Pastoral News, Stock Movements, and Markets
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 30 October 1879 · page 7
NARBABRI STOCK REPORT.—October 24, 1879,— Throughout the past week the weather has been hot with occasional showers. The greatest heat yet felt this season was experienced on Wednesday when the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Competition in Wool Selling
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 30 October 1879 · page 6
The following paragraph, from the Melbourne Australasian, is rather a striking state ment as to what competition in the selling of wool may do. It does not, however quite…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Melbourne Wool Sales. [By Electric Telegraph.] Wednesday, received 9.15 p.m
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 30 October 1879 · page 5
Messrs.R. Goldsbrough and Co. report:—To-day we offered 8000 bales wool, and sold 63[?]0 bales, greasy ranging from 6d to 12½d, the latter price being obtained for Boomake. The clip from Narron…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →English High Farming and German Minute Farming
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 30 October 1879 · page 6
Side by side, in a recent copy of the Times, appears a description of the aystem of husbandry pursued on an English farm, with a statement of profit, and details of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Loss on the English Wheat Crop
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 14
In our last we published, among the news by the Californian mail, a statement made up by the Boston Herald, America, from a London paper, of the probable deficiency in…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →[?]bourne Wool Market. [By Electric Telegraph.] Melbourne, Friday evening
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 5
[?]Hastings Cuningh[?]m and Co. (Limited) —We held a successful sale of wool this [?]n, and sold 1900 bales from a catalogue of The rates established on Wednesday were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Why some Farmers' Wives become Insane
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 4
In one of the late reports on insane asylums, the statement is made that the largest proportion of female inmates is from farmers' wives and daughters. We have been so…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 14
The Melbourne papers continue to publish reports of the formation and progress of Farmers' Unions in many different parts of Victoria. It seems to us, however, that the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Weather and the Crops. Mark Line Express
The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 1
AFTER nearly a week of desperatly bad weather, September has co[?] upon us with harvest [?]carcely begun, end the agricultural situation throughout the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney Wool Market. [By Electric Telegraph.] Sydney, Monday evening
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 November 1879 · page 5
Messrs. Harrison, Jones,& Devlin report:—At our sale to-day there was a good attendance. The biddings were very brisk for greasy wool in good condition, but burry or seedy lots were almost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Failure of the Butter Show. a Blunder Somewhere. (Evening News of Monday.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 6 November 1879 · page 3
At an early stage of the International Exhibition work, the Executive Commissioner issued invitations to all the districts of the colony to contribute specimens of their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prospects of the Wheat Harvest in Victoria. (Melbourne Australasian, Nov 1.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 6 November 1879 · page 3
The reports from the country districts during the past week are generally of a fairly satisfactory character. The frequent showers have caused a marvellous change in harvest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Wool Sales
The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 8 November 1879 · page 2
At the wool sales yesterday biddings were active, and prices about the same as at previous sales since the season opened…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Market. [By Electric Telegraph.]
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 8 November 1879 · page 4
Messrs. Goldsbrough and Co. report:—We have this week sold over five thousand bales wool; greasy ranging from 6d to 12?d, the latter for Walbundrie clip. We sold the following amongst others,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Central Butter Market. (By Telegraph to the Herald.) Kiama
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 8 November 1879 · page 12
A meeting of delegates from the principal Dairy districts of the colony was held in the pavilion of the Kiama Agricultural Association to-day, to consider the advisableness of having established, in Sydney, a…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Wheat Prospects in Europe. (Melbourne Australasian, Nov. 1.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 8 November 1879 · page 15
After the beginning of September, indications were given of a change in the character of the weather in England. The excessive rainfall gave way to warm breezy days; much…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Pastoral News, Stock Movements, and Markets
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 November 1879 · page 7
GUNNEDAH STOCK REPORT.—Nov. 6, 1879.—The weather through the week has been very hot and close, and every other day heavy thunderstorms have gathered up, but very little rain has fallen round the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Melbourne Wool Market. Hastings, Cuningham, and Company's (Limited) Report
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 November 1879 · page 5
We held our usual wool sales this afternoon, in a market which displayed great firmness, biddings for all descriptions being quite up to any which have been offered this season, Greasy, at from 7d to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pastoral News, Stock Movements, and Markets
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 13 November 1879 · page 2
NARRABARI STOCK REPORT.—November 7, 1877.— During the week we have had some exceedingly hot weather, relieved by thunderstorms and occasional heavy showers. It has, however, been fine growing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Wool Market. [By Electric Telegraph.] Sydney, Wednesday foren[?]
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 13 November 1879 · page 5
Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin report [?] sales of wool to-day there was a very stron [?] we got as high as 12¼d for greasy fleece, [?] For the washed wool offered prices ra[?]…
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