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

Farming & the land, 1899

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Rug Your Dairy Cows

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 23 August 1899 · page 2

MUCH success has attended rugging horses and cattle in this district during the winter months. Some farmers prefer rugs to sheds or stables. For…

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Farmers and Settlers’ Conference

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 24 August 1899 · page 2

ORANGE, Friday.—The Farmers and Settlers’ Conference resumed its sittings this morning. Mr. Quayle’s motion—“ That the…

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The Scotch Dairy Cow

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 24 August 1899 · page 4

THE modem breed of Ayrshires was started by crossing the compact and comparatively small Shorthorn bulls of milking strain from the northern…

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Crookwell Butter Factory

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 25 August 1899 · page 2

BY advertisement in this issue it will be observed that an extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of the Crookwell Butter Factory will take…

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Wheat

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 26 August 1899 · page 4

MR. H. R. Carter, wheat broker Sydney and Melbourne reports follows. August 22nd. Wheat remains unchanged at 2s 10d to 2s 11d ex-Darling Harbour, but is the…

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A Farmer’s Good Fortune. Through Reading a Paper

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 28 August 1899 · page 4

MANY instances have occurred in which people have become the recipients of good fortune ouo way or another through reading a paper. Sometimes…

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Butter Prizes at Agricultural Shows

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 August 1899 · page 2

WEST MAITLAND, Monday.—At a meeting of the Hunter River Agricultural Association this afternoon, a letter was read from the Department of Mines and Agriculture, drawing attention to certain…

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The Wool Market. London, Aug. 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 August 1899 · page 4

In the London colonial wool market there is a brisk inquiry for merinos. Fine crossbreds are 7½ per cent. above the closing rates of the July series, chiefly in the Yorkshire market…

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Pastoral Prospects

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 31 August 1899 · page 2

SEEN by a representative of the Star on Saturday morning, Mr. George Maiden, of Maiden Brothers, expressed the opinion that the prospects of the pastoral industry…

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The Yeumbra Stud Sheep

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 31 August 1899 · page 2

THE imported stud rams recently purchased by Mr C. C. Hall, in Sydney, but which have been in quarantine since June last, arrived in Yass by train to-day…

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Splendid Sheep

The Yass Courier · Friday 1 September 1899 · page 2

YESTERDAY Mr. C. C. Hall, of Yeumburra, near Yass, received by rail the three imported, rams which he lately purchased in Sydney, at a very high…

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Crookwell Farmers' Gathering

Goulburn Herald · Friday 1 September 1899 · page 2

THE Crookwell P. and A. Association intend holding a spring gathering on their show-ground on Friday, 13th October. Some very good prizes are offered. and there should be…

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Farmers' and Pastoralists Spring Meeting

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 1 September 1899 · page 2

THE programme for the Farmers' and Pastoralists' Spring gath[?] which is to take place in the show-ground on Friday. October 13, under the auspices of the…

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Wheat

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 2 September 1899 · page 4

MR. H. R. CARTER, wheat broker, Sydney and Melbourne reports as follows Aug 29th:— Wheat is locally unchanged at 2s 10½d to…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Association

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 2 September 1899 · page 2

A MEETING of the Committee of the Barra[?]gong Pastoral and Agricultural Association was held on Wednesday afternoon. Present—Messrs. G. S. Whiteman (in the chair), Dr. Tresidder, W…

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The Watering of Cattle In Rail Transit

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 2 September 1899 · page 2

THERE was on view on Wednesday at the Burwood Railway Station, a model of a railway truck, which had been designed for tho purpose of overcoming or in a large degree settling the objections…

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Farm & Garden. Original Articles

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 2 September 1899 · page 1

No. 100. Tulip (continued)--Sowing--The Best Bulbs--Planting--Tulip Beds--Diseass and Peats--The Cocksoomb--History--Production--The Lupine…

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The Watering of Cattle in Rail Transit

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 4 September 1899 · page 2

THERE was on view on Wednesday at the Burwood Railway Station a model of a railway truck, which had been designed for the purpose of overcoming or in a large…

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British Butter

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 5 September 1899 · page 4

THE invasion of the British markets by colonial and foreign butter makers has not of course, been viewed with unconcern in…

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Fat Sheep

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 5 September 1899 · page 2

WHAT is considered as the fattest sheep ever seen in this district was on view in the shop of Messrs. Loughnan &. Co, butchers, Crookwell, Saturday…

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