Pastoral News, Stock Movement's and Markets
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 14 February 1884 · page 2
NARRA[?]I STOCK REPORT.—February 8.The weather since our last issue has been fine, and all our reports up to 9 a.m. this morning have the same tale to tell. To-day has been Bomewhat hotter than…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Wool Market. [By Electric Telegraph.] Sydney, Wednesday evening
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 14 February 1884 · page 5
Messrs. Mort and Co., report:—We offered 1000 b[?]s of wool at auction to day, and sales amount to 1400. Greasy ranged at 6½d to lO½d; washed fleece at ll2 to 17¼d, and ordinary sc[?]ured 14d to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London Wool Sales. London, Feb. 12
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 16 February 1884 · page 11
At the wool sales to-day there was an excellent attendance both of home and foreign buyers. Messrs. Balme and Jacob's joint catalogue amounted to 9400 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sales of Australian Wool in Antwerp. (Argus,)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 16 February 1884 · page 16
Messrs. Finck and Sedmiratzsky Limited have received the following cablegram from Mr. Joh Dan Fuhrmann, Antwerp, dated February 9:—"Prices obtained in Antwerp…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Singleton Police Court. Friday, February 15. (Before Mr. J. N. Brooks, P.M. and Mr. W. Pearse, J.p.) Cattle Stealing
Singleton Argus · Saturday 16 February 1884 · page 2
Arthur Blackburn Bailey. on them formation of William Lynch, was charged with stealing a bullock the property of the prosecutor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The farmer. Bitting and Management of a Colt
Singleton Argus · Saturday 16 February 1884 · page 2
So many young horses are spoilt by being budly bitted when breaking that our readers will be indebted to us for giving the opinions of a real professor of the art, none other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commercial. Sydney Wool and Produce Market
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 20 February 1884 · page 3
The Australasian Mortgage and Agency Company Limited reports: Wool.—We are advised, by telegram from our London agents, that the first…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pastoral News, Stock Movements and Markets
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 21 February 1884 · page 2
FORBER STOCK REPORT.—Friday evening, Feb. 15.—Unfortunately we have still no change in the weather to report, and matters are beginning to assume a very serious aspect. The worst feature is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Too Much Wheat. European Mail, January 4
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 21 February 1884 · page 7
At this time of the year many valuable and interesting statistics are put before the world, and the figures relating to the corn trade are certainly not the least important to those…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Outbreak of Scab in Sheep in the Carcoar District. (From the S. M. Herald.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 21 February 1884 · page 2
A telegram from Carcoar published in yesterday's Herald contained the startling announcement that scab had broken out in a small flock of about 200 sheep recently…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Outbreak of Scab in Sheep. (Abridged from the Herald.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 23 February 1884 · page 3
There is no further outbreak of scab in sheep than that first reported at Carcoar. On Wednesday, the 200 American scabby sheep on Mr. H. G. Lomax's Errowanbang run, 14 miles from Carcoar, were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farmer. How to Fertilise Fruit Trees
Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 February 1884 · page 2
HERE and there on all farms and in most fruit gardens will be seen an occasional tree or grape-vine which seems to lack vigor does not grow well, and yet seems to have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral News, Stock Movements and Markets
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 February 1884 · page 2
DUBBO STOCK REPORT.—Thursday, Feb. 21.—The weather continues dry, and though there are many rain threatenings, none of any consequence has fallen. On Monday night we had a nice shower, but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Growing and Irrigaton in Victoria
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 February 1884 · page 8
We extract from the Australasian of February 23 a rather detailed report of the results of the wheat harvest in some of the Victoria districts not previously given. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pastoral News, Stock Movements and Markets
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 28 February 1884 · page 7
FORBES STOCK REPORT.—Friday evening, Feb. 22.—Notwithstanding that since our last report scarcely a day has passed without indications of rain, none has fallen, or, at most, not more than a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →London Wool Sales. (From the S. M. Herald.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 28 February 1884 · page 7
Sale of 1013 bales, from Sydney and Queensland, by Helmuth, Schwartze, and Co., on Wednesday, 5th December, 1883:— Ex Phasis, from Sydney: SMPCo in diamond, 18…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An Episode in the Life of Farmer Chitty
Singleton Argus · Saturday 1 March 1884 · page 6
To the city Farmer Chitty, Plain, but gritty, Came one day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Farmer. The Medical English Farmer
Singleton Argus · Saturday 1 March 1884 · page 6
BOTH horses and oxen were used on the land; wheat, barley, oats, rye, and beans and peas were grown. The medi[?]val farmer was entirely dependent on his hay and straw for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pastoral News, Stock Movements and Markets
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 March 1884 · page 5
NARRABRI STOCK REPORT—February 29, 1884. —Our weather report remains unvaried, no rain having fallen here, nor any reported from the various stations with which we are in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hunter River Farmers' Association
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 March 1884 · page 7
The first monthly meeting of the new committee of the Hunter River Farmers' Association was held in Mr. Tulip's long room, Morpeth, by the kind permission of…
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