Adelaide Wheat Market
ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—A dozen ships are expected to load wheat at Port Augusta this season. Two firms alone have sent out 150,000 bags for filling and return to their stores…
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The Wheat Market
LONDON, December 19.—The corn market is firm and steady…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Joint Pastoral and the Public Schools Act. Xi
As long as Public schools are not solemnly condemned by the Church and stigmatised by some canonised monk, such as heretical, or schismatical, or scandalous, and so forth, no priest can refuse…
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BURROWA, Wednesday.-The police court on Monday and yesterday was occupied in hearing charges of sheep stealing against James Hyde aud Thomas Gooley. Both were committed for trial…
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First prize, silver medal Second prize, bronze medal. prize DIVISION A FINE COMBING WOOL IN GREASE SIX ram's fleeces unskirted 27 entries Thos F. Cummings Darington Victoria 1st prize W. Gibson anjd scone Tasmania 2nd…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-125,558 bales of wool have been catalogued, and 100,668 have been told in this market. Large sales will continue to be held during the month of January, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The International Wool Show
In Department VI., Agriculture, of the Grand International Exhibition of 1879, there appears Class 639: wool, open to all nations. The schedule for this comprises ten divisions, which are…
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A visit to the Agricultural Hall, yesterday afternoon, brought to light the fact that very little progress had been made since Tuesday, and it is now apparent that the show will not bo in fair order until a few days…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Joint Pastoral and the Public Schools Act. Xii
An historical fact, showing what fanatical men can do by abusing the name and authority of the Church, will crown this pamphlet. Among the apostolical sects of the mediaeval ages there was one that bears…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pastoral Items
The district of Collie is looking well; a good supply of water, and plenty of grass, which has been refreshed with a heavy thunderstorm, which burst over the place early only on Monday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Purifying Rancid Butter
CALVIN Peck some ten years ago obtained a patent for re-storing and preserving butter; his invention relates to a new process for purifying butter, having especial reference to arresting fermentation and…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The Weather—Agricultural and Pastoral
The year closes and summer opens with weather which is all that could be desired by agriculturists. The reports from pastoral centres are still in the same key. Pasture is plentiful, diseases are almost unknown, and the water supply…
Continued on Trove, page 1137 →The Wheat Market
In another column, under the head "The Price of Wheat," a subscriber who, it is evident, is interested in the progress of agriculture, seeks advice as to the best means of securing a fair market for this…
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In Department VI., Agriculture, of the Grand International Exhibition of 1879, there appears Class 639: wool, open to all nations. The schedule for this comprises ten divisions, which are…
Continued on Trove, page 1137 →Wheat Harvesting in South Australia
In this, the last of the series of articles upon South Australian wheat-farming which I was commissioned to write for the Mail, I am desirous of attracting particular attention to three of the most striking features of the colony of…
Continued on Trove, page 1131 →Australian Cattle and the United States. New York, Dec. 25
The American Government has issued regulations placing restrictions upon the importation of Australian cattle into the United States. The motive of the Government for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Prohibition of Importation of Australian Cattle Into the United States. London, December 25
The United States Government have issued regulations placing restrictions on the importation of Australian cattle. Their motive is unexplained…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Price of Wheat. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail
Sir,—Can any of your numerous readers, or yourself, give any advice to us farmers how we can regulate the price of wheat? It seems strange that, as soon as our wheat comes in, down comes the price. Then, after two or three months,…
Continued on Trove, page 1131 →Meeting of Farmers at Bathurst. BATHURST
A public meeting of farmers in the Bathurst district was held to-night, in the School of Arts Hall, for the purpose of considering the increases which the Government propose to make in railway rates on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1137 →The Weather, Agricultural, and Pastoral
Summer has opened with weather which is all that agriculturists or graziers could desire. The reports from inland districts are quite satisfactory, and along the coast line the pastures are verdant and the land in fine tilth. Grass is…
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