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Farming & the land, 1889

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Sydney Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 9 November 1889 · page 2

Messrs. J. H. Geddes and Co to the WAGGA WAGGA ADVERTISER:- We offered 2628 bales wool under revised conditions. There was keen competition,…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 9 November 1889 · page 2

Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co. (through their agents Braim, Davidson, and Stephenson) to the WAGGA WAGGA ADVERTISER:- We catalogued 5700 bales to-day, and sold…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 16 November 1889 · page 3

Wilkinson, Lavender, and Chapman report having sold through the Homebush yards this week:—656 shorn ewes for Mr. D. M'Callum, to 5s 7d; 29 wethers for Mr. W…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 16 November 1889 · page 2

Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co. (through their agents Braim, Davidson, and Stephenson) to the WAGGA WAGGA ADVERTISER:- We offered to-day the largest catalogue…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 16 November 1889 · page 2

Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co. (through their agents Braim, Davidson, and Stevenson), to the WAGGA WAGGA ADVERTISER:- There was splendid competition at our sale…

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The Wolsley Sheep Shearing Machine at Dollar Vale

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 16 November 1889 · page 6

MR. A. J. A. BEVERIDGE, of Dollar Vale, this year determined to adopt advanced ideas in the way of sheep shearing and obtained the celebrated Wolseley machines. A visit to…

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Black Sheep

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 19 November 1889 · page 3

IT has always been a debatable point (says the T. A. Gazette), whether it is possible to breed a flock of black sheep. All sheep breeders are aware that by a freak of nature,…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 19 November 1889 · page 2

Messrs. Dalgetty find Co., to the WAGGA WAGGA ADVERTISER:- We had a splendid wool sale to-day, the attendance being large and the biddings…

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Cruel Cattle-maiming

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 21 November 1889 · page 2

A DASTARDLY act of cruelty was perpetrated at Lougwarry. Victoria, by a man named James Polkinghorne, a woodsplitter, but owing to the prompt action taken by…

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The Wheat Bag Question

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 21 November 1889 · page 2

A LARGELY-ATTENDED public meeting of farmers, storekeepers, and millers, some of the latter from Cowra, was held on Saturday night at Tattersall's Hotel, Grenfell, Mr. W…

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Milbourne Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 21 November 1889 · page 2

Goldsrough, Mort, and Co. (through their agents B[?]im, Davidson, and Stevenson), to the WAGGA WAGGA ADVERTISER:- We offeed 7000 bales at our sale to-day,…

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Rust in Wheat

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 23 November 1889 · page 9

WHEAT rust is due to the attacks of several species of minute fungi, and is developed in its elementary stages on weeds. This rust belongs to a division which is capable of…

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A Great Farm at Bowral

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 23 November 1889 · page 4

It is rather [?] amid so much ridiculous talk as to farming not being a paying business in this country to had (says the E. News of last week) a…

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London Wool Market

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 26 November 1889 · page 2

MESSRS. Dalgetty and Company, limited, report, under date:—London, l0th October, 1889. The fourth series of colonial wool sales. which opened on the 24th. ultimo, closed yesterday, the total…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 26 November 1889 · page 3

Messrs. Dalgetty and Co., to the WAGGA WAGGA ADVERTISER:- Our wool sale to-day attracted a large attendance, and the tone throughout was…

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The Tobacco Crop

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 26 November 1889 · page 3

WE (Tumut Times) recently alluded to the anticipated total failure of the incoming tobacco crop, and we regret to find that the evil has not been exaggerated. In all the…

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Sad Fatality to a Farmer

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 26 November 1889 · page 2

AN overturned dray, to which was harnessed a horse, was discovered by Mr. Farquharson, dairyman, on Friday morning in a deep creek crossing Eyre-street, at Echuca South…

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The Boom in Wool. How Long Will It Last? Interview with a Woolbroker

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 27 November 1889 · page 6

THE high prices which have been paid for wool at the various auction sales during the past few weeks have attracted so much attention, and elicited so many expressions…

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London Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 28 November 1889 · page 2

The Australian, Mortgage, Land, and Finance Co., Limited, to the WAGGA WAGGA ADVERTISER:- MELBOURNE, WEDNESDAY…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 28 November 1889 · page 2

Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co. (through their agents Braim, Davidson, and Stevenson), to the WAGGA WAGGA ADVERTISER:- There was a crowded attendance of buyers…

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