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

Farming & the land, 1909

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Farm and Field. Green Feed for Pigs

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 14 July 1909 · page 5

If pigs are kept continually penned up green feed in some form should be provided to them. Green food is necessary. It keeps them in health,…

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The Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 15 July 1909 · page 2

At the wool sales this afternoon there was a good selection, with better competition, and a brisk sale for crossbreds at late rates. Merinos were unchanged…

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Wool Report

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 16 July 1909 · page 4

Schute, Bell and Co., wool and produce brokers, Sydney, report under date July 13: -- A better tone has characterised the…

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Sheep or Grouse? Judge Quotes Poetry

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 16 July 1909 · page 7

Mountain sheep are sweeter. But valley sheep are fatter; We therefore think it meeter To cultivate the latter…

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Wool Market. Winchcombe, Carson & CO

The Burrowa News · Friday 16 July 1909 · page 6

We held our first sale of the new statistical year on 7th instant, offering a small but interesting catalogue of 445 bales. We found competition for…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. (All Right Received.) Small Holdings

The Burrowa News · Friday 16 July 1909 · page 4

To those contemplating taking small holdings, it would, perhaps, be as well to point out the fact the there are several qualifications necessary to…

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Wheat Shipment to Britain

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 17 July 1909 · page 8

When giving evidence before the wheat commission in Adelaide last week, Major Norton, S.A. Government commercial agent in Loudon, referring…

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Stud Lincoln Sheep for the Goulburn District

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 July 1909 · page 2

Mr. Robert Nixon, of Merryvale, Roslyn, has made another addition to his flock of stud Lincolns by securing from the flock of Mr. B. S. Oppenheim, of Forest Hill, Latrobe, Tasmania,…

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The Wool Sales. London, July 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 July 1909 · page 3

At the wool sales this afternoon there was a good selection, and prices were more animated American buyers operating freely. Values for good merinos, crossbreds, and other…

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Butter Factory

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 July 1909 · page 2

The annual meeting of the Argyle Co-operative Central Dairy Company will be held at the Town Hall to-morrow (Wednesday) afternoon, when the report and balance-sheet will be…

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The Wool Sales. London, July 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 July 1909 · page 4

At the wool sales this afternoon competition was keen, with general prices hardening for all qualities. July 16…

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The Latest. Sydney, Tuesday. Farmers and Settlers in Politics

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 July 1909 · page 2

The Farmers and Settlers' Conference by 105 to 12 carried a resolution empowering the executive to confer with other political organisations to secure. the return…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 July 1909 · page 2

A good fighting speech was made on Monday by Mr. Robert Patten, M. L. C., president of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, in his presidential address to the annual conference. The…

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Sheep in New South Wales

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 21 July 1909 · page 8

According to returns of the Stock department, there were 21,815,000 ewes in New South Wales on December 31st last. From 8,455,000 ewes…

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Dalgety's Annual Wool Report

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 21 July 1909 · page 8

We are in receipt of copy of the Annual Review of the Australasian wool markets for the year ending on 80th June, which has been published…

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Draft Allowance on wool

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 21 July 1909 · page 2

The allowance of [?]b per cwt on wool has always been a sore subject with the sheepowner. On every bale of wool sold the buyer is allowed tare equal to the actual…

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Farmers to Fight Labor

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 21 July 1909 · page 2

The Farmers' Conference now sitting declares that the Association is determined to fight the Labor Party's land-tax proposals tooth and nail…

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Farm and Field. Electricity in Agriculture

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 21 July 1909 · page 5

Recent experiments have demonstrated that electricity will promote the germination of seed. At the Massachusetts Agricultural College, U.S.A., in a…

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Dairy Supervision in the Argentine

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 21 July 1909 · page 5

The growth of the demand for Argentina butter in Europe, chiefly for Great' Britain, has induced the Government of the Republic to enact stringent…

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Farmers and Settlers' Conference

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 July 1909 · page 4

The Farmers and Settlers' Conference on Thursday considered the questions of resumptions in municipalities, borrowing, and closer settlement. The question as to…

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