London Wool Sales
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 13
Sale of 3292 bales from Sydney and Queensland, by Jacombe, Son, and Co., on Tuesday, September 21, 1886:— Ex Gretna, from Sydney: CHR, Currah, 7 scoured clothing at 22d, 4 mixed at 19½d, 1 pieces at 15d; GO, Foxlow, 20 scoured…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 5
London, Thursday.--wool is quiet, but steady. The new arrivals to date amount to 120,000 bales…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 22
An American con. temporary gives the following as the cost of wheat growing in Miohigan, and some other western states: Ploughing 7s 2d per aore, fitting 4s 6d, fertilisers…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 6
Grafton, Friday.--Mr. Angus Mackay, the lecturer from the Board of Technical Education of Sydney, delivered a very interesting lecture upon " The Growth of Maize and its Diseases,"…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 13
Auctions in this market were resumed on Monday, the prices realised on that day being about on a par with those current prior to the holidays. The next day, however, a strong private inquiry set in on foreign account, caused, no…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 21
The following remarks are taken from Mr. Carruthers's paper in the JOURNAL of the Royal Agricultural Society of England:— "The injury done to the wheat by the rust and…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 72
A correspondent at Nuriootpa, writing to the Kapunda Herald under date December 28, says:—"As I arranged with you some time ago, I now send you full particulars of the result of my experiments with the African bearded…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 5
London, Thursday.--January wheat is quoted at 38s, 3d…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 23
The weather during the past week has been bright and warm, and in some places very hot, with occasional storms, unaccompanied in most plaoes by more than light passing showers, although in Bathurst on…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 11
Fifteen hundred bales of wool have been sold privately at an advance of from 1/2d. to 3/4d. on the closing rates of the last auction sales…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 12
Stock crossings to-day.—From Plashad, for Homebush, 155 fat bullocks, Mr. B. Tierney owner. WAGGA WAGGA, FRIDAY. The following stock have passed here: 8000 ewes and 40…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 13
The Australasian Mortgage and Agency Company, Limited, report:—We offered to-day 4430 bales of wool, and sold 3860. There was very active competition in both greasy and scoured, especially in grensies for continental manufactures which…
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Nepean Times · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 2
Mr. P. H. Fahin, a furniture and piano mover at Maiden, gives his experience in the Boston Transcript with barefooted horses, He has driven three horses (two…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 22
FLOWERING PLANTS.—It is estimated that about one hundred thousand species of flowering plants are now known to botanists. OVERLADEN FRUIT TREES mature their fruit…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 43
At the Darling Harbor hay sales during the week the supply of prime dry forage has much inoreased in quantity, and prices of really prime hay are satisfactory. On the wharves there is a good supply of…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 15
The members of the Hunter River Farmers' Association held their eleventh half-yearly meeting in the School of Arts, West Maitland, on Tuesday evening. Mr. John Mitchell presided. A most encouraging…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 January 1887 · page 7
According to the calculations of the Queenslander the Australian colonies at the present time are not producing more meat than is required for home consumption. If these…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 January 1887 · page 5
London, Friday,--The wool market shows great signs of improvement in wools of certain descriptions, and prices obtainable for greasy Australian merino…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 January 1887 · page 7
It is not generally known in other countries that in France what is termed the " metayage" system is very extensively practised in farming. Metayage, it may be as well to mention, is a…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 January 1887 · page 7
Messrs. Harrison, Jones and Devlin held their weekly wool sale yesterday, when they brought forward a catalogue of 3069 bales, and privately and by auction disposed of 3912…
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