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

Farming & the land, 1893

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 December 1893 · page 6

THE man who imponerishes his farm steals from his own pocket. A man who loves his farm too well to neglect her will win her smiling favour in laughing harvests…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 December 1893 · page 4

At Thursday's wool sales, the tone of the market was firm at last week's values, and in some instance buyers were impelled to call out a farthing over to secure suitable lure. For very attractive…

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The London Wool Sales. London Dec 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 December 1893 · page 4

The November-December series of London wool sales closed to-day. During tile sales 92,000 bales were sold, and 22,000 bales are held over for the next series. Compared with the previous sales,…

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Baby-Farming in Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 December 1893 · page 5

Melbourne Thursday.—THE Full Court decided to-day that the points of law raised on behalf of Frances Knorr, who has been convicted for the…

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A Blind Farmer

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 December 1893 · page 6

Men who can't make farming pay should take a lesson from Ambrose Hallen, Toongabbie. Stone-blind from childhood, he found himself, when a man, obliged to…

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The Wheat Crop at Burrowa. Twenty Bushels to the Acre

Goulburn Herald · Monday 18 December 1893 · page 3

THE wheat crop promises well in most localities around Barrowa. One former on the Ballyrvan Estate will take off twenty busbells to the acro from a considerable area. The…

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The Queanbeyan Wool Works. Active Operations

Goulburn Herald · Monday 18 December 1893 · page 2

THE Queanbeyan Age reports that active operations are now being proceeded with at the Queanbeyan Wool Works. Mr. H. J. Dixie, the general manager of the company,…

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Harvesting at Bungonia. Crops Very Fair

Goulburn Herald · Monday 18 December 1893 · page 3

HARVESTING is now going ahead merrily throughout the district, although the pat few days have been anything but favourable for bay-making. Generally speaking the crops…

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The Butter Market

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 December 1893 · page 4

THE meeting of producers of butter and their Sydney agents was held on Friday, as arranged, and, with one dissentient, the action of the Export Association in raising the…

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Butter Factory for Yass

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 19 December 1893 · page 2

A"very large mooting was held at Mr." P. Johnson's hotel on Saturday afternoon last, for the purpose of starting a Butter Factory at Yass. Amongst those present were noticed Messrs. M…

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Butter Factory at Yass

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 December 1893 · page 2

YASS, Saturday.—An adjourned meeting, for the purpose of establishing a butter factory at Yass, was held to-day. There was a large attendance. The committee appointed to visit the Murrumburrah…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 December 1893 · page 2

ON Monday at the Sydney wool sales the range of values continued on about the level of last week for good fleece, skirts, and planes, but for all medium and faulty sorts prices generally (according to the…

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Australian Butter. London, Dec. 18

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 December 1893 · page 2

Australian factory butter is quoted at 110s per cwt. The market is over-supplied…

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Rise in the Price of Butter

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 December 1893 · page 4

IT appears that after the general meeting of country representatives and agents held in Sydney on Friday (says the S. M. Herald), when it was decided to support the association, another…

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The Butter Trade. London, Dec. 17

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 December 1893 · page 4

Colonial butter is quoted at 1104 per cwt. The market is glutted with continental butter, owing to the mild weather…

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London Wool Sales. Closed at Best Rates

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 19 December 1893 · page 2

London, December 14.—The wool salts closed to-day, at the best rates of the series. Continental buyers took 60 per cent, of the' wool offered. American buyers only took…

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Milk and Butter at Bowral

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 20 December 1893 · page 2

OWING to the exceptionally good season, milk vendors are retailing milk at 1½d. a quart. The news to band from Sydney yesterday morning that the local price of prime butter…

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Proposed Butter Factory at Yass. Adjourned Meeting

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 20 December 1893 · page 2

AN adjourned meeting, for the purpose of established a butter factory at Yass, was held on Saturday. There was a large attendance. The committee appointed to visit the…

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Colonial Butter. Rapid Development of the Industry. Some Remarkable Figures

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 20 December 1893 · page 4

IN an interesting article on "Colonial Butter," the London Grocer of November 4 refers to the astonishing rapidity with which the butter industry…

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The Wool Traffic at Queanbeyan. Decrease by Rail

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 20 December 1893 · page 2

THE wool traffic from the Queanbeyan railway station is not nearly as heavy this season as last. This may be accounted for owing to a large number of bales having been…

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