Hunter River Farmers' Association
THE fourteenth half-yearly meeting of this association was held at Morpeth on Tuesday last. About forty members and guests attended the dinner…
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Farming & the land, 1888
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Stud Sheep Sales
Messrs. Brunker and Wolfe, the well-known auctioneers, on Wednesday, at Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin's wool store, Circular Quay, Sydney, held their annual…
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The wheat market is firm, and for cargoes of Australian wheat higher prices have been bid, but refused…
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At the wool sales to-day, the prices of medium, inferior, scoured, and greasy wools ruled from par to ½d higher than the close of last sales…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →London Wool Sales
The June-July series of colonial wool auctions have now closed. Fine wools in grease and superior scoured wools show a general advance of a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The United States Duty on Wool
The United States Congress has refused to strike off wool from the list of articles which it is proposed to admit free of duty. The right of free entry…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The New Zealand Dairy System
Sir F. Dillon Bell is trying to engage Professor Long, of the Agricultural College, at Cirencester, to visit New Zealand, with the view of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Tenterfield Route for Wool
THE recent reduction of 16 per cent. made by the Queensland Government for wool carriage on some of their lines is attracting attention in the…
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The prospects of the English harvest are being seriously affected by the continued wet weather that the price of wheat is improving…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Antwerp Wool Sales
The Antweep wool sales opened on Thursday, when liver Plate combings of an inferior quality were a farthing cheaper. Among the wool to be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wool Season
THE wool season has commenced very early this year, a number of bales having already arrived. It is a most unusual circumstance for wool to arrive here before the end of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Rain.—price of Wheat Risen
Excessive and continuous rain in England has caused a rise in the wheat market. Prices have advanced for Adelaide wheat ex store to 36s…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wheat Crop
The latest reports from France state that the wheat crop in that country will be a disastrous failure. Reports from Canada state that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wool Season
The coming wool season promises to be a very prosperous one, and already a large quantity of produce has arrived in Newcastle by rail from the various Northern stations for export to the home…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Importation of Cattle and Horses
DURING the first five months of the present year the value of the living animals which were imported into Britain for food was £2,757,372, as…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hunter River Farmers' and Consumers' Company
THE half-yearly meeting of the above company was held at Morpeth on Saturday last, about forty shareholders being present…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pastoral, Finance, Trust, and Agency Company of Australasia, Limited
IN another portion of this issue will be found the prospectus of the above company, which bids fair to start under the most favourable auspices and to commence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Tuesday. Prize Cattle for Melbourne
SIR JAS. M'CULLOCH has shipped a large number of prize cattle and sheep to Melbourne. THE RUMOURED INTRODUCTION OF…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The United States Sugar and Wool Duties
At a conference of Republican members of the United States Senate it was decided to bring in a tariff bill reducing the duty on sugar by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Hume Farmers
HOWEVER determined the votaries of Freetrade superstition may be to ignore the progress of Protectionist principles in this colony, it is…
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