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Farming & the land, 1893

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The Export Trade. Butter, Fruit, and Meat. Butter

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 44

Mr. Valentine, a London dairy factor and expert, has (says our cablegram dated April 21) made an investigation concerning the dairy trade of New South Wales with London. Mr…

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Late Pastoral Intelligence. Gilgandra

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 862

Stock Movements: 2100 fat wethers from Wangrawally to Dubbo, for Sydney, Dent owner, Morris drover; a mob of fat wethers from Brightland Park to Dubbo, Davis owner in charge…

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Pluro-pneumonia in Cattle

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 22

SOME years ago (says the Melbourne Leader), Mr. Curr, late chief inspector of stock, issued the following memorandum, explaining the symptom.— of this terrible disease in cattle :—1. Attention is…

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Foot-rot in Sheep

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 852

Foot-rot may prove rather troublesome during the next three months. Mr. Dowling, inspector of stock for the Forbes district, gives some hints regarding the treatment of the disease, which are…

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London Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 6

The following cable has been received dated London, Thursday: -- Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co., Limited: There is no change to report in this market…

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London Wool Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 42

London exchanges bearing date March 19 have bronght the intelligence that at the Antwerp wool sales held on the previous day 1924 bales of wool were exposed for sale, and 1188 disposed of. An occasional…

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American Wool Markets

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 42

According to American exchanges for March just to hand there is in America a moderate demand for wool in all markets. Prices remain firm and steddy, and manufacturers only buy as their mills require the…

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Wool Stevedores. SYDNEY

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 3

FLOOD AND CO 57 Steamers ... 10 Sailing Vessels ... CENTRAL WHARF CO }155169…

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Pastoral Intelligence. (From Our Correspondents.) Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 9

Stock movements.—455 fat and store cattle, from other districts, to Albury market, various owners: 1000 fat and store sheep, from othor districts, to Albury market, various owners: 300 merino rams,…

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The Home of the Belted Cattle

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 852

A wickedly sarcastic French writer once described the principal productions of Holland as "canaille, canauz, of canards," which may be rendered in English as "Dutch, duches, and ducks." But that was…

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Bleaching Wool in France

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 22

THE following is a new French method of bleaching wool:—First, 100 kilogrammes (220[?]- lbs.) wool are washed cold in a solution of 29 kilo-graines (44 Ibs.) carbonate of soda in 200 liters…

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The Bradford Wool Market

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 6

LONDON, Friday. -- In the Bradford wool market 60's are at 21½d, and supers at 22½ d…

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Wool. Notes on the Trade

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 42

The past week having been an off week as far as local sales are concerned, little business was done in this direction. A few private transactions have been recorded, at which late local rates have been well…

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COMMERCIAL. The Wool Trade. APRIL 26

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 885

Notwithstanding the fact that the abnormally disturbed condition of affairs in financial circles has led to the temparary suspension of two more banks of issue during the past few days, business in this…

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Early Australian Experience. Sheep Stealing. the Squatter. the "Overlander."

Evening News · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 3

Mr. James Bon wick in his interesting volume on "The Romance of the Wool Trade" goes back to the remotest times, and deals at some length with the Golden…

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FOREIGN Wool Shippers From N.S.W.

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 3

The following figures show the number of Bales of Wool shipped to the different Foreign markets by the several shippers whose names appear, these figures are from…

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Breeding and Fattening Sheep in New Zealand. No. III.—(Concluded.)

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 851

While in the alluvial fiats of the Hawkesbury, the Clarence, the Richmond, the Tweed, and other rivers, and in the very deep rich deposits of black soil on Liverpool Plains, and other parts of…

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The London Wool Market. (From Our Correspondent.) London, March 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 11

What activity there is in the wool industry is outside London; apart from frequent transactions in South African wools, there is little passing in London. Merchants and brokers have now…

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Wool Manifested to Darling Harbour By Authority of Railway Department April 28

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 2

Brunker and Wolfe, 1—B&W Winchcombe Carson & Co 27—No brand Aberdeen…

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The Zamia Palm. (Macrozamia Miquelii F. V. M.) Its Relation to Rickets in Cattle. (See illustration on this page)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 22

A report has been brought under the notice of the Minister by Mr. A. Bruce, Chief Inspector of Stock, regarding an interesting experiment recently conducted by Mr. William Norton, of…

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