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

Farming & the land, 1891

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The London Butter Market. LONDON, Feb. 27

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 March 1891 · page 4

A thousand packages of butter by the Tainuis have realised from 95s to 112s per cwt…

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Cattle Sale-yards. To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 March 1891 · page 2

SIR,—I have read with interest the report of the deputation to the Mayor and the reasons put forth by Messrs. Roberts and Jobson for the sale-yards to be erected at the north or…

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Water in Butter

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 4 March 1891 · page 2

SOME buyers of very good-looking and well-flavoured butter complain that it is too salt, while the maker insists that it has not been over salted. The same…

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Crookwell Butter Factory Company

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 4 March 1891 · page 2

A MEETING of shareholders in the Crookwell Butter Factory Company was held on Saturday evening at Tattersall's Hotel, when there was a large attendance. Mr…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 March 1891 · page 4

THE New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, limited, report:—We held our seventeenth sale of wool on Monday, when a catalogue of 784 bales was submitted to a…

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Victorian Butter. LONDON, March 9

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 March 1891 · page 4

The Ballarat Exhibition butter has arrived in good condition, and is .pronounced to be very fine, selling at 1148 per owt…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 March 1891 · page 3

MESSRS. WINCHCOMBE, Carson, and Co. report:—Our catalogue on Wednesday comprised 1400 bales wool, of which we sold at auction and privately 1240 bales. The market was firm and…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 March 1891 · page 3

Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co., limited, at their 24th sale of the season offered on Thursday 2178 bales of wool. The catalogue, though mainly composed of greasy, included a fair proportion…

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Farmers Dinner

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 March 1891 · page 6

The farmers' dinner was hold in the evening in the old auction mart next to Furner and Cansdell's store. About 45 persons sat down, Mr. G. D. Hay, president of the association,…

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Stray Notes. “When found make a note on’t” Cap[?] Cattle

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 18 March 1891 · page 4

WORD readies us at times of queer avenues into which the criminal allows his machinations to run, and allowing for all the shortcomings of human nature it would be hard to find an excuse for the…

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The Cattle Sale-yards' Site

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 March 1891 · page 2

THE application of the Council for the dedication of the site near St. Patrick's College has born referred to Mr. District Surveyor Deering for report and no doubt a full…

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CORRESPONDENCE. 66 Sheep to the Acre. To the Editor of the Yass Courier

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 24 March 1891 · page 4

SIR,--I have boon informed that the local Council, at its mooting on Tuesday night, accepted an offer from Messrs. Besnard and Taylor to lease Victoria Park for six months for grazing purposes, and to…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Burrowa News · Friday 27 March 1891 · page 2

Harrison, Jones and Devlir, Limited, report:—For our fortnightly sale on Monday we submitted a catalogue of 1,104 bales wool. Although the winter…

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Experiments on Rust in Wheat

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 1 April 1891 · page 3

SOME experiments concerning rust in wheat which were recently conducted near Wagga have just been published. They show that five plots of ground were…

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Better Ways in Farming

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 1 April 1891 · page 4

PART of the responsibility for the depression in agricultural prosperity probably rests upon the farmers themselves. It may seem a hard saying to…

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The Farmers' Dinner

Goulburn Herald · Friday 3 April 1891 · page 4

The usual farmer's dinner was held at the Richlands Hotel (Mrs. Tynan's) on Wednesday evening. [?] excellent repast prepared by Mr. C. Mann…

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Taralga Agricultural, Pastoral, and Horticultural Society

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 April 1891 · page 6

THE show of the abovementioned society, just concluded, stands, figuratively speaking, head and shoulders above any of its predecessors, and it was indeed a treat to gaze on the splendid…

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The Farmers' Dinner

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 April 1891 · page 6

Took place in the large dining-room at Mrs. Tynan's Richlands Hotel. Mr. Munn was entrusted with the catering, and the dinner served up was of a most recherche description…

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The London Wool Sales. LONDON, April 5

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 April 1891 · page 2

At the London wool sales good merinos rule a ½d dearer than during the last series. A large number of foreigners are eager buyers…

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The Last of The Victorian Farmers' Protection Association

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 April 1891 · page 4

A few days ago a brief telegram appeared in our columns announcing the decease of the Minyib branch of the Victorian Farmers' Protection Association. Files of Melbourne papers…

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