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Farming & the land, 1892

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Pastoral Mums

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 2 January 1892 · page 2

Mr. G. Hough has sold at auction 1040 two-tooth wethers, Braim, Davidson, and Stevenson, agents. Borce Creek Estate has sold at auction…

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Alleged Theft of Wheat

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 2 January 1892 · page 3

At Album on Wednesday Charles Hall and Thomas Hall, brothers, were charged at the police court that day with stealing 120 bags of wheat valued at £20…

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Interesting to Wheat-growers

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 2 January 1892 · page 4

The following is an extract from a letter written by an American authority to the Government statist in South Australia: "Allow me to predict…

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The Price of Wool

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 2 January 1892 · page 5

[?] John Pottie, of Sydney, writes:—A [?] the price of our wool-our is always a [?] of importance to us. Fortunately, [?] most marked decline is confined to…

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Charge of Wheat-Stealing. Albury

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 2 January 1892 · page 2

CHARLES Hall and Thos. Hal, brothers, were charged at the police court to-day with stealing 120 bags of wheat, valued at £120, the property of J. and J. Hayes, millers,…

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What shall we do with our Sheep?

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 5 January 1892 · page 4

WHAT shall be done with our surplus stock? is a question (Saturday's Daily Telegraph says)'which is being asked daily in the newspapers, and is constantly reiterated in…

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The Wheat Market

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 6 January 1892 · page 2

THE local harvest has now mostly been taken off, and it is coming in pretty freely, mid, as is often the case up to a certain point, the more that…

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Wool Experiments

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 7 January 1892 · page 3

DR. J. E. Taylor writes as follows to a Melbourne contemporary Three German Chemists, Messrs. Kern, Wattenberg, and Pfeiffer, have been engaged on important…

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Melboueme Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 7 January 1892 · page 2

The Australian Mortgage and Agency Co. Limited to the WAGGA WAGGA ADVER, TISER:—We offered to day 25,080 bales, and sold…

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The Price of Wool

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 7 January 1892 · page 2

On the above subject a letter from Mr. John Pottie, of Sydney, appeared in the Express of Saturday last. Mr. Pottie now adds of following:—"I could not, in the…

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The Wool Market

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 8 January 1892 · page 4

MESSRS. Hurrison, Jones and Devlin, limited report :—Sydney, January 4th. 1892. Wool.—To-day we submitted a cotalogue of 7178 bales, being the largest quantity offered this season…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 2

Barnes and Stinson, Coolamon, report the following sales of stock for the month of December last:—700 mixed weaners on account of Mr. R. J. King, Coolamon Park,…

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The Victorian Wheat Crop

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 3

THE Australasian estimate of wheat crop of the present season is as follows"—Ares, 1,247,000 acres; average yield peracre 10.73 bushels; total yield, 13,387 500 hushels…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. wire as follows:—We to-day held our first sales since Christmas, when a catalogue of 8300 bales of wool…

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The Whest Crop

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 2

THE figures published in connection with the Victorian wheat crop of this season must be viewed as rather disappointing. It is to the interest of the entire population of…

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A Sheep Case

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 12 January 1892 · page 2

AT the Wodonga Police Court on Friday, Patrick Keady, a solicitor, residing at Kortong, was charged with having sold to his son a number of sheep over which he had…

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Farming at Mimosa

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 12 January 1892 · page 3

A correspondent writes :— It was a lucky day That I came hit way, To be a farmer's boy ;…

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Wool

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 13 January 1892 · page 4

MESSRS. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin report :— Our catalogue for Monday contained 5,679 bales, and, although including no superior…

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London Wool Market

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 13 January 1892 · page 3

MESSRS Dalgatty and Company, limited, writes us as under:— "52 Lombard street, London, 27th November, 1891. Dear Sir,—The 5th series…

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Melbouejue Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 14 January 1892 · page 2

The Australian Mortgage and Agency Co. Limited to the WAGGA WAGGA ADVER, TISER:—We had cxcellent competition at our sale…

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