Commercial Intelligence. Sydney Markets. Mort and Co[?]'s Monthly Wool and Produce Circular
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 August 1880 · page 2
Wool,—The quantity available during the month has been unusually limited, and not of a character to afford much test of the market; for the few lots offered competiti[?]n has been active at full values…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral News, Stock Movements, and Markets
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 12 August 1880 · page 3
GUNNEDAH STOCK PASSINGS—July, 31: 6000 ewes and lambs, from Warrah, to Pierce's Tycannah.— August 4: 200 rams, from Warrah, to Hardie and Millar's Go[?]ngra.—August 5: 2000 shorn wethers,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London Wool Sales. (From the S. M. Herald.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 12 August 1880 · page 2
Sale of 323 bales from Sydney, by Hoare and Hudson:- Ex Nor[?]brook, from Sydney: Waddell Bros., 55 scoured combing at 21½d, 20 at 17½d, 18 at 15½d, 30…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fourth Annual Show of The Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricultural Association. (From Our Own Reporters.) First Day, August 11, 1880
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 12 August 1880 · page 4
The fourth show of the above Association commenced at Muswellbrook under somewhat pronounced drawbacks. In the first place the season has been a most unfavourable one for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral Legislation
Singleton Argus · Saturday 14 August 1880 · page 1
THE sheep directors in the Merriwa district have had under their consideration a suggestion as to the formation of an Association to embrace the whole…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Agriculture. Winter Butter Making. the Dairy
Singleton Argus · Saturday 14 August 1880 · page 2
IF the first requisite for good buttor is the cow, the second is the dairy room or house, for it is useless to procure good milk, if it is spoiled in the keeping. A dairy room should…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shearing Sheep in Cold Weather
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 14 August 1880 · page 3
Attention has been called (says the Herald of Wednesday), to the cruelty ot shearing sheep too early in the season, and we have been shown a copy of a caution to graziers and sheep salesmen issued…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fourth Annual Show at Muswellbrook, of The Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricultural Association. (From Our Own Reporters.) Second Day
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 14 August 1880 · page 6
The officers of the above Association are to be congratulated on the success of the show on the second day. The day was as pleasant as the previous one was disagreeable, and in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Bee Farm
Singleton Argus · Saturday 14 August 1880 · page 2
Near the village of Beeton, Ontario, Canada, there is a bee farm which is probably one of the most extensive and successful things of the kind in the world…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Wool Sales. (From the S. M. Herald.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 August 1880 · page 3
Sale of 3913 bales, from Sydney and Queensland, by Jacomb, Son, and Co., on Saturday, May 29, 1880:- Ex Northbrook, from Sydney: Boolcarrol over…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 August 1880 · page 2
BREWARRINA STOCK REPORT.—Tuesday evening, Aug. 10: After a week of fine weather, to[?]day has been cloudy and boisterous, with occasional light showers. There is every appearance of a heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →American Cattle Importation. (Home News, July 22.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 August 1880 · page 8
There is little likely to be any great American competition as regards mutton; but there is with beef. A great impetus has recently been given to the American meat…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wheat Prospects in England. (Melbourne Australasian.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 August 1880 · page 8
During the last week of June, the muchneeded warm rains fell in England in tolerable abundance, and, as frequently occurs at that season of the year, the atmosphere was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pastoral News, Stock Movements, and Markets
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 21 August 1880 · page 7
BOURKE STOCK REPORT —August 14th.—Another week of very fine weather and the want of rain is beginning to show itself, as the grass looks very dry. Some carriers c[?] in from Nocatunga, Cooper's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pastoral News, Sto[?]k Movements, and Markets
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 August 1880 · page 5
NARRABRI STOCK REPORT—August 19, 1880.— The weather during the past week has been again dry although appearances on one or two occasions betokened rain The last two or three days have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Selling Live Cattle by Weight
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 25 August 1880 · page 1
"THE difference in value of a cwt. in a live animal, writes an English farmer, is much less than ninety-nine farmers out of a hundred would suppose. Take…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney Wool Sales
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 25 August 1880 · page 3
Yesterday's wool sales comprise [?] only small lots, for which late rates were [?]med…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Dairy Farm in Holland
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 25 August 1880 · page 1
AN American lately visited one of the leading stock and dairy farms in Holland, and gives the following interesting account b[?] what he saw:—They used…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Shooting of a Farmer by a Landlord
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 25 August 1880 · page 1
THE inquest on the body of Philip Mohan a farmer on the property of Lord Charles Beresford, in Cavan, who was shot by a landlord, named Henry Acheson, aged 21…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pastoral News, Stock Movements, and Markets
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 26 August 1880 · page 2
BREWARRINA STOCK REPORT.—Tuesday evening, Aug. 18: Summer seems to be putting in an appearance, as the days are lengthening out and becoming warm. The therinometer during the week having…
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