Sydney Wool Sales
JOHN BRIDGE REPORTS:—I offered a small catalogue of wool on Tuesday, chiefly scoured, to al full muscle of buyers. Demand was brisk a late ruling prices. Scoured skins wool realised…
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Farming & the land, 1888
331 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 8 of 17
The Wool Sales. LONDON, June 19
The June series of wool sales were opened to-day, when there was a good attendance and the bide were spirited. Greasy combings were ½d dearer, fine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Packing Butter
BUTTER intended for keeping should be put up with great care in the best tubs that can lie procured. The butter should be well made, entirely freed from buttermilk, well salted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →South Australian Wheat Export
DURING the first four mouths of the present year the exports of wheat the produce of the colony amounted to 4,549,203 bushels, and of flour 27,064 tons. Reckoning a ton of flour as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral Letter by Dr. Laniga[?] Bishop of Goulburn
THE following circular has been addressed by he Roman Catholic Bishop of Goulburn to the priests throughout the diocese, and was read at the 11 o'clock mass in Yass on last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Bounty, and Practically No Relief. the Victorian Farmers
THAT was rather an awkward rebuff sustained by the Victorian Farmers’ Protection Association at the hands of the Trades-hall Council, to whom the association had appealed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London Wool Sales
AT the London wool sales the total number of bales catalogued since the opening of the present series is 68,800. The total quantity sold was 67,000 bales. The market shows a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Farmer Boys
THERE is a frequently-recurring complaint from the farm, reached through the agricultural press, of the reluctance of boys to remain in farming pursuits,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden Calendar for July
THERE will be very little growth in any crops this month. The ground is in good condition for working and should be moved about and ploughed or dug roughly up, so as to allow the severe frosts to render It friable and destroy the insects pests which are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden Calendar for July
There will be very little growth in any crops this month. The ground is in good condition for working and should be moved about and ploughed or dog roughly up, so as to allow the severe frosts to reader it triable and destroy this insect pests which are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →South Australian Land Commission. Farmers' Hardships Recognised -- Revision of Rents a Necessity
THE report of the South Australian Land Commission was laid on the table of the House of Assembly, at Adelaide, on Thursday last. The commission recognise the fact that for many…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wool Trade
THE London market has shown a hardening tendency, both home and foreign buyers competing with great spirit. Medium and inferior scoured merinos were reported ½d to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Big Sheep
THERE was on view in Mr. W. Mill's butcher's shop yesterday the carcase of a sheep, weighing, when dressed, no less than 179lbs. This is probably the biggest sheep over brought into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Colony’s Wool Trade
THE statistical wool year in Australia for the season 1887-8 closed on the 30th ultimo, and the present occasion seems a fitting opportunity for reviewing the business done in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stud Sheep
MESSRS. Griffiths and Weaver opened the series of annual stud sheep sales at the stores of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company on Tuesday morning. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Worms in Sheep
A GENTLEMAN well known in this district, and a sheen-owner of great experience, has sent us the following recipe for worms in sheep. We believe from what we are told by others that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →How they Preserve and Pack Butter in America
IT matters little what package is used provided the flavour of the butter can in no way receive harm from anything in the material used. If wood is used, every…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bookkeeping in the Dairy
IT is easy to have a spring balance in the milking shed, with a sheet of paper, ruled in columns -- a lino for each cow, a column for each day of the week. Directly the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stud Sheep Sale
THE stud sheep sale of Wednesday was successful from the start to the end, and was more than ordinarily favourable to the selling breeders. Messrs. Brunker and Wolfe…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stud Sheep Sales
The sale of stud sheep at Mort and Co.'s stores opened very briskly on Thursday, and continued animated throughout the day. Some high figures were booked, Show King and Stockings…
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