Agricultural and Pastoral
The long-continued spell of wet weather has crused serious injury to the grain crops in those districts where the harvest is still in progress. Many of the crops were being harvested when…
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The Wool Sales
London, Thursday.--At the wool sales to-day, 12,200 bales were offered. Prices were firm…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pastoral Tntelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Albury, Thursda
The following stock movements are reported:—10,000 merino wethers, from Victoria for Coolamundra, W. Readon owner…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondents.) Wagga Wagga
The following are approaching:—6785 wethers, J. Cunningham's, from Carabost to Queaanbeyan; M. Herrick in charge. WISEMAN'S FERRY, THURSDAY…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Clarence River Farmers and Protection
A man meeting of the citizens of Sydney was held last night in the Town Hall in compliance with a requisition from the farmers of the Clarence River district, to consider what steps should be taken to develop the resources of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Clarence River Farmers
A public meeting, called in response to an appeal made by the Clarence River Farmers' Union, was held in the Towa-hall last evening under the presidency of Alderman John Young,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Import Duties on Agricultural Produce. the Clarence River Farmers Appeal to Sidney. Mass Meeting of Citizens
A mass meeting of citizens, convened in response to a large requisition from the farmers of the Clarence River district, was held in the Sydney Town-hall last evening. The building…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Weather, Pastoral, Crops, &c
The telegrams which reached Sydney on Friday and Saturday last reported rain more or less heavy over nearly the whole of the colony. Generally speaking, it was very welcome, but in some districts farmers…
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FORBES, Friday.--The only selection taken up at Forbes Land-office on Thursday was 100a. conditional purchase. Arthur Herbert Green, Munbidgle. The weather to-day has been very…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farmer. Sheep Poisoned by an Arsenical Power Dip
The mails from South Africa bring tidings of another of these wholesale poisonings of sheep that have happened from time to time, filling the minds of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Great Cattle Range
According to the Now York journals, the great plateau between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra, comprising the territory of Utah and the state of Nevada,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Wheat Market
The estimate of 25 bushels per acre as the average yield of the wheat crop in the United Kingdom this year, made by the STANDARD'S agricultural contributor just after harvest, was, until recently, the…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →American Wheat Growing
Figures show that the corn fields of the United States cover a territory as large as England, Scotland, and Belgium united, while the grain fields surpass Spain in territorial…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The Wool Sales
LONDON, January 25.—Messrs. C. Blame and Son resumed their wool sales to-day. The catalogue consisted of 8000 bales. There was a crowded attendance of buyers. The mean average…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Wool Market
London, Thursday.--At the wool sales to-day 10,100 bales were offered. The market was firm. Coarse crossbreds were a halfpenny higher and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney Wool Sales
MORT AND Co.—Wool Owing to the holiday this week our sale of Wednesday has been postponed till Thursday. Cablegrams report the London January wool sales to have oponed at an advance of 10 per cent, upon the closing rates…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Comparative Prices of Wool
The following statement is taken from the Economist:—During the current series of colonial wool sales recently held in London, prices have sustained a further…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cable News. the Wheat Market
London, Thursday.--New wheat arrived, 39s. ; to arrive promptly, 38s. 3d.; January-February parcels, 37s.; cargoes, 37s. 6d…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Weather, Wool, Movements of Stock
The intense heat of the earlier part of the month has been followed by heavy rains in all parts of New South Wales, accompanied in many places by destructive floods. There was a terrific storm in…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Wheat-growing on the Hastings River
Our Port Macquarie correspondent, under date of 21st instant, writes as follows:—Nearly half a century has now elapsed since the cultivation of wheat ceased in this district. There were two causes which led to this…
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