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

Farming & the land, 1906

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Wheat Stacks Burned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 January 1906 · page 4

Dubbo, Tuesday.—Mr. Burton Smith district coroner, held an inquiry respecting the destruction by fire of seven wheat stacks belonging to James Crowley, of Murrumbidgerie,…

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Wool Arrivals. London, Jan. 9

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 January 1906 · page 4

All arrivals of wool number 288,500 bales; Of these 125,000 have been forwarded direct to the manufacturers, and for the first series of sales of the ear there remain available, with…

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Argyle Central Co-operative Dairy Company

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 January 1906 · page 2

The output of butter at the local factory for the six months ending December 31 was 170 tons, of the value of £16,800. For the month of December the output was…

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Farm Notes. WHEAT-GROWING

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 12 January 1906 · page 1

MR W. E. ABBOTT (Wingen) writes:-- Since 1861 the price charged for crown land to bo used for agricultural production has been steadily reduced,…

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Crookwell Butter Factory

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 12 January 1906 · page 2
Also in Argyle Liberal and District Recorder

The usual monthly meeting of the directors of the Crookwell Co-operative Butter Factory Company was held at the company's officer, Cotta Walla,…

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The Wheat Harvest

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 12 January 1906 · page 4

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

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Wool and Stock Reports

The Yass Courier · Friday 12 January 1906 · page 3

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report:—Wool— At our sales on Wednesday the market was strong and the weakness recently…

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The Wheat Yield in Yass District

The Yass Courier · Friday 12 January 1906 · page 2

The wheat yield in the Yass district this year is above the average and the wheat farmers are quite delighted with the result :— Mr. Ross’s wheat went 25…

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Yass Wool. Mrs. Duff and Mr. R. Thomson Get 13d

The Yass Courier · Friday 12 January 1906 · page 2

The Yass wool, notwithstanding the slight decline in prices lately, still keeps at the top. Mrs. Duff received 13d for a light, clean lot, and Mr. R. Thomson…

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Burrowa Police Court. Wednesday, January 10. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler. P.m.) Breach of the Cattle Slaughtering Act

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 January 1906 · page 2

S. T. Preston, holder of a slaughtering license at Burrowa, under the Cattle Slaughtering and Diseased Animals and [?] Act, was changed with slaughtering…

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Argyle Central Co-operative Dairy Company

Goulburn Herald · Friday 12 January 1906 · page 2

THE output of butter at the local factory for six months ending December 31 was 170 tons, of the value of £16,800. For the month of December the output was 51 tons, of the value…

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Remarkable Butter Yield

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 13 January 1906 · page 1

A most remarkable account of butter production from a Jersey cow is being published in the American papers, to which a few references may…

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Byron Estate Subdivision. Closer Settlement. Dairy Farms, Lucerne & Maize Flats, Wheat Lands. 19,000 Acres of Magnificent Country

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 13 January 1906 · page 4

It has often been remarked that Australian soil and Australian climate seem to delight in providing the very opposite extremes of…

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Changing Seed Wheat

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 13 January 1906 · page 2

It may seem a trills premature to begin making arrangements to secure seed for next season’s crop before the harvest is well out of hand. The present is, however, the best time to see…

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Crops Nurtured with Blood

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 13 January 1906 · page 1

War-ridden Southern Manchuria is not such a desolate waste after all, as the enormity of the battles fought on its bosom tended to lead the world to…

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Pastoral & Agricultural

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 15 January 1906 · page 3

A Melbourne press message says: — The movement recently THE originated in Sydney and since taken up in…

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Crookwell Butter Factory

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 16 January 1906 · page 2
Also in Goulburn Evening Penny Post

The total earnings of the above factory for last month amounted to between £1300 and £1400. The average market value of commercial…

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Wool Sales

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 16 January 1906 · page 2

Sales were held on Wednesday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridgestreet, when the quantity catalogued totalled 7783 bales, and the sales,…

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