Late News by Cable. London, March 1. London Wool Sales
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 March 1899 · page 3
The arrivals of wool for the next series of sales amount to 263,000 bales. The quantity forwarded direct to the manufacturers is 107,000 bales, and the quantity available for the sales is 176,000 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Price of Wheat
The Scone Advocate · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 2
THE two morning dailies are again at "Variance" on the subject of the price of wheat. The telegraph quotes 2s 7½d, the Herald 2s 9½d. The extra 2d is of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Farming in Sweden. (Concluded.) Dry System
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 3
The food is given in two feeds, morning and afternoon, and consists of three kinds as follows:—1, strong food (crossed oats, peas, bran, oil-cakes)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farmer's Favorite. a Perfect Seed and Fertiliser Drill. The Modern Seed Drill. the Farmer's Favorite
The Scone Advocate · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 3
In response to our enquiry as to the success of seed and fertiliser drills, we have a number of very practical replies, some of which we publish in this issue…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Testing Butter Cows
Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 4
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle
A very interesting discussion has been going on lately in the American farm papers with regard to the chemical teat as against the churn in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Profitable Wheat-growing
Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 4
In wheat-growing, as every farmer is aware, there is a vast diffrence between the returns obtained from a heavy rop compared with a light one. It…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney Wool Sales
The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 2
The Sydney Wool Selling Broker's Association report as follows under date 25th February. 1899:—At the usual fortnightly sales held this week 6985 bales were brought…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Distribution of Seed Wheat
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 6
The same deputation interviewed the Minister of Mines to ask that seed wheat should be distributed to necessitous farmers, and to ask on what terms the Government would make the distribution…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Archbishop of York and the Ritual Question. Important Pastoral
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 9
The Archbishop of York has issued a Pastoral, says an English exchange, in which he deals exhaustively with the questions which have recently agitated the Church. He points out that if there…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Farm & Garden. the Prevention of Onion-fiy
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 3
The onion-fly is the cause of a great amount of damage to the crop. There are many generations during the summer, and thus a constant succession of the maggots is kept up…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Profitable Wheat Growing
The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 7 March 1899 · page 4
Is wheat-grewing as every farmer is aware, there is a vast difference between the returns obtained from a heavy crop compared with light one…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter Manufacture. a Hint From Glasgow
Singleton Argus · Tuesday 7 March 1899 · page 3
Mr Cook has received a letter from one of the largest dairying companies in Now South Wale thanking the department for having…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Preservative in Butter
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 March 1899 · page 3
Sir Andrew Clarke, Agent-General for victoria, is urging upon the Government to fix the standard percentage of preservative in butter applicable to the United Kingdom…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wool Market
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 March 1899 · page 3
Wool sales opened firm, and prices were on a par with those ruling at the close of last series…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool and Produce Reports
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 8 March 1899 · page 4
THE Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report for week ending 4th March, 1899, as follows:—Wool.—No auctions have been held…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Commercial Crop. The Cultivation of Malting Barley. Important to Enterprising Farmers
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 8 March 1899 · page 1
The attention of agriculturists is invited to the fact that malting operations have been started on an extensive scale in this colony—at Mittagong, on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Our Singleton Letter. Sheep Board
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 March 1899 · page 2
The Sheep Board met yesterday afternoon when there were present—Mr. R.T. Blaxland (chairman), Messrs. P. J. C. McDonall, George Loder, G. L, Lethbridge, and R. A. Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep and Stock Boards. a New Secretary Appointed. Dealing with the Tick Question. Mr Knox-Hill to be Sent to Queensland
Singleton Argus · Thursday 9 March 1899 · page 2
At a meeting of the Sheep Board yesterday afternoon the following members were present:—Mr R. T. Blaxland (President), Messrs R. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Destruction of Wheat
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 March 1899 · page 3
Groat storms have destroyed 800,000 tons of wheat in Buenos Ayres…
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