London Wool Sales. London, Dec. 2
At the wool sales this evening prices were firm and business was spirited. The best sorts of scoured wools are relatively the cheapest…
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Farming & the land, 1896
504 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 25 of 26
Branding Sheep
The Yorkshire wool experts who were appointed to test various substitutes for tar used in branding Australian sheep report that they are not satisfied with any of the compounds,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wheat Market
The local market is 4s 5d, and 4s 9d at Sydney. Cowra, Wednesday. The price of new wheat is 4s 5d delivered at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cable News. London Wool Sales. London, Dec. 3
At the London wool sales this evening business was slower, Yorkshire buyers being inactive. Dec. 4. Prices are being sustained by the competition of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cable News. the Crops in India. London, Dec. 7
The Earl of Elgin, Viceroy and Governor-General of India, has telegraphed to the home Government that the rains which have visited parts of India have caused an improvement in the condition of the…
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At the wool sales this evening business was irregular and weak. Many lots were consequently withdrawn. Dec. 8…
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At the wool sales this evening there was rather more competition. Dec. 9. It has been denied that Australian greasy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commercial. the Wheat Crop. an Unsatisfactory Yield. Melbourne
The "Australasian,s" estimate of the wheat crop of 1896-97 confirms the forebodings of those who lately expected that it would be unsatisfactory, The "Australasian" put the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wheat Market. London, Dec. 10
At Mark-lane wheat is 6d per quarter cheaper, the present quotations being:—English whiite wheat, 38s per quarter; red wheat, 36s. The Dutch, British, and German flags have been…
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At the London wool sales this evening competition was spirited. Prices were rather irregular. Dec. 10. Crossbreds are firm at a decline. Good medium…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London Wool Sales. London, Dec. 10
The sixth series of colonial wool sales, which commenced on 24th November, closed this evening. Business was fairly brisk. The number of bales catalogued for the series was…
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The selections submitted this week included a larger proportion than usual of wools depreciated by insufficient and indifferent skirting, very few really superior lots either of greasy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Export of Butter
ON Thursday Mr. Sydney Smith, Minister for Agriculture, was waited upon by i deputation representative of dairy factories and butter exporters, who laid before him their opinions on the proposals…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Dairy Expert
WE (Sydney Herald) understand the Government, on the recommendation of the Minister for Mines and Agriculture, has approved of the appointment of Mr. M. A. O'Callaghan as dairy expert. Public…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Hundred Cattle Killed
ON the Esk (Q) railway on Thursday the trucks of a heavy cattle train left the rails and shot over an embankment, the brake van being only partially derailed. In the wrecked trucks the cattle suffered…
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MR. COGHLAN'S estimates of the wheat harvest has been published. Though the area under crop is but little less than a million acres this season, and nearly 200,000 acres more than in the previous season, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wheat Market
LOCALLY wheat is bringing 4s 6d, with a firm market, bran and pollard, 8d. Mr. Crago informs us that he has received a large quantity of new wheat already, which is much…
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JERILDERIE, Friday.—The largest load of wheat ever carted in this district was brought into this town yesterday front the farm of Mr. C. Breadon, of Finley, 25 miles from here, by M. Anderson, a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Yield of Wheat
THE official estimate published by us on Saturday shows that there is every reason to expect a much better yield of wheat for the present season in this society than might have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fat Cattle
MESSRS. Andrews and de Lauret report having sold, on account of Mr. H. Chisholm, in paddocks at Wollogorang, 300 very prime and heavy fat bullocks; purchaser, the well-known butcher, Mr…
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