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

Farming & the land, 1899

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London Wool Sales. London, Jan. 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 January 1899 · page 4

The bidding at the wool sales is firm. Americans are freely buying low crossbreds. LONDON, Jan, 27. At the wool sales the bidding is very firm,…

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Dipping Sheep

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 February 1899 · page 1

DURING the course of the year (says a writer in the Australasian ) I receive many inquiries asking for a formula to make a cheep sheep dip…

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Fat-tailed Sheep

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 3 February 1899 · page 2

THERE is now on view at the Government Export Depot Darling Harbour, Sydney, a specimen of the Cape sheep. The peculiarity of these animals is…

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The Wheat Market

The Yass Courier · Friday 3 February 1899 · page 2

Telegrams from Sydney to the various country papers say:--"It is stated that there are over one hundred thousand sacks of wheat at the various railway stations in the colony."…

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Burrowa Police Court. Saturday, January 28. (Before Mr. C. W. Weekes, P.m.) Alleged Sheep-stealing

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 February 1899 · page 2

Seymour Bell Gibbons and Gilbert Gibbons, his son (on remand), were charged with stealing a sheep the property of Mrs. Ellen Gorham. Mr…

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Sheep for Farmers

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 1

AS to the kind of sheep that farmers should buy, a correspondent in an exchange states that he has tried several, but has always had the best returns…

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Board of Sheep Directors

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 4

A MEETING of the Board of Sheep Directors, Young, under the Diseases in Sheep Act, was held at the Stock Office, Young, on Friday the 27th January 1899 at 11 o’clock a. m…

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London Wool Sales. London, Feb. 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 4

The London wool market closed steady at prices about equal to the opening rates. Feb. 2. The quantity of wool catalogued during the…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 6

No. 69. Flax (continued) -- Drying -- Objections -- Drying for Different Purposes -- Rippling -- For Cambric -- Wator-Ratting --Running Streams and Standing Pools--…

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Wheat

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 8 February 1899 · page 4

MR. H. R. CARTER, wheat broker, Sydney and Melbourne reports as follows, Feb 2nd:— Wheat has not changed so far as Sydney is concerned, and so I. am continuing to…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Association

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 8 February 1899 · page 2

This (Wednesday) afternoon the Annual meeting of the members of the Burrangong Pastoral and [?] Association will be held to the Town [?] at 8 o’clock. The members have been called…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 9 February 1899 · page 2

After another interval of a week, auction business was resumed before a very good attendance of buyers, amongst whom were several Melbourne operators. Catalogues…

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Distribution of Seed Wheat

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 February 1899 · page 2

THE Cabinet on Wednesday gave authority to the Minister for Agriculture to relieve distressed farmers in certain cases by the distribution of seed wheat for the coming season. Care is to be taken to provide…

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A Wheat Stack Destroyed by Fire

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 February 1899 · page 4

Yass, Tuesday.—A destructive fire took place this morning at Silverdale, the residence of Mr. George Styles. Threshing was being done, and 100 bags had just been finished, when by some means the…

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The Farm. Wheat Value for Pig Feeding

The Burrowa News · Friday 10 February 1899 · page 4

The low price, of wheat Taises the question of consuming a p[?] of the grain on the farm by f[?]ing pigs. A notable example in the fearing and…

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Farm Notes

The Burrowa News · Friday 10 February 1899 · page 4

PICKLE FOR PORK AND BEEF.—The following will be found to make a very good pickle for pork and beef:— 4 gailons of water, 4 ounces of…

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Seed Wheat for Farmers

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 11 February 1899 · page 2

AT a meeting of the Cabinet on Wednesday the various applications for seed wheat by droughtstricken farmers-were discussed, there being no vote from Which the applications may be granted…

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Wheat

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 11 February 1899 · page 2

MR. H. R. CARTER, wheat broker, Sydney and Melbourne reports as follows, Feb 9th:— Wheat is firm in 2[?] 8d ex Darling Harbour and I am doing a fairly large trade at that, and…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Association

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 11 February 1899 · page 2

THE adjourned annual meeting of the members of the Burrangong’ Pastoral and Agricultural Association was held in the Town Hall on Wednesday Afternoon…

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Dressing Wheat for Smut

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 11 February 1899 · page 4

Mr. F. C. DYER, of Jerrera, writes to the AGRICULTURAL Gazette:—Having read in October number of the plan of dressing wheat and other grain for smut, I give the following…

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