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

Farming & the land, 1898

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London Wool Sales

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 March 1898 · page 3

For merino the sales opened at an average advance of about 5 per cent. on last sales closing rates. The principal advance has been in scoured. Fine…

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London Wool Saels. London, March 22

The Yass Courier · Friday 25 March 1898 · page 2

At the colonial wool sales this evening there was spirited competition. Continental buyers are taking the bulk of the wool offered at extreme prices…

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London Wool Sales. London, March 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 4

At the colonial wool sales this evening there was spirited competition. Continental buyers are taking the bulk of the wool offered at extreme prices…

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London Wool Sales. London, March 24

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 2

At the London wool sales this evening prices were very firm. Medium and inferior merinos are lower; but crossbreds are tending upwards. March 25…

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Local Butter-factories

Goulburn Herald · Monday 28 March 1898 · page 4

MR. EDITOR—In reply to my questions at taragla the butter representative present said" it was a knotty question ato explain why Melbourne butter prices…

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Wool Stealers

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 29 March 1898 · page 2

FOR some considerable time petty thefts have been committed in and around the town. On last Wednesday Mr. S. Osborne reported that he had lost a quantity of wool, Senior…

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London Wool Sales

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 29 March 1898 · page 2

At the London wool sales on Thursday, prices were very firm. Medium and inferior merinos were lower, but [?]oshreds were tending upwards . In…

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London Wool Sales. London, March 25

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 March 1898 · page 4

At the colonial wool sales this evening competition was very spirited. Representatives of Continental houses were the largest buyers. March 26…

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Local Butter Factories. (To the Editor E. P. Post.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 March 1898 · page 4

SIR,—In reply to my question at Taralga the butter representative present said "it was a knotty question to explain why Melbourne butter pries were from 1d to 2d in excess of Sydney prices"…

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London Wool Sales. London, March 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 March 1898 · page 2

At the colonial wool sales business is brisk, and prices are unchanged…

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London Wool Sales. London, March 28

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 March 1898 · page 4

At the London colonial wool sales Yorkshire buyers are operating freely. Medium and faulty merinos are firm, the prices obtained for best sorts being in the buyers' favour…

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Mr. Rose and Butter. (To the Editor of the Goulburn Penny Post)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 March 1898 · page 4

SIR,—In your issue of to-day appears a letter on the price and importation of butter. Mr. Rose has had time to make enquiries about the price. I have not, consequently cannot contradict him on that…

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Mr. Rose and Butter

Goulburn Herald · Friday 1 April 1898 · page 3

MR. EDITOR—In a late issue of your paper appears a letter on the price and importation of butter, Mr. Rose begine his letter by giving a reply by the butter representative at…

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Sowing Mixed Wheat

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 2 April 1898 · page 3

IN connection with the growing of healthy wheat crops there is one important point often neglected, viz., the sowing of mixed seed wheat. It has been established by…

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Deaths of Horses Through Eating Wheat

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 April 1898 · page 4

RECENT deaths of horses through getting at the wheat and bursting themselves prompted us (Leader) to suggest that the losers could not have been very careful readers of "The…

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London Wool Sales. London, March 30

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 April 1898 · page 6

At the wool sales to-day the prices of medium and inferior sorts were unchanged. Better classes were a shade below previous top prices…

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A Butter Pill. to Mr. Rose

Goulburn Herald · Monday 4 April 1898 · page 2

Since writing last I have communicated with the government statist in Sydney, and now publish the result, which is as follows:— Butter Imports and Exports for 1897…

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London Wool Sales. London, March 31

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 April 1898 · page 4

There was keen competition at the London wool sales to-day. A alight advance was made in the prices of medium and inferior merinos and low crossbreds…

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London Wool Sales. London, April 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 April 1898 · page 4

The colonial wool sales have closed. Prices were a shade easier. April 2. As compared with the closing rates of the…

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A Butter Nut for Mr. Rose. (To the Editor E. P. Post.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 April 1898 · page 4

SIR,—Since I penned my last I have the following information from the Government Statistician's office, received this morning:— Mr. Rose said we imported for 1897 butter as…

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