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

Farming & the land, 1893

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Agricultural and Pastoral

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 August 1893 · page 5

THE weather in this district during the week has been exceptionally mild and there is every appearance of an early spring. An early spring is not altogether a desirable thing…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 August 1893 · page 5

THE fortnightly local wool sales were concluded on Wednesday. A good deal of new wool is arriving, receipts at Darling Harbour during the week ended on Wednesday being…

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Annual Review of the Wool Trade

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 August 1893 · page 5

We have received the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.'s annual review of the Sydney Wool Trade for 1892-3. Accompanying it is an instructive diagram,…

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Baby Farming in Austria. London, Aug. 18

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 August 1893 · page 2

Sickening revelations have been made in connection with the discovery of a baby farm at Warasdin in Croatia, Austria. Children were purposely crippled in order to…

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Australian Sheep Show. N.s.w. Pastoralists to the Fore

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 22 August 1893 · page 2

Melbourne, Saturday.-- At the show of the Australian Sheepbreeders' Association yesterday, the following were among the awards made: Mr. Quiamong, Conargo (New South Wales), first…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 August 1893 · page 5

SPRINGLIKE weather prevails in this district, and the crops and orchards are looking splendid. With occasional showers of rain, the coming season ought to yield an…

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Butter-producing Breeds of Cows

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 August 1893 · page 5

The great feature of the dairying exhibit at Chicago is the series of elaborate tests being conducted to decide the relative merits of certain breeds of milch cows. It is…

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Hard Times for the English Farmer

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 August 1893 · page 5

Never before has the prospect for the English farmer been so black as it is at the present moment (says an English journal) Years of low prices and excessive rainfall…

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The Wolves and the Sheep

Goulburn Herald · Monday 28 August 1893 · page 2

"Why should there always be this implacable warfare between us?" said the Wolves to the Sheep. "Those evil-disposed Dogs have much to answer for. They bark…

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The Wheat Crops. London, Aug. 28

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 August 1893 · page 2

The official returns of the wheat crop in Australia state that the yield is 14,000,000 meter-centners (51,330,000 bushole), while the total yield of the crop in Hungary is given as 40,000,000 meter-centners…

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Farmers' and Settlers' Association

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 30 August 1893 · page 4

A MEETING of farmers and others interested in the welfare of the Yass district was held on Saturday last at the Australian Hotel, Yass, to consider the advisability of forming…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 August 1893 · page 4

The fortnightly local wool sales were resumed on Tuesday, when several small catalogues were offered. Competition was not particularly active, and the market was…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 August 1893 · page 2

THE fortnightly local wool sales were concluded on Wednesday. A few parcels of new clip were offered, and attracted a good deal of attention. The tone of the market was unchanged since…

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Wool Sales. Sydney

The Yass Courier · Friday 1 September 1893 · page 2

Harrison, Jones and Devlin's sales on Tuesday disclosed a somewhat quiet market, in which probably the most noticeable feature was the evident…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 September 1893 · page 5

AN Englishman cats as much meat in a week as a German does in a mouth. It is reported that the population of the United States is growing so rapidly that…

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The Low Price of Wheat

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 September 1893 · page 5

An American writer says:—Wheat sold in New York on 3oth June at 68½ cents a bushel—21½ cents lower than the average during 1892, and the lowest price since…

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Victorian Farmers' Association

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 September 1893 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The annual conference of delegates from the various branches of the Victorian Farmers' Association was opened at the Town-hall to-night. Mr. G. Davies, M L C,…

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The Pastoral Industry. to the Editor of the Goulburn Herald

Goulburn Herald · Monday 4 September 1893 · page 4

SIR,—One of the most illogical and absurd features of the later phases of the ceaseless conflict between labour and capital in Australia is the…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Wednesday, 2.18 p.m. the Brunswick Baby-farming Case

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 September 1893 · page 4

THE baby-farming case at Brunswick, Victoria, is expected to rival the Makins' record, The police renewed operations this morning and there is every belief that there will be…

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The Baby-Farming Case

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 September 1893 · page 2

MINNIE THWAITES, alias Knorr, was arrested in Sydney on Wednesday charged with the wilful murder of infants In Melbourne. Her husband is also under arrest, pending advices from Melbourne…

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