London Wool Sales
LONDON, May 2.—At the wool sales to-day 10,600 hales were offered. The demand is steady, bat not active. Cross-breds are generally firmer. French buyers are operating more freely…
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Late Agriculture. the Weather, Agricultural and Pastoral
The weather has been showery in portions of the coast districts since last report. There is a good spring in the grass, and the recent rains have given an impetus to farming operations. There is a sufficiency of water in most of the…
Continued on Trove, page 895 →The Clarence Pastoral and Agricultural Society's Show
The eighteenth annual show of this society, notwithstanding the very unfavourable season experienced by agriculturists and the district generally, bid fair to have been a tolerably successful one but for the rain, which prevented…
Continued on Trove, page 883 →Scrub for Sheep. To the Editor
SIR,—As grass in the western portion of this colony ia, I may Bay, a thing of the past, and no chance under any circumstance of there being a supply for the coming six months, I think as so many hundred…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Latest Pastoral News. [By Electric Telegraph] Melbourne
Messrs. King and Co. report:—Cattle: 1860 yardid; pricess higher, and quality, better as a whole. Prime bullocks, £11 10s to £11 5s; good, £9 10s to £10 10s; best cows, £7 10s to £9 15s. Our sales were Gippsland lots…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →The Pastoral Interest. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—It appears to me very extraordinary that the just and fair-dealing portion of the community seem to take no notice of the harsh and suicidal treatment pursued towards the pastoral tena[?]ts. As to our politicians, nothing [?]air or…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Commercial. Wool, Produce, and Stock Report
WOOL,—There have been no sales in the local market this week. The usual fortnightly catalogues will be submitt[?]d next week; and as the tenor of English news is rather more favourable, fair competition may be looked for…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Scrub for Sheep. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail
Sir,—As grass in the Western portion of this colony is, 1 may say, a thing of the past, and no chance under any circumstances of there being a supply for the coming six months, I think, as so many hundred thousands of sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 883 →Mort and Co.'s Monthly Wool and Produce Circular
Wool: The last mail from England brought us details of the prices realised during the closing days of the London February wool sales, the result being, we fear, as unsatisfactory to shippers as those of the earlier part of he series. In the majority of cases…
Continued on Trove, page 901 →ort and Co., Limited.—Monthly Wool and Produce Circular
WOOL.—The lost mail from England brought us details of [?] prices realised during tho closing dayfl of the London [?]bruary wool sales, the resalte being, we fear, as unsatis[?]troy to shippers as those of the, earlier part of the…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →Weather—Wool—Movements of Stock. the News in Brief
ALTHOUGS there are, and have been, undouoted evidences of the break-up of the long drought, it is no so satisfactory to learn that the rain has not been either so general or so copious as was expected, and…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Ost[?]ich Farming. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—In your issue of 2nd instant, I notice a paragraph in the News of the Day in which reference is made to a statement of Mr. Booth's, manager of the Swan Hill Ostrich F[?]rm, in which he narrates a circumstance of an…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farm and Garden. Scientific Agriculture
MR. SQUIRE W. PYE (who is now lecturing throughout the district in accordance with arrangements made by the Board of Technical Education)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australian Wheat
LONDON, May 10.—Several cargoes of AustraLian wheat are off the coast, for which 40s per quarter has been refused. The extreme value of cargoes to arrive is 40s per quarter…
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London, May 9.--At the wool sales to-day, 10,000 bales were offered. The market is firm. Good qualities are a halfpenny higher than at last sales…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London Wool Sales
LONDON, May 10.—At the wool sales, crossbreds have improved ½d. Other wools are firm. Since the opening of the present series 114,000 bales have been catalogued, of which 10,000 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The American Wheat Crop
LONDON, May 12.—The American Agricultural Bureau's monthly report estimates the winter wheat crop at 350,000,000 bushels…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Weather—agricultural and Pastoral
A welcome chance has occured in the weathe during the past week. The coast districts and several agricultural centres westward have been thoroughly well moistened. Mudgee, Dubbo, nearly all parts of Monaro, the Hunter…
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