The Comet and the Farmers
We find the following in the Argus agricultural comments on Thursday last. The assorted direct connection between the comets and the weather of the season following, is now to us:…
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Farming & the land, 1859
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Parliamentary Paper. Pastoral Lands Assessment and Rent Act. (Crown Law Officers, Respection Assent To.) Ordered by the Council to be Printed, 2[?]th Nov. 18[?]8
Return to an Address from the Honorable the Legislative Council of New South Wales to the Governor General, dated 19th November, 18[?]8, praying that his Excellonoy would be pleased to cause to be laid upon the…
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Since our last report a few parcels of short wool have exchanged hands, at very full prices; but in long wools next to nothing has been passing—on former terms. The supply on offer is very moderate, but dealers act…
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The Wool Market remains very firm. About 42,800 bales are declared for the next sales, to commence 4th November, and continue until 1st December. The wool reports appear to be somewhat contradictory. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Selling Fat Cattle. (From the Herald's Murrumbidgee Correspondent.)
In olden times, overy settler took his own cattle to town and placed them in the hands of an agent for sale; of late years, however, it has become the fashion to sell the cattle either on the run or on the road, to a new…
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The wool market appears to be very firm in England, and the prices of middle and scoured, wools realised, since the commencement of the public wool sales, held on the 4th of November, show an advance of from 2d. to 3d. per lb., as compared…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SUPPLEMENT [?] Maitland Mercury. Wool Sales (From the S. M. Herald.)
Sale of 719 bales by Messrs. S. D. EDENBOROBON and Co., Wednesday, 10th November:- Er Morayshire:. PGC, 7 at 28d, 33 at 27½d, 22at 27d, 6 at 26½d, 5 at 26d, 3 at 23d; MH conjoined, 8 at 24d,…
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We are favored by Mr. James Taylor, with the following report of one day's later wool sales than came to hand by the On[?]ida. The report came by the Great Britain steamship, via Melbourne…
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The advance of the best, descriptions of combing and clothing wools at the opening sales, has been maintained with a remarkable uniformity throughout. Middle and faulty, wools, particularly wasty Portn Phillip, slightly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral Runs. Crown Lands' Office, Sydney, 5th February, 1859
The holders of Pastoral Runs, are particularly requested to inform the Chief Commissiotierof Crown Lands at their earliest convenience, of their respective places of address, giving the post town, and where possessed of an Agent in Sydney, to add…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London Wool Sales. (From the S. M. Herald.)
Sale of 306 bales of wool, by T. SOUTHBY & SON, 13th November, 1858. Ex Morayshire: CB, 7 at 27d; W. 6 at 23d; MD. 2 at 24½d; MT, 1 at 24½d; AMD, 1 at 24d; D, 1 at 24d½…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Parliamentary Paper. Diseases in Sheep and Cattle. (Report of R. Meston Upon.) E. Meston, Esq., J.P., to the Honorable the Secretary for Lands and Public Works.)
Sir—In compliance with the commission issued to me on the 4th day of October last, empowering me to Institute some Inquiry into the nature and probable cause of disease, or diseases, reported as prevalent amongst sheep ind cattle in…
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Sale of 269 bales, by Messrs. J. T. SIMES and Co., Friday, November 25th:- Ex Gen[?]ral Wyndham, Cy, 2 at 33d, 16d at 31d, 7 at 29d, 14 at 27d, 1 at 26d; Cil, 6 at [?]1d, 14 at 30¾d…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Notice to Sheep Holders. To the Editors of the Maitland Mercury
GENTLEMEN.—I hope you will be so kind as to spare part of your columns to publish these few lines for the good of the public. A scourge of sickness came over the sheep this year on the Liverpool Mains District. It has killed, and is killing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Review of the Wool Market, 1858
The November sales of 1857 having, in consequence, of the panic, established a very low range of prices, consumption gradually increased, and with a better feeling generally entertained in the north, prices both for the raw material and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Market. London Wool Report—january 11, 1859. (From the Home News, January 17.)
The anticipation of a large demand at the commencement of the new year has been fully confirmed, and several good contracts have been made at an average advance of [?] on the closing rates of the last sales…
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The state of the wool trade has continued to be satisfactory. The mills working full time. The stocks are being reduced to the smallest compass. An advance at the forthcoming sales, which open on the 24th instant,…
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From the Home News of the 23rd of February we take the following London wool report:- Our market has not yet recovered its firmness since the early part of January; the rumours of was and extensive preparations…
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We are indebted to Mr. James Taylor for the latest wool report of Messrs. C. Jacomb and Son, of l5th March, and for the tallow, hides, &c., report of Messrs. Goad, Rigg, and Co., of 17th March…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Wool Sales. (From the S. M. Herald.)
Sale of 290 bales by Messrs THOMAS SOUTHEY and SON, Thursday, 24th February. Ex Ph[?]nician: FCE, 18 at 23[?]d, 19 at 23d, 3 at 22d, 1 at 19[?]d, 1 at 19d, 1 at 15d, 1 at 12[?]d, W over WW, 6 at 28[?]d, 7 at…
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