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

Farming & the land, 1903

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The New Dairy Act

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 20 October 1903 · page 4

IN the opening chapter we commenced to set forth the "terms" of the bill and their application ae defined in "definitions," and the proposed modus…

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The Wool Market

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 22 October 1903 · page 2

On Monday the wool sales for the week were resumed, when two catalogues aggregating 1,772 bales were submitted. There was a large attendance of buyers,…

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The Wool Market

The Yass Courier · Friday 23 October 1903 · page 3

[?] was again a very satisfactory at[?]dance of buyers at the Sydney wool [?] on Tuesday, and good competi[?] prevailed. Supplies showed a…

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Local Wool Press

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 23 October 1903 · page 2

On a recent occasion when on a visit to Sunny Slope, the residence of Mr. N. Croker, we wore shown a woolpress made by Mr. W. Croker, of…

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Wool, Grain, & Produce Report. The New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Company Limited, report:—

The Burrowa News · Friday 23 October 1903 · page 2

WOOL.—There is no change to report in the market, which rules them at the range of values established at the opening sales last week. There has been a fair inquiry…

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Poetry. the Old Farm Home

The Burrowa News · Friday 23 October 1903 · page 1

If you've been a happy rover Through the fields of fragrant clover, Where life is all a simple round of [?], When at eve the sun is sinking…

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Dairy Industry Act, 1903

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 23 October 1903 · page 2

CLAUSE 18 provides (1) " If an inspector is of opinion the any cattle in or about a dairy, or used in connection therewith are effected with a…

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Splendid Crops

The Yass Courier · Friday 23 October 1903 · page 2

Yesterday Mr. McCullum exhibited in town three magnificent specimens of cereal crops A small sheaf of ryo measured soven feet and sheaves of wheat and…

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The Wise Farmer Flourishes

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 23 October 1903 · page 4

BY way of emphasing the wisdom of having ensilage for feeding dairy stock daring the winter months a Gippsland farmer, in a letter to the…

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Sheep Guessing Competition

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 October 1903 · page 4

The following guessed the correct weight of the sheep, 45½lbs., at the eight-hour sports on Monday:—A. Burgess, A. Stephenson, A. McDougal, D. Callaghan, Stanley Pearsor, and Mary…

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Sheep-guessing Competition

Goulburn Herald · Monday 26 October 1903 · page 2

SEVEN persons guessed the correct weight (45½lbs.) of the sheep, the subject of the guessing competition on Eight-Hour Day. A draw took place on Saturday night and…

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Farmers in Politics

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 26 October 1903 · page 3

Mr. Campbell, the general secretary of the Farmers and Settlers’ Co-operative Association of New South Wales, appears to ha giving business a spell,…

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Wagga Experimental Farm

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 26 October 1903 · page 2

By the mail train on Friday morning a party of local gentlemen engaged in agricultural pursuits, made the journey to Wagga, where they put in the day…

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Sheep Guessing Competition

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 27 October 1903 · page 4

Seven persons guessed the correct weight, 45½lbs, of the sheep in the guessing competition at the eight-hour sports on Monday, 19th inst. This rendered a draw necessary to decide who…

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Warwick Farm Races

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 27 October 1903 · page 2

THE above were run on Saturday, with the following result:—Stewards' Mile—Autocrat 1, Nirvana 2, Di[?]k Lilley 3…

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Dairy Bacteriology; —Or—germ Life in Relation to Our Dairying Industry

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 27 October 1903 · page 4

Bacteriolegy is one of the youngest sciences, and although history dates buck to the researches of that eminent Dutch philosopher, Anton…

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Wheat!

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 28 October 1903 · page 3

Things are merry in the Mallee, where a year or two ago You never met a farmer but you heard a tale of woe;…

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Cattle Maiming. Heavy Sentence on a Solicitor. London, October 24

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 28 October 1903 · page 3

In connection with, several cases of maiming cattle at Great Wyrley. Staffordshire, George Ernest Edalji, a solicitor of Birmingham was yesterday tried at the Staffordshire Quarter…

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Farmers in Politics. a Kew Party Favored. Land Administration Critised

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 28 October 1903 · page 2

Mr. CA[?], general secretary of the Farmers and Setters’ Association, stoke at Ger[?] on Saturday, and de[?] the present Goren [?] and administration. He a[?] the…

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Harvest Demands. Dealing with the Wheat

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 29 October 1903 · page 3

The Railway Commissioners estimate that as a result of the harvest this coming Season they will have to handle about 19,000,000 bushels of wheat, and they are…

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