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

Farming & the land, 1896

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The Price of Wheat

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 1 September 1896 · page 2

Local agents at Coolaman are offering 3s 7d for wheat on the rail there. Several small parcels are being sold at that figure…

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American and Russian Wheat Harvests. LONDON

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 2 September 1896 · page 2

The adverse harvest reports received from America, and Russia have ha the effect of materially hardening the wheat market, where prices have this week advanced fully 6d per quarter…

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Experimental Farm

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 2 September 1896 · page 2

Consequent on the appended reports from Mr. Valder, manager of the Waggs experimental from, Mr. M P. for Argylle it informed that the secretary for mines of…

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Farmers' Waste in Seed-wheat

Goulburn Herald · Friday 4 September 1896 · page 3

MR. DICK M.L.A., was much struck with a remark by Mr. George Vaider, manager of the experimental farm at Bomon, near Wagga, to the effect that great wante took place in the…

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Root and Fodder Crops

Goulburn Herald · Friday 4 September 1896 · page 4

THE great increase in butter-factories and in our dairying industries have led to much greater interest being taken in the above, as it is generally…

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Little Farms in Japan

Goulburn Herald · Friday 4 September 1896 · page 4

JAPAN, and not Franco or Belgium, would appear to be the land of peli[?]e culture. According to a recent American bulletin a couple of acres is…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 September 1896 · page 6

HERE'S a saving of seed wheat, if you like ! Mr. George Valder, manager of the Wagga experimental farm, writes:—"We have proved beyond doubt that 51b of send wheat…

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Burrangong Pastoral and Agricultural Association

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 5 September 1896 · page 3

THE meeting of the committee at the Burrangong Pastoral and Agricultural Association was held in the Town Hall on Wednesday afternoon. Present— Mr. John Forsythe (president) in the chair, Messrs,…

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Fodder and Root Crops

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 September 1896 · page 6

The importance of these is coming more to the front every year as the necessity for their cultivation is forced upon growers by the needs of their stock during winter and…

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Local & General News. the Wagga Wagga Show. Yass Sheep Again to the Front

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 8 September 1896 · page 2

Some few weeks ago we reported that Mr. G. C. Hall, of Yeumburrah, carried off several prizes at the Sydney Sheep Breeders' Association Show, defeating some of the…

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Wheat Prize

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 9 September 1896 · page 2

TO-DAY a sub-committee, appointed by the managing body of the Burrangong Pastoral and Agricultural Association, are to present a report with regard to the wheat at our show been…

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Yield From Seed Wheat at Wagga

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 9 September 1896 · page 4

MR. W. T. DICK, M.P., recently wrote to Mr. Valder, manager of the Murrumbidgee experimental mental farm, near Wagga, with reference to certain statements made by the manager in a…

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Model Farms

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 9 September 1896 · page 2

THE policy of the Government in regard to model farms was declared by the Minister for Mines and Agriculture, in answering a question in the Legislative Assembly by Mr. Haynes. He said :—…

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Influx of Victorian Farmers

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 September 1896 · page 2

COROWA, Wednesday.—Numbers of Victorian farmers are passing through Corowa and Mulwais for the Urana land ballot on the 10th inst. The ballot is expected to be the record one for the…

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Mortality Amongst Cattle

Goulburn Herald · Friday 11 September 1896 · page 2

DURING the past week several valuable milking cows have died through eating noxious weeds. Mr. Austin Molloy lost two of his best milkers on Wednesday and Mr…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 September 1896 · page 5

THE August number of the Agricultural Gazette contains a very valuable insect pest chart, prepared by Mr. Claude Fuller, assistant entomologist, and issued by the…

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Burrangong Pastoral and Agricultural cultural Association

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 12 September 1896 · page 2

A MEETING of the committee of the Burrangong P. and A. Association was held on Wednesday afternoon in the Town Hall Present—Mr. John Foraythe, president (in the chair), Messrs. Rens,…

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The Largest Pastoral Holding in the Colony

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 September 1896 · page 4

ON Thursday the Land Appeal Court, sitting at Darlingburst, determined the rest of the largest pastoral holding in the colony—that of Momba, owned by the Momba…

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The Antwerp Wool Sales. London, Sept. 10

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 September 1896 · page 4

The Antwerp wool sales will take place on the 15th and 19th instants. The catalogue comprises 11,400 bales, of which 60 bales are Australian wool…

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Tips to Farmers

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 September 1896 · page 5

Leave your soil alone. Don't spend money in nitrates or other newfangled devices for increasing its fertility, If it grows weeds, as it probably does, it can grow other things…

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