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Farming & the land, 1896

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The Rise in Wheat

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 12 December 1896 · page 5

THE Corn Trade Review, writing on the upward movement in prices, makes the following interesting remarks:—This present rise is, as we wrote a week ago, a legitimate…

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The Wool Trade

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 15 December 1896 · page 2

The business done in Sydney market last week included the offering of 32,984 bales, and the sale of 28,000 bales, and at the earlier sales no change could be noted for the bulk of wools except in the…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 15 December 1896 · page 3

Dalgety and Co. report:—At our wool sales to-day we offered 3300 bales, drawn chiefly from the Western, North-Eastern, and Gippsland districts of Victoria, and from the South…

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Commercial. Wheat

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 16 December 1896 · page 5

WE have a report of sales of good parcels of wheat on the western line for country milling at 5/- a bushel. Some growers well known m these districts have disposed of the…

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Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 19 December 1896 · page 2

THE usual monthly meeting of the committee was held at the association's rooms last eveuing. There were present—Messrs. G. P. Wilson (in the chair), T. S. Gardiner,…

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Future of Wheat

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 19 December 1896 · page 5

The Times, in an exhaustive article on the price of English corn published on the 12th November, says—"What of the future? As regards wheat, an inquiry into the worldly…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 19 December 1896 · page 3

The Sydney Wool Billing Brekers' Association report that the sales of wool bars bean continued this week at usual. Catalogues comprising a fair percentage of…

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The Wheat Harvest of N.s.w. Shortage of 1,315,000 Bushels. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 19 December 1896 · page 2

The Statistical Office's preliminary report on the present harvest shews the area under crop in New South Wales to be 956,610 acres, of which 956.610 acres are under grain and…

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Victorian Wheat Crops

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 22 December 1896 · page 4

Harvest operations in Victoria continue to occupy attention in the rural district. The past week was favourable for the Work of stripping and renting, and a large breadth of crops has…

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Estimated Wheat Yield. THE 1896-97 HARVEST

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 22 December 1896 · page 2

THE Government statistician has prepared a statement showing the area under wheat and probable yield for the harvest now in progress. The total area under wheat is…

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Wheat Harvest

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 23 December 1896 · page 4

THE official estimate of the yield of wheat is now before the public of this colony, and we have good reason to be well satisfied with its figures as compared…

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Wheat Estimates

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 24 December 1896 · page 3

The Government statistician has just issued the annual estimate of the wheat crop of the colon;. According to these figures the crop about to be harvested should give a bigger…

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Poetry. with the Cattle

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 24 December 1896 · page 5

The drought is down on field and flock, The riverbed is dry; And we must shift the starving stock Before the cattle die…

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In the Trail of Butter. His Right Name. the Search for Missing Men

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 25 December 1896 · page 4

BUTLER'S right name is Richard Ashe, or rather, that was the name by which he was known a upon caning to Australian, and pe[?] to assuming those of Bather and Has wood, and a…

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Pastoral Notes

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 29 December 1896 · page 4

The following stock passings have been reported to Mr. Lyne, Inspector of Stock since the 21st inst:—1250 fat sheep A. Cosgrove, Grong Grong to Ganmain: 784 fat…

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Sheep Export Competion

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 29 December 1896 · page 2

THE Pastoral Finance Association, Limited, have handed us copics of account sales of the sheep shown at the late Sydney Sheepbreeders' Show in the classes competing for…

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Farmers' Home Pony and Galloway Races. (26th December, 1896)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 29 December 1896 · page 2

DESPITE the almost unbearable weather that prevailed, the above meeting held on Boxing day attracted a very large attendance. An extensive bar trade was carried on without…

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With the Cattle

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 30 December 1896 · page 3

The drought is down on field and flock, the river bed is dry; And we must shift the starving stock Before the cattle die…

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Heavy Wheat Loads

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 31 December 1896 · page 4

There is great rivalry at present amongst the wheat carters in this part, many of them putting forth every endeavor to bring in the largest load. We do not know whether this…

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