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

Farming & the land, 1892

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Weather and Crops

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 13 July 1892 · page 2

THE weather since our last issue has been very severe. At twelve o'clock on Wednesday morning heavy rain began and continued throughout Wednesday. On…

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The Wool Sales. London, July 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 July 1892 · page 4

At the current sales good greasy Adelaide wool is ½d per lb dearer. A hundred and sixty bales of Bundaleer wool have been sold at 9¾d per lb. Prices continue firm for all kinds, and there is good…

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Tee Pastoral Industry

The Burrowa News · Friday 15 July 1892 · page 2

THE importance of the pastoral industry to Australia renders of interest the facts and figures contained in the anneal report of the Chief Inspector of Stock. At the…

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Alleged Sheep-stealing

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 July 1892 · page 6

AT the Yass Police Court on Friday George Thomas Wood and Samuel Edward Wood were committed to take their trial at the next Circuit Court on a charge of stealing one sheep the property…

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The Wool Sales. London, July 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 July 1892 · page 3

The London wool sales closed this morning, having been spirited throughout as compared with the May series. British buyers purchased 155,000 bales,…

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The Butter Industry. London, July 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 July 1892 · page 4

Messrs. Coly and Company, Duthoit, and Salisbury, waited upon Mr. G. R. Dibbs yesterday to ask that an officer should be appointed by the Government of New South Wales to inspect…

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London Wool Sales. London, July 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 July 1892 · page 4

At the Landon wool sales, which closed to-day, American buyers operated in merinos, especially favouring sound combing descriptions in the grease. Prices for those qualities were about ½[?] higher and…

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The Butter Industry

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 20 July 1892 · page 3

LONDON, July 15.--Messrs. Colly and Company, Duthoit and Salisbury, waited upon Mr. G. R. Dibbs yesterday to ask that an officer should be appointed by the…

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Australian Butter in London

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 20 July 1892 · page 2

The London correspondent of the S. M. Herald writes:--The prejudice against the use of butter imported from the antipodes is rapidly disappearing in England…

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Good News for Farmers

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 20 July 1892 · page 2

WHILE so much correspondence is being indulged in re throwing open the land, &c. (says the Burrangong Chronicle), it may be interesting to some to learn…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 July 1892 · page 5

AT the auction sales of wool on Wednesday 252 bales were catalogued. There was fairly good competition at prices about the same as the previous sales. The sale is…

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Wool Scouring

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 26 July 1892 · page 2

THE past season having proved most discouraging to the wool growers of the colonies the necessity of meeting the market requirements with wool in the most suitable form, cannot be…

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Crookwell Butter Factory

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 27 July 1892 · page 2

THE half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Crookwell Butter Factory Company will be held at the factory at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 9th August, when it is…

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Another Butter Extractor

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 July 1892 · page 5

THE Johansson extractor, a machine designed to extract-butter directly from milk by means of centrifugal force, is one of the most remarkable inventions of the day. The…

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Farmers' Co-operative Companies

Goulburn Herald · Monday 8 August 1892 · page 2

In the course of a recent interview with the railway commissioners relative to railway facilities for farmers' co-operative companies, Mr. Haynes, M.L.A. for Mudgee, learnt…

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Kialla Butter-Factory

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 10 August 1892 · page 3

A CORRESPONDENT of the Crookwell Gazette reports that on their return journey from Crookwell, Messrs. Martin, Carruthers, and Holborow Ms. L.A. paid a visit to the new…

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Crookwell Butter Factory

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 10 August 1892 · page 2

THE half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of tho Crookwell Butter Factory Company was held at the factory yesterday afternoon, when about twenty shareholders were present. Mr…

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Sheep-Dog Trials

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 10 August 1892 · page 4

I AM glad to see a little more interest is being taken in sheep-dog trials, and no doubt they give the general public a greater encouragement in our collies…

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The Wool Trade. London, Aug. 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 August 1892 · page 4

In spite of rumours that failures are impending in the woollen trade at Br[?]dford, the wool market is firm at late rates, and fair business is being dune. The prospectus of the Western Australian…

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Another Advance for the Butter Factories

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 17 August 1892 · page 4

CONDENSED milk ought to be, as very certainly it is sure to become, an Australian product are long. The prospects for such an industry are more…

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