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Farming & the land, 1885

1,876 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 94

The Wheat Market

Evening News · Monday 16 March 1885 · page 4

LONDON, March 14.—The wheat market is firmer. The quotations are—Ex-warehouse, 86s 6d per 496lb. A February shipment was sold at 85s 9d ; and off-coast cargos for the Continent, at…

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Pastoral Intelligence. Wiseman's Ferry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 March 1885 · page 8

The following are the local stock crossings:—1900 fat sheep, from Maitland, for Homebush; B. T[?], owner. BREWARRINA, MONDAY. The local stock movements to-day were:—9000 sheep…

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The Wool Sales. The New Series

Evening News · Wednesday 18 March 1885 · page 4

LONDON, March 17.—The new series of wool sales opened to-day. Messrs. Balme, Jacomb, and Co., have jointly catalogued about 7300 bales, principally from New South Wales and…

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Wool and Wheat Markets

Evening News · Thursday 19 March 1885 · page 6

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Sydney, received from London the following cablegram dated March 17:—Wool: The sales opened at the level of the last series on the 17th instant, except…

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The Wool Sales

Evening News · Thursday 19 March 1885 · page 4

LONDON, March 17.—The second series of colonial wool auctions for the present year began today. There was a good attendance of home and buyers. The total number of bales…

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London Wool and Produce Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 March 1885 · page 7

WOOL.—Writing on February 4, Messrs. Helmuth Sehwartze and Co. remark that since the opening of the series the market has gained somewhat in steadiness, and prices, especially for the butter classes of wool, are here and there a little higher, but an…

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Pastoral Intelligence. By Telegraph. (From Our Own Correspondents.) Barringun

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 March 1885 · page 10

The Warrego is still a banker. Grass and water are plentiful in this district, and the condition of the stock is good. The local stock passings are as under:—50 head of horses from Julius to Blackall…

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Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Show. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Yass

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 March 1885 · page 10

The Agricultural Show, which was held to-day, was one of the most successful of the kind over bold in Yass, the exhibits in the farm produce, fruit, vegetable, and ladies' fancy work clashes being of a numerous and high-class…

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Berrima District Pastoral and Agricultural Society's Show. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Moss Vale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 March 1885 · page 10

The second annual show of the Berrima District Agricultural Society opened this morning with fine weather, which if less warm would have been more agreable. The dry weather caused the new show ground to be rather…

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Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Gundagai

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 March 1885 · page 5

The local stock passings to-day are as follows:—12,000 sheep from near Tumut, on route for Narandera, Messrs. M'Culloch, Sellars, and Co., owners. COONAMBLE, THURSDAY…

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The Berrima District Pastoral and Agricultural Society's Show. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Special Reporter.) Second Day. Moss Vale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 March 1885 · page 8

The second day of the show was most enjoyable in every respect, the weather being delightful, and the attendance was about 3000. The parade of light-harness horses, hackneys, and ponies, which commenced shortly after 10…

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London Wool and Wheat

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 March 1885 · page 14

The New Zealand L[?]an and Mercantile Agency Co., Sydney, received, from London the following Cablegram dated March 17:—Wool: The Sales opened at the level of the last series on the 17th instant, except…

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Pastoral Intelligence

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 March 1885 · page 610

Our Deniliquin correspondent writes on the 16th instant:—There is no improvement in the local stuck business, but the appearances indicate a little more activity. Owners of stock are returning stock from where they were…

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Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 March 1885 · page 5

London, March 19. At the Wool sales to-day 3900 bales were offered. The market is quiet, and prices occasionally a half-penny lower, except for crossbreds. The total withdrawals to date are…

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Variegated Wool

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 March 1885 · page 23

Mr. Join D. Macansh, jun., of Canning Downs, writes to a contemporary as follows, under date 28th January:—"In the last issue of your paper I notice a clipping from the CUNNAMULLA EXPRESS…

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Wheat as Feed

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 March 1885 · page 22

Wheat will be fed to stock this year very much more generally than is usually the case in the colonies, and American experience with this grain is that it is healthy and productive of good results…

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London Wool Sales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 March 1885 · page 12

LONDON, March 17.—The second series of colo[?] wool auctions for the present year hogan to-[?]ay. There was a good attendance of home and foreign buyers. The total number of bales…

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Wheat Sowing—Silly Advice

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 March 1885 · page 21

An opinion was expressed a week or two ago by a South Australian paper that every farmer should try to procure some red rusty or shrivelled wheat to sow as seed, "because it is a well-ascertained fact that…

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Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Show. Yass

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 March 1885 · page 610

The Agricultural Show, which was held to-day, was one of the most successful of the kind ever held in Yass, the exhibits in the farm produce, fruit, vegetable, and lades' fancy work classes being of a numerous and high-class…

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Berrima District Pastoral and Agricultural Society's Show. Moss Vale

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 March 1885 · page 610

The second annual show of the Berrima District Agricultural Society opened this morning with fine weather, which if less warm would have been more agreeable. The dry weather caused the new show ground to be rather…

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