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

Farming & the land, 1905

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Pastoral & Agricultural

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 27 February 1905 · page 2

Land owners are notified that Wednesday next 1st March is the date for commencing the next period of continuous poisoning. On that date so the…

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Yass Sheep at Tumut

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 27 February 1905 · page 2

Mr. T. Grace, of Cavan, vigorously carried the flag of the Yass district breeders into the enemy’s country at Tumut, at the annual show last week,…

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Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 February 1905 · page 2

Mr. W. H. Wheatley reports for the N.Z. Mercantile Co.:—At our wool sale yesterday (Monday) markets were firm for scoured, superior fi[?]ece, looks, stained pieces, and greasy lambs', but…

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Pastoral & Agricultural

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 2 March 1905 · page 2

If all’s as it should be, the land holders ought now to be hard at it with their poison earls, in the simultaneous efforts to put down the rabbits throughout the…

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A Golden-Mouthed Sheep

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 2 March 1905 · page 1

Once upon a time, we are told, a certain Miss Kilmansegg had a golden leg (says the “ Adelaide Advertiser”). There are no golden-legged ladies in South Australia…

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Revised Wool Rates by Rail

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 March 1905 · page 2

Great interest was taken on Wednesday in wool circles in the revised wool rates just issued by the Railway Commissioners, which came into force on March 1. The rates on…

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The Wool Sales. London, March 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 March 1905 · page 2

The wool sales in May and July have been limited to 150,000 bales cash. The September and November series will be unlimited…

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Glass in Australian Butter

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 3 March 1905 · page 4

A LETTER received by the English mail stated that a firm of butter importers has just received a curious claim in connection with a box of…

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Remarkable Wheat Yield

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 3 March 1905 · page 2

W. H. Fox, a farmer at Gum Flat, Inverell, has just threshed the product of one acre of hand-reaped wheat for the phenomenal return of 47…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 3 March 1905 · page 4

The above sales were continued at auction on Tuesday and Wednesday, some 5000 bales being submitted. The market developed no new features,…

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Record Loads of Wheat

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 3 March 1905 · page 2

Thus the "Newsletter" of the 25th instant: "The record load of wheat delivered at Wyalong railway station (which, by the way is out in the scrub…

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Kialla News. Kialla Butter Factory Co. Ltd

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 3 March 1905 · page 2

PURSUANT to advertisement, the annual general meeting of shareholders in the above company was held at the residence of the secretary (Mr…

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Revised Wool Rates by Rail

Goulburn Herald · Friday 3 March 1905 · page 3

GREAT interest is being taken in wool circles in the revised wool rates just issued by the Railway Commissioners, which came into force on March 1. The rates on greasics have…

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Freights on Wool

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 4 March 1905 · page 2

The proposed cessation of the war of railway rates between New South Wales and Victoria reached another stage on Wednesday, when a new scale of wool…

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A Golden-mouthed Sheep

Goulburn Herald · Monday 6 March 1905 · page 4

ONCE upon a time, we are told, a certain Miss Kilmansegg had a golden leg says Adelaide Advertiser. There are no golden legged ladies in South ,Australia—althourg there…

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Cable News. Antwerp Wool Sales. London, March 4

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 March 1905 · page 4

The Antwerp wool sales closed yesterday, confirming the features of Thursday's sales. Prices were irregular, showing a decline of from 5 centimes for fine qualities to 15 centimes for the commoner…

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Wool and Wheat Traffic

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 8 March 1905 · page 2

THE wool season Is rapidly drawing to a close, so far as the operations of the railway authorities are concerned. Last week about 1000 bales arrived at the three depots,…

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Pastoral & Agricultural

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 9 March 1905 · page 2

On the subject of the oldest merino sheep a correspondent, Jean Driab, writes to tho Stock Journal:—“There is a ewe on a station in the Dubbo…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Association

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 11 March 1905 · page 2

THE first meeting of the newly-elected committee of the Young Pastoral and Agricultural Association was held at the office of Messrs C. H. Ellerman & Co., on Thursday afternoon…

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London Wool Sales. London, March 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 March 1905 · page 2

At the wool sales yesterday Messrs. Buxton, Ronald, and Os, Messrs. Charles Balme and Co, and Messrs. Jacomb, Son, and Co., offered 11,953 bates, comprising a fairly…

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