Farm and Dairy Produce
Business on Saturday was only moderately active and transactions showed little alteration in values. The following are the market quotations:-- BACON.--Fairly brisk, Hand-cured 8½d. to 9d.:…
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Farmers and Protection. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir,--In your issue of 16th instant a correspondent signing himself "A.M.G." wishes me to show him a system of protection which would benefit him as a farmer in his particular case…
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MELBOURNE WOOLS SALE.—The Melbourne [?] of October 24 said:—Although a large decrease to date is shown in the local wool sales, this must not be ascribed to any great extent to the diminished…
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The exhaustive report on the woolproduction of the Argentine Republic, which we published a few weeks back, must set at rest all doubts concerning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Bourke
The local stock movements are as follows:—1000 bullocks from Surbiton to Victoria, Mr. Kilgour, owner; 750 bullocks from Alpha, for sale, now on the Common; 70 rams, form Sydney to Brindingabba, Messrs. Christian…
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COONAMBLE, Tuesday.—Stock movements: 4900 wethers (Chambers and Co.) passed here on the 25th instant from carwell station to Molly station, near Narrib[?] Mr. J. Mutton, owner, passed…
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WOOL.—The latest wool circulars to 18th September report a dull market. Messrs. Helmuth Schwartze and Co. state that the deeline on merino greasy wool may, generally speaking, be said to amount to 1d. per 1b. The bulk of the supplies consists of New…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pastoral Intelligence. by Telegraph. (From Our Own Correspondents.) Hay
The weather is very hot and dry, and the grass is burning off rapidly. The stock, however, are in good condition. The local stock movements are as under:—4600 store…
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An extraordinary affair occurred near Tralee (Ireland). Captain Chute, Ballymullen, had a crop of oats growing on an " evicted" farm at Ballymacell-yott, which was just ripe for cutting. One morning…
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Complaints are continual of the dangerous manner in which the drays conveying wool through the city are loaded. Yesterday a lorry piled up with bales, in passing the Treasury, discharged without notice…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Albury
The pastures continue to make [?] luxuriant growth, and stock of all kinds remain in fine order. The grain crops are coming on fairly well, but will need a few showers before long. Reports just to band state that the "take-all" has…
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WALGETT, Thursday.—The station owners are [?] the country wherever it is proonrable,and large numbers of stook are leaving the district for Forbes and the Began. The supply of water gathered…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Albury
The following are the local stock movements:—830 crossbred wethers, from Arundel to Est[?]urt, Victoria, Mr. W. Burns; 20 merino ram[?], from Wangamong to Rotherfield, Messrs. Wallace and Guernet, owner; 8691 merino wethers [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sale of Ercildoune Stud Sheep. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne
The eighth annual sale of Ercildoune stud rums and owes took place to-day. The attendance was smaller than usual, many of the sheep-breeders from New South Wales being kept away owing to the elections. Low prices ruled, and a…
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In the Soudan Hotel, on Thursday, Mr.W.T.Pinhey, J.P., held a magisterial inquiry on the body of a man named Patrick Kelly, found floating in Ferm cove on Wednesday. The medical testimony…
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Our Wagga Wagga correspondent writes on the 27th instant:—It is a gratifying fact that the average lambing and clip throughout the district has exceeded the expectations of our woolgrowers. The country in Lower Riverina presents…
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WALGETT, Thursday.—The station owners are renting the country wherever it is procurable, and large numbers of stock are leaving the district for Forbes and the Bogan. The supply of water gathered…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →Ensilage in Pastoral Country
The fact that very little progress has been made indie way of ensiling fodder in this colony is due more to the dryness of seasons than the disinclination of pastoralists to give the new system a fair trial. Mr. Walter Lamb's…
Continued on Trove, page 925 →South American Wool
Mr. J. S. Hermann Schmidt writes to the Queens lander:—"As far hack as the year 1860 the increasing;, production of wool at a low cost in the La Plata district; became an object of astonishment and apprehension—of…
Continued on Trove, page 947 →Rust, the Enemy of Wheat
A parasite may be either a plant living upon another plant, or it may be an animal living upon plants, as in the case of aphis and plant lice; or the parasite may live…
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