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Farming & the land, 1891

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SQUATTERS and Farmers. [To the Editor.]

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 3 June 1891 · page 3

SIR,—Crowding close on the heels of the champions of the downtrodden Australian squatters who have lately been airing their veracity and irrepressibleness in the columns…

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Rust in Wheat

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 4 June 1891 · page 3

IT will be remembered (says the Echo) that last year the Government of Victoria took the initiative in inviting two delegates from each colony to discuss the whole…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 6 June 1891 · page 3

The Australian Mortgage Land and Finance Coy., Melbourne, have sold 1500 acres of freehold land on the Eunonyhareenyha estate. Tompaon, Manning, and…

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Wool Trade With Japan

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 6 June 1891 · page 2

TAKING advantage of the presence in Sydney of Mr. W. H. Gill, a merchant from Osaka, in Japan, Messrs. Winc[?]ombe, Carson and Co. have forwarded by him for exhibition at…

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The Rust in Wheat Conference. Opening of the Proceedings

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 6 June 1891 · page 2

THE conference of delegates appointed by the various colonies to confer on the subject of the prevention of [?]st in whoat met on Tuesday afternoon, in the board-room at the…

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A Farmers' Political Platform

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 6 June 1891 · page 10

ALBURY, Sunday.—Yesterday afternoon a large representative gathering of farmers and selectors assembled at the Hume Farmers' Union's meeting at Burrumbuttock,…

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Victorian Farmers on FREETRADE

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 6 June 1891 · page 10

A BRANCH of the Freetrade Democratic League was recently formed at Tallygaroopna (Numurka district, Victoria), the preliminary meeting having been attended…

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Victorian Farmers on Freetrade

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 9 June 1891 · page 2

A BRANCH of the Freetrade Democratic League was recently formed at Tullyga[?] (Numu[?] district Victoria), the preliminary meeting having been attended by a number of representative…

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Conference on rust in Wheat

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 11 June 1891 · page 4

THE intercolonial conference on rust in wheat was continued Monday. Mr. M'Lean (Queensland) read a paper on the last Queensland wheat crop, which sh[?]wed that though…

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A Novel Butter Factory

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 5

KILMORE (the Argus says) is in the happy possession of a gaol for which there is so little use that it is proposed to turn portion of it into a butter factory. A deputation…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing Extraordinary. a Family in Court. Casterton

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 13 June 1891 · page 2

AT the Merino Court of Petty Sessions great interest was taken to-day in the charges for horse and cuttle stealing preferred against the Maloneys. The court was crowded…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 5

Messrs. M. P. Fitzgerald and Co., of Fort Bourke, Burke, have sold 15,000 two year old wethers in the wool. Horwood and Mackay agents…

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Sheep-Shearing Machine

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 1 July 1891 · page 2

At the invitation of the directors of Silver's Patent Sheep-shearing Machine and Flexible Shaft Company, Limited, a number of gentlemen paid…

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Music as a Charm against Wild Cattle

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 2 July 1891 · page 4

A LADY recounts in Chambers's Journal for May on extraordinary experience with wild cattlo in one of the loveliest mountain parks of Colorado:—…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 4 July 1891 · page 2

Mr. L. F. C[?]yton, Tupurupuru, has sold 3300 wether hoggets. Wilkinson, Lavender, and Chapman, agents. Mr. C. W. Simson, Wangadal, has sold…

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Indian Wheat Supply

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 9 July 1891 · page 2

BOMBAY papers recently received describe the extraordinary export of wheat from that port during the past few weeks. The Times of India says that "every warehouse near…

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Stud Sheep Sales in Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 9 July 1891 · page 3

THE first of the annual stud sheep sales was held by Messrs. Griffiths and Weaver at the New Zealand Loan and-Mercantile Agency Co.'s stores on Monday. There was a large…

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Wodonga Wool-Scouring Works

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 9 July 1891 · page 2

MESSRS. Johnson and King, of the Wodonga Wool-scouring Works, have just demoustrated that wool can be scoured more effectively at their establishment than in…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 11 July 1891 · page 3

Wilkinson, Lavender, and Obapman report haying [?]old, through the Homebush yards, this week, 1670 weathers for Messrs. C.Simson and Son, 8s 7d to 8s 11d, and 230 seoonds…

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Stud Sheep Sales in Sydney. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 11 July 1891 · page 2

THE sale of stud sheep was continued to-day, when Messrs. Pitt, Son, and Badgery, in conjunction with Messrs. Gair, Sloane, and Co., disposed of Messrs. M'Fariane Bros…

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