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

Farming & the land, 1906

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Grading Up the Dairy Herd

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 1 June 1906 · page 4

The question of grading up the dairy Herd is the most vital question in dairying to-day. How are we to set about it? The first step in my…

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Farm and Field To Test Seeds

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 1 June 1906 · page 4

To detect adulterations in seeds use the sieve, water, and microscope. Hot water dissolves powder and dirt and washes off the coloring matter. The…

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Salted and Unsalted Butter

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 June 1906 · page 2

More unsalted butter has been forwarded to Sydney during the past week or two than for some time past, evidently for the reason that, generally speaking, a farthing extra has been…

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Commercial. Wool Report

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 2 June 1906 · page 4

MESSES Dalgety & Company, Limited, Wool, Grain & Produce Brokers, Sydney, report under date of May 30:—Since the auctions last week there has been very little movement in the wool…

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Wealth in Wheat. Settlers and the Soil How to Get on the Best Land

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 2 June 1906 · page 6

Everybody interested in the supreme question of settlement knows that the available virgin area for agricultural settlement is gradually growing less. Keen competition…

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Branding Sheep

Goulburn Herald · Monday 4 June 1906 · page 4

As interesting droving case was tried at Moree before the police magistrate. A drover named Nelson Rose, travelling with 12,700 sheep from Bangheel station to the same…

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Grass Growing on Sheep

Goulburn Herald · Monday 4 June 1906 · page 2

A TELEGRAM form Seymour, Victoria, says that Mr. Storey, Crown Lands bailiff, has a Sample of wool taken from the backs of four sheep that had been lost in the Cathedral…

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The S. M. Herald and Sydney Mail Farm Competition

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 5 June 1906 · page 2

Mr. J. S. Baker representing the S. M. Herald and Sydney Mail was in Yass last week, visiting the different farms on behalf of the above papers, instructing the farmers…

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Wool Market

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 7 June 1906 · page 2

Messrs Winchcombe Carson and Co. write:—The Sydney wool market has not undergone any change since we last reported. There is the same keen…

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Wool Report

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 8 June 1906 · page 5

Dalgety and Company, Limited, Wool, Grain and Produce Brokers, Sydney, report under date of 5th instant. The Sydney wool market in quiet owing to the scarcity of stocks…

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Grass Growing on Sheep

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 8 June 1906 · page 4

A telegram from Seymour, Victoria, says that Mr Storey, Crown Lands bailiff, has a sample of wool taken from the backs of four sheep that had…

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The Wool Report

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 8 June 1906 · page 2

Messrs. Schute, Bell and Co., report under date Jun 5:-- There is no diminution in the eagerness of buyers to secure any available…

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Messes. Schute, Bell & Co's Wool Report. (June 5.)

The Burrowa News · Friday 8 June 1906 · page 2

There in no diminution in the eagerness of buyers to secure any available lots, but the scarcity of supplies is still much pronounced. Local business is practically…

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City Boys for Farms

Goulburn Herald · Friday 8 June 1906 · page 2

THE Minister for Works, under whose direction the Pitt Town Labour Farm is, thinks that the experiment of giving city boys a brief training in rudimentary farming methods, as…

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Cable News. Butter Adulteration Committee. London, June 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 June 1906 · page 2

The manager of Pearks. Limited, grocers, in giving evidence before the select committee of the House of Commons on tile Adulteration of Butter Bill, stated that the carriage of colonial…

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Wealth in Wheat. Settlers and the Soil How to Get on the Best Land

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 9 June 1906 · page 6

Everybody interested in the supreme question of settlement knows that the available virgin area for agricultural settlement is gradually growing less. Keen competition…

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The Butter Trade

Goulburn Herald · Monday 11 June 1906 · page 4

The manager for Pearks, Limited, grocers, in giving evidence before the select committee of the House of Commons on the Adulteraton of Butter Bill, stated that the carriage of…

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Grass Growing on Sheep

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 12 June 1906 · page 3

A telegram from Seymour, Victoria, says that Mr. Storey, Crown [?]ds bailiff, has a [?]ple of wool taken from the backs of four sheep that had been lost in…

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Wool and Stock Reports Messrs Schute, Bell and Co. report as follows:—

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 12 June 1906 · page 3

There is no diminution in the eagerness of buyers to secure any available lots, but the scarcity of supplies is still much pronounced. Local business is practically…

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Frauds on Dairy Produce. Wellington, (N.z.)

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 12 June 1906 · page 2

At the annual meeting of the National Dairy Association of the South Island it was resolved that the Government should do all it…

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