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Farming & the land, 1898

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Testing Wheat

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 24 December 1898 · page 2

THE Secretary of the Gundagai P. and A. Society has received the following letter from Mr. F. B. Guthrie, the analyist of the Department of…

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Wool Sales

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 24 December 1898 · page 6

The best price of the day (Tuesday) in the greasy division was 9 3/4. G. Purcell, Adelong, sold to 9d. for 23 bales w and e, 7 bales h making 8 1/2d, the wool being of good quality…

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Wheat Harvesting Machinery. American Improvements

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 24 December 1898 · page 7

THE most striking of modern improvements in wheat harvesting is described by Mr. T. R. Dow, in the latest issue of 'The Leader.' The California 'Header,' taking…

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Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. Locally Sold Wool. Large Increase. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 24 December 1898 · page 5

A formal half yearly meeting of Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. was held to-day but no report or statement of accounts was submitted. The meeting was held merely to…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 24 December 1898 · page 2

A MEETING of the members of the above was held at the Royal Mail Hotel on Saturday evening last. At the meeting of the Association on the 22nd October, it had…

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For the Farmer. From Various Sources

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 24 December 1898 · page 6

The fat sheep classes at the Christchurch show, New Zealand, the Otago Witness reports, were a series of triumphs for the Southdown. Mr. John Dean's pure bred and…

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Crops at Currawarna

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 29 December 1898 · page 2

"Farmer," of Currawarna, writes, pointing out that the statement recently published in the Express to the effect that the average yield of wheat in the Currawaran district would…

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Commercial. Wheat

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 31 December 1898 · page 6

Mr. H. R. Carter, wheat broker, Sydney and Melbourne, reports as follows Dec. 29th:—Wheat has not materially changed, remaining steady at 2/9 to 2/10 ex Darling…

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