The Wheat Crops
WE learn that in the neighbourhood of Crookwell and Laggan the wheat crop is turning out very good. On some farms it is expected to average from twenty-five to thirty…
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Farming & the land, 1892
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Auction Sale of Wheat
THE first sale of wheat by auction under the auspices of the Hume Farmers' Union took place on Wednesday at Gerogery, Mr. C. J. Morton acting as auctioneer. There was a…
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AT the auction sales of wool on Monday 7749 bales were offered. There was a very large attendance of buyers, larger than usual, owing to the cessation for the week of business in…
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Messrs. Winchcombe Carson and Co. report: We sold 2000 bales of wool on the 13th. Market very strong; Frenchmen buying largely Vincombe's crossbred, from Young, brought 8¾d;…
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EXPERIMENTS recently made in England appear to show the advantage gained by the use of the larger grains of wheat for seed. Seed-wheat, fully…
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THE judge appointed to inspect the mixed farms in the South Coast district (Mr. John Coleman of the department of agriculture) has submitted his report thereon to the…
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AT the auction sales of wool on Wednesday, 6936 bales were offered. Again the competition was brisk, the prices obtained being about equal to those realised…
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MR. COCHLAN'S preliminary return of the year's wheat harvest shown a yield of from 12½ to 13 bushels per acre. The result is better than that of the previous year, when…
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In the London market Australian factory butter is selling at 120s per cwt, and prime dairy butter at 106s per cwt. The market at present is fully supplied…
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MR. COGHLAN'S report on this year's wheat crop states that the yield is said to be good in the districts of Argyle, Braidwood, and Burrowa; fair in the Murrumbidgee, Murray, Manaro, and…
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AT the local wool sales on Tuesday there was good attendance of buyers. The market was scarcely so strong owing to the unfavourable cable news received during the day; 5271…
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The first series of London wool sales for the year opened on Tuesday, when there was a largo and representative attendance of buyers. As had been anticipated, the market has opened…
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The shipment of Australian butter by the R.M.S. Ormuz has arrived in good condition. Factory butter is realising from 116s to 120s per cwt., and dairy butter 102s per cwt…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A telegram received from Nattalia to-night states that a fearful tragedy was enacted at Yales North, about 14 miles from there, early this morning, when a…
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Mr. COGHLAN, Government statistician, has supplied to the Colonial Secretary a report on the past wheat havest. The report says:—…
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THE following is a statement of the probable results of the season 1891-2, compiled by the Government Statistician, Mr. Coghlan, from returns specially obtained by him :--…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Found in a Bale of Wool
A SOMEWHAT novel discovery was recently made in opening a bale of wool in one of the Yorkshire mills. The Bradford Observer remarks that "complaints, deep if not loud, are, from…
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IN order that the future movements of the travelling dairy may be methodically and economically arranged, the department of agriculture will be glad to receive applications…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmers and Protection. to the Editor of the Goulburn Herald
SIR,—I notice your Frogmoor correspondent has a side shot at protection and fells for those poor farmers with their five bushels per acre who will this year taste its benefit. Sir,…
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At the auction wool sales on Tuesday the catalogues comprised 2478 bales. There was good competition at about late rates. The sale is reported publicly and privately of 2188 bales. Messrs…
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