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Farming & the land, 1889

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Australian. Victoria. London Wool Sales

The Australian Star · Wednesday 20 February 1889 · page 5

MELBOURNE, This Day. -- The Australian Mortgage, Land, and Finance Co. cable: -- "The next series of wool sales is fixed to commence on April 2, for which the…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 February 1889 · page 7

The following are the stock movements:—1600 mixed sheep, Victoria to Gregadoo, J. L. Clough; 1000 merino ewes, Victoria to Brookong, Wm. Burns; 5000 merino sheep, Little Billabong to Bourke, J…

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The London Wool Sales. London, Feb. 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 February 1889 · page 7

The wool market is active. The next series will commence on April 2…

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Queensland Ministers in Adelaide. Irrigation, Cattle-stealing and Rabbits. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 February 1889 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--Messrs. Hume Black Minister of Lands, and J. Donaldson, Minister of Education, for Queensland, who have been on a visit of inspection to the irrigation colonies…

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Innocents Abroad. Baby-farming Operations

Evening News · Wednesday 20 February 1889 · page 6

At the Central, Police Court, on Tuesday, a young woman named Kate Delohery was charged with having abandoned a male child 20 months old. She was also charged with false pretences in…

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The European Beet Sugar Crop. London, Feb. 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 February 1889 · page 7

Licht, the authority on beet sugar, estimates that the European beet sugar production for the first five months of the campaign amounts to 150,000 tons above…

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Farmers and the Bag Question. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 February 1889 · page 5

ALBURY, Tuesday.--The farmers throughout the district are forwarding the agitation against "bags" in the proposal submitted by the millers in buying wheat, and great opposition,…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 February 1889 · page 7

The river reports for February 20 are as follows:--Barwon (Walgett), 8ft 6in.; Darling (Berwarria), 10ft. 3in., rising; Darling (Wentworth), 3ft. 8in.; Murrmbridgee…

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Wool Sales

The Australian Star · Thursday 21 February 1889 · page 4

Mr. F. L. Barker reports holding his usual fortnightly sale of wool yesterday. The market distinctly showed the effects of the late news, and prices throughout were from…

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The Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 February 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday Night.--The wool sales closed to-day, prices being irregular. The quantity held over for the April sales was 14,000 bales…

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Cattle-stealing on the Border

The Australian Star · Thursday 21 February 1889 · page 6

Two Queensland Ministers (the Minister for Lauds and the Minister for Education) have interviewed the Minister for Education in South Australia with regard to…

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London Wool Sales. Melbourne, This Day

The Australian Star · Thursday 21 February 1889 · page 6

The Australasian Mortgage, Land, and Finance Co. have received a cablegram that the wool sales are closed without further change. The total quantity sold was…

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The Wool Sales. London, February 19

The Australian Star · Thursday 21 February 1889 · page 5

The wool sales closed to-day at irregular prices. There were 14,000 bales held over until the April sales…

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Parkes Pastoral and Agricultural Association. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Parkes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 February 1889 · page 7

The 14th show, under the auspices of the Parkes Pastoral and Horticultural Association, was held to-day. The weather was excessively hot. The attendance numbered about 300. Everything passed off very…

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The Wheat Harvest of 1888-9. (From the South Australian Register.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 February 1889 · page 5

We are now in a position to give a statement of the wheat harvest of 1888-9 which can be depended upon as a close approximation to the truth. It would have been easy for us to have prepared days ago a rough…

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Failure of the Darling Downs Crops. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 February 1889 · page 5

BRISDANE, Wednesday.--The Government are considering the question of carrying seed wheat required by the farmers in the Darling Downs district on the railways without…

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Dairy Products. &C

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 February 1889 · page 7

Butter,--Good descriptions are moving off briskly Rest New South Wales dairy sorts in Keg quoted at 8d to 10d: factory-make 10d per 1b. The arrivals at Darling…

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Agricultural and Pastoral. Gunnedah Pastoral and Agricultural Association. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 February 1889 · page 7

GUNNEDAH, Thursday.--A meeting of the Gunnedah Pastoral and Agricultural Association was held at the Imperial Hotel on Tuesday. The following officers were elected:--President,…

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News by Telegraph. Valuable Herd of Devon Cattle

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 February 1889 · page 5

ALBURY, Thursday.--James Mitchell, of Tabletop estate, has decided to sell his large herd of Devon cattle. The herd, which is principally from the stock of Devon cattle…

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Queensland News. Failure of Crops

Evening News · Friday 22 February 1889 · page 6

BRISBANE, Thursday.—The Government is considering the question of carrying seed wheat required by the farmers in the Darling Downs district on the railways without charging freightage…

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