Wool Trade with France
ANOTHER instance of the growing competition with which one branch of English trade after another is threatened (observes the London Daily Telegraph,…
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Farming & the land, 1881
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A Wrinkle in Butter-making. (From the New York Tribune.)
While the potency of the press as a means of human progress is well known and appreciated, and in particular the aid it is rendering agriculture is so generally understood as not to need special notice,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London Wool Sales. (From the S. M. Herald.)
Sale of 2437 bales from Sydney and Queensland, by Charles Bai[?]e and Co., on Friday, 4th March, 1881:- Ex Cambrian Princess and Peterborough, from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fifth Annual Show of the Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricultural Association. (From Our Own Reporters.) Second Day, Thursday, May 19[?]
The second day of the show at Muswellbrook was a very pleasant one in every respect, and the Association may be congratulated on the fact that their fifth annual show has passed off most successfully…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Maitland Mercury. Saturday, May 21, 1881. the Farmers' Union Movement
IT is evident from what has been stated at various meetings that the rules framed at Largs are to be subjected to a final revision. But their main principles are patent:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ostrich Farming in Victoria. (From the Hamilton Spectator, May [?].)
The ostriches formerly belonging to the Acclimatisation Society, and located a few years ago at Longerenong, are now doing very well on the station of Messrs. Officer, near Swan-hill, to which locality…
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DUBBO STOCK REPORT.—Thursday, May 19.—The weather since our last has been fine. The days have been warm, and the nights and mornings cool. We have had one or two slight frosts. On Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Wool Sales. (From the S. M. Herald.)
Sale of 1502 bales from Sydney, by J. T. Simes and Co., on Monday, March 14, 1881:- Ex Cynisca, from Sydney: CO over AA, 14 combing at 24½d, 16 at 24d, 31 at 23½d, 13 at 23d, 3 at 22½d, 19…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hunter River Farmers' Union Meeting at Hexham. (From a Correspondent.)
On Thursday evening, the 19th instant, a meeting, co[?]vened by circular, was held in the Church of England schoolroom, Upper Hexham. There were upwards of sixty persons present, including the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmers' Meeting at Clarence Town. (From our own Reporter.)
On Saturday evening a public meeting, convened in compliance with a requisition, was held in the School of Arts, Clarence Town, to consider the advisableness of…
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THE following cablegram has been received by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.:—" London May 17.—Wool: The sales progress…
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MR. JAMES HUTCHISON reports the following sale by suction on Saturday week last, 14th May:— On account of Mr. Simon Richards:…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Diseases in Sheep Act Amen[?]ment Act. (From a correspondent.)
The following case, which came before the Tambar Springs police court on the 20th inst., may be of some interest to sheep-owners:— (Before T. K. Abbott, Esq., P.M., and J. W. Jones, Esq., J.P.)…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Maitland Mercury. Thursday, May 26, 1881. the Farmers' Union Rules
WE are glad to join those who are occupied in making suggestions designed to improve the rules for organising the Farmers' Union —a project the prospects of which are very…
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On Monday evening a very large, enthusiastic, and influential meeting of persons interested in the Hunter River Farmers' Union, initiated at Largs, and so…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London Wool Sales. (From the S. M. Herald.)
Sale of 241 bales, from Sydney, by Willans, Overbury, and Co.: Ex John Duthie, from Sydney: Wantabadgery, DMcD in block, 36 gr[?]se ewes at 12d, 1 dumaged at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Charges ou Farm Produce in England
For some past the Mark-lane Express has been engaged in a crusade against the charges made by the English railway companies for the carriage of various articles of produce…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Early Spring Farm Prospects in Enland. (Melbourne Australasia[?], May 21.)
During the week ending April 4 the weather was fine and dry, but the nights were frosty, and a bitterly cold easterly wind prevailed. The young wheats had assumed a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hunter R[?]er Farmers' Union. Public [?]Eeting [?]T Lochinvar. [?]om our own Reporter.)
([?]evening a meeting of farmers On Thursday [?]le to the Hunter River Farmers' and others favora[?] [?]aley's Red Lion [?]nn at Lochin-Union was held at [?]ry large attendance and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farmer. CHURNING
THE temperature of the cream and the velocity of the chorn are very important elements in the process of charming. There seems to be a certain amount of agitation…
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