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Grass (says the Melbourne Leader) is abundant everywhere Shearing, which has been commenced, will soon become general, and owing to the abundance of feed through the whole of the past season, the crop of wool will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SALE of 1146 bale, by Charles Balme and Co., on Thursdy, July 10:- Ex Ben Lomond: MJ over Maharatta. 11 hoggets at 27d, 14 ditto at 25d. 17 damaged at 25d, 2 at 24d, 16at 24½d, 10 pieced…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE quantity catalogued up to date is 158,992 bales, leaving about 50,000 to 55,000 bales still for disposal. The market has not been quite so brisk during the past ten days as during the first weeks of the series, and, with the exception of good and superior…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The East and West India Dock Company notify that they understand that the wool ware housing business is showing profits at rates 20 per cent, below those hitherto quoted, as the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →EVERYWHERE in the Pastoral districts is now heard the click of the shears, and the weather has, up to the present, been exceedingly favourable to the operations of the season. In the north-west, although grass is abundant and water…
Continued on Trove, page 431 →Prime cattle are scarce in Goulburn, and the demand continues brisk at 20s to 22s per 100[?]bs. All encriptions of ste[?]rs are readily purchased, particularly grown [?] fit for tattening. A brisk demand for [?]ep is anticipated…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →No rain has fallen in the metropolitan district for the last twenty days, although there have been great variations of temperature, and occasionally strong gales of wind. The soil, however, appears to have sufficient moisture, the field…
Continued on Trove, page 430 →[?] few lines last week, I have been again to [?] Grounds, and seen the last atrivals from [?] joined the ranks since my last visit, and [?] to be say that there are some…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The East and West India Dock Company notify that they understand that the wool ware-housing business is showing profits at rates 20 per cent, below those hitherto quoted, as the…
Continued on Trove, page 433 →REPORTS of farm experience being amongst the most useful stimulants to good husbandry, we gladly insert the following from the Melbourne Leader:— Mr. Trenoweth's farm comprises 750 acres, passably well…
Continued on Trove, page 430 →THE London Colonial wool sales opened this evening. The total arrivals are more than 100,000 bales. Upwards of 5000 bales have been offered. Sydney and Cape of Good Hope wools…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Francis T. Sharp, of Camden Farm, favours us with a few notes from his experience that may be found of use to fanners. I propose to direct your attention to two natures of soil,…
Continued on Trove, page 429 →" RAIN always," has been the complaint from every gardener and farmer, and justly so, until the two last weeks of the past month. Now, every delver of the soil is crying for rain. The land everywhere, except…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Coal-ashes are useful on all soils mechanicaly loosening a heavy clay and improving sandy loams They contain lime, alumina or clay, silicia or sand, and sometimes notable quantities of potash and phosphoric…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →THE weather has been very fine during the past month, and some days have been of summer warmth. In plao[?]oi the farmers are beginning to wish for rain to refresh the drooping herbage, which has suffered somewhat from hot…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Agricultural Editor of Town and Country writes as follows on Agricultural prospects:—Every delver of the soil is crying for rain. The land everywhere. except where of a sandy nature, is so extremely hard that it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Under the above date, Messrs. Mort and Co. allowed their usual fortnightly sale of wool to lapse, in consequence of the limited quantity coming forward. They, however, sold a large quantity of sheepskings at from 4½d to 5½d for short, 6d to 7½d for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE inward mail by the China was delivered in Sydney on the morning of the 24th ultimo, three days within contract time; and private advices, and the usual London brokers' circulars, up to the 8th of August have been duly received…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Per Aviemore, for London: 2164 bis mool, 17 bis skins, 98 bis cotton, 4 bis hair, 329 bis leather, 26 ess cigars, 724 esks tallow, 2529 ess meat, 180 sibs and ingts tin, 59 tns tin ore, 4018 cks and —ingts copper,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE chief stone in the rebuilding of Victoria House was set in its place on Saturday, the 20th September, by Mr. Thomas Sutelific Mort, in presence of about four hundred persons, comprising many of our leading citizens. A…
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