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

Farming & the land, 1895

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The Butter Market. London, Nov. 10

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 November 1895 · page 2

The Grocer, a London trade journal, states that the decline in the butter market is not likely to cease until prices are on a parity with those which ruled in November last year…

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The Live Cattle Trade. London, Nov. 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 November 1895 · page 2

The steamer Maori King landed 111 head of cattle. The bulk looks miserably wasted, and many are said to be old and unsaleable. Ninety cattle have been landed from the steamer Nairnshire, from…

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The Live Cattle Trade. London, Nov. 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 November 1895 · page 4

The steamer Maori King, which sailed from Sydney on 10th September, and from Wellington on 16th September, with a shipment of cattle and frozen meat, has arrived. She landed 113 head of…

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Bradford Wool Market. London, Nov. 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 November 1895 · page 4

The Bradford wool market is flat. Merinos and crossbreds are weaker…

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Farm and Garden Notes

The Yass Courier · Friday 15 November 1895 · page 2

From the "Waikato Times New Zealand, kindly forwarded to us by our old townsman, Mr. James Cottrell, we clip the following extracts. -- SIMPLE METHOD OF MAKING SILAGE. -- A rank…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 November 1895 · page 6

A FORTNIGHT ago we referred to the unsatisfactory state of the wheat crops of the colony. A general fall of rain at that time would have done a vast amount of good, but the very worst…

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Tick Fever in Cattle

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 16 November 1895 · page 3

MR. ALEXANDER BRUUK, Chief Inspector of Stock, has forwarded to the Minister for Mines and Agriculture a memorandum with regard to the [?] known as red water in cattle, or tick fever…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 November 1895 · page 5

THE Sydney wool sales on Wednesday were again marked by brisk competition for all the best descriptions, and the prices paid were quite equal to those current; for some…

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The Butter Market. London, Nov. 13

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 November 1895 · page 4

The butter market is slow. Colonial butter is quoted at 106s to 112s, and best Danish at 112s to 11s per cwt. It is hoped that the low prices will improve the…

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Export of Cattle From Canada. London, Nov. 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 November 1895 · page 4

The Canadian Government have subsidised cattle steamers so as to enable the export of cattle to England to be continued during the winter…

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The Wool Market. London, Nov. 13

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 November 1895 · page 4

Messrs. Buxton, Ronald, and Company, wool brokers, report that the consumption of merino and crossbred wools is very large, but, owing to the relapse in prices at the wool sales in Sydney and…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 19 November 1895 · page 2

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association (the Australasian Mortgage and Agency Co., Ltd. -- J. C, Young and Co.) report that sales were this week held in the Wool…

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Dealings in Wheat. London, Nov. 16

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 November 1895 · page 4

The Marquis of Salisbury has declined to convene, on behalf of Great Britain, an international conference to discuss the necessity for taking measures to prevent gambling in wheat, on the ground…

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Bread-and-butter Dance

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 20 November 1895 · page 2

ONE of the most enjoyable evenings witnessed in Crookwell for some time was spent on Thursday evening last, when a broad and-butter dance took place in the…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 November 1895 · page 3

AT the opening wool sales of the week on Monday there was no abatement of the competition for good to superior merino fleece, of which there wore numerous lots on the catalogues, and up to 10¾d was…

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The Live Cattle Trade. London, Nov. 18

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 November 1895 · page 4

Thirty of the cattle brought by the steamer Nairnshire, from Sydney 19th September, which were in fair condition, have been sold at £16 each. Two of the biggest animals realised £19. The rest…

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The Bradford Wool Market. London, Nov. 18

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 November 1895 · page 4

The Bradford wool market is more cheerful. A little business is being transacted, though prices are unchanged…

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Serious Loss of Sheep

Goulburn Herald · Friday 22 November 1895 · page 2

Out of seventeen thousand fat wethers travelling for sale near Wileannia seven hundred died through gorging themselves with blue bush and then drinking heavily…

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Yass Wool Topping the Market

The Yass Courier · Friday 22 November 1895 · page 2

The "Gundagai Times" of Tuesday last says: -- Some few issues ago we advised farmers and others to skirt and prepare their clips as well as they possibly could, to enable them…

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Farming in Victoria

Goulburn Herald · Friday 22 November 1895 · page 4

MR. J. C. Worboys, a farmer of Springhill, and a member of the government board of advice on produce-exporting, who has recently visited the…

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