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

Farming & the land, 1903

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Seed Wheat Applications

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 March 1903 · page 2

We have been informed that several applications for seed wheat have been made here lately. The applicants naturally go to the public offices, but they are told that no instructions for the reception…

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Wool and Produce

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 10 March 1903 · page 2

THE brokers report that private enquiry continues active for good wool but low grades are difficult of sale. Sound pelted sheepskins are in active request but…

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Homebush Fat Stock Sales. Thursday, Marchy 5, SHEEP

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 10 March 1903 · page 4

ABOUT 23,000 sheep and lambs panned at to-days sales, from 71 consignors, including drafts from N.Z. The Sheep included a fair sprinkling of…

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Value of Irrigation. 75 Sheep to the Acre

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 10 March 1903 · page 2

Quite recently Mr. N. A. Gatenby, of Jem[?]loug Station, near Forbes has proved by practical demonstration the exceptional Value of stock-feeding and the…

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Applications for Seed Wheat

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 11 March 1903 · page 2

As previously intimated persons desirous of obtaining seed wheat from the government should make application on special forms provided for that purpose. A few of these…

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Hand-Feeding of Sheep. the Jemalong Experiment. More Than 75 Sheep Per Acre

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 11 March 1903 · page 4

A PRACTICAL demonstration of exceptional value to pastoralists and others, tending to solve the problem of stock-feeding under adverse conditions, and to minimise the…

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Pastoral Information

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 12 March 1903 · page 2

For Homebush on Monday 13,550 sheep and lambs were forward ; low quality on the whole, a big proportion of stores, and odd prime lots. Bidding for best…

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The Wool Sales. London, March, 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 March 1903 · page 2

At the wool sales yesterday Messrs. Charles Balme and Co., Buxton, Ronald, and Co, and Jacomb, Son, and Co. offered 9269 bales. The selection was below the average. There was a good…

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Seed Wheat

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 13 March 1903 · page 4

THE Government has decided that all applications for seed wheat must be in by March 31, otherwise they cannot be dealt with. An effort is being…

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Wool Report

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 13 March 1903 · page 3

MESSRS. WINCHCOMBE CARSON & Co. LTD. report:--Very little new wool in reaching the market now, the season being practically over. There still remains, however, a certain…

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Wool

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 14 March 1903 · page 1

MESSRS. WINCHCOME, CARSON & CO. LTD., report on 11th March, 1903, as follows :—Very little now wool is reaching the market-now, the season being practically ever. There still remains…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Asociastion

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 14 March 1903 · page 2

THE first meeting of the newly-elected committee of the Young Pastoral arid Agricultural Association was held at the Royal Hotel on Thursday afternoon…

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Sheep-stealing at Michelago

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 March 1903 · page 4

At the Cooma Quarter Sessions on Wednesday Ernest Matthew Oldfield, a young man, living at Michelago, charged with stealing two sheep the property of the Hon. Alexander…

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The Wool Sales. London, March 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 March 1903 · page 2

At the wool auctions to-day sales were spirited Prices for best wools showed a hardening tendency…

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A Railway Mishap. Yass Sheep Destroyed

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 16 March 1903 · page 2

On Thursday night a stock train from Yass through Cowra to Bourke pulled up at Woodstock siding, and was about to restart when a coupling broke, detaching…

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Packing Fruit in Wood Wool

Goulburn Herald · Monday 16 March 1903 · page 2

A COMMUNICATION has been received by the stale premier from Mr. C. C. Lance, commercial agent, London, wherein he refers to the product known as "wood wool," in which…

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Seed Wheat Distribution

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 17 March 1903 · page 2

Mayor of Parkes recently made a rather serious charge of neglect against the Agricultural. Department with regard to the distribution of seed wheat…

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Wool Sales. London, March 11

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 17 March 1903 · page 4

AT the wool sales yesterday Chas Balme, and Co., Buxton, Ronald and Co., and Jacomb, Son. and Co. offered 9269 bales…

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The Wool Sales. London, March 13

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 March 1903 · page 4

At the wool auctions to-day there was a spirited sale and prices were unchanged. March 15. Merinos touched the highest prices of the…

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Local and General News, Issue of Seed Wheat. an Unwarranted Delay

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 17 March 1903 · page 2

Speaking on the subject of the drought and supply of seed wheat to farmers, the Mayer of Parks, Mr. S. E. Close, recently said that it was not the farmers who were…

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