter appears in the Melbourne Argus of Wednesday:-- Sir,-- As I always find that the Argus takes a practical stand in the politics of the country, I…

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The Victorian Farmers

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 March 1890 · page 2

THE following letter has just been received from Mr. Samuel Young, President of the Victorian Farmers' Protection Association, in reply to a communication from the local branch of the…

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The Gerringong Dairy Company

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 March 1890 · page 4

KIAMA, Tuesday.—At the third half-yearly meeting of the Gerringong Dairy Company there was a good attendance of shareholders. The chairman (Mr. George I. Hindmarsh) presided,…

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Butter Factory

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 21 March 1890 · page 2

A MEETING of directors of the Laggan Butter Factory Company was held at Laggan on Tuesday afternoon. Present --Messrs. W. H. Oram (chairman), J. W…

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