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

Farming & the land, 1906

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Grabben Gullen Butter Factory

Goulburn Herald · Monday 1 January 1906 · page 2

A GENERAL meeting was held at the factory on 23rd instant to consider the advisability or otherwise of omitting clause 57 from the Articles of Association, which reads as…

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Experimental Farm Harvest

Goulburn Herald · Monday 1 January 1906 · page 2

HARVESTING operations at the Wagga Experimental Farm were completed on Friday, the average being about five bags to the acre. The area stripped for grain was 171…

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Killed by a Sheep

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 January 1906 · page 4

Narrabri, Tuesday.—Mr. Norman de Lepervanche, eldest son of Dr. C. M. de Lepervanche, Government medical officer at Narrabri, died on Saturday night as the result of an accident on Friday lost…

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Wool Report

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 5 January 1906 · page 1

Dalgety & Company, Limited, Wool and Produce Brokers, Sydney, report: Since the wool auction sales closed on 20th inst, a fair amount of business…

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Commercial. Wool Report

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 5 January 1906 · page 2

Dalgety and Company, Limited, Wool and Produce Brokers, Sydney, report:-- Since the wool auction sales closed on 20th December a fair amount of business…

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Wool and Stock Reports. Winchcombe Caeson & Co Ltd., REPORT.—

The Yass Courier · Friday 5 January 1906 · page 2

The wool market retains a holiday tone, most of the buyers being away from town enjoying a few days holiday. Active business will be resumed on the 8th instant…

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Suicide of a Farmer

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 5 January 1906 · page 2

Michael Sharkey, a farmer, com mitted suicide by shooting himself through the forehead with a pea rifle He lived a few hours after shooting…

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cheapening the Production of Wheat. Wide Push “Sunshine” Harvester

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 4

CONSIDERABLE interest hag been aroused in grain growing districts by the announcement of the results of field trials of a Urge Push “ Sunshine ” Harvester, almost double the size of the ordinary…

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Cheapening the Production of Wheat. Wide Push "Sunshine" Harvester

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 2

Considerable interest has been aroused in grain growing districts by the announcement of the results of field trials of a large. Push "Sunshine" Harvester, almost doubts…

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Suspicious Outbreak of Crop Fire

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 2

THE police officials at Young are busy at present investigating the circumstances surrounding a fire which broke in the wheat crop in a paddock the property of…

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Pastoral & Agricultural. the Public Estate

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 8 January 1906 · page 2

The following statement shows the lands selected under the Crown Lands Acts from January 1 to December…

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The Wheat Harvest

Goulburn Herald · Monday 8 January 1906 · page 2

THE official estimate of the probable yield of wheat for the present season has been completed, and Mr. W. H. Hall, the Acting Government Statistician, states that the present…

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Mudgee Labour Farm

Goulburn Herald · Monday 8 January 1906 · page 2

THE Government intends to carry out its proposal to establish a farm for the unemployed at Mudgee. The Minister for Works stated that the bill necessary for the…

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The Wheat Crop

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 January 1906 · page 4

Mr. Hall, the Acting Government Statistician, estimates tile wheat crop for the season at 11 bushels to tile acre, and the total yield at 20,500,000 bushels. This would be, if realised,…

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Wheat Standard

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 9 January 1906 · page 2

The following circular has been received at Cootamundra:—“ Sydney Chamber of Commerce. Royal Exchange, Sydney, 3rd January, 1906…

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Miner, Bushranger and Farmer

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 9 January 1906 · page 2

Jim Blane was a typical miner of the old school; he was at Lambing Flat in the pahny days, and on the Turon when she was at her best, and…

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Iandra Wheat Yields

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 2

The GRENFELL RECORD says:—At Iandra, Mr Thomas Rolls, off one portion of his land got a return of 43 bushels to the acre. Out of this the landlord (Mr. Greene) gets 10 bushels to the acre…

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The Butter Industry. Conference in Sydney

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 2

THE Butter Export Committee continued its deliberations yesterday, Mr. T. J. Rogers' in the chair. In reference to the question of the direct…

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The Farming of the Future

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 1

The soil of Mildura is of the same kind is that of millions of acres of alluvial lands both north and south of the Murray and along the courses of…

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A Relief Labor Depot. What Is Done at Bunnerong Farm. Creditable RECORD.(From Daily Telegraph.)

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 2

WHETHER a direct responsibility is cast upon the State of seeing that all the people have sufficient work to yield them the means of living is a question that admits of argument. In the case of New…

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