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

Farming & the land, 1898

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A Wool Ganger in Trouble

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 8 February 1898 · page 4

A wool ganger, or No. 4 Globe-street, Circular Quay, by the name of Arthur Andrew Belfitt, interviewed the other day by a reporter, stated that he had for a long time been a terrible martyr…

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An Object Lesson to Farmers

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 8 February 1898 · page 2

CORAKI, Monday.--An interesting meeting of farmers and others took place to-day. at the dairy-farm of Mr. William Yabsley. About 100 farm…

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Interesting Facts. About Our Butter Factory

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1898 · page 2

WE have been supplied with some interesting facts [?] the working of the Murrumburrah Dairying Company, Limited during the past year, and no doubt they wll…

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Pedigree Cattle for South America

Goulburn Herald · Friday 18 February 1898 · page 4

WE observe that twelve fine pedigree Hereford bulls were recently shipped from england to Fray Bentos on the River Plate, by the steamer Bellagio…

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Dairying Industry. a Few Facts About the Separator

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 3

MR JOHN GRAHAM, of Demondrille, writes as follows:--The dairying industry throughout the colony has met with disastrous seasons during the last four or five years,…

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Fat Sheep for Export

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 22 February 1898 · page 2

ACCOUNT sales for the carcases of sheep that were competing for the prizes given for "Fat Sheep for Export," at the New South Wales Sheepbreeders' Association Show in July. 1897…

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A Fine Cluster of Wheat

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 February 1898 · page 2

As showing the value of selection and cultivation Messrs. A. Lansdowne and Co. have on view a cluster of wheat straw, numbering 121 straws, grown from one grain of wheat by Mr. A. E…

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Prices of Wheat and Flour.— an Instructive Comparison

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 February 1898 · page 4

IN a leader on Tuesday the Sydney Herald points out that from one cause or another, the associated millers have not prevented the wheat-growers of this colony in some…

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Pedigree Wheat

Goulburn Herald · Friday 25 February 1898 · page 2

MESSRS. A. LANSDOWNE AND Co. have on view a cluster of wheat straws, 121 in number, grown from one grain by Mr. A. Grabb, Greenwich Park. Mr. Grabb some years ago…

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Correspondence. Protection to Wheat. To the Editor of the "Yass Courier."

The Yass Courier · Friday 25 February 1898 · page 2

SIR,--I think this is the first year that New South Wales has produced more wheat than will be required to supply our wants. The latest returns show that there will be a surplus…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 February 1898 · page 6

How the modern farmer's daughter proceeds with the getting of dinner ready, after having gone through a course of scientific cooking lessons, is thus playfully described:—…

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Kialla Butter Factory Coy., Limited

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 1 March 1898 · page 2

THE sixth annual general meeting of the above company was held at the residence of Mr. T. H. Gibson on Wednesday last, 23rd instant. Between…

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Farmers' and Settlers Association

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 1 March 1898 · page 2

A meeting of the Executive Council of the Farmers' and Selectors' Association was held at Cootamundra last Tuesday. The following is abridged from the report:--…

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Sale of a Dairy Herd

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 March 1898 · page 4

ON Tuesday last one of the most important and successful sales of dairy cattle every held in the district (says the Moss Vale Serutineer) took place at "Rockview," about…

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Wheat

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 March 1898 · page 4

OWING to the extreme dryness of the season the Manitoba wheat, which endeavours were made to acclimatise, has scarcely had a fair trial. In some places,…

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English Commercial.—wheat and Flour. London, March 2

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 March 1898 · page 2

The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 3,130,000 quarters, as against 3,217,000 last week and 2,280,000 quarters a year ago. The quality afloat for the…

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A Heavy Clip. Vermont Bred Sheep

The Yass Courier · Friday 4 March 1898 · page 4

"BRUNI," in the AUSTRALASIAN, says:--"The most successful nick with the Vermont merinos that has come under my notice is with the Vidgiewa stud, the property of Mr. J. S…

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Serious Assault on a Farmer. Four to One. the Assailants Arrested

Goulburn Herald · Friday 4 March 1898 · page 4

To be set upon by roughs and almost killed after going through nearly 60 years of life without accident to health or limb is one of the hardest experience we know of. Such,…

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Butter From Ireland

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 9 March 1898 · page 4

MR. PATESON, manager of the Fresh Food and Ice Co., Sydney, has imported a sample of Irish butter, with a view of ascertaining how it would…

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