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

Farming & the land, 1904

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The Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 March 1904 · page 4

At the wool auctions to-day there was a brisk sale. Crossbreds were very firm. Merinos were weak, and were largely withdrawn,…

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Farming As an Occupation

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 March 1904 · page 1

THE great Irish-American politician, William Junta Bryan, contributes the following interesting view to the Cosmopolitan…

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Enterprising Farmers

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 18 March 1904 · page 2

MR. J. Morrissy, who, at the end of last year, purchased 27,000 acres of Quat Quatta estate, near Corowa, for subdivisional purposes, has succeeded…

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Wool

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 19 March 1904 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson and Co., Ltd., report under date Wednesday last: -- We held our 16th sale of the sec[?] to-day and sold at auction and privately 2162 bales wool…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Association

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 19 March 1904 · page 3

The adjourned meeting of the committee of the Young Pastoral and Agricultural Association was held at the Phoenix Room. Town Hall, on Thursday afternoon. Mr…

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Claim for Sheep Dip

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 19 March 1904 · page 2

The Australasian Sheep Dip Company, Limited, brought an action, in No 2 Jury Court, Sydney on Tuesday before Mr. Justice Pring, against Valentine Bernard Lawler, carrying an business…

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A Corner in Wheat

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 March 1904 · page 2

The Daily Express says that Mr. Armour's seven months' corner in wheat, beginning last May, yielded half a million pounds sterling. GERMANY…

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Wheat at 2s 6[?] Per Bushel

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 19 March 1904 · page 1

Experience of the wh[?] marked during a number of years has convinced Australian growers that it is necessary to work on a basis of 2s 6d…

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Some Questions for the Wheat Growar. Continued from lust issue. Leakages Is the Harvest

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 19 March 1904 · page 4

In a number of padducks in which the [?]pper had been used the writer noticed large numbers of heads of grain. In one paddock they were so conspicuous as to…

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An Important Point. Travelling Sheep Limits

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 21 March 1904 · page 2

Before the Federal High Court on Thursday, special leave was granted to appeal from a decision of Mr. Justice Pring, in Chambers, in a case in which Frederick…

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Goulburn Show. Yass Sheep Breeders Again Successful. Messrs C.C. Hall, G. Merriman, and G. W. Merriman, Score Heavily

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 22 March 1904 · page 2

The twenty-third annual show of the Goulburn A .P., and H. Society was opened on Thursday morning without official ceremon. As regards the…

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Reduction of Railway Hands. Slackness of the Wheat Traffic

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 23 March 1904 · page 2

CONSIGNORS of wheat are holding back their supplies in anticipation of a higher price being obtained later on; consequently the wheat traffic shows a considerable falling…

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Cattle Diseases in India. London, March 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 March 1904 · page 2

The cattle in the native State of Nepaul, on the southern face of the Himalayas, India, and those in the Chumbi Valley, Thibet, are infected with anthrax, pleuro-pneumonia, and…

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The Wool Sales. London, March 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 March 1904 · page 2

At the wool sales this evening merinos were unchanged. Crossbreds brought the highest rates of the series. There were occasional withdrawals of merinos…

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Wool

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 25 March 1904 · page 2

Messrs. Winchcombe Carson and Co. report:--The wool market remains quiet, and it is difficult to do business except at lower prices than those…

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Sheep that Travel

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 25 March 1904 · page 4

THERE are said to be about ten million migratory sheep in Spain, which travel on occasions as much as two hundred miles from the plains to the…

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Seed Wheat

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 25 March 1904 · page 2

THE Minister for Agriculture says that as there are many persons not paying for their seed wheat, though well able to do so, all accounts remaining…

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Wheat Is Easier

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 25 March 1904 · page 4

The quiet tone rating in wheat circles lately was more pronounced on Tuesday, when prime milling samples were quoted from 3s to 3s 0½d per…

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The Wool Sales

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 25 March 1904 · page 2

At the wool sales yesterday the following prices were realised for the undermentioned clips:--Koolomurt 13¼d, Grubbin 10½, Burende 8¾d…

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Wool

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 26 March 1904 · page 4

MESSRS. WINCHCOMBE, CARSON & Co., report under date 23rd, March, 1904 :—The wool market remains quiet, and it is difficult to do business except at lower prices than those…

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