Pastoral News, Stock Movements, and Markets
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 10
DENILIQUIN STOCK REPORT.—The weather during the early part of the week has been hot and oppressive, the theremometer registering on Wednesday last 1095deg. In the evening a heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →London Colonial Wool Sales
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 6
The fifth series of colonial wool sales of the current year commenced on November 28, the quantities offered being as follows:—New South Wales, 2555 bales; Queensland, 2762; Victorian,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →United States Politics. Free Impart of Wool and Coal. The Proposed Income Tax
Singleton Argus · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 3
DR. RENWICK, Executive Commissioner for New South Wales at the Chicago Exhibition, has had a further interview with President Cleveland…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmer Spriggins Visits the City
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 7
"Dear, dear, what things one sees in a great city," remarked Farmer Spriggens to his family; " I went to the thayter, and what do you folks think? There was some women came to see the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Farm and Garden. Bee Notes
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 16
The propensity to rob seems to gradually develop itself in some bees and even whole colonies frequently leave the pursuit of hard working honey gatherers, to prey upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The War in Mashonaland. a Native Ally. Farms Staked Out
Singleton Argus · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 5
KING LEWANIKA, of Northern Zambesia, chief of the Barotse tribe, is sending a force to liesikili, below the Zambesi Falls, to prevent Lobengula…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pastoral News, Stock Movements, and Markets
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 January 1894 · page 3
HAY STOCK REPORT.—Following are the latest stock movements: 3000 sheep from Horse and Jockey to Boiling Down Works, D. J. Fennell in charge; 110 sheep from Maude to railway yards…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London Sales of Colonial Wool
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 January 1894 · page 2
Messrs. Jacomb, Son, and Co. report from 61, Moorgate-street, Dec. 6:—The concluding series of auctions of colonial, wool, for this year, commenced here on the 28th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British and American Wheat Growing
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 16 January 1894 · page 6
The Quarterly Review, in a recent issue, treats at length of "Competition in Wheat Growing," and says that "after three years of unremunerative prices, many…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pastoral News, Stock Movements, and Markets
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 January 1894 · page 3
DENILIQUIN STOCK REPORT.—The week has been a fairly warm one but nothing like what it usually is at this time of the year. Up to the present there has not been a really oppressive night, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Wool Market
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 January 1894 · page 3
Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co., Limited, report: We offered yesterday 4,300 bales of wool to the usual large attendance of buyers. Although the news regarding the opening of the January…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New South Wales Dairy-Farmers' Export Association. Grader's Report
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 January 1894 · page 2
Gentlemen,—Butter packed and graded for the week ending January 13th, shows a slight increase as compared with the results of the previous week. The number of boxes prepared for export was 1964…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maize Diseases—a Warning to Farmers
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1894 · page 4
The Queensland Agricultural Department have landed in that colony some 1000 bushels of seeds, which are to be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral News, Stock Movements, and Markets
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1894 · page 10
HAY STOCK REPORT.—Following are the latest stock movements: 3000 sheep from Horse and Jockey to Boiling Down Works, D. J. Fennell in charge; 110 sheep from Maude to railway yards,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Farm and Garden. Cross-breeding and Dairy Profits
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1894 · page 16
The only way to improve the common herd of cows is to breed up, which means crossbreeding. Mr. Henry Simmons, member of the British Dairy Conference, says…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Farmer's Central Markets
Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 January 1894 · page 3
Grainger and Falkiner's report:- Business in most lines of produce has been fairly active during the week. Maize shows a sightly easier tendency and as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Wool Market
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 January 1894 · page 3
The New Zealand Land Association report:—We offered 2010 bales of wool yesterday to a large attendance of buyers. There was active competition; fully up to late rates for scoured, but…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Wool Market. Thursday evening
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 January 1894 · page 3
Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co., Limited, report:—We offered yesterday 2171 bales of wool to the usual full attendance of buyers, and where wools were fairly well prepared or showed above the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pastoral News, Stock Movements, and Markets
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 January 1894 · page 1
FORBES STOCK REPORT.—The Forbes Times of January 26 says :—After some real summer weather in the early part of the week, culminating in an excessively hot night on Tuesday, Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Farm and Garden. the Prospects for Dried Fruits
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 January 1894 · page 16
"Without joining with the sanguine enthusiasts—generally not growers—who see the biggest kind of profits rolling back to Australia for dried apricots, (says Rural…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →