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

Farming & the land, 1899

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War and Wheat

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 20 November 1899 · page 4

The war fever has supplied tho needful stiffening to markets to keep wheat moving, and it is impossible for millers to procure supplies of native growth at…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 20 November 1899 · page 2

THE week’s sales wound up with a very firm maintenance of the rates ruling during its currency. The advance previously chronicled in respect to good to superior…

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Wheat Yield

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 November 1899 · page 4

The Government Statistician's preliminary estimate of the wheat crop of the earliest districts of the colony has been published. A new departure of issuing the information as it becomes available…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 23 November 1899 · page 2

THE sales were resumed under very favorable conditions on Monday, and the market may be quoted as very firm for best lots. Burry, unskirted, and otherwise…

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London Wool Market. London, Nov. 21

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 November 1899 · page 4

The arrivals of wool for the next series of sales amount to 123,500 bales, of which 25,500 bales have been forwarded direct to manufacturers; 106,000 bales, including wool from lest series, are available…

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Irregularity of the Sydney Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 November 1899 · page 2

THE slight weakness apparent in the Sydney wool market on Tuesday and on Monday was again noticeable at Wednesday's sales, more particularly in the case of burry inferior lots. The effect is the…

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The Farm. Sheep and Wheat Growing

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 November 1899 · page 4

On this subject Mr G. W. Leadly, of Wakanui, New Zealand, contributes come practical remarks that will be appreciated by wheat growers who…

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Mr. Rider Haggard's Farm

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 November 1899 · page 1

A GOOD many people must have suspected that Mr. Bider Haggard is quite as well qualified to write about life on a South African farm as Olive…

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Dairy News

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 24 November 1899 · page 2

Mr. T. H. Gibson (Kialla) has been appointed as the district representative of the local butter factories at the proposed…

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Wheat

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 25 November 1899 · page 1

MR. H. B. CARTER, wheat broker, Sydney and Melbourne, reports as follows, Nov. 22. Wheat has eased since. I last reported, and to-day there are no buyers at over 2s…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. No. 111. Norfolk Island Pine -- Description -- The Juniper -- Where Grown -- Grass-- The Wood -- Bark -- Berries -- Gum -- Distillation and effects on Gin -- Medicinal Uses -- Cedar Wood -- Red Cedar --Candle- berry Myrtles -- The Sweet Gale -- Substitute for Hops -- Cones -- Uses of Plant -- Medicinal Uses -- The Tallow Shrub-- Candle-making -- Soap -- The Clove-- Description -- Leaves, Flowers -- When Fruit producing

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 25 November 1899 · page 1

Norfolk Island Pine: This splendid tree attains a great size, often attaining over two hundred feet high. It is a native of Australia, and presents a magnificent object…

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German Farmers Threatened

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 November 1899 · page 4

The German farmers living eastward of Ladysmith are threatened with eviction for refusing to swear allegiance to the Boers…

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The Wheat Crop

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 27 November 1899 · page 2

THE S. M. Herald publishes a list of the estimated wheat yields, area under crop, &c, of each district in N.S.W. The Yass district has 18,000 acres, against 9200 last…

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Wheat Yields

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 27 November 1899 · page 4

THE Government Statistician’s preliminary estimate of the wheat crop of the earliest districts of the colony has been published. A new departure of issuing…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 27 November 1899 · page 2

THE market closed on Thursday with as good a tone as prevailed during the earlier sales of the week, the attendance of buyers being large, and competition…

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Destruction Ok Sheep by Dogs

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 27 November 1899 · page 4

A RETURN has been furnished by Mr. A. Bruce, chief inspector of stock, showing losses in sheep caused by native and other dogs from 1889 to 1898. The total…

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Hie Boom in Wool

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 27 November 1899 · page 2

THE price of wool has been steadily rising during the last few months, making total increase of 50 per cent, since January…

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State Butter Show

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 November 1899 · page 2

The final judging in connection with the State butter competition has just taken place. It was found that the Albury Creamery Company won the first prize (£30) with 80.6 points; Byron Bay…

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Wool & Produce Reports

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 28 November 1899 · page 2

(Week ending November 25, 1899.) The Australasian Mortgage and Agency Co., Ltd., John Bridge and Co, Ltd., Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Goldsbrough, Mort and…

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Wool Sales. Yass District Wool Topping the Market

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 28 November 1899 · page 2

Year after year the wool from the Yass district keeps topping the market and consequently is being enquired for by all foreign buyers. Not only are…

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