Wool
Of the London Wool Market, Messrs. Willans Overbury and Co., writing on November 6th, advise:—Since the close of the last September sales the colonial wool…
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Sheep Breeding. (From the Sydney Mail.)
THE latest message from London is assuring. At least, it gives the wool-grower a lift up after the knock-down blow of the last mail. The penny rise is not much, to be sure; but…
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WOOL.—This market has assumed a better appearance, and at our auction sales, both on Tuesday and Thursday, more desire to purchase was exhibited; caused no doubt…
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WOOL.—The auction sales this weak do not call for any spocial remark-the attendance of buyers was about the average and prices obtained for fleece wool exhibit increased…
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Colonial wool sales terminated on 21st December, There was a good attendance of home buyers at thu commencement; with an unusually large number from France. Much…
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THE public sales of colonial wool commenced on the 26th of November, and terminated on the 21st December. In every respect they have exhibited a marked and encouraging…
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Elsewhere in our columns will be found on interesting latter on the rust in wheat. Or correspondent does not attempt any explanation of this most fatal grain disease. He is…
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MR. LOCKHART MORTON has patented a new wool-press, which seems to be superior in some respects to those now in use; and a specimen machine,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Station and Farm. Squatters and Miners. (From the Gundagai Times.)
ON Monday his Honor Judge Francis delivered his judgment in the case of Walsh v. Jenkins. Plaintiff is a miner at Sandy Creek, who brought an action…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Police Magistrate of Deniliquin V. the "Pastoral Times."
The Herald gives the following report of the settling of this long-pending action:— "This was an application, on rule nisi, for a criminal information, for libel on the…
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AFTER so trying a summer as the one now drawing to a close, a comparison of notes and experiences ought to be at least interesting, and possibly…
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THE following is a bill to amend the Diseases in Sheep Act of 1866, introduced into the Legislative Assembly by Mr. Forster:— Whereas it is expedient that the disease in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Station and the Farm. Wheat-sowing. (From the Economist.)
THE period for sowing wheat is fast approaching, and us the annual autumn grain shows form the principal attractions this month, agriculturally…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WOOL. (From the Dubbo Dispatch.)
THE flock masters' eyes are now open to the real cause of the fall in wood and its present unremunerative price; also to the necessity of exercising more care in breeding for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Station and the Farm. Artificial Grasses. (From the Queenslander.)
No squatter, where the climate is suitable, should be without his paddocks of artificial grasses near his homestead, for the purpose of keeping…
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A correspondent of the Queenslander thus discourses on our cattle and horses. Speaking of the celebrated "Cowpasture herd," he tells us "they…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wool Trade of 1868. (From Mr. Helmuth Schwartze.)
THE wool trade has a feature of its own quite as important in its effects as any extraneous circumstances. This is the yearly increase in the production, which goes on…
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How TO GROW WHEAT.—A Rocky River correspondent writes as follows: —"It became my privilege, some years back, to be the associate of an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Station and the Farm. Sheep-farming in South America. (From the Mark Lane Express.)
WHEN we consider the great member of sheep in our pastoral colonies, which, according to the official, returns lately published, are 10,000,000 in South…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool-washing and Shearing. (From the Dubbo Dispatch.)
EXPERIENCE confirms the theory that "hot-water-soaking" and so-called "dry-spouting" is by far the best mode of cleansing wool. The plan for…
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