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

Farming & the land, 1895

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Dairy Cattle Poisoned by Lead

The Yass Courier · Friday 29 November 1895 · page 2

A Jamberoo correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" writes.-- "For the past five or six years the Jamberoo rifle club have bad their range on a farm owned by Mr. J. J. McCarthy…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Burrowa News · Friday 29 November 1895 · page 3

Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson, and Co. report:—The A over Hume brand on our catalogue formed a centre of attraction for visitors as well as buyers, and its perfect…

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London Wool Sales

The Burrowa News · Friday 29 November 1895 · page 3

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The South Australian Wheat Harvest

The Yass Courier · Friday 29 November 1895 · page 2

Adelaide Wednesday.-- Harvest prospec is not so bad as at first anticipated. It is estimated that the average wheat yield will be four bushels to the acre. There are 1,500,000 acres under…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 November 1895 · page 4

IT is proposed to advertise for sale on or about the 14th January, 1896, as improvement leases, an area of about, I 500,000 acres in 99 blocks. These lands are situated…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 November 1895 · page 4

ON Wednesday at the Sydney wool sales 9481 bales were catalogued and 8412 sold. The great bulk of the offerings were medium and faulty descriptions. Really good samples commanded very full rates, but…

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Local Sheep Shipped to London

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 30 November 1895 · page 3

SOME time ago reference was made in these columns to the consignment of twenty-five sheep to England by Mr. Carlo Marina, of Moppity, by the “Southern Cross.” It will be remembered that…

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The Live Cattle Trade. London, Nov. 28

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 November 1895 · page 2

Six cases of plcure-pneumonia have been discovered among the cattle brought by the steamer Maori King, which sailed from Sydney on 10th September and Wellington on 16th September…

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London Wool Sales. London, Nov. 28

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 November 1895 · page 2

At the wool sales to-day an excellent selection was offered. Competition was brisk, and prices were very firm. Amongst the lots sold were:— Merungle, 7½d; S…

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The London Wool Sales. London, Nov. 27

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 November 1895 · page 4

At the wool sales 5500 bales were offered, nearly all being sold. The market is firm, and there is a better spirit. Great Britain has decided to construct a railway…

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Maize as a Hay Crop. (By ” Thistledown ” in the AUSTRALASIAN)

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 30 November 1895 · page 3

IT docs not appear to be generally known that maize, when cut green and made into hay, forms a very excellent fodders for all kinds of stock. As a rule, farmers who grow a few acres of maize aim…

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The Wool Market

Goulburn Herald · Monday 2 December 1895 · page 3

A private cablepram to-day announces that the London wool market has recovered the five per cent, decline at the opening sales. Prices are now on par with the satisfactory…

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The Fruit Crop of 1895

Goulburn Herald · Monday 2 December 1895 · page 3

THE Rural World (England), says that the fruit crop of 1895 will probably prove the heaviest of the last twenty years. In all parts of the country trees are so heavily…

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New Wheat

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 December 1895 · page 2

THE Argyle Mills received on Monday the first new wheat from Riverina. It was a very good sample of bright, clean grain…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 3 December 1895 · page 2

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report that large catalogues have been submitted to full attendances of buyers on each day of sale. Supplies have almost…

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Large Purchase of Wheat

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 December 1895 · page 4

Dubbo, Saturday.—The local co-operative mill has just completed a contract for the purchase of 1000 tons of No. 1 Californian wheat in San Francisco for December and January free in slings at the Sydney…

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Mr. Joseph Franklin's Wool

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 3 December 1895 · page 2

IFOakvale, from Yass, sound, free, and nicely prepared, 7¾d…

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Mr. Andrew Davis's Wool

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 3 December 1895 · page 2

Again we have to report a most successful sale. For a beautiful lot of merino greasy fleece, from Yass marked ADMurrumville, we secured 11¼d per pound. This price has…

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London Wool Sales. London, Dec. 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 December 1895 · page 4

At the wool sales. yesterday competition was spirited, and prices are very firm…

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Yass District Grown Wool Leading the Market. the Everton Wool Tops the Australian Market

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 3 December 1895 · page 2

Every year it is our pleasing duty to report the high price obtained for all wool sent from the Yass district, which goes to show that the climate and condition of the Yass district…

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