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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
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Messrs. Mort and Co. offered over one thousand bales of wool at auction to-day. Competition was active for good parcels, but for faulty lots lower rates have to be submitted to. Greasy brought up to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Australasias Mortgage and Agency Company (late Hastings, Cunningham and Company report:— We offered at suction to-day 730 bal[?] of wool. Prices were easier for all descriptions bu[?] scoured of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →J. S. W., writes:—Men own farms and follow other occupations, really, but still claim to be farmers. If it does not pay it is their fault, not the soil's. Men who…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"I TELL ye it's nonsense," said farmer Ben, "The fa[?]min' by books and rules, And sending the boys to learn, that staff At the agricultural schools…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DUBBO STOCK REPORT.—Thursday evening Feb. 3.—The weather during the past week has been fine. The days very warm, and the nights ditto. Rain is badly wanted about Dubbo. The country here is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin report:—We offered a thousand bales of wool, at auction, this afternoon. The market is very dull, particularly for medium and low class wool of all descriptions. Our…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MANY think the only advantages of sheep are in their wool-producing properties forgetting that they multiply with great rapidity, doubling the flock…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →FARMER HODGE looked up with gloomy eye To the cloudless blue of the summer key: "As to prayin' for rain," said he, I'll stop; Here's weeks and weeks and never a drop,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It has been commonly asserted [?] superior quality of French butter [?] the excellence of the pastures: but [?] from the authorities quoted that ve[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NARRARRI STOCK REPORT.—February 3, 1881.— The weather during the past week on the whole has been very warm. On Friday last there was a heavy thunderstorm which did a great amount of good, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As the ancient [?]eks had no cotton nor silk and very little linen, and as sheep's wool was the principal texture from which their clothes were made, they took peculiar care to cultivate with especial care such breeds…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The reports by cable of the sale of the Protos butter at £5 per cwt., and at a shilling a pound, have perhaps even more than the all-round sale of the mutton at 6½d., opened…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The wool market continues fairly active, but, although prices are firmly maintained, there is no disposition to purchase beyond the supply of present necessities. Fine wools are still most enquired for,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mort and Co. offered one thousand seven hundred and fifty bales of wool at auction to-day. Competition was active for good washed wool, which brought up to 18¾d, but faulty lots, both in washed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NARRABRI STOCK REPORT.—February 10, 1881. —The splendid fall of rain during the past week has put a totally different aspect upon pastoral affairs in this district. Grass there will be in abundance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Of the butter market in England, in wich Australia has, we venture to hope, a [?] manent interest, it is said that "butter, spite of a greatly increased import, has be[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have received the following cablegram:—"London, February 11.—The next wool sales are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BREWARRINA STOCK REPORT.—Tuesday evening, Feb. 8. With the exception of 12 points of rain on Saturday night, we have nothing material to report. The weather during the week has been mild, a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sale of 935 bales from Sydney and Queensland by II. P. Hughes and Sons:- Ex Lusitania, from Sydney and Queensland: TR, George Harris & Co., 8s coured combing at 20d, 5…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sale of 666 bales, from Sydney and Queensland, by Edenborough and Co., on Thursday, November 25, 1880:- Ex William Duthie, from Sydney: JH, 13 at 19d;…
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