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

Farming & the land, 1911

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Antwerp Wool Sales. Antwerp, May 4

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 6

There was a large attendance at the wool sales yesterday, and competition was animated. Ordinaries advanced 5 centimes, and fine merinos and crossbreds fully 10 centimes…

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Farm Competitions

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 2

THE committee of the local P. & A. Association at a meeting on Thursday, decided to extend the field of the farm competitions by adding two news sections for the men of…

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A Practical Farmer

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 2

Sir Edward Strachey, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture, has returned to his place in the House of Commons after a long illness. Sir Edward has excellent practical…

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Maharatta Sheep and Cattle Sales

The Yass Courier · Monday 8 May 1911 · page 2

Attention is directed to an advertisement in our columns this morning, intimating that Harrison, Jones & Devlin, Ltd., of Sydney, in conjunction…

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Agricultural And Pastoral Notes

The Yass Courier · Monday 8 May 1911 · page 2

In Thursday’s issue we will commence a weekly series of Agricultural and Pastoral Notes issued under the direction of the Honorary Minister…

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World's Champion Dairy Cow

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 9 May 1911 · page 4

The world's champion dairy cow is said to be Missouri Chief Josephine, a Holstein-Friesian, owned by the College of Agriculture, University of Missouri…

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Agriculture in Japan. Chief Crops

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 9 May 1911 · page 4

The Director of the Agricultural Bureau of Japan has written a book of 132 pages, entitled "Outlines of Agriculture in Japan." It is shown that…

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The Dairy. Poor Cows

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 9 May 1911 · page 4

Only the rich can afford to keep poor cows, and they don't; and the poorer a man is the bettor his few cows should be if he is to make a…

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Farmers and Settlers’ Association

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 10 May 1911 · page 2

THE monthly meeting of the local blanch of the Farmers’ and Settlers’ Association was held on Saturday last. There were present Messrs J. D. A. Hunter (chairman), A…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Yass Courier · Thursday 11 May 1911 · page 4

These notes will be issued every week under the direction of the-Honorary Minister for Agriculture, (Hon. J. L. Tre[?]e), and are based mainly on…

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The Wool Sales. London, May 9

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 May 1911 · page 2

The third series of colonial wool soles opened to-day. There woo a very large attendance, and keen competition among Continental and home…

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Great Maize Crops

The Yass Courier · Thursday 11 May 1911 · page 2

The maize crops now being harvested from the Murrumbidgee and Goodradigbee River flats are the best which have been gathered for the pas…

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Rabbit Trappers v. FARMERS

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 May 1911 · page 4

Mr. Fred. D. Badgery writes to us:—It is reported that representative of the Rabbit Trappers Union waited upon Mr. Treffic at Murumburrah asking him to lava the Act amended as Lot to…

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A Pastoral King. LEAVES 10,000 Square Miles

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 May 1911 · page 4

Mr. W. F. Buchanan, who died in Sydney on, 2nd instant, was one of the best known of our great pastoral men-or Kings as they might be…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Motes for the Man on the Land

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 12 May 1911 · page 2

These Notes will be issued every week, under the direction of the Honorary Minister tor Agriculture (Hon. J. L. Trefle), and are based mainly on the experiments of the…

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Sydney Wool Report Schute, Bell & CO

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 May 1911 · page 4

May 8.-Buoyancy was in evidence throughout the Brisbane sales last week, superior greasy selling at up to 14d under animated and general…

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Wool Report. Schute Bell & Co Ltd report

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 12 May 1911 · page 9

Buoyancy was in evidence throughout the Brisbane sales last week, superior greasy selling at up to 14d under animated and general…

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Young Farmers' and Settlers' Association

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 May 1911 · page 4

At a meeting of the Young branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association on Saturday last a motion was brought forward urging the abolition…

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Scientific Notes. Fernch Butterfly Farms

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 May 1911 · page 6

There are in France butterfly farms, the object of the farmers being to rear genera of the Bombycidae, the silkworm family.-By crossing, some…

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The Farmer. a Real Friend

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 12 May 1911 · page 8

As a matter of fact, few materials on the farm are more valuable than good dung. I have an affection for it. It is a real friend. It is a…

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