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Farming & the land, 1885

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Wool Sales.—monday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1885 · page 8

By Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devli[?], Limited.—Wool: R&D over M, 15 bales greasy at 8¾d; BDJ over New England, 16 greasy at 9d, CS over New England, 23 greasy at 9d; ALPS over Glengary, l8 fleece at 14¾d, WH over New England, 28…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1885 · page 7

Six thousand store sheep have been trucked from Nap Nap to Wagga, consigned to Rogers, who purchased from M'Queen and Co. 6000 more will be trucked on Tuesday. WAGGA WAGGA, SUNDAY…

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The Wheat Market

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 January 1885 · page 5

London, January 6.--Wheat has risen two to three shillings…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 January 1885 · page 10

The weather is hot and cloudy, thermometer 111 degrees in the shade. There has been a slight thunderstorm. The following are the stock movements: 13,000 sheep travelling from Yandah station, Bourke, to…

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Pastoral Intelligence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 January 1885 · page 8

The following reports have been received this week by the Chief Inspector of Stock from the districts named:- ALBURY.—Weather, fine, hot; pasture, good; water supply, sufficient; condition of stock, good. Movements of…

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The Wheat Market

Evening News · Thursday 8 January 1885 · page 2

LONDON, January 6 (evening).—The price of wheat has been further advanced 2s per 436lb…

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Wool Sales.—wednesday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 January 1885 · page 8

By Mort and Co., Limited,—JW over — over Bangadang, 11 greas[?] at 9½d; AN, 6 grease at 9¼d; to over M, 7 fleece at 13¼d; TM, 7 fleece at 14½d; JL over heart in diamond, 37 [?]ece at 15¼d; JBB, 31 grease at 8½d, 8 at 8½d; JH, 31 fleece at 14½. 26 grease at…

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Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 January 1885 · page 5

YASS, Thursday,--The Yass Pastoral and Agricultural Association have decided to hold an agricultural and horticultural show during the month of March, and the committee have arranged an…

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The Wheat Market

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 January 1885 · page 5

London, January 8.--The price of wheat is unchanged, and the market quiet…

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The Price of Wheat

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 January 1885 · page 4

For many years past the protectionists have been in the habit of twitting the freetraders with the fact that this colony has never grown a sufficient quantity of wheat for its own…

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New Stock Regulations. Diseases in Sheep Act

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1885 · page 5

A supplement to the Government Gazette publishes on Thursday afternoon contains a series of proclamations and regulations under the Diseases in Sheep Acts. The first proclamation suspends the operation of sections 52,5[?], and…

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Pastoral Districts

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 January 1885 · page 62

Our Albury correspondent writes on the 3rd instant:—Want of water is beginning to be seriously felt in several parts of this district, more particularly in the neighbourhood of Howlong, where a number of waterholes hitherto…

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London Wool Market

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 January 1885 · page 11

LONDON, January 6.—Wool market quiet 110,000 bales received for next sales…

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Latest Pastoral News. (By Telegraph.) Gunnedah

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 January 1885 · page 41

Messrs. F. Bacon and Co. report that the Weather continues hot an dry in Gunnnedah. Stock routes are very bare, and the water supply is receding. Stock is in good order. Store stock is saleable at lower prices. They sold…

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Wheat as a Feeding Stuff

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 January 1885 · page 21

The extraordinary low value of wheat places it in a position never previously experienced in Australia. We have actually now to look to this grain as a feed stuff for stock, and to the experience of those who…

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New Stock Regulations. Diseases in Sheep Act

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 January 1885 · page 83

A supplement to the Government Gazette published on Thursday afternoon contains a series of proclamations and regulations under the Diseases in Sheep Acts. The first proclamation suspends the operation of sections 52, 53, and…

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Commercial. Wool, Produce, and Stock Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1885 · page 12

WOOL.—At the auction sales this week 11,990 bales were offered, composed largely of inferior to medium greasy descriptions, though there is now a larger proportion of washed clips than there was earlier in the season. Good…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1885 · page 12

The weather is dull and like rain. Thirteen mixed horses left here to-day for Tamworth, in charge of Mr. Anderson. Sixteen mixed horses left here also for Bullar, Bourke River, Queensland, in charge of Mr. George Davis…

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The Grazier. Report on a Skin Disease of Sheep, near Young. R. Von Lindenfeld, Ph. D. to the Chief Inspector of Sheep

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 January 1885 · page 22

As the result of my investigations carried on in the Young district for the department of stock, I beg to submit this report. The sheep on the stations of Messrs. Gibbs and Son and W. Rutherford were…

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Weather, Wool, Movements of Stock. the Week's News by Telegraph and Mail

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 January 1885 · page 23

As returns come in, at the end of the year, of the wool business done for 1884, it is seen that, instead of a falling off, as was generally expected, the wool business actually done in Sydney shows a marked…

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