Melbourne Wool Sales
The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report having held their third sale of the season on Thursday at Melbourne, when they brought forward a…
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Farming & the land, 1900
228 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 12
Botha Close to Pretoria. General Paget Engaged. Large Captures of Cattle
LONDON, Thursday.—General Rotha has occupied Warm Baths, north of Pretoria. Boers with a convoy of cattle attacked General Paget at…
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Mr. J. Desmond, Chief Inspector of Cattle for South Australia, has reported to the council of the Board of Health that he has discovered a case of "beef-measles," this…
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LONDON, Sunday.—The wool sales closed firm, the price for good merinos being. ½d above the opening rate. Faulties are about 15 per cent. below…
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Messrs. Dalgety and Co. have received the following wire from their Melbourne house:—At our third sale for the season held to-day we offered 1700…
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There was landed by the Moana (says the Auckland " Herald") a pen of Tunis sheep, consisting of six ewes and two rams. This breed of sheep is comparatively unknown,…
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The scarcity of farm labour if England and Scotland is increasing, says the Board of Trade Report on Agricultural Labourers, in spite of the fact…
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Wool continues to come forward with exceptional freedom. The total arrivals at the local sheds to date is 22,890 bales, as compared with 25,246 bales for the corresponding…
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Messrs. Dalgety and Co. have received the following cable from London regarding the wool sales:—Wool market firm. There is a fair private inquiry for wool…
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The death is announced of Sir John D. Lawes, F.R.S., the greatest farmer of the century. The son of a country gentleman, he developed his life and fortune to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne
Messrs. Dalgety and Company offered 1000 bales at their wool sales to-day, competition being animated, and prices steady at the lower level of…
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The Brisbane Chamber of Commerce is giving the Department of Agriculture a really bad time over the contract for the carriage of chilled butter…
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The total wool arrivals at the two local sheds to date amount to 35,812 bales, as compared with 27,678 bales for the corresponding period of last season, of which 2932…
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E. Gain has examined the structure of the embryo of grains of wheat and barley obtained from Egyptian mummy cases, and finds that although the grains have…
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Further advice from Southern Greece and the Ionian Islands (says an English paper) confirms the reports recently received in this country by the Greek Consul-General…
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Some interesting particulars of dairy experiments are given in a recent report of the Ontario Agricultural College, the following notice of which appeared in the…
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LONDON, Thursday.—Mr. A. J. Hales, the correspondent of the "Daily News," recommends that great Imperial horse-breeding farms for…
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Messrs. Dalgety and Co. report:—At our sale to-day we offered 1800 bales. The bidding was animated, and the market firm for all descriptions, but without change in…
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There is a great demand in Melbourne and Sydney (says the Wellington "Evening Post") for New Zealand white pine timber for butter boxes, and the Hawkes Bay…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 2,055,000 quarters, or 30,000 less than last…
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