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Farming & the land, 1881

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London Wool Sales

Evening News · Thursday 10 March 1881 · page 2

LONDON, March 8 At the wool sales to-day prices were firmer. The second series of the present year will commence in May…

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Commercial. Wool Sales.—wednesday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 March 1881 · page 6

By Messrs. Mort and Co.—Wool: AJC. 5 grease at 7½d; MK, 7 fleece at 14d; D in diamond, 9 fleece at 15d; JJ, 10 fleece at 14d; SM, 75 grease at 9d, 2 bellies at 4d; S over — over R, 8 fleece at 14[?]d; EMG. 9 fleece at 14½; W[?] over New England, 17 fleece…

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The Inverell Agricultural and Pastoral Snow. [By Electric Telegraph.]

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 March 1881 · page 3

The show opened to-day. The weather is splendid. The attendance was very good. The display of cattle was not up to the average in either quality or quantity. The sheep were in…

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Wool Sales

Evening News · Friday 11 March 1881 · page 2

LONDON, March 9 The next series of wool sales will commence on May 10. There is a long catalogue, consisting of arrivals to date and now afloat…

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The Wool Sales. London, March 8

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 March 1881 · page 3

The next series of colonial wool sales has been definitely fixed to commence on the 10th of May, when the total probable quantity available will amount to 350,000 bales…

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The Inverell Pastoral and Agricultural Show. [By Electric Telegraph.] Inverell

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 March 1881 · page 3

The show to-day was a great success. The attendance was very large. There was a splendid show of horses. The following were awarded prizes :-- Best Blood Stallion: Anderson's Drummer…

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Pastoral Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 March 1881 · page 19

At Balranald 4500 owes from Tohelory passed last wook for Gol Gol station, the property of J. H. Pattorson, W. Dawes in charge. At Balranald there have been a fow showers, but…

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Agricultural Pastoral Forthcoming Shows

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 March 1881 · page 414

Hawkesbury District Agricultural Association, 24th, 25th, and 26th March. Blarney Agricultural, Horticultural, and Pastoral Show, 31st March and 1st April…

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Disease Among Cattle

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 March 1881 · page 20

FROM the fact of stock being so plentiful in Australia, perhaps the requisite amount of attention is not paid to the cause of death in many cases. On large stations it is common to hear of…

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Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 March 1881 · page 16

LONDON, March 9— The next series of wool sales will commence on May 10. There is a long catalogue, consisting of arrivals to date and now afloat…

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London Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 March 1881 · page 6

Sale of 860 bales, from Sydney, by Webster, Darvell, and Co., on Tuesday, 7th December, 1860:- Ex Rodney, from Adelaide, with Sydney wool: MB, 16 scoured pieces at 18d, 4 at 15d, 8 locks at 14½d, ditto over T, [?] scoured at…

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Late Agriculture. the Weather, Agricultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 March 1881 · page 420

In the metropolis the most noteworthy phase of the weather of this week undoubtedly was the thunderstorm, accompanied by a heavy fall of hail, which occurred on Tuesday. The hailstones were the largest ever seen on the…

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The Transport of Wool

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 March 1881 · page 414

Messrs. Mort and Co.'s last monthly report comprises, with other interesting matters, some comments regarding the progress of Sydney's wool trade which are worthy of attention. We quote these:—"There…

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The London Wool Market

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 March 1881 · page 10

LONDON, March 7— The competition in the wool market is increasing, and the market is firmer. LONDON, March 8.— At the wool sales…

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Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Wagga

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 March 1881 · page 40

The stock market, is quiet for fat sheep. There are buyers, hut prices asked on the station for this class of took are beyond buyers ideas of value Store Cattle: It is almost impossible to do business in this class, although…

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The Wool Trade at Bourke

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 March 1881 · page 412

Bourke is the first important centre to which the wool is sent from the stations in the North-West for despatch to a port of shipment, and Bourke is the town to which the Great Western railway is being gradually…

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Commercial, Wool, Produce, and Stock Report

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 March 1881 · page 6

WOOL.—The quantity of wool offering in the local market is becoming smaller every week. This week Messrs. Mort and Co. and Brunker and Wolfe were the only auctioneers who sold publicly. At their…

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Wool Barge and Tug on Tub Darling River

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 March 1881 · page 413

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Mort and Co.'s Monthly Wool and Produce Circular

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 March 1881 · page 39

"Wool— The season for 1880-81, which is now drawing [?]o. a close, has been an unusually abort and active one, and, judging from the unfavourable opening of the current London sales, unusually good for those owners who clacted…

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Sydney Wool Trade. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 March 1881 · page 416

SIR,—We delayed reply to your articles of the 19th and 26th ultimo, until we could obtain further evidence in support of the correctness of the statements published in our annual review of the Wool Market on the 15th ultimo,…

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