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Farming & the land, 1895

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The Price of Wheat

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 10 January 1895 · page 3

City millers state (says the S. M. Herald) that since the Premier's announcement with reepect to the duty, new wheat has been coning in faster than they require, and that…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 10 January 1895 · page 2

Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co. to the WAGGA WAGGA ADVERTISER:- We offered at sale to-day 7162 bales to a full attendance of buyers. Values show…

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The Export Trade. Butter, Eggs and Rabbits. London, Jan. 7

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 10 January 1895 · page 2

A small portion of the choicest quality butter brought by the R.M.S. Ophir, which left Melbourne on 24th November, is selling at 102s per cwt. The average price realised…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1895 · page 3

THE Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report the wool sales were held on January 7th at the Wool Exchange, Macquarie-place, when the quantity catalogued totalled 6732 bales,…

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The Farmer at Home. Tea Table Talk. Who Is Responsible for Bad Eggs?

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1895 · page 4

OUR experience is that one per cent, of the eggs served up to a man in Sydney are altogether too bad. Until the writer came here he had given up all hope of ever again eating…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 12 January 1895 · page 2

A. A. Meurant & Co. (Geo, A. Crisp, Auctioneer) report having sold the following, viz.:—20 horses for C. D. Bardwell, Oberne: 1000 wethers for Messrs. Byrnes Bros.,…

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The Sidney Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 12 January 1895 · page 4

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report that sales of "star" lots of three bales and under were held lust week when catalogues aggregating 4,747 bales were…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 12 January 1895 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan and Mcrcantile Agency Co. Ltd., Melbourne, resumed their wool sales to-day, bringing forward a very large and, for this time of the year, most…

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The Experimental Farm

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 12 January 1895 · page 2

A SPLENDID specimen of Californian Golden Broom Millet, grown in the fruit test plots at the Waggu Experimental Farm by Mr. Valder, are now on exhibition at Messrs…

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American Methods of Wheat Production

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 15 January 1895 · page 2

MR. J. M. Sinclair, who was sent from Victoria to America to inquire into the methods of wheat production, has forwarded to Melbourne a lengthy letter written from…

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Butter Export. Alleged New Process of Treatment

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 15 January 1895 · page 2

A NEW process of preserving butter for shipment from the colonies to the London market has been brought under notice by Mr. J. Knox Mecredy, formerly of Mecredy,…

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Farmers' Market

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 15 January 1895 · page 3

MESSRS. Tompson, Manning, and Jeremy report having held their usual weekly sale on Saturday last, at the new Farmers' Market, Kincaid-street. The following are…

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The Farmer at Home. Tea Table Talk

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 15 January 1895 · page 4

[For this columns the Editor should be pi[?] if the formers in the district p[?] send him notes or items of [?] If the farmer feels [?] after his day's work, he should get are of his boys or girls [?] write to the Editor.]…

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Price of Butter. London, Jan. 4

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 17 January 1895 · page 4

A slight drop has occurred in the price of Australian factory butter. Choicest brands, which yesterday sold up to 106s, are to-day realising 104s per cwt…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 17 January 1895 · page 2

Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co. to the WAGGA WAGGA ADVERTISER:- We offered 5736 bales for sale to-day, principally Northern New South Wales and…

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The London Wool Sales. London, Jan. 15

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 17 January 1895 · page 2

The January series of wool sales opened to-day, 8500 bales being catalogued. There is a good attendance of buyers. The wool generally is spoken of as being poor, with…

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The Farmer at Home. Tea Table Talk

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1895 · page 4

(For this column the Fellter abound be pleased if the farmers in the district would send him notes or items of need. If the further feels tired after his [?] work, he should get one of his boys or girls to write to the Ed[?].]…

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Pastoral Mems

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 19 January 1895 · page 3

Tompson, Manning and Jeremy report having made the following sales:—Account Jas, Baker, Gregadoo, 132 wethers; account, R. Montgomery, Downside, 20 head of mixed…

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Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 19 January 1895 · page 2

THE usual monthly meeting of the committee of the above association was held at the rooms Gurwood street, last evening. Present—Messrs. T. W. Hammond (president),…

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The American Wheat Trade

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 19 January 1895 · page 7

SOME months ago Mr. J. M. Sinclair was sent to America at the expense of a number of Victorian wheat-growers to make inquiries as to the methods adopted there for…

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