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

Farming & the land, 1891

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The Transport of Butter

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 January 1891 · page 2

ON Tuesday afternoon a deputation of produce agents and merchants waited upon Messrs. Fehon and Oliver, Commissioners for Railways, to complain of…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 January 1891 · page 2

Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson, and Co. report: We brought forward a supplementary catalogue of 374 bales on Tuesday to a large attendance of buyers, and disposed of 339 bales under spirited…

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Cable News. Distress Amongst Farmers in America. LONDON, Dec. 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 January 1891 · page 4

A large amount of distress exists amongst the farmers and settlers who took up land at Oklahome, in the western part of the United States. Thirty thousand people are reported to be…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Burrowa News · Friday 2 January 1891 · page 2

Harrison, Jones and Devlir, Limited, report : Owing to the suspension of sales during the Xmas and New Year Holidays, very large accumulations of wool are…

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Australian Butter. LONDON, Dec. 31

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 January 1891 · page 3

A portion of the consignment of butter from Sydney and Melbourne, ex R.M.S. Orient, has been sold at 120s per cent…

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Opening Price for Wheat

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 January 1891 · page 4

So far as we can [?]her these does not appear to be any [?] idea among millers as to the value of wheat. Locally we know as high as 6s 6d per [?] has been paid for price…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 January 1891 · page 4

THE New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report:—At their sale of wool on Monday this company submitted a catalogue of 2200 bales to a numerous…

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Sydney Wool Markets. Tuesday, January 6

The Yass Courier · Friday 9 January 1891 · page 2

The N. Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co-report:-- We offered to-day two thousand two hundred bales of wool, and sold the bulk of the catalogue under a strong competition,…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 January 1891 · page 3

F. L. Barker held his tenth sale of the season on Thursday, bring forward 1200 bales of wool, representing the following districts, viz., New England, Monaro,…

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Victorian Butter. LONDON, Jan. 7

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 January 1891 · page 3

A consignment of Victorian butter has been sold by auction in London, realising an average of £5 12s per owt…

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An Early Crop

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 January 1891 · page 6

Neighbor—Well, Giggings, what are you raising? Amateur Gardener (sadly)—Blisters.—Life…

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Australian Butter

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 14 January 1891 · page 4

LONDON importers speak in satisfactory terms of the shipment of butter in the steamer Victoria (writes the London correspondent of the Melbourne Argus on…

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Our Wool Industry

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 14 January 1891 · page 2

SIR PATRICK JENNINGS, in a speech delivered at the setting of the Keystone of a new warehouse at North Shore for the Pastoralists' Association the other day…

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Science of Wool-Growing

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 14 January 1891 · page 2

A FRENCH contemporary directs attention to the influence on the quality of the fleece from the food which the sheep eats, and dwells on the following four points:--…

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Sale of a Farm

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 14 January 1891 · page 2

MESSRS. George McDonald and Co. on Saturday last sold by auction a farm of 142 14 acres, known as Gilbey's, situated about two miles from town, for the sum…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 January 1891 · page 4

Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co., Limited, report having submitted on Tuesday, being their first sale this week, a catalogue of 3901 bales wool. Buyers were again present in full force and…

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The Dairying Industry in Victoria

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 January 1891 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday.—Mr. D. Wilson dairy expert, has reported to the Minister of Agriculture upon the work done in connection with the industry. Mr. Wilson states that the creamery…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Burrowa News · Friday 16 January 1891 · page 2

Harrison, Jones and Devlir, Limited, report: —At our weekly saloon Monday we submitted a catalogue of 4,548 bales wool. The selection, although including some…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 January 1891 · page 3

Goldsbsough, Mort and Co., Limited, submitted at auction on Thursday their second catalogue for the week. comprising 5191 bales wool. The demands for good…

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Australian Butter. LONDON, Jan. 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 January 1891 · page 6

The butter shipped by the Ormus is in excellent condition. It realised 100s to 116s per cwt. A few lots fetched 118s…

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