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

Farming & the land, 1905

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Butter Adulteration

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 28 July 1905 · page 4

The subject of butter adulteration is again causing French merchants and traders some anxiety, and a meeting was hold recently at the…

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Fly-blown Sheep. a Rabbit Theory

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 28 July 1905 · page 1

In the Bathurst district a new danger appears to have arisen in connection with the rabbit pest, and if there is anything in the theory put forward…

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Our Multiplying Flocks. 41 Million Sheep this Year

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 28 July 1905 · page 5

Thebe is every probability, a fact which augurs well for the returning prosperity of New South Wales, that the flocks of the State, which in 1902…

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Decline of Wheat-Growing in Great Britain

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 28 July 1905 · page 4

The "Mark Lane Express" has recently been giving statistics showing how great has been the decline of wheat growing in Great Britain during the past…

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State Labour Farm

Goulburn Herald · Friday 28 July 1905 · page 2

THE latest proposed of the New South Wales Government for the relief of the great body of unemployed, strikes out in a direction that for this purpose has hitherto been…

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Farm and Field. Hop and Malt Substitutes

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 28 July 1905 · page 4

A Kentish hop grower has written to "The Mark Lane Express," London, complaining about the injustice done to everyone connected with this important…

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Wool

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 29 July 1905 · page 3

MESSRS. WINCHCOM[?], CARSON & Co., LTD. report under date of July 26th, 1905, as follows :— The Sydney wool market continues firm with a keen inquiry for wool. New clip wools are much…

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Big Load of Wheat

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 July 1905 · page 4

Last Wednesday Messrs. W. A. Martin and Co., with team of eight horses, drew from McAlister to Laggan a load of wheat comprising 103 bags. The gross weight of the load was…

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Butter Adulteration Bill. London, July 28

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 July 1905 · page 2

Mr. T. A. Coghlan, Acting Agent-General for New South Wale, on behalf of the Agents-General, has written to Mr. Ailwyn Fellowes, President of the Board of Agriculture, regretting the withdrawal…

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A Scotch Farmers' Grace

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 29 July 1905 · page 3

An old Ayrshire farmer used regularly to deliver himself of the following quaint effusion as a grace before meat: "Tak' off yer bonnets, honest men Are the[?]…

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Pastoral & Aricultural. Fat Stock Market

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 31 July 1905 · page 2

For Thursday’s sates 29, 394 sheep and Iambs were forward at Homebush, meeting a large attendance of buyers…

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Fly-blown-Sheep

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 1 August 1905 · page 2

A new danger appears to have arisen in connection with the rabbit pest, and if there is anything in the theory put forward the results of…

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High Priced Sheep

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 1 August 1905 · page 2

SOME high prices have recently been obtained for sheep for this and the Goulburn district Messrs. O. H. Furner and Co. report having sold a…

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Wool, Grain, and Produce

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 1 August 1905 · page 2

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report:—July 29.—Wool: Since the auction sales of last week the wool market has been quiet, and but few transactions have…

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Chickens on the Farm

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 1 August 1905 · page 3

Ordinarily the poultry on the farm need little attention, [?] adult fowls being usually able to procure a fair proportion of their food themselves and…

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A Big Farm

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 1 August 1905 · page 2

This year Mr. Frank Mack, of Narromice, has 7000 acres under wheat, and has 1503 acres sown with lucerne. He has twelve five and seven-farrow…

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School Farm for Goulburn

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 2 August 1905 · page 2

THE proposal to establish in or near Goulburn a farm where school boys under the age of sixteen years might be laught practical agriculture and given n insight into the processes…

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Dairy Cattle Yields

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 3 August 1905 · page 2

Some little while ago the Dairy Commissioner at Ottawa held a series tests covering a period of four months…

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A Wool Test. “Ravensworth” Wool Second

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 3 August 1905 · page 2

The official papers are now to hand in connection with the hundred guinea wool scouring contest, held under the auspices of the N. S. Wales…

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Crookwell Butter Factory

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 4 August 1905 · page 2

The half yearly meeting of shareholders of the above was held at the factory on Monday last, Mr. W. J. Lear[?] (chairman) presiding. The…

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