Pastoral News, Stock Movements, and Markets
GUNNEDAH STOCK REPORT.—December 4, 1879. With the exception of a smart thunderstorm on Sunday morning last, there has been no change in the weather for the week. We have had…
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Farming & the land, 1879
349 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 18 of 18
Exhibition Cattle Sale. (From the S. M. Herald.)
The sales of stock in connection with the International cattle show were continued on Friday, and, as [?]n the first day, proved remarkably langui[?] Several lots changed…
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FORBES STOCK REPORT.—December 10.—We have had another week of fine weather, and althugh rain has threatened on one or two occasions none has fallen. The country now begins to looks dry and…
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Messrs. Harrison, Jones and Devlin report:—At our sale on Monday there was s very large attendance, and our sales, privately and by auction, were over 2000 bales. Greasy went to 12¾d per 1b., fleece…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Melbourne Wool Market. [By Electric Telegraph.] Wednesday, received 9.35 p.m
Messrs. Goldsbrough and Co. report:—We have this week sold 4500 bales at firm prices, greasy ranging from 6d to 13?d, and washed from 11d to 23d. Competition spirited, and rates fully…
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ONE very great reason why farmers become "stiff and old" before their time is from their lack of bathing and thorough muscular exercise. The professional man…
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A farmer writing to the Tenterfield Independent, states:— 'I have been in Italy nearly all the days of my life, where wheat is grown to some…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Telegrams. [Through Grevelle's Telegram Co.] Sydney Wool Sales
THE wool sales yesterday were depressed. A number of lots was passed, 'as buyers are not prepared to pay late rates. Really good greasy still commands…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agriculture. Shorthorn Dairy Cows. (From the American Agriculturist.)
BEFORE Shorthorns were known ns a race, or rather before they grew into notoriety as a breed, for they had the reputation as a race before any record of pedigrees were kept, they…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A [?]it of Clothes from the Bik of a Sheep in Eleven Hours!
W[?]earn from a German contemporary what on the occasion of the celebraon of the silver wedding of the Eueror of Austria, a certain…
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