How to Select Samples of Wool.—stud Sheep (2 of each sex)
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 September 1897 · page 4
Before the sheep are shorn, the wool on the parts where the samples are to be taken, viz., shoulder, side, britch, and belly, should be well opened down to the akin, and about the size of one's hand taken off the two former half-size off the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Classification of Sheep at Shows
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 September 1897 · page 4
MR. J. L. HENDERSON, local stock inspector, has received the following from the Chief Inspector with regard to the above:— Department of Mines and Agriculture,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The British Wheat Crop. London, Sept. 27
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 September 1897 · page 4
Sir John Bennett Lawes, the eminent agriculturist, estimates that the wheat harvest in Great Britain this year will yield on the average 26? bushels per acre, and that the total yield will be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Grabben Gullen Butter Factory
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 September 1897 · page 4
SATURDAY last was the occasion for the performance of a very pleasing ceremony, when the Grabben Gaullen Butter Factory was formally opened by Mr. William Affleck, member for the Yass electorate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wheat Market. London, Sept. 27
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 September 1897 · page 4
At Mark-lane to-day prices of wheat showed a fall of 1s per quarter on the week…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →General Advance in Wool. London, Sept. 28
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 September 1897 · page 2
The fifth series of colonial wool sales were opened this evening. The market was firm, and prices show a general advance. Sept. 29…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bright Prospects for the Farming Industry
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 September 1897 · page 2
WAGGA, Tuesday.—In an address to the farmers on Saturday, Mr. J. L. Thompson, travelling lecturer for the Agricultural Department, said the prospects for wheat-growers in Australia were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Supplies
The Yass Courier · Friday 1 October 1897 · page 2
London, September, 28, 6 p.m.--The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 1,440,000 quarters, and for the Continent at 1,750,000 quarters, against…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Wool Sales
The Burrowa News · Friday 1 October 1897 · page 3
The fifth series of colonial wool sales were opened on Tuesday. The market was firm, and prices showed a general advance of from 5 to 7½ per cent. on last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Keep the Boys on the Farm
The Burrowa News · Friday 1 October 1897 · page 1
KEEPING the boys on the farm is a problem the solution of which, in the broadest and most general way, rests upon one proposition, that of making…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Potato Crop in Ireland
The Burrowa News · Friday 1 October 1897 · page 3
The special commissoner of the Standard, who has been inquiring into the state of the agrarian districts in Ireland, reports that there is no fear of a famine…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pastoral and Agricultural
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 October 1897 · page 4
As an additional proof of what can be done by irrigation and the sowing of English grasses, we (Queanbeyan Observer) have pleasure in giving to our readers the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London Wool Sales
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 October 1897 · page 6
At the colonial wool sales this evening there was keen competition, and prices were well maintained…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Railway Wool Traffic
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 October 1897 · page 6
So far the operations of the New South Wales railways in the conveyance of wool this season have been about 30 per cent. below what they were at this time last year. The drought has told heavily…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London Wool Sales. London, Sept. 30
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 October 1897 · page 2
At the wool sales this evening there was very spirited competition for all descriptions, and prices are hardening. Oct. 1…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Merrilla, Mummel, & Parkesbourne Farmers' Association. Annual Ploughing Matches and Sports
Goulburn Herald · Monday 4 October 1897 · page 3
THE sixteenth annual ploughing matches and sports in connection with the above association took place on Friday at Merrilla on ground belonging to Mr. H. Chisholm, and kindly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cable News. London Wool Sales. London, Oct. 2
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 October 1897 · page 4
At the wool sales last evening the prices for all good combing wools showed a hardening tendency. American buyers are freely paying extreme rates for light-conditioned greasies…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →General Farming
Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 6 October 1897 · page 2
THE above was the title of a very interesting and instructive lecture given upon the stage of the technological museum on Monday evening by Mr. J. L. Thompson, late…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Wool Sales
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 October 1897 · page 4
THE opening wool sales of the season were continued on Tuesday in the presence of a very large attendance of buyers. The advance noticed at the sales a fortnight back was well maintained, pries…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wheat Market. London, Oct. 4
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 October 1897 · page 4
At Mark-lane to-day wheat was 6d per quarter lower for the week…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →