Our Wool Abroad
IN March, 1873, the Executive Committee of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales forwarded to France sample fleeces of the wools that were exhibited that year, to the Minister of…
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860 stories in Sydney's papers · page 35 of 43
Future Prospects of Wheat Culture
IT has now become a settled fact that in the future the wheat product of Great Britain will steadily decrease. The importations into that country the present shipping season will not be far from 100,000,000 of bushels, lt is the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A Visit to the Hexham Sheep Show
THE annual exhibition of long-woolled sheep at Hexham has already become famous throughout Victoria, and ere long it will rival in importance the annual show and sale of merinos held at Skipton. Both places are somewhat…
Continued on Trove, page 485 →The Cause and Prevention of Fluke in Sheep. To the Editor
SIR,—There is an old saying, but no less true, that "There are none so blind as those who won't see. I have too much respect for the intelligence of the gentleman whose letters appear in the Town and Country…
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A CORRESPONDENT at Black Creek writes aa follows to the Murrunmdi Times of Sep. 26:—I have to inform you of one of the most extensive aud deeply-laid schemes of sheep-stealing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Report From the Chamber of Commerce of Reims on the Wool Received From Sydney
In 1872 an Intercolonial Exhibition was held in Sydney (Australia), at the close of which Mons. Eugenie Simon, assisted by Mr. Richard Lloyd, a sheep broodor and a member of the Agricultural Society, forwarded…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Farm Mechanics, &c. Leaves From the Note-book of an Old Implement Maker
[?]CULTURE is the art of arts—without it man must be a savage, and the world a wilderness." In this and the following articles which will, from time to time, appear in this paper, the object of…
Continued on Trove, page 485 →Facts for Farmers
William Cullen Bryant the eminent American writer, lately delivered a lecture, in which the multiplication of insects was commented on, and in which the opinion was expressed that one of the chief causes…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →London Wool Sales
SALE of 2620 bales by Jacomb, Son, and Co., on Wednesday, August 19:— Ex Airy Force: Grogan, 27 at 22d, 105 at 21½d. 27 at 21d, 1 damaged at 20½d, 18 pieces at 18½d, 2 locks at 15½d, 6…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams This Day Cable Message. the San Francisco Mail. Victorian 4 Per Cent. Loan. London Markets—woll Wheat, Copper, Tin. the New Governor of Queensland. [Reuter's Special Telegram.] London, October 17
The San Francisco mail has been delivered. Eighty-four additional tenders have been received on account of the Victorian loan. £375,200 has been taken at the minimum of 914. The balance…
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THE Narrabri Herald reports: In station properties there is nothing particular to report beyond what has already appeared in our columns. Shearing is progressing, and wool-laden teams are fast crowding down. Complaints…
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SALE of 2920 bales, by JACOME, SON, and Co., on Wednesday August 19:- EX Airey Force: Grogan, 27 bls at 22d, 103 at [?], 27 at 2ld, damaged at 20½d, 13 pieces at 18½d, 2 locks at 15—d, 6…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trade Circulars. Wool. [Windeley and Bowes.] September 4
SINCE the 18th ultimo, on which date the present series of auctions commenced here, already 101,181 bales have been distributed out of the total 240,000 bales to come forward. The daily quantity offered has been unusually heavy, and the market…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Telegrams This Day. Cable Message London Wool and Tallow Markets. London, 14th October
The following produce telegram is from the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited:— Tallow.—Market firm. Public sales of…
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SALE of 714 bales by Edenborough, Doxat, and Co., on Monday, August 31st:- Ex William Duthio: NW in triangle over T in diamond, 6 scoured at 26d, [?] at 24½d, 3 at 21½d; D. 17 at 2d; FF over Y, 9…
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SALE of 2718 bales by Jacomb, Son, and Co., on Friday, August 28. Ex Moravian: Three bags AHY, 16 at 23½d, 20 at 22½d, 4 pieces at 17½d, 2 mixed at 12½d, 1 greasy at 11½d; RYN, 9…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest Reports on the London Wool Market
Messrs, Edwin Holt and Co., report, under date. London, September 4th, 1874:—The third series of Colonial Wool Sales commenced here on the 18th instant. The following were the arrivals in time, and also the quantities sold to date:…
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Pastoral and agricultural affairs are progressing very favourably, though complaints from various Sarts of the interior come or the warm weather having set in very suddenly, and fears have been…
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Sale of 3300 bales by Webster, Darvall, and Co. on Tuesday, September 1. Ex Hydarpes: G. Gross over Tilbuster over New England, [?] scoured at 29½d, 19 at 29d, 3 at 26½d, 8 at 24d, 7 at 22½d, 1 skins…
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