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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1897

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London Wool Sales. London, Tuesday night

National Advocate · Thursday 8 July 1897 · page 2

The wool sales to-day opened well. Prices wore very firm, ruling at from par to a 5 per cent advance on late sales…

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The Price of Butter. Sydney

National Advocate · Friday 9 July 1897 · page 3

Butter sellers in Sussex-street this morning reduced the price of creamery butter from 1s 4d to 1s 2d per 1b, and other grades proportionately…

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London Wool Sales. London

National Advocate · Friday 9 July 1897 · page 3

At yesterday's opening sales. Messrs. Charles Balme and Co., and Messrs. Jacomb, Son, and Co. offered a catalogue of 10,681 bales, containing a good average selection…

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Farm and Pastoral Notes Real Profits of Farming

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 10 July 1897 · page 11

Do farmers ever study the following points:—The real profits of farming should never be gauged by the quantity of product raised, but by the quality, and the…

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Our Wool Kings

National Advocate · Saturday 10 July 1897 · page 2

The seventh annual meeting of the Pastoralists Union of New South Wales was held in Sydney on Thursday evening. Mr. W. E. Abbott, president, occupied the…

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The Wheat Market. LONDON

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 10 July 1897 · page 3

The visible supply of wheat in according to the latest return, estimated at £25,740,000 bushels…

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London Wool Sales. London, Thursday night

National Advocate · Saturday 10 July 1897 · page 2

At the sales to-day there was a spirited demand and prices were very firm. The final agricultural statistics for New Zealand, based on the threshing yields, give…

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The Wool Sales. a Spirited Demand. London

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 10 July 1897 · page 3

The wool sales arc being continued. There if a spirited demand, and prices remain very firm…

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Tuber-cuiosis in Cattle. LONDON Monday night

National Advocate · Wednesday 14 July 1897 · page 3

Before the Royal Commission on tuberculosis to-day, Mr. Siaclair gave evidence as to the freedom from disease of Victorian herds. He also gave full…

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London Wool Sales. London, Monday night

National Advocate · Wednesday 14 July 1897 · page 2

At the wool sales to-day the Germans were competing strongly. The highest rates of the series are ruling for all medium to good wools…

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London Wool Sales. Good Prices Obtained. London

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 14 July 1897 · page 3

At the wool sales to day German buyers competed strongly. The highest rates of the series are being obtained for all lots of medium and good wool…

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To-Day's Telegrams. The Dairy Conference. SYDNEY

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 14 July 1897 · page 3

Over 130 delegates will probably attend the Dairy Conference which commence at Richmond Agricultural College to-morrow…

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Potato Culture for Garden and Farm

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 14 July 1897 · page 2

One of the easiest grown vegetables in every day use is the potato, and yet there is no crop that will respond more to thorough cultivation. No home garden is complete…

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Notes on Travel. the Sheep Farm

The Bathurst Post · Thursday 15 July 1897 · page 2

THERE are two classes of individuals who labour under most serious disadvantages in the matter of story telling—I refer to travellers and anglers. If their experiences are at…

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London Wool Sales. London, Tuesday night

National Advocate · Thursday 15 July 1897 · page 2

With the conclusion of the wool sales there was strong competition from all quarters. Good merino wools were scarce and show a hardening tendency…

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London Wool Sales. Prices Hardening. London

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 15 July 1897 · page 3

At the wool Sales to-day there was strong competition from all quarters. Merino descriptions are scarce, and are hardening…

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Mr. J. A. Shaw, of Yarragul, near Tandara, the Pioneer Sheep Feeder

The Bathurst Post · Thursday 15 July 1897 · page 4

MR. SHAW informs us that he is now feeding 4000 sheep, besides horses and cattle. The feed supplied to the in-lamb ewes consists of equal weights…

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The Pastoral Outlook

Molong Argus · Friday 16 July 1897 · page 2

NOTWITHSTANDING the devastion of the late drought with its massacre of 10,000,000 bales of wool, the heavy sufferers are singularly hopeful,…

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Latest Cablegrams. London Wool Sales. Advance of Merinos. London

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 16 July 1897 · page 3

Ab the London wool Bales to-day the prices remained very firm, and good scoured merinos advanced a halfpenny per lb in price. The prices realised by different clips offered…

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Dairying Conference. Opened at Windsor. Richmond

National Advocate · Friday 16 July 1897 · page 2

At the Dairying Conference, to-day, delegates from all the dairy districts throughout the colony were present as also the Minister for Agriculture, Hon…

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