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Farming & the land, 1886

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The Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 31 March 1886 · page 5
Also in Evening News, Evening News

London, Monday.--At the wool sales to-day 10,500 bales were offered. The market is quiet. Crossbreds, low qualities, are firm; merinoes, 12d, to 1d…

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Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Brewarrina

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 March 1886 · page 10

170 cattle, from Woolerina to Dubbo, pass through to-morrow. 4800 sheep. Armstrong and Co.'s. left Milroy for Queensland…

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The Wool Sales. London, March 30

Globe · Wednesday 31 March 1886 · page 5

At the wool salon to-day, 10,600 bales were offered. The market is dull…

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The Wool Sales. London, March 29

Globe · Wednesday 31 March 1886 · page 8

At the wool sales to-day 10,500 bales were offered. The market is quiet. Crossbreads, low qualities are firm; merinos half-penny to one penny lower than at last…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 April 1886 · page 5

The general rainfall which has been during the last month moat anxiously looked for has not yet taken place. Last week a few severe thunderstorms readered good service in some districts, notably in Kinma and Mndgee,…

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Agricultural and Pastoral. Farm Work for April

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 1 April 1886 · page 3

The season so far has been very unfavorable to farmers and stock owners, and the outlook at the present time is by no means so satisfactory as could be desired. Both crops and…

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The Wool Sales

Evening News · Thursday 1 April 1886 · page 5
Also in The Daily Telegraph

LONDON, March 31.—At the wool sales to-day about 10,300 bales were offered. The market was weak. Greasy was -£d to Id lower than at the last sales, and. fleece about 1d to 1½d lower than…

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Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondet.) Bourke

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 April 1886 · page 12

The following stock movements are reported:—8 head of superior horses trucked to test the Sydney market from F. Bloxham to W[?] Graves 2.70 horses Warraweena to Nelyambo, Palmer Brothers; 50 horses, Bourke to…

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Farmers' Trains

Globe · Thursday 1 April 1886 · page 8

Mr. Clark asked the Minister for Works if it was his intention to continue the running of so-called farmers' trains. The trains were not used, or he would not…

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Pastoral. Weather, Wool, Stock Movements, &c

Evening News · Friday 2 April 1886 · page 6

WINTON (Q.), Thursday, April 1.—Last week slight showers fell in this district. Manuka reports 3in, Vindex 26 points, Winton 44 points. All indications of rain have disappeared for the present. Stock…

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The Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 April 1886 · page 5

London, Wednesday.--At the wool sales to-day 10,800 bales were offered. The market is weak. Greasy, 12d. to ld. lower than inst sales fleece, about ld…

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London Wool and Produce Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 April 1886 · page 10

Wool.—The first series of salos for the current year, which began on January 19, was brought to a close on February 13. According to Messrs. Jacomb, Son, and Co. the result of these sales adds one more page to a long chapter of disappointments…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 April 1886 · page 8

The weather continues unseasonably warm, and the results of the long drought are becoming every day more serious. The following are the principal stock movements:—300 mixed merino sheep, from Burrowye to…

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Pastoral

Evening News · Saturday 3 April 1886 · page 6

TEMORA, Thursday, April 1.—The weather is very dry, with warm days and cool nights. There is no appearance of a change. The country is bare and parched. There is bo chance of ploughing. If it does…

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Pastoral Intelligence

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 April 1886 · page 688

Our Grafton correspondent writes on the 27th ultimo:—It is reported that pleuropneumonia is at present in the district, and on that a good many deaths have occurred on a station where it has broken out. The caterpillars have…

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The Bishops' Pastoral

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 April 1886 · page 12

IT was only to be expected that the Joint Pastoral of the Bishops of Australasia would call forth a considerable amount of criticism. Unwittingly, the world instinctively pays a…

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Latest Pastoral News

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 April 1886 · page 42

ALBURY, Thursday, April 1.—Stock movements: 300 mixed merino sheep (G. Hempenstall), from Burrowye to Albury market; 1500 merino ewes (J. Newson), from Roundhill to Fassifern, Victoria; 560…

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