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Farming & the land, 1888

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London Wool Sales. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 21 July 1888 · page 2

The Australian Mortgage, Land, and Finance Company Limited, to the WAGGA WAGGA ADVERTISER. Messrs. Helmuth, Schwartze, and Co…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 26 July 1888 · page 3

The following stock reports have been received:—Bourke—Cold clear weather prevails. Stocks are in fair order, but showing the effects of the dry season and the cold…

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Wheat Market. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 26 July 1888 · page 2

IN the market to-day millers' parcels of Wimmera wheat have sold at 3s 4d ex store. At Dalgety and Co's. (Limited) auction sale biddings for wheat were slow and…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 31 July 1888 · page 3

The following are the latest local stock movements:—6000 ewes and wethers (C. H. Smith's) from Big Springs to Mogong, Kanowindra, via Cootamundra and Young, G…

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The Wheat Market

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 1 August 1888 · page 4

IN each of the colonial markets wheat has a firmer lendency. This may be in consequence of the following report respecting wheat in the London market…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 2 August 1888 · page 3

The long-wishod for movement in pastoral properties has apparently commenced. Messrs. R. Goldsbrough and Co. Limited report the sale, on Saturday, of several…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 4 August 1888 · page 3

The New Zealand and Australian Land Company have sold 9000 five year-old ewes, from their Bundare statio[?]u, Jerilderie, Horwood and Mackay, agents…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 9 August 1888 · page 3

R. Goldsbrough and Co. Limited (in conjunction with Mort and Co. Limited) report the sale of the Kerarbury Estate, situate on the Murrumbidgee, below Narandera,…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 11 August 1888 · page 3

Mr. F. Heffernan, Clear Hills, has sold 9000 four and six tooth wethers, in the wool, Tompson, Manning, and Jeremy (in conjunction with Teague and Co,), agents…

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Judging at A. and P. Shows Victorian Farmers Garktte

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 11 August 1888 · page 2

THAT the common practice of judging exhibits of the groat majority of show is unsatisfactory goes without saying. Like all time honoured customs, it will probably take…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 14 August 1888 · page 3

The following are the Albury stock movements:—Aug. 10-27 tracks of fat sheep from Dubbo to Melbourne, Powers, Rutherford, and Co.; 14 trucks fat cattle from Dubbo to…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 16 August 1888 · page 3

The following are the Deniliquin stock movements:—Aug, 9th—2700 fat sheep (T. Holmes') crossed and were trucked to the Melbourne market; 2500 fat sheep from…

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Pastoral Association Committee

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 16 August 1888 · page 2

A MEETING of the Committee of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association was held at the Australian Hotel on Tuesday evening last. Present:—Messrs…

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Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association. Showground Improvements

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 16 August 1888 · page 2

VISITORS to the Show this year will be pleasantly surprised at the great improvements which have been effected on the grounds by the addition of building…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 18 August 1888 · page 3

The following are the latest reported local stock passings:—2000 sheep (Keogh's) Warri to Tumbarumba via Wagga; 9000 sheep (Monckton's) Clear Hills to Albury via…

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Small Farms

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 25 August 1888 · page 4

Cau you make a living on five acres of land. The above question is often asked. Seeing so many acres divided into five and ton-acre tracts brings out the…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 28 August 1888 · page 3

Ettershank, Eaglestone, and Mann, Melbourne, (conjointly with a Sydney firm) report having sold, on account of M. Wallace, her Sturts Meadows station, situate near…

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Quarter Sessions. Monday. Charge of Cattle Stealing

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 5 September 1888 · page 2

Wm. Herring and Edwin Battie were charged with stealing two cows from Darbalaro Run. Following were the German called:…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 6 September 1888 · page 4

The following local stock passings are reported:—August 31—8580 wethers (W. H. Haley's, Derrybong), Dubbo to Victoria, via Wagga nnd Albury, L. K. Tibbotta id…

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Cattle

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 8 September 1888 · page 3

One of the most pleasing sections of the 1888 Show was that of cattle. The exhibits were of the very highest order of merit, and wherever one turned there could be heard…

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