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

Farming & the land, 1896

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Butter in England. London, Dec. 31

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 January 1896 · page 2

Since September the officers of the Board of Agriculture have analysed 291 samples of imported butter. Of these samples all the colonial butter was found to be pure. Seventy-nine samples of Dutch,…

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A Successful Dairy Company

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 January 1896 · page 4

MUDGEE, Monday.—The Mudgee Co-operative Dairy Company, since its inauguration six years ago, has bad a successful career, and the report and balance-sheet of…

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Wheat in the Yass District

The Yass Courier · Friday 3 January 1896 · page 2

We are pleased to report that a number of farmers,in the Yass district have better crops of wheat than they expected, and the average number of bushels per aero will be up to previous years…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 5

THIRTEEN inches ninety-seven points is Goulburn's share of rain for the past year, while at Yarra, a place a few miles to the south of the city, only 11 inches 68 points…

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Alleged Sheep-stealing at Queanbeyan

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 4

QUEANBEYAN, Thursday—Yesterday the police lodged in the lock-up six prisoners, charged with sheep-stealing, after 15 hours' pursuit in the saddle. The prisoners, including a father and his three…

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A New Process of Butter Packing

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 2

SOME two weeks ago we published an interesting letter and extract, from Mr. G. W. Conolly, of Bourke-street, giving an account of a somewhat important discovery of a new process of packing…

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The London Wool Market. London, Jan. 2

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 4

Messrs. Balme and Co.'s wool circular states that there is a fair prospect of wool values being maintained. In their circular Messrs. Buxton, Rouald, and Co-state that a further expansion of business and…

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Alleged Sheep-stealing

Goulburn Herald · Monday 6 January 1896 · page 2

AT Queanbeyan police court on Thursday Alfred Byrne and the three sons (Alfred, Edward, and James), Robert Tremain, and David Row were charged with stealing a…

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Alleged Sheep Stealing

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 January 1896 · page 4

At the Police Court on Thursday, before Messrs. F. Campbell, J. Gale, and J. Bull, Alfred Byrne and his three sons—Alfred, Edward, and James—Robert Tremain and David Rowe were charged…

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D[?] in Sheep [?]

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 8 January 1896 · page 2

A MEETING of the Board of Sheep Director for the she [?] Director Young, under the Diseases in heap Acts was held at the Stock Office Young on Tuesday 31st December last at 11o’clock a.m…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 January 1896 · page 4

At the opening wool sales of the season in Sydney on Monday 8004 bales were catalogued, of which 516 were sold. All districts were well represented, and clips from Queensland were especially…

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Dairy Creek Crushing. (To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 January 1896 · page 4

SIR,—In your issue of 4th instant a paragraph appears stating that " Bingley and Brown have finished crushing Cunningham and McEnroe's stone from Dairy Creek, a parcel of 12 tons, for a little…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 5

MR. JOHN DOBBIE, of Hilton Park, Rydal, writing on wheat-growing on Bathurst Plains, 50 years ago, says:—"In 1838 commenced what was called the three years' drought…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 6

FOR the wool sales held on Wednesday 7030 bales were catalogued, of which 5575 were sold. The catalogue included a large number of small clips. A few samples of a superior description, chiefly from…

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The Live Cattle Trade. London, Jan. 9

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 January 1896 · page 2

The steamer Yarrawonga, which left Sydney on 9th November, has arrived. She landed 290 head of cattle. Jan. 10…

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Importation of Wheat

Goulburn Herald · Monday 13 January 1896 · page 3

21,200 tons of Californian wheat are now on the way and loading for Sydney…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 14 January 1896 · page 2

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers Association report their sales were resumed at the Wool Exchange, Macquarie Place, on Monday 6th inst. and continued on the succeeding…

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The London Wool Sales.—prospects Good. London, Jan. 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 January 1896 · page 4

The prospects for the next series of London wool sales are good. Twelve hundred bales have been sold privately at an advance of ½d upon the December closing rates…

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Telegraphic. London Wool Sales. Big Advance in Price. London

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 14 January 1896 · page 2

The prospects of the London Wool Sales are good. Twelve hundred bales sold privately at half penny advance on December closing rates…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 January 1896 · page 4

THE Melbourne wool season being pretty well over, buyers from that quarter are now finding their way to Sydney, and give an impetus to the business there. On Monday many of them were…

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