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Farming & the land, 1891

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London Wool Sales

Evening News · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 4
Also in The Daily Telegraph

LONDON, February 26.—The London wool sales closed firm. As compared with December the better grades of merinoes and fine crossbreds were 5 per cent, dearer, and…

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"Take-all in Wheat

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 22

SOME months ago reports were current in several of our wheat districts that a disease called "Take-all" was attacking the who it, and considerably damaging it, by causing a failure in…

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The London Wool Sales

Evening News · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 6

The Australasian Mortgage and Agency Co., Limited, has received the following telegram from its London agents: "Wool sales have closed firmly. Wools suitable for United States and…

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Australian Wool for America

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Friday. -- A special general meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held this afternoon, Mr. W. B. Sharp presiding. Mr. H. Blackiston moved an important…

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The London Wool Market. Manchester Proposed As the Future Wool Centre

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 3

LONDON, January 23, 1891. -- The usual lists of days of sale have been issued; they provide for a continuance of auctions from 27th inst. to February 27, at the rate of 12,000 bale…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 10

Stock movements impeded owing to flooded state of creeks and rivers. Drovers report that there is the greatest difficulty in travelling to South-western Qneensland owing to the floods and the sandflies keeping…

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London Wool Sales. Close of the Series. London, February 26

The Australian Star · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 6

The wool sales closed to-day. The market has been very irregular. For merino of a superior quality the prices varied from par to 5 per cent, dearer than the closing rates of…

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London Wool Market. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, Feb. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 9

The London wool sales closed firm as compared with December. The better grades of merinos and fine crossbreds were 5 per cent, dearer, and the inferior grades…

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A New Departure in Sydney Wool Sales. the Delivery Charges Agreed To

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 20

A LARGELY-ATTENDED meeting of the wool-brokers was held on Thursday. Mr. H. Austin, chairman of the Woolbuyers' Association, presided. The consideration of the question of the dilivery…

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Our Queensland Letter. Political and Social Items. Pastoral and Agricultural. Trade and Labor. General News. Brisbane, February 23. POLITICS

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 10

Mr. Plunkett, M.L.A., who is at present making a tour in the Albert electorate, which he represents, delivered an address to a large gathering of electors and others in the Schcol of Arts, at…

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The United States and Australia. the Question of Wool Exportation. Meeting in Newcastle. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 9

At a meeting of the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce this afternoon, specially called, Mr. W. B. Sharp in the chair, a motion was moved by Mr. W. B. Blackiston that " In view of the great impetus to commerce…

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Darling Harbor Market. Farm Produce

Evening News · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 6

At the Darling Harbor Railway Terminus yesterday there was a moderate supply of forage forward from the various intermediate stations along the northern, southern, and western lines…

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State Prizes for Farms

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 21

THE Minister For Mines and Agriculture has awarded the following prizes:— Farms: Class I., under 100a— First prize, Heywood Brothers, Pambula; second prize, not; awarded. Class II.,…

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Seasonable Farm Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 454

So far as we hare progressed with this year there has not been an excess of moisture There has been, however, sufficient to give a great start to the weeds, and never was there a time when…

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Dairy Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 456

As price effects consumption, producers of butter should feel interested in the following complaint, received this week from one who subscribes himself "A Father of a Large Family":—"Daily papers quote…

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National Prizes for Farms in the South Coast Division

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 455

The following reports on farms in the competition for prizes in the South Coast Division have been courteously handed to us for publication by the Department of Agriculture:—…

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The Western Farmer. More Light on His Condition. Another Western District Resident Sums up the Situation. Confirmation of Mr. Wren's Assertions

The Australian Star · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 5

NOTWITHSTANDING That a small fraction of Molong townspeople, who pin their faith to Free-trade, and "holler" for au extension of the railway from Molong to…

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Our Dairying Industry. (Written for the "Town and Country Journal.") Viii.—cream Raising—factory System. Treament of the Milk and Cream

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 21

The care of the milk, and the treatment it should receive, is a subject rarely given the attention it deserves. In the proper treatment of the milk lies the keystone of success. In the majority of cases, so…

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Colonial Butter

Evening News · Monday 2 March 1891 · page 4

LONDON, February 27.—A thousand packages of butter by the Tainui have realised from 95s to 112s per cwt…

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