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

Farming & the land, 1893

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Merrilla, Mummel, and Parkesbourne Farmers' Association. Annual Ploughing Match

Goulburn Herald · Friday 22 September 1893 · page 5

THE annual ploughing matches in connection with the above society took place to-day, under very favourable circumstances. The weather was beautifully fine, with a…

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Poetry. the Old Farm

The Burrowa News · Friday 22 September 1893 · page 1

The dear old farm! Its every rod Is fraught with memories sweet to me Each spot recalls some bygone hour Of joyous ch[?]dhood, gay and free…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 September 1893 · page 5

THE largest bee-keeper in the world is Mr. Harbison, of California, who has 6,000 hives, producing 200,000lbs of honey yearly. There are 2,900,000 hives in the United…

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Agriculture V. Pastoral Pursuits

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 September 1893 · page 5

An interesting comparison has been made by the Railway Commissioners between the value to the railways of 10,000 acres of land under cultivation and 10,00 acres…

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The Wool Market. London, Sept. 20

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 September 1893 · page 4

The wool market is very firm at the closing rates of last series. Home buyers are competing spiritedly. American purchasers have bought a large parcel of Melbourne-bought wool, at about the original…

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Merrilla, Mummel, and Parkesbourne Farmers' Association. Annual Ploughing Match

Goulburn Herald · Monday 25 September 1893 · page 3

[In consequence of our reporter's notes having to be pat into the printer's hands immediately on his return from the above match, the account of the proceedings given in our last last issue was necessarily brief…

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The Wool Market

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 26 September 1893 · page 2

London, September 20.--At the wool sales to-day prices were very firm owing to the rates offering by home buyers, who are competing in a spirited manner. American purchasers have bought a large parcel of…

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Re the Federated Squatters' and Farmers' Company

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 September 1893 · page 2

THIS matter came before the Master in Equity on Monday to settle the list of contributories of the company. Among the others whose names it was proposed to place on the list were Mr. John Moore…

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Merrilla, Mummell, and Parkesbourne Farmers' Association. Annual Ploughing Matches

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 September 1893 · page 4

THE twelfth annual ploughing matches in connection with the above association took place on Friday last. If the committee had had the making of the weather they could not have had a more beautiful…

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Diseased Cattle

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 27 September 1893 · page 3

WHILST officially engaged in one of the adjoining districts lately inspecting the dairies therein, the police, we are informed, came upon a milch cow which was seriously affected…

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SYDNEY, Wednesday, 7.10 p.m. Opening Wool Sale at Adelaide

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 27 September 1893 · page 3

THE Adelaide house of the New Zealand Land Association Limited (acting for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Limited) wire that they held the…

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The Melbourne Baby- Farming Case

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 27 September 1893 · page 2

MRS. THWAITES and her husband, Rudolph Knorr, were before the Sydney police court on Friday, charged with child murder in Victoria. Both were remanded to…

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Interesting to Dairymen

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 27 September 1893 · page 2

THE Minister of Agriculture has received a report from a dairy expert in reference to the establishment of a market in England for Australian butter. "The fact,"…

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Farm and Garden

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 27 September 1893 · page 4

GET your sprayer and insecticides ready before you need them. If you wait until the last moment to prepare them, you will probably use them too…

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London Wool Market. London, Sept. 25

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 September 1893 · page 2

Good wools are slow of sale and prices slightly in the buyers' favour. Other sorts are firm. Brick Carundel fetched 10½d; Austin Borryallcak, 10d; and Correna, new clip, 8d…

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London Wool Market. London, Sept. 27

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 September 1893 · page 4

At the wool sales to-day spirited prices ruled, and medium gressies showed an advance of 5 per cent. on the opening rates. Good Victorian was slow of sale…

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Crookwell Pastoral and Agricultural Association. Annual Ploughing Matches

Goulburn Herald · Monday 2 October 1893 · page 2

THE annual ploughing matches of the above association were held on Friday last, and although the number of competitors was much smaller than usual and the…

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MELBOURNE, Monday. Melbourne Baby-farming Cases

Goulburn Herald · Monday 2 October 1893 · page 3

MINNIE THWAITES has sufficiently recovered to be able to appear to-morrow in connection with the baby-farming cases. ASSAULTING A SERVANT GIRL…

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London Wool Sales. London, Oct. 2

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 October 1893 · page 2

There is a good attendance and keen competition at the wool sales. Prices are firm…

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The Melbourne Baby-farming Case

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 4 October 1893 · page 3

The coronial inquiry into the circumstances of the Melbourne baby farming case was commenced in that city on Monday. Rudolph Knorr and Minnio Knorr alias Thwaites were…

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