Antwerp Wool Sales
Antwerp, Tuesday.--The wool auctions opened yesterday. Prices are almost unchanged as compared with the closing rates of last sales…
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The London Wool and Produce Trade
Wool.—Messrs. Charles Balme and Co. remark, since the opening of the public sales the market has further weakened, and prices for merino descriptions, approximate once more very closely to the June rates. Scoured and snow-white Capes and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Agricultural and Pastoral. Pig Mouth in Dairy Cattle
The attention of the Chief Inspector of Stock having some months ago been directed by Mr. John Stuart, of Broughton Creek, to a serious evil to the dairy farmers in the Southern…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Carriage of Wool
We are informed that the traffic manager has reported to the Commissioner for Railways that on the 15th inst. about 50 teams with wool had arrived at Bourke station, and that 10 more…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Albury
Stock movements: 65 fat cattle, from Nangus, for Melbourne, R. Jenkins, owner; 7800 morino sheep, from Springvale, for Cuddell, Riall Brothers; 5450 merino sheep, from Kolangie, Victoria, for Bowna, W. J. Lyne;…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wool Market
London, Wednesday.--The tone of the market is firm. The new arrivals to date for next sales number 180,000 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Coonamble
There are now passing, Adombagolong station from Tinenboro, about 600 store bullocks, going south, James Tyson owner; 10,000 ewes, Pastwood and Wilds, Gradgery station, yesterday, going to Queensland, via Coonamble…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Latest Pastoral News
THE WEATHER.—A great change has taken place in the weather; heavy rains being reported from most parts of New South Wales. Among Wednesday's reports were the following:—Bathurst: Yesterday was the hottest day…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →Tainted Butter
A curious experience concerning tainted butter is given in the following letter from Mr. J. Hamilton to the Southland Times:—"I feel sorry to shock the tender feelings of not a few who have to use butter not quite to their tastes…
Continued on Trove, page 177 →New South Wales Wheat Crop
From every corner of the colony comes glowing accounts of the wheat crop. After, careful con[?]deration, and making due allowance for light late crops, we find that the wheat crop of the colony…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →The Weather, Pastoral, &c
Extreme heat and no rain have had a bad effect on the pastures, which are now rather brown and desiccated. But there are still plenty of nutritious food and pleasing signs of a general rainfall. The stock are in…
Continued on Trove, page 177 →Dubbo Wheat
The people of Dubbo are disappointed with their wheat fields. The late storms have destroyed a great deal. Only about a general average of twenty bushels per acre will be garnered…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Commercial, Pastoral, and Agricultural Association
We have received a pamphlet issued by the above-mentioned association giving an account of its origin and purpose. For some months past occasional notices of the doings of this association have appeared in the press, but…
Continued on Trove, page 177 →Wool Traffic
"We are informed that the Traffic Manager has reported to the Commissioner for Railways that on the 15th instant about 50 teams with wool had arrived at Bourke station, and that 10 more teams were in the…
Continued on Trove, page 169 →Wool Sales
LONDON, January 13.—There is a brisk demand for wool. 3000 bales have been sold at an advance of from 5 to 10 per cent. on the lowest December rates…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Working Butter by hand
Mr. George Barham, in the course of an address at the Tring Show, said he was very much surprised to see that in the Vale of Tylesbury, noted as it was, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pig Mouth in Cattle
Some months ago Mr. John Stewart, of Broughton Creek, drew the attention of the Chief inspector of Stock to a serious evil to the dairy fanners in the Southern Coast districts, caused by a malformation of the mouth in many of…
Continued on Trove, page 197 →Sydney Wool Sales
MESSRS. HARRISON, JONES, AND DEVLIN, LIMITED.— Wool: We held our weekly sale to-day, submitting a catalogue of 3195 bales. The increasing competition which was so marked last Monday was fully maintained, and…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Grains as a Cattle Food
There have always been differences of opinion as to the value of grains as a food for cattle, and more especially of dairy cattle (observed an English agriculturist). Yet the difference is based more upon…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →The American Wheat Harvest
London, Jan. 14.—The official estimate of the wheat harvest in America gives a total yield of 457,000,000 bushels…
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