The Wheat Market
LONDON, Thursday, -- Off-coast cargoes of wheat are selling at 35s. 3d…
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The Wool Trade
Our total shipments for last season (1884-85) amounted to 292,000 bales, and the arrivals of wool in Sydney and Newcastle to the 11th instant reach 180,000 bale's, so that about two-thirds of the colony's export will have reached…
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MORT AND Co.—Wool: A catalogue of 4200 bales wool was brought forward by Messrs. Mort and Co. yesterday; and as a number of well-known southern clips were included, the sale attracted considerable attention. The attendance…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →Cattle in the United States
The annual report of the chief of the Bureau of Statistics at Washington shows that the cattle-raising interest of the United States is rapidly increasing. Whereas in 1880 the number of cattle was 35,925,511, in 1884 it was…
Continued on Trove, page 1029 →The Champion Sheep of the Wentworth Show
We give in this issue the portraits of the ram and ewe which won the champion honours of the show recently held at Wentworth. The Owl, aged 2 years, winner of Messrs. James Service…
Continued on Trove, page 1030 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Coonamble
The local stock movements are as under:—110 head of fat cattle passed here on Thursday, going via Dubbo to Sydney; 1600 fat sheep are about starting from Wingengah and Minbie stations for Sydney, via Nevertire, Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Selectors' Homes. No. Iv. Isometric View and Plan of Farmyard
Few persons are able to "read off plans." and therefore I have illustrated the subject of this article in an isometric view, which will give a better conception of the plan than any amount of elevations and sections, and it possesses this…
Continued on Trove, page 1032 →Farmers' Excursion Trains
One of the first reforms in the railway system proposed to be carried out by the Hon. W. J. Lyne will meet with the hearty approval of people residing in the country, and that is the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Poultry Yard. Poultry Farming
A visit to the pretty place of Mr. Hope, Bonnierigg Park, near Liverpool, makes us hope that poultry farming on a somewhat large scale is to be numbered amongst our industries. Mr. Hope has already some…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Among American Farmers. No. Xviii.—an Egg Farm. Special Reporter for the Town and Country Journal in America
Perhaps in no department of farming have there been more failures than in the attempts to carry on establishments devoted entirely to the keeping of poultry. A limited number of fowls can be kept…
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MA[?]TLAND, Saturday.—An extraordinary occurrence is reported to have happened a few days ago, while some six hundred head of cattle were being taken from the M'Intyre to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alleged Sheep-Stealing
In the Carcoar police court, on Saturday, before Mr. N.Connolly, P.M., Alfred Muggleton was charged with sheep-stealing from the run of Mr. W. M. Rotherie. One sheep was discovered on the run with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Commercial News. Wheat and Flour Markets
LONDON, November 14.—Victorian 4 per cent. loan (January) 105[?], New South Wales 4 per cent. 106. The stagnation in the wheat market continues, and prices are unchanged. Two sea…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Wagga Wagga
The following are the local stock passings:—150 ewes, Messrs. Breen's from Culcairn to Canowindra. BOURKE, SATURDAY. The local stock movements are as under:—324 fat…
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TAROOM (Q)—A correspondent wrote a new [?]ays ago:—Mr. Holmes, of Roma, has again passed through the town on a gleaning expedition for fats ; all the large lots of bullocks hereabouts have been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Wagga Wagga
The following are the local stock passings:—2000 wethers, executors of Mr. D. P. Keogh owners, from Budigower to Sydney: 2700 mixed sheep, Mr. David Hannah's, from Cowabbie to Albury; 5257 mixed sheep, Mrs. Donnelly's,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Farm and Dairy Produce
Fairly large consignments were forward yesterday at Darling Harbor, and the sales showed a good attendance with firm values. Lucerne hay still shows an upward tendency. On the wharves, where as at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pastoral
PORT MACQUARIE, Tuesday.—The weather continues fearfully dry, and the country is looking parched. Cattle are dying for want of water, and farming operations are at a standstill…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wool Safes
LONDON, November 17.—The steamship Australasian, from Sydney and other Australian ports, is reported off Teneriffe. She will arrive late for the new series of wool sales…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Hay
The grass in this district is being burnt up by the extreme heat, but water is plentiful. The local stock movements are as under:—800 store bullocks crossed for Victoria; 2900 fat sheep, from Elwah, for Sydney; 9500…
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