Wool
LONDON, May 10.—The quantity of wool offered to-day was 112,100 bales. The progress without noticeable change…
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London Wool Sales
LONDON, May 11.—The tone of the wool market is firmer…
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At the wool sales to-day 12,100 bales were offered. Prices are Tinner, and for locks there is a fair demand…
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Sale of [?] bales,from Sydney and Queensland, by Jacomb, Son and Co. Ex Thermopylæ and Hankow, from Sydney: H Bell, 49 scoured combing at 27½d, 18 at 25½d, 7 pelts at 21½d; H B…
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LONDON, May 12.—The quantity of wool offered at auction at to-day's sales was 10,700 bales and the business done was chiefly in inferior qualities…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep and Sheep Farming. Adaptation of Sheep to Climate
No animal varies more than the sheep, and none so speedily adapts itself to climate. It would almost appear that Nature, convinced of its great utility, had bestowed upon it a constitution so pliant as to enable it…
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The Warren Pastoral Association Show has been postponed from 25th May to 3rd June. There has been a heavy fall of rain on the Upper Darling, in the neigh bourhood of Brewarrina…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The Best Dairy Cattle
AT the quarterly meeting of the Dapto Agricultural Society held on the 29th April, the following interesting discussion took place in reference to the best breed of cattle for dairying purposes. After the…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →California's Wheat Crop
San Francisco, March 25.—Crop reports indicate that wheat throughout the State promises at least an average harvest, although more rain is needed. Since the date of those reports a general…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Weather—Agricultural and Pastoral
The week which ended on the 8th instant closed with a violent gale from the south, which enveloped Sydney in dust, and generally proved unpleasant. Very light showers succeeded this, and the rainfall throughout the colony…
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A CORRESPONDENT writing from London, whose letter has been received by the last mail, gives the following description of the pure Durham cattle just purchased for Mr. William M'Culloch, of…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Rambouillet Sheep. To the Editor
SIR,—In the TOWN AND COUNTRY of the 1st instant, I see, under the heading of "Were they Rambouillet sheep?" a letter from Mr. George Broughton, in which he says, "I see Mr. de Savignon asserts that the Rambouillet sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The Price of Butter in England
An Ipswich journal publishes some particulars which should prove interesting to the dairymen of this colony, especially as there is now a prospect of Australian butter being commonly used in England. The…
Continued on Trove, page 910 →The Rise in Wool
Shippers will find the returns from the last London wool sales far better than they anticipated. While wool, all round, sold well, the rise was most remarkable in greasy crossbreds, and…
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LONDON, May.—The quantity of wool catalogued to-day was 9800 bales, and the competition by both home and foreign buyers was dull…
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Mudgree Pastoral and Agricultural Association, Mudgee, 19th May. Warren Pastoral and Agricultural Association, Warren, 3rd June…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Foot Rot in Sheep. To the Editor
SIR,—In a recent issue I saw an article on foot rot in sheep. If you can spare me the space, I should like to make a few remarks upon it. In the first part it mentions a malignant and contagious form of foot…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Latest Commercial. the London Wool Sales
LONDON, May 6.—The quantrty of wool offered at auction to-day was 8200 bales, and there was a moderate demand for all kinds…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Grazier. Experiment in Sheep Shearing. (From the Melbourne Leader.)
MR. William Armstrong, of Hexham Park estate, near Hexham, is this year conducting an exporiment, which will be watched with great interest by all sheep owners, and which is likely to have a material…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The United States Duty Upon Foreign Wool. New York, May 8
A special committee of the House of Representatives at Washington was recently appointed for the purpose of revising the United States Customs tariff, and it has been…
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