Sydney Wool Sales
Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin (limited) report:-At our sale on Monday re brought forward a catalogue of 3,037 bales, consisting for the most part of…
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Farming & the land, 1885
227 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 11 of 12
The Local Wool Market
NOTWITHSTANDING any statement that has been made to the contrary, a large amount of business is being done this season in the local wool market—in fact, more wool has been sold in Goulburn this…
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Last night we received a wire from the New Zealand Loan Co., Sydney:—We have just sold the well-known Havilah clip of Mudgee wool at ll2/3d in grease, the highest price…
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Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin (limited) report:—At our sale on Monday we submitted a catalogue of 4,500 bales to a large attendance of buyers. The…
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On Wednesday, December 9, the first of the experimental farmers' excursion trains to Sydney will run from Albury, Young, and Bungendore. Tickets will not allow of the…
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Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin report:—Our catalogue on Monday, was very large, and contained a few choice clips suitable for the American market,…
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A case of alleged baby-farming has just been brought to light at Melbourne. Mrs. Vickery, of Vere-street, Collingwood, has been advertising for some babies to adopt, charging a…
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ON Thursday last we were shown a sample of new wheat delivered that day at Mr. Conolly's Argyle Mills from Old Junee. It was plump, oven, clean grain, and should give the purchaser a…
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The question of opening up a trade in wool with India, China, and Japan, as proposed by the Woolgrowers' Association of Australasia, was considered at a meeting of woolgrowers in Sydney on Friday…
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All colonists must sympathise warmly with the effort to discover new markets for Australian wool in China and Japan. It is not advisable to build a high structure of hope…
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IT is expected that between 80 and 100 Goulburn "farmers" will patronise the first of the series of trains which will be run in their behalf, presumably to examine all the newest implements connected with…
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THE Port Pirie correspondent of the South Australian Chronicle, writing on the subject of rust-resisting wheat, says:—"It will be in the recollection of many of your farming…
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Yesterday afternoon the first of these trains was run through from Albury to Sydney. It started from Albury yesterday morning at 6 a.m., being joined at Murrumburrah by the…
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Tommy the gardener and Sammy the clerk, Old Peter the carter (who works after dark), William McGilgal, who our roads does maintain, They all went to Sydney by-the "farmers' " train…
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"To reap, and mow, and plough, and sow, and be a farmer's boy." The first of the special trains on behalf of Agricola the husbandman, was run yesterday day and was well patronised. The train which left…
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WHEN is a wall like, a fish? --When it is scaled. The man who was "filled with emotion" hand't room for his dinner…
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THE designating of the train which left the Yass station on Wednesday last, at 2 o'clock, p.m., as a Farmer's Train, is, without doubt, a misnomer, and if the Minister for Works is…
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SUBJOINED is a copy of the official returns from the various stations in this district, showing the number of passengers who travelled by the first of the Farmer's Trains on Wednesday last:—Binalong…
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Tommy the gardener and Sammy the clerk, Old Peter the carter (who works after dark), William McGilgal, who our roads does maintain, They all went to Sydney by the "farmers'" train…
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THAT useful but somewhat despised bird, the magpie, has once more proved itself emphatically a friend to the farmer. The Geolong Advertiser has been informed by a local farmer that upon entering…
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