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  • ...at her husband, John Kelly, made some money on the golfields, and bought a farming property at Beveridge. In 1865 he got into trouble, and died not long after
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  • ...o one sluggish stream. Sergeant Steele occupies his leisure a good deal in farming. He is as keen as ever on horses; he always did love a good horse; and he f
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  • ...most solely for grazing purposes, either with cattle or sheep, and not for farming purposes. ...y when the area was opened, by persons who propose to combine grazing with farming, and a thousand acres or so have since been applied for; but the greater po
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  • ...not even hinted at, and yet all who have had practical experience in sheep farming, know that each of these considerations has a direct influence on the retur
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  • ...tilled with a choice selection of shrubs and fruit trees. As a proof that farming is no new hobby of Mr Motherwell's, I my mention that the sideboard in his
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  • ...or I turned north here, seven miles to '''Moorwatha,''' nearly all through farming country, and the main road on both sides of Howlong for a long distance is
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  • ...ir. Hotels, shops, mills, stores, almost all are in substantial brick; the farming neighbour hood being at least as extensively settled on and around Brown's
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  • ...are about doing so, with the intention of taking up land about here. Sheep-farming and cultivation combined, will pay well in this district.
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  • ...ng of stock, and great advances are being made, more particularly in sheep farming. Several gentlemen in the colony have distinguished themselves by the succe ...ch has been invested in pastoral pursuits is a convincing proof that sheep farming will long continue to be one of the leading interests of the colony.
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  • ...on the book roads, on most of which there are good natural facilities for farming largo reservoirs. Farming operations are going on with a will; the change in the weather has not only
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  • Farming in the neighbourhood, especially in [[Bowman's Forest|Bowman's Forest]] , a
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  • The next station is [[Banawatha|Barnawartha]], a small farming town, which seems to be of great service to the selectors. On leaving here
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  • '''EFFECT OF WEATHER ON FARMING''' ...cate]], in an article which we quoted yesterday. The question, " Does farming pay?" receives from our contemporary a reply distinctly in the negativ
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  • ...land in the colony was on the Cooyatong Ranges, and some of the very best farming land was on the top of the hills; but it had been hidden from the public by
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  • ...tity it did in its original state. He had been engaged in cattle and sheep farming for the last 40 years and had spent 21 years of that time in Victoria thoug
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  • ...y [[Samaria|Samaria]] and Swanpool seemed to be particularly favoured, and farming operations are consequently now well advanced in those districts I noticed,
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  • ...s report]] [[Category:1880]] [[Category:Goulburn River Valley]] [[Category:farming]] [[Category:Moira]] [[Category:history]]
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  • ...s report]] [[Category:1880]] [[Category:Goulburn River Valley]] [[Category:farming]] [[Category:Moira]] [[Category:history]]
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  • ...o Benalla, and selected 320 acres of land in May, 1876. He knew nothing of farming when he began, and could not plough. However, he was bent on making a begin
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  • ...at he had taken up the selection (207 area) in November, 1876. He had been farming elsewhere on 200 acres previously, but as he could not make a living withou ...begun with a considerable amount of solid capital. As carried on by them, farming meant plenty of hard work - at fencing ringing and felling timber, and plou
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  • ...ble, and the goods supplied consisted chiefly of requisites for earning on farming. The family lived in a bark hut, divided into two apartments by a partition
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  • We fell in with a selector who had been farming a good selection for eight or nine years. "Our complaint is that you'r
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  • The opinion seems to be growing in the district that farming can only be profitably carried on where the grazing of stock is combined wi
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  • ...proceed, undaunted by those who go about soliloquising, mining's no good, farming's no good, nothing's any good. I see steam is once again rising from the Re
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  • ...n Wallan Wallan, where Quin took up some land. He proved successful in his farming operations, acquired a freehold of some land in the locality, which he was
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  • ...regiment was disbanded there. After leaving school he was for a time sheep-farming with his brother, but the life was not congenial and he decided to go to Au
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  • John settled to farming at South Yarrawonga in the 1880's with his wife Agnes Nicol Hill. They had
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  • ...land at Boweya where with the help of members of her family she carried on farming successfully for twenty-seven years.
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  • ...ntral North Island) was virgin bush which was being logged and cleared for farming. The McAuiffes eventually purchased their own land and farmed for a while.
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  • I did a good deal of farming in my retirement
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  • ...andra soon became the main centre for a wide gold mining area and a strong farming community on the upper reaches of the [[Goulburn River|Goulburn River]]. Th ...serted but it was sustained by the timber industry and as a centre for the farming community. Most of the buildings were made of timber and very few of them s
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  • Benalla was the centre of a large farming area. ([[The Argus at KellyGang 19/4/1880|Argus19/4/80]])
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  • Essendon was a farming community on the outskirts of Melbourne. It was on the main railway line no
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  • Farming along the Goulburn ([[The Argus at KellyGang 8/10/1866|Argus8/10/66]])
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  • ...of the Honeysuckle had been selected. The southern part was used for dairy farming. Many farmers had problems with floods.
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  • Milawa was the centre of a strong farming community
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  • ...s a wild river that came down from the mountains. There was quite a bit of farming along its banks, but the area mainly produced gold, cattle and sheep.
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  • ...''. The Broken River flows through Benalla. The surrounding area is mainly farming land on the boarder between the hills that start the Great Dividing Range a
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  • ...gation from the Yarrawonga main canal began in the district in 1939. Dairy farming increased from this time and was taken up on former wheat growing land.
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  • Map Wallan was a small farming community. Most of those who lived in the town worked on near by farms
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  • ...and Kelly homes. The town grew rapidly in the 1860s and 70s because mixed farming. There were a large number of [[Selectors|selections]] in the area. The arr
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  • The local farming area ([[The Argus at KellyGang 19/4/1880|Argus19/4/80]])
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  • ...gus provided a series of articles on the economics of being a selector and farming in North Eastern Victoria. These articles give a good view of the struggle ...heat]] [[Category:meat]] [[Category:sheep]] [[Category:Cattle]] [[Category:Farming]] [[Category:the Kelly Gang]] [[Category:bushrangers]] [[Category:history]]
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  • ...a wide range of local businesses to support their local community and the farming, grazing and mining that took place in the area. These towns still support
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  • ...gus provided a series of articles on the economics of being a selector and farming in North Eastern Victoria. These articles give a good view of the struggle
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  • Sheep farming was a major industry in the Kelly country.
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  • ...key areas of their runs and some of the selectors had made some success of farming.
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