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

Farming & the land, 1893

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Millers and the Price of Wheat

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 December 1893 · page 4

ALBURY, Wednesday.—The announcement that 2s 8d per bushel is to be the opening price of wheat has caused a good deal of comment among farmers and others…

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Free Land for Farmers.—The Gundary Estate

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 December 1893 · page 2

AN announcement which will be of interest to farmers and others on the look-out for land on reasonable terms appears in our advertising columns from Messrs. Finlay and Co. It will be seen that…

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Experimental Farm at Wagga

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 December 1893 · page 6

The Wagga Express has published an interesting account of the Wagga Experimental Farm, which is situated on the Town Common. About 2000 acres have been set…

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The New American Tariff and Free Wool. the Opinion of the United States Consul

Goulburn Herald · Monday 11 December 1893 · page 4

COLONEL BELL, the United States Consul, has been interviewed on behalf of a Sydney daily, on the subject of the new tariff in the States and…

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Wool Sales

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 12 December 1893 · page 2

Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson, and Co. report:-- Our thirteenth sate of the season passed off briskly to-day, competition being very animated, especially for medium quality wools, and for all grades of…

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The Butter Trade. London, Dec 9

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 December 1893 · page 4

The Butter Committee has requested the Victorian Government to urge the Peninsula and Oriental S. N Company to provide for more prompt delivery of butter shipped by their vessels, as they state…

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Cable News. London Wool Sales. London, Dec. 7

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 December 1893 · page 4

At the wool sales to-day there was a steady competition ad prices remained unchanged…

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Wheat Prospects

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 13 December 1893 · page 2

THE Rural Australia takes an optimistic view of the wheat prospects for the current year. Things have s[?] looked better. There is not likely to be any thing…

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The Price of Wheat

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 13 December 1893 · page 2

THE announcement that 28 per bushel is to be the opening price of wheat has caused a good deal of comment down Albury way, among farmers and others…

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Complaint About Local Wool

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 13 December 1893 · page 2

THE Goulburn Evening, Star of Saturday, last says:-- Mr. Gale reports having bought 150 bales this week, and Mr. Barbor about 100 Complaints are made…

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The Butter Factories and the Export Question. an Emphatic Protest

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 13 December 1893 · page 3

THE management of the Robertson Park Dairy Company has passed the following resolution dealing with the butter export question, and forwarded it to the Berrima…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Messrs. Dalgety & Co., Limited, Sydney, Report. Sydney

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 13 December 1893 · page 2

OUR catalogue for yesterday's sale consisted of 3103 bales, and comprised an excellent collection of medium wools, for which there was a keen demand, and the…

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The Braidwood Crops

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 13 December 1893 · page 2

THE crops are not so good as last year, and are ripening fast. The fruit crop in poor…

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Bush Fire at Albury. Several Tons of Crop Lost

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 13 December 1893 · page 2

ON Sunday a farmer at Bowna named Hort lost several tons of crop by a fire in the harvest field. The bush fire at Four Corners extended over an area of five miles, one…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 December 1893 · page 4

At the wool sales in Sydney on Monday prices showed no material alteration on the range of values ruling last week, but in some oases of specially well-skirted fleece wools there was a…

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Dalgety and Co.'s Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 December 1893 · page 2

Dalgety and Co. (Limited), Sydney, report:— Our catalogue for yesterday afternoon's sale was enfaced with 465 bales, but owing to one of the firms which sold yesterday exceeding the number…

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The New American Tariff and Free Wool

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 December 1893 · page 3

COLONEL BELL, the United States Consul in Sydney, has been interviewed on the subject of the new tariff in the States and Australia's interest in the admission of free wool…

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Cable News. London Wool Sales. London, Dec. 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 December 1893 · page 2

At the wool sales to-day there was a lair competition, and prices were steady…

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The Carriage of Wheat. Alleged Carelessness

Goulburn Herald · Friday 15 December 1893 · page 3

AT a meeting of the Walla Walla Farmers' Union on Wednesday, complaint was made that during last season a parcel of wheat passed over the weighbridges at the…

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Sheep Diseases Act. Proclamation To-day. Sydney, Friday, 6.45 p.m

Goulburn Herald · Friday 15 December 1893 · page 5

A PROCLAMATION gazetted to-day declares that, for next year, the annual contribution under the Sheep Diseases Act shall be six shillings per thousand sheep…

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