Farm Produce
At the Darling Harbour Railway Terminus, this morning, there was a large supply of forage and produce from the various intermediate station on the western and southern lines. The market was…
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The Colonial Wool Sales
LONDON, February 20.—The February-March series of colonial wool auctions opened to-day. There was a large attendance of home and foreign buyers, and a good demand prevailed throughout…
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LONDON, February 20.—The first of the 1883 series of wool sales were opened to-day. There was a full attendance of buyers, but the catalogue submitted did not come up to expectations. In…
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We are informed that Mr. R. Newton, a gentleman commissioned by the Government of Buenos Ayers to visit the Australian colonies and study the system of stock-farming adopted here, has recently arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Weather, Agricultural, and Pastoral
Storms have been prevalent lately in all the coastal districts, in some localities of extraordinary violence, doing damage to fruit and grain crops, and endangering or taking life by the irresistible rush of flood waters. New England…
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The February-March series of colonial wool auctions opened to-duy. The[?]e was a large attendance of home and foreign buyers, and a good demand prevailed throughout the sale,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Californian Sheep
There arrived in this port on the 10th instant, by the Australia, an interesting shipment from California in the shape of two dozen merino sheep, which may be fairly regardly as pleasing representative specimens of the best…
Continued on Trove, page 356 →Cattle and Beef
The disparity between the price of fat cattle and the price of beef is sufficiently great to attract attention, and to call for a remedy. A diagnosis of the case reveals the…
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AT the last meeting of the Pastoral and Agricultural Society, reported by the "Pastoral Times," the muchvexed question respecting artificially fed sheep again came up for consideration, partly through a letter…
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Mr. Cass, M.L.A., and Mr. Pollin, Mayor of Coonamble, waited upon the Minister for Mines on February 16, with a view to Saving the boundaries under the Sheep Diseases Act altered, es great inconvenience arose through the distances…
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The Australian Mortgage Land and Finance Company (limited) have received the following telegram from Messrs Helmuth, Schwartze, and Co., London, dated 21st instant:--"Sales continue animated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Late Agriculture. the Weather—agricultural and Pastoral
The weather of the past week has been for the greater part warm and dry. Heavy clouds hung over the coast; but only a few light showers fell. Farmers have a good moist soil to operate upon, and in many…
Continued on Trove, page 376 →The London Wool Sales
THE February seires of London wool sales commenced on the 20th instant. The number of bales catalogued is stated to be 150,000 ; and the further announcement is made that no wool…
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LONDON, February 20.—The first of the 1883 series of wool sales were opened to-day by Messrs. Balme and Co. There was a full attendance of buyers, but the catalogue submitted did not come…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Parkes Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horticultural Association. FEBRUARY 20
The fourth annual show of the Parkes Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horticultural Association was held on the ground on Thursday last, and the attendance was Rood. There were many more present than was expected, perhaps 600…
Continued on Trove, page 354 →Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Melbourne
MESSRS. King and Cuningham report:—Cattle: 1856, yarded; prime again scarce, selling at last week's rates; for others, prices easier. Quotations—Best bullocks, £12 to £13 5s, good £9 9s to £10 10s, medium £7 10s, best cows to…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →The Wool Sales. London, February 22
At the wool sales to-day. 11,700 bales were offered. The market is firm and active. Lambs wools are a half-penny to one penny higher, and the demand for hides is steady…
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The arrivals during the month have been considerably under the average, consequently the business transacted has been unimportant, 13,[?]30 bales having been sold out of 14,184 bales catalogued. Although the offerings, as is usual towards the close…
Continued on Trove, page 379 →Goldsbrough's Annual Review of the Wool Trade
THE monthly circular of Goldsbrough and Co. for February says:—The arrivals during the month have been considerably under the average, consequently the business transacted has been…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →High-class Farming in Australia. Ii.—a Dairy Farm
SUMMERLEIGH, near Romsey, belonging to Mr. J Hurst, to which the first prize was awarded in the class for dairy farms, comprises 1200 acres, subdivided into 14 fields. The property is well-watered…
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