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

Farming & the land, 1893

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Wheat Yield --1892-3

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 22 February 1893 · page 2

WE have received from the Department of Agriculture the crop report for January, 1893. The tables of area and product give the total area under wheat as…

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Prize Wreat-farms

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 22 February 1893 · page 2

During last year several national prizes were offered, with the approval of the minister for mines and agriculture, for the best acre of cereals, tubers,…

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Successful Co-operation. Berrima District Farmers' Company

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 1 March 1893 · page 4

IT is satisfactory to find that while the country seems rent with the disputes of the different political parties, the farmers acting on the principles of self-help and co-operation,…

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Wheat Harvesting in California

Goulburn Herald · Friday 3 March 1893 · page 8

The last two years have witnessed another development of machinery in Californian wheat culture. Steam power has been successfully applied,…

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Wool Sales. Sydney. February 28th. 1893

The Yass Courier · Friday 3 March 1893 · page 2

WOOL.--For our fortnightly sale to-day, wo submitted a catalogue of 629 bales. The fact that the season is over and that the catalogues are now largely made up of the fag ends of clips and mixed…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Monday, 3 p.m. the Baby-farming Case

Goulburn Herald · Monday 6 March 1893 · page 3

THE trial of Makin and his wife on the charge of murder of the child Murray was commenced at the central criminal court to-day, and is proceeding…

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Crookwell Butter Factory

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 8 March 1893 · page 2

AT a meeting of directors of the Crookwell Butter Factory Company, held at the factory on Monday last, Mr. Geo. McDonald was re-elected chairman; Mr…

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Butter - Factory at Tarago. an Enterprising and Successful Farmer

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 8 March 1893 · page 4

AT the invitation of Mr. D. Wyatt of Sherwin's Flats, Tuage, a representative of this journal paid a visit to his excellent and well-kept farm on Saturday last to be present…

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A Sheep with Two Mouths

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 March 1893 · page 4

MR JOHN EVANS, of Fountain Head, near Cooma, has a lusus nature in a sheep with two mouths. It was lambed last October, and while one of the mouths is in the normal position, the other is…

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The Nomenclature of Wheat

Goulburn Herald · Friday 10 March 1893 · page 7

Arrangements have been concluded for a meeting of the wheat-naming committee (appointed at the Rust Conference in Adelaide last year) in…

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The Baby-farming Case

Goulburn Herald · Friday 10 March 1893 · page 4

The trail of John and Sarah Makin was concluded at the Central Criminal Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Stephen. The prisoners had been…

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Travelling Sheep Without a Permit

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 March 1893 · page 3

AT the Yass Police Court on Thursday morning, before the P.M., J. T. Toohey pleaded guilty to travelling more than 300 sheep without a permit. Mr. Turner,…

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The Farmer and the Stork

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 15 March 1893 · page 4

A Farmer placed nets on his newly-sown plough lands, and caought a quantity of cranes, which came to, pick up his seed. With them he trapped a stork also. The…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 March 1893 · page 4

THE fortnightly wool sales were commenced again on Tuesday morning. There was a large attendance of buyers and active competition, not with standing that the lots offered, as usual at the fag…

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Antwerp Wool Sales. London, March 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 March 1893 · page 2

The Antwerp wool sales were opened yesterday The wool on offer comprises 72,000 bales, 15,000 of which are from River Plate. The Australian wool catalogued consists of 1200 bales. The sales…

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The London Wool Market. London, March 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 March 1893 · page 2

There is a good demand in the London wool market, and prices are firm…

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The Farmers' Dinner

Goulburn Herald · Friday 17 March 1893 · page 4

The usual former dinners' was held on Wednesday evening at the Richlands Hotel. About forty sat down to an excellent spread provided by the landlady of the hotel (Mrs…

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Wool Market

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 3

CABLE advices continue to confirm the intelligence of an appreciable advance in the European wool market. The rise in River Plato descriptions is put down at 8 per cent., and in other descriptions at…

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The Naming of Wheat

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 7

MOST of the members of the wheat nomenclature committee, which was holding sittings in Sydney last week, have returned to their homes. The committee which has…

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Farmers' Dinner

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 3

The usual farmers' dinner was held on Wednesday evening at Mrs. Tynsn's Richlands' Hotel. There was a good attendance, and the president, Mr. W. H. Whiting, occupied the chair. The loyal toasts…

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