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

Farming & the land, 1896

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Wheat Exported to South Australia

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 October 1896 · page 4

ALBURY, Thursday.—During the past fortnight large quantity of locally-owned wheat has boon trucked at Albury railway station for South Australia via Melbourne. The wheat formed the stock…

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London Wool Sales. London, Oct. 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 October 1896 · page 2

At the wool sales this evening there was keen competition, but prices were unchanged…

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London Wool Sales. London, Oct. 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 October 1896 · page 5

At the wool sales this evening bidding was brisk and prices firm…

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Model Farm Wanted at Cooma

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 October 1896 · page 5

COOMA, Wednesday.—At the council meeting last night Alderman Deveroaux moved a motion with the object of urging the Minister for Land. to consider the desirability of establishing a model…

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Carriage of Wool

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 20 October 1896 · page 2

The Railway Commissioners state that large quantities of wool are arriving at Darling Harbor. The daily average amounts to between 5000 and 6000 bales. For the week the…

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London Wool Sales

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 20 October 1896 · page 2

Campbell, Nimmo, and Company's cable: "London, October 16th.--Wool Market: The sales closed strong. The market is very strong, save for inferior wools."…

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London Wool Sales. London, Oct. 16

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 October 1896 · page 2

The London wool sales closed this evening, the market being firm. Prices show an average decline of 5 per cent. as compared with the closing rates of the July series…

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Produce of the Salvation Army's Farm Colony

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 October 1896 · page 2

During tile summer months one hundred persons have been daily employed at the Salvation Army's farm colony, Hadleigh, Essex, fruit gathering. The following quantities have been gathered and…

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The Wheat Market. London, Oct. 20

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 October 1896 · page 2

The excitement in the wheat markets of the Continent and in London was caused by a sharp advance in the price of wheat in the United States. Grain freights from America to European ports…

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London Wool Sales

The Burrowa News · Friday 23 October 1896 · page 3

The London wool sales closed on the Kith inst., the market being firm. Prices show an average decline of 5 per cent, as compared with the closing rates of the July series…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 27 October 1896 · page 3

October 21st, 1896. Catalogues submitted this week have been of fair average quality representing all portions of the colony except the late shearing districts…

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Important Wheat-growing Proposals

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 October 1896 · page 4

The Minister for Lands, Mr. J. H. Carruthers, received an application on Wednesday from a gentleman who has a large practical knowledge of wheat-farming for…

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The Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 October 1896 · page 2

NEWS from London confirms the report of the hardening of the wool market consequent on the inquiry for the United States. In consequence of this the interest in the Sydney wool sales on Monday…

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New South Wales Sheep. London, Oct. 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 October 1896 · page 4

The shipment of 157 carcases of New South Wales sheep which arrived by the steamer Australasian, consigned to W. Weddel and Co., and which was exhibited in Sydney, has been sold at from 2s 3d to…

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Rise in the Price of Flour and Wheat

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 27 October 1896 · page 2

Flour has taken a rise of £2 per ton in New South Wales and wheat has also risen in price. Californian wheat 4s 7d; Adelaide 4s to 5s; New South Wales 3s 9d to 4s. on rail, with an…

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The Crops in Ireland. London, Oct. 25

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 October 1896 · page 4

The recent heavy rains have to a large evtent injured the potato and other crops in Ireland. The prospects for the winter are grave…

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Hares and Butter

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 October 1896 · page 4

THE Minister for Mines, in answer to Mr. Rose, said in the Assembly on Tuesday that he was aware that thousands of hares were destroyed annually in the Argyle electorate on the ground that they were…

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The Wheat Harvest

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 October 1896 · page 2

The Daily Telegraph publishes the first forecast of the coming grain harvest. If the figures given are realised, about 8,000,000 bushels will be available. The increase in area under cultivation is…

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The Butter Market. London, October 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 October 1896 · page 4

Large quantities of butter are arriving from abroad, Canada and the United States each sending 200 tons weekly. The Australian butter by the Orient R.M.S…

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The Wheat Market

The Yass Courier · Friday 30 October 1896 · page 2

THE wheat market still continues firm. The following are the latest prices: Wheat. -- Local milling nominel; Californian No. 1 milling to 4s 6d, ship's slings,…

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