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

Farming & the land, 1893

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Footrot in Sheep

The Burrowa News · Friday 7 July 1893 · page 4

In view of almost certain pr[?]nce of footrot in sheep this season, the following information as to prevention and cure may be studied with interest and profit…

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The Largest Butter-factory in the World

Goulburn Herald · Friday 7 July 1893 · page 4

THE WORLD.—It is now claimed that the largest butter factory in the world is in Melbourne—the Fresh Food and Frozen Storage Company Limited…

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Model Dairy and Poultry Farm

Goulburn Herald · Friday 7 July 1893 · page 4

THE Now York Tribune contains a long and exhaustive description of Ellerslie, the model farm owned and occupied by Mr. Levi Parsons Morton,…

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Stud Sheep Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 July 1893 · page 4

AUCTION sales of stud sheep were continued on Wednesday at Kirribilli Point by Messrs. Geddes and Co., and by Messrs. Goldsbrough Mort, and Co. The former firm of…

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London Wool Sales. London, July 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 July 1893 · page 4

There is stronger competition at the wool sales, and prices, except for the best clans of wools, are firmer. The Waterloo and Longerenong clips have been sold at 9d…

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The London Wool Sales. London, July 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 July 1893 · page 2

There is improved competition for medium Victorian and Tasmanian wools. Portions of the Amby Downs clip have been sold at 8?d, and Inverell at 9d, and the Gazelle clip at 11?d…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 July 1893 · page 5

IT has been alleged that the life of a farmer consists of constant attention to the natural laws. Only by knowledge can he subjugate them to his own use…

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London Wool Market. London, July 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 15 July 1893 · page 6

The price of wool shows an upward tendency. Peak Downs and Bernardo clips have been sold at 9d per lb., Qusmby 1s. The Right Hen. Stuart Kuill, Lord Mayor of…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 July 1893 · page 2

THE fortnightly local wool sales continued and concluded on Wednesday. The demand was again brisk, and previous rates were well maintained…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 July 1893 · page 4

THE Sydney wool sales ware resumed on Tuesday. Competition was native, and the prices obtained were on a per with those which were ruling a fortnight ago…

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London Wool Sales. London, July 18

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 July 1893 · page 2

The wool market is firm, with spirited competition. Winter, Ulinda, and Creel clips have been sold at 8½d, Gunner, Talloona, and Wallangra at 9d, and Elwood at 10d…

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The Wool Market. London, July 17

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 20 July 1893 · page 4

The wool market is unchanged. Salt Creek clip sold for 11d, McNamara (secured) 13d…

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Diseases in Sheep Acts

The Burrowa News · Friday 21 July 1893 · page 2

A MEETING of the board of sheep directors for the Sheep District of Young, under the Diseases in Sheep Acts, was held at the Stock Office, Young on Wednesday…

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A Travelling Dairy

Goulburn Herald · Friday 21 July 1893 · page 3

bobbing around the country teaching dairymaids how to make butter is something like a boy endued with a generous enthusiasm for teaching his grandmother to suck eggs. Even…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 July 1893 · page 6

THE Victorian farmers are complaining of the prices they are being offered for all kinds of produce. A shearer named R. J. Howe, of Blackall,…

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Butter Factory for Braidwood

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 July 1893 · page 4

BRAIDWOOD, Thursday.—At a meeting to form a butter factory at Reidsdale, with a capital of £1000, in £1 shares, half the shares were taken up in the room. A provisional committee were…

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London Wool Sales. London, July 21

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 July 1893 · page 2

There was a spirited demand at the London wool sales yesterday. The quantity of wool sold has been 138,000 bales. The following were the closing prices, as…

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The London Wool Sales. London, July 20

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 July 1893 · page 4

Sixty thousands bales of wool will be held over from the ocurrent series of London sales, Yesterday the Kinchega clip sold at 5½ per lb., and the Elsinora clip at 15¼d per lb…

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The Best Farm in the World

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 July 1893 · page 6

"The best farm in the world, aye, and the best-managed, too," exclaims Mr. W. J. Harris, an ex. M.P., in the Melbourne Argus, "is Long Reach, near Ashburton,…

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Selling Mortgaged Sheep

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 25 July 1893 · page 2

Hercules O'Keeffe, on bail, was charged at the Queanbeyan Quarter Sessions, with having disposed of certain sheep mortgaged to Andrews and do Laurel of Goulburn there wore also three similar charges,…

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