The Wool Sales
London, March 28.—At the wool safes about 110,000 bales have been catalogued since the opening of the present series, of which quantity about 11,500 bales were withdrawn. Crossbreds…
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The French Duties on Cattle. London, March 29
The French Legislature has increased the duties on cattle imported into France…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Armidale
The weather continues fine, and there is an abundance of grass and water. The late rains to the westward have caused a very brisk demand for store cattle and sheep on New England. Large mobs of both cattle and sheep are…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.[(from Our Own Correspondents.) Narrandera
The weather is fine and cool. About 40 points of rain fell vcaterdsy. The grass is growing slowly. The condition of stock is very good. Sebveral large lots of sheep passed through this week on their way down the river from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Turtle Farm
One of the latest ventures of our ingenious and enterprising Yankee cousins is of a decidedly novel character, and has taken the form of turtle raising. It occurred to an enterprising Yankee that turtle…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Wool Sales
LONDON, March 30.—At the wool sales to-day, about 8300 bales were catalogued. There was a good demand…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Walgett
Water and feed are plantiful now on the stations and on the stock rentes in this district, with the exception of some stages on the Coonamble and the Narran, via Bangate, rentes. The nights are golting cold, but the days are fine…
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Sales of 1287 bales, from Sydney and Queenslrnd, by J. T. Simes and Co., on Tuesday, February [?], 1885:- Ex Patriarch and Yeoman, from Sydney: CO over AA, 3 clothing at 25d, 9 at 23d, 5 at 21½d. 9 combings hoggets at 24d,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →London Wool and Produce Sales
WooL.—Nothing had occurred during the week following the close of the first series of sales for the year. At the tallow auction sale on the 30th February, Messrs. Anning and Cabb report that 1[?]20 packages of Australian vere offered and [?]50…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Albury
The late timely showers have freshened up the pastures, and if the frost keeps away for a few weeks longer there should be a fair supply of fe[?]d for the winter months. On the high lands up the river, however, very sovere weather is…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Barringun
The local stock movements are as under:—11,000 mixed weaners from Guomery station en route to Messrs. Armstrong and Erquhardt's Ruthven station; 100 horses from Dubbo, going to the Herbert River. The weather is cool,…
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Our Nyngan correspondent writes on Match 30:—"Since last week a splendid rain visited this district. The rain, which commenced on Sunday morning last, continued at intervals till Tuesday, during which time about 2½ inches…
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LONDON, March 31.—At the, wool sales to-day 11,000 bales were offered. The market is quieter…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Wool and Sheepskins
Messrs. Mort and Co. report Wool There is no change to note in this market. Private inquiry continues active but in the face of recent news from England we cannot look for any early improvement in prices. The wool now…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →Wheat Selection for Seed
I grew some fine wheat last year, 150 heads from one grain of seed, the largest head containing 102 grains; total grown from one seed, 12,000 grains. The ears Were fully nine inches long; the wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Latest Pastoral News. [By Telegraph.] Gunnedah
Messrs. F. Bacon and Co. report unseasonably warm weather prevails. The stock is all in fine order, and the pasture generally fair, although the water supply is getting short; Briek demand forr.store sheep and cattle of all…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →The Dynamiters. Cardinal M'cabe's Pastoral. a Repudiation
The last pastoral of the late Cardinal M'Cabe has been received is the colonies. He spoke thus strongly about the fiendish plot of the dynamiters :— We are convinced that we speak the sentiments of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Average Bale of Wool
The average value per bale of colonial wool, which has varied from £15 15s to £26 10s during the past 25 years, stood for the year 1884 at £l6, or within 5s of the lowest point touched during, a quarter of a…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Commercial. Wool, Produce, and Stock Sales
Wool.—Only one auction sale was held during the Week, at which 416 bales were catalogued, consisting chiefly of small lots of greasy and scoured. Competition was slack for most of the [?] but superior acoured and greasy lines…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dairy Farming of the Present Day. II
In growing mangels the author would recommend the application of 10 to 12 tons of farmyard manure and 2cwt. of nitrate of soda to the acre, which he has found to produce a better crop than 30 tons of farmyard manure alone…
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