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

Farming & the land, 1902

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Inferior Butter

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 10 December 1902 · page 2

MR. O'CALLAGHAN, dairy expert, addressed a large meeting of dairymen at Grafton yesterday, explaining the provisions of the proposed Dairy Bill. He was particularly…

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Cattle

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 12 December 1902 · page 3

Upwards of 746 cattle yarded representing 36 consignors; the bulk of the yardings from the southern districts, only 50 head from the north…

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Inferior Butter

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 12 December 1902 · page 2

MR. O'CALLAGHAN. dairy expert, addressed a large meeting of dairyman at Granfort on Monday, explaning the provisions of the proposed Dairy Bill…

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Sydney Wool Sales, Local Clips

The Yass Courier · Friday 12 December 1902 · page 2

On Monday last the usual weekly wool-sales were held in Sydney. The Mundoonan clip (B. Johnson) realised [?] H. T. Beresford, Dalton, [?]…

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Visit of Boer Farmers

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 13 December 1902 · page 2

THREE delegates, Messrs Joste, Lane and Rood, representing Boer farmers in South Africa, will arrive in Brisbane by the…

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Water for Farmers

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 13 December 1902 · page 2

IN the water conservation scheme of the Government is a matter that deeply concerns the farmers who reside outside…

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Inferior Butter

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 16 December 1902 · page 4

MR. O'CALLAGHAN, dairy export, addressed a large meeting of dairyman at Granfort on Monday, explaning the provisions of the proposed Dairy Bill…

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Farmers' and Settlers' Association. Bulla Creek Branch

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 17 December 1902 · page 3

A special meeting of the Bulla Creek branch of the Farmers and Settlors' Association was held on Saturday night to consider a circular letter from the Executive…

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Farmers and Settlers’ Association. Bulla Creek Branch

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 17 December 1902 · page 3

A SPECIAL meeting of the Bulla Creek branch of the Farmers and Settlers’ Association was held on Saturday night to consider a circular letter from the Executive of the Association calling…

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Farmers and the Agricultural Colleges. Inducing Farmers to Visit

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 17 December 1902 · page 3

ONE of the greatest drawbacks to the usefulness of the State agricultural colleges and farms is th[?] apathy of the farmers themselves in regard to the object lessons which are provided for them! The…

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Dead Sheep

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 December 1902 · page 4

The Goulburn railway station yard was strewn with dead and dying sheep on Tuesday afternoon. They were part of a large consignment of starving sheep that was untrucked at the…

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Big Sheep Yarding

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 18 December 1902 · page 2

At the Homebush fat stock markets on Monday the supply of sheep was the heaviest offered on one sale day for some considerable time, and especially so for a…

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Rape as Food for Sheep

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 December 1902 · page 4

The experiences of Mr. Vernon Heydon, a grazier living at Murrurundi, who has recently experimented with rape as a food should be of interest. In giving evidence before the Public Works…

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Farming by Steam

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 December 1902 · page 2

On some of the great farms of the Far West—farms that may run to 30,000 or 40,000 acres—giant steam automobiles are now used to draw the agricultural machinery. An intensely…

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Cattle

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 19 December 1902 · page 4

Upwards of 766 cattle yarded representing 42 consignors; the bulk of the yardings from the southern districts, only 50 head from the north…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Local Wool

The Yass Courier · Friday 19 December 1902 · page 2

AT Monday’s wool sales in Sydney there was a good attendance of buyers and the attractive character of the offerings contributed largely to successful sales, with…

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The Wool Sales

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 19 December 1902 · page 2

The wool sales opened in Sydney on Monday with prices the same as were current last week. If there was any movement it is in case of…

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Wool, Grain, & Produce Report

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 December 1902 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan [?] Mer[?] Agency Company, Limited report:— WOOL.—The sales held during the past week have progressed with great spirit…

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Homebush Fat Stock Sales. Monday, December 15. SHEEP

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 19 December 1902 · page 4

ABOUT 40,000 sheep and lambs penned at to-days sales, from 130 consignors, including few from N Z. The sheep included a fair sprinkling of…

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Distressed Farmers

Goulburn Herald · Friday 19 December 1902 · page 2

A meeting of the Queanbeyan branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held yesterday afternoon for the purpose of making application for relief from the…

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