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

Farming & the land, 1909

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The Wool Sales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 February 1909 · page 1

At the wool sales to-day the highest rate of the series were realised Feb. 7. Up to the present there have been sold to…

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COMMERCIAL. Wool Report. Winchoombe, Carson and Co., Ltd., report under date February 4:--

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 9 February 1909 · page 2

The market shows a better tone sod prices at our yesterday's sale was fully equal to the best rates of the weak. This is particularly noticeable in the case…

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Experimental Farming

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 9 February 1909 · page 2

Mr. T. Slater, of Bowning, has been experimenting with wheat, and from three acres sown with a wheat known as “Federation,” 44 bushels to the…

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Wool Report

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 10 February 1909 · page 2

Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, report under date 6th February, 1909, as follows; A strong and animated market has continued since our last report, the feature of the…

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Wool and Produce Report

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 10 February 1909 · page 2

Hill, Clark and Co. report under date 5th Feb., as follows:--Wool.--The market remains very firm. Competition is good and general and very good clearances have been…

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Burrowa Butter Factory

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 February 1909 · page 4

A MEETING of shareholders of the Burrowa Butter Factory was held in the Mechanics' Institute, Burrowa on Saturday afternoon last, Fed 6, Present :…

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Wool Market. DALGETY & Co., Ltd

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 February 1909 · page 2

Feb. 6.—A strong and animated market has continued since our last report, the feature of the sales being the free selling which has taken place,…

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Wool Market. Schute. Bell, Co.'s Report

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 February 1909 · page 4

Feb. 9—An adverse movement in the freight market resulting in slight general advance in rates, combined with the fact that a greater proportion…

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Farm and Garden Original Artcles (All Rights Reserved) Bees the Closing Season

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 February 1909 · page 6

Except in the heather districts, no surplus honey can be hoped for now, and therefore, all bee-keepers should at once commence the usual work of…

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Agriculture, Etc. Valuable Farm Paint

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 12 February 1909 · page 7

Milk paint is a good preservative. It is an old mixture, not generally known. If properly prepared and applied, milk paint makes about the best and…

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Agriculture, Etc. Rotation Cropping

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 13 February 1909 · page 3

Mr Peacock, manager of the Bathurst Experimental Farm, in New South Wales, is a stanch advocate of rotation cropping. This year he has obtained…

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Crookwell Butter Factory

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 16 February 1909 · page 2

The directors of the Crookwell Cooperative Butter Factory met in the company's office, Cotta Walla on Tuesday last, when the election of…

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Wool Report

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 16 February 1909 · page 2

Wincbcombe, Carson and Go Ltd, report under date February 12 :-- Our yesterday's sale went off with excellent spirit, competition was…

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Wool Sales

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 16 February 1909 · page 2

Winchcombe Carbon &Co Lid. report: —Our yesterday’s sale went oft with excellent spirit, competition was exceedingly keen, teaching often the point of…

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Old Year's Love and New Farm and Field

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 17 February 1909 · page 4

The old-fashioned idea that the special compound manures possessed some peculiar and mysterious virtue unattainable in mixtures prepared on the farm…

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Question of Wet Sheep

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 February 1909 · page 2

The case of Henry A. Williams, a shearer, who appealed from the decision of a magistrate fining him on conviction for neglecting to fulfil his contract to shear sheep on a particular…

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Wheat and Wool Traffic

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 19 February 1909 · page 4

During last week the Railway Department carried 118,418 of wheat and 3186 bales of wool to the seaside, representing increases of 100,430 bags…

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Wool Sales

The Yass Courier · Friday 19 February 1909 · page 2

The Co-operative Co. report (by wire on Wednesday :—Offered 2400 bales; the improvement shown at last week’s sales was still more pronounced, with…

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COMMERCIAL. Wool Report

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 19 February 1909 · page 4

Dalgety and Company, Limited, report on February 16 :--At the wool sales held yesterday, we offered a catalogue of 5238 bales,…

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Measuring Cattle. Live Weight Calculations

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 19 February 1909 · page 3

It often happens that the only available method of ascertaining the approximate weight of an animal is by calculating from measurements. Very few…

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