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

Farming & the land, 1904

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The Wool Sales. London, March 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 March 1904 · page 4

The second series of wool sales closed to-day firm at the highest prices of the series. March 24. There were sold to home buyers 78,000 bales, to…

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Electric Farming

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 26 March 1904 · page 4

Some interesting particulars of recent experiments in the application of electricity to farming and horticulture are given in the current number of "The North…

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The Wool Season

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 28 March 1904 · page 2

The wool season, so far as the carriage on the railways in concerned, is now practically over. Daring last week only 616 bales came in, as compared with…

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Large Prize for a Sheep Competition

Goulburn Herald · Monday 28 March 1904 · page 2

SOME time ago Mr. George P. Wilson, of Big Springs, and one of the vice-presidents of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association, undertook, on his own initiative;…

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Exports of Butter

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 29 March 1904 · page 2

THE Australian exports of butter to the United Kingdom have been larger than anticipated. The season opened late, and the estimates of probable…

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Cooma Show. Yass Sheep Still to the Front

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 29 March 1904 · page 3

WE notice that the Yass sheep still keep in the front rank at the different shows. At Cooma last week the Messrs. Merriman took the majority of prizes in the…

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Shocking Cruelty San Francisco Baby Farmer. Tortures a Child

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 29 March 1904 · page 4

According to the "San Francisco Chronicle" for January 9th, because her two-year-old grandson failed to obey her, Mrs Victoria Ferslow, of…

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Repayments for Seed Wheat

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 30 March 1904 · page 2

WHEN the Government decided to grant seed wheat to farmers, extraordinary precautions were taken to ensure that the concession was not abused. The work was entrusted to Mr. Kidd,…

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Millions Hidden in Farmhouses and Cottages

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 30 March 1904 · page 4

THERE are millions of pounds, said a retired dealer in antiques, hidden away in the houses of the poor in the United Kingdom ; and there is a small army of men constantly…

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Yass Sheep at Cooma

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 31 March 1904 · page 2

A mention of the success of Yass district sleep at the Cooma show [?] week, [?] crowded out of Monday issue [?] always to [?] the…

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The Wheat Yield

Goulburn Herald · Friday 1 April 1904 · page 2

THIS year's wheat yield in New South Wales constitutes a record, 27,000,000 bushels having been harvested, being 10,000,000 bushels in excess of the previous record year…

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Wool

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 2 April 1904 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson and Co., Ltd.. report under date Wednesday last:--The Sydney market is unchanged and late rates continue to rule. Business is much…

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Wheat Returns, 1903-4. a Record Yield. 27,000,000 Bushels Harvested

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 2 April 1904 · page 2

THE Government Statistician. Mr. T. A. Coghlan, has furnished the Chief Secretary with the following report :— I forward herewith a return showing the…

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The Farmers' Congress

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 April 1904 · page 4

The Farmers' Congress, which met at Krugersdorp, in the Transvaal, yesterday, was addressed by General Botha and Commandant Delarey. Both speakers declared that the…

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Wool

The Yass Courier · Friday 8 April 1904 · page 2

Messrs Winch[?]ombe Carson & Co. Ltd report:—The Sydney wool market is unchanged and late rates continue to rule. Business is much restricted by…

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High Prices for Springfield Sheep

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 April 1904 · page 4

W. H. Wheatley has sold for Mr. A. L Faithfull, Springfield, 97 ram lambs to Mr. A. R . Maple-Brown, Gundary; 290 2-tooth, flock awes at 30s to Messrs. Ross Brothers, Kinross; 800 2-tooth…

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Wool and Wheat Returns

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 11 April 1904 · page 2

Some of these figures were quoted by Mr. Waddell on Friday to show the satisfactory result of the wool season and the wheat harvest this year as…

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Wool and Wheat Returns

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 13 April 1904 · page 2

Some of the figures were quoted by Mr. Waddell on Friday to show the satisfactory result of the wool season and the wheat harvest this year as compared with last…

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Butter Export

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 15 April 1904 · page 2

UNDER ordinary conditions the shipment of butter in quantities would have ceased weeks ago, but the unusually favourable season has upset calculations…

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Cattle Stealing

Goulburn Herald · Monday 18 April 1904 · page 2

AT the Cooma Quarter Sessions on Friday John Bond, who pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing sin steers, the properly of William Theodore Badgery at Kybean, on October 5,…

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