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

Farming & the land, 1905

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Rabbit-Eating Sheep

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 March 1905 · page 2

Albury, Wednesday.—Mr. Wilks, district stock inspector, has just completed a tour of the district for the purpose of investigating the eating of poisoned rabbits by sheep and other stock. He finds…

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Sale of Adulterated Butter. London, March 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 March 1905 · page 2

A Sale of Butter Bill was introduced into the House of Commons by the Hon. Ailwyn Fellowes, President of the Board of Agriculture, last night, and was read the first time. The bill closely…

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Flesh-eating Sheep

Goulburn Herald · Friday 31 March 1905 · page 3

THE Albury district stock inspector, Mr. Wilks, after several day's tour through the country for the purpose of making investigations into the eating of poisoned rabbits by…

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Wagga Exporimental Farm

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 31 March 1905 · page 2

DURING the recent Crookwell show, our representative waited upon Mr. C. A. Lindon, the officer in charge of the Wagga exhibit, with the object…

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Scientific Farming. to the Editor

Goulburn Herald · Monday 3 April 1905 · page 4

SIR—Upon reading your article on the Wagga Experimental Farm, I was particularly struck with the simple but most impressive manner in which the details in the management of…

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Wool and Wheat Traffic

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 April 1905 · page 4

So far as the operations of the Railway Department are concerned the present wool season is practically ended. The record shows that 582.005 bales were carried. This is an increase of 108,852 bales on…

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Rabbit-Eating Sheep

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 4 April 1905 · page 4

ALBURY, Wednesday.—Mr. Wilks, district stock inspector, has just completed a tour of the district for the purpose of investigating the eating of…

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Wool Market

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 4 April 1905 · page 2

Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson & Co., Ltd., report:—The wool market is very bare of supplies and business on that account is greatly restricted. There is…

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Wagga Experimental Farm

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 4 April 1905 · page 2

The following is a table of the production of oats grown at the above farm for the year 1904, with the aid of Shirley's fertiliser:—…

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The Wheat Yield

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 5 April 1905 · page 4

THE acting Government statistician gives the wheat yield of the State for last years at 16,463,680 bushels, a return of 9.3 bushels per acre on the area sown. The New…

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Converted Colonial Butter. London, April 4

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 April 1905 · page 4

Large quantities of colonial butter are being shipped to Holland, where it is mixed with about 50 per cent of a new adulterant, which hitherto could not be detected by…

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Murrumburrah Dairy Co. Annual General Meeting

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 7 April 1905 · page 2

THE annual general meeting of shareholders in the above-named Company was held in Reid's Hall on Saturday afternoon last, when a dozen…

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Wool and Wheat Traffic

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 April 1905 · page 2

The present wool season has practically closed as regards railway transit. For the season 512,325 bale have been received to date at Darling Harbour, Newcastle, and Morpeth, as against 4[?]3.551…

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Pastoral & Agricultural

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 10 April 1905 · page 3

For Homebush on Thursday 17,550 sheep and lambs were in. The market opened with competition free and strong, and values al round better than last day’s,…

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The Wheat Yield

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 10 April 1905 · page 3

The official returns of the wheat yield of N. S. Wales for the past year, as prepared in the Statistician’s office, have been published. The area under wheat, and…

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The Wheat Yield

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 11 April 1905 · page 2

THE Acting Government Statistican gives the wheat yield of the State for last year at 16,463,680 bushels, a return of 9.3 bushels per acre on the…

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Co-operative Wool Selling

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 11 April 1905 · page 2

The supporters of the Co-operative Wool and Produce Co., Ltd., in particular and wool growers in general, will notice with interest the announcement made by the…

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Pastoral Agricultural

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 13 April 1905 · page 2

3859 sheep and lambs (480) were penned at Homebush on Monday. Buyers were numerous, and bidding at the opening of the sales was brisk, with values ruling…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 13 April 1905 · page 4

According to a return furnished by the Commissioners for Railways, 15,417 bags of wheat have been received at Darling Harbor during the last five…

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American Wheat Yield

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 April 1905 · page 2

The Federal Department of Agriculture at Washington, reports that the general condition of winter wheat is 91 6. On this basis the New York Produce Exchange estimates a crop of 479,787,000…

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