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Farming & the land, 1896

4,084 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 205

Weather, Pastoral, Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 January 1896 · page 113

The chronicle of the week is an unprecedented wave of extreme heat passing over the whole of the colony, causing consternation, suffering, loss, dangerous bush fires, and in many cases death to infants,…

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Butter

Evening News · Saturday 18 January 1896 · page 6

LONDON, January 17.—The butter market is steady and unchanged…

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The Pastoral Letter

The Catholic Press · Saturday 18 January 1896 · page 13

IN our columns this week we commence publishing, the Pastoral Letter addressed by the Bishops of the late Plenary Council to the clergy and people of Australia. On so…

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A Cattle Spec

Evening News · Saturday 18 January 1896 · page 9

On the top of a hill near Parramatta, where the Great Western and the Great South roads diverged from each, other, stood a public-house, at which many farmers' carts were drawn up;…

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Bradford Wool

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 January 1896 · page 4

The Bradford wool staplers ore firmer, and holding for higher values; in sympathy with the improvement shown at the London sales. Spinners, however, as yet show…

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To Make Good Butter

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 January 1896 · page 112

When, despite of every precaution an to cleanliness, butter acquires a taint that renders it not palatable to the consumer, a cause for the trouble must exist. The presence of bacterial germs of…

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The Wheat Markets

Evening News · Saturday 18 January 1896 · page 6

LONDON, January 17.—Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, is firm at 29s per quarter; Melbourne wheat, ex warehouse, firm at 29s; New Zealand long-berried, nominal…

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The Wool Sales

The Australian Star · Saturday 18 January 1896 · page 5

At the London wool sales yesterday a fair selection was offered Prices remained unchanged; and the market was very firm. The following prices…

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Cattle, Meat, and Produce Export

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 January 1896 · page 110

Our London correspondent cables that the shipment of live sheep by the steamer Yarrawonga, which left Sydney on the 9th November, has been sold. 250 realised 40s per head, and the…

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Pastoral Intelligence. (From Our Correspondent.) Deniliquin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 January 1896 · page 9

The stock crossings reported this week are as follows:—3098 wethers, G. G. Claughton owner, from Warwillah station to owner's boiling-down works Monma; 1643 Wethers, Blackwood…

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The London Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 January 1896 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.--At the London-colonial wool sales yesterday prices were very firm and unchanged. Special clips were sold as follows:--…

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WOOL. Weekly Review

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 January 1896 · page 45

The auction sales resumed in the Wool Exchange on January 7 were continued during the week, the offerings for that period amounting to 30,374 bales, of which 26,459 were sold at auction and privately,…

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The Wool Trade. Friday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 January 1896 · page 4

With the auctions of this week the busiest part of the wool season has been brought to a close, and the fortnightly series will be inaugurated on the 27th instant. Last year the bi-weekly sales were…

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Australian Produce in Europe. Butter, Cheese, and Eggs

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 January 1896 · page 9

LONDON, December 13.--There is little change in the price or in the demand for butter, which was quoted yesterday as follows:--London, Danish, 110s to 112s per…

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London Wool Market. London, Dec. 6

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 January 1896 · page 120

The attendance at the Wool Exchange during the week just past has been larger. By the influx of Continental buyers competition has grown keener, with established rates for the time being…

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Exports of Wool From New South Wales Destination

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 18 January 1896 · page 7

The following is the destination of the wool exported from New Sooth Wales for the six months ended 81st Dec., 1895 BALES…

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London Wool Market. (From Our Correspondent.) London, Dec. 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 January 1896 · page 11

The sixth and last series for the year of the London-Colonial wool auctions, which began 26th November, terminated 11th December, thus occupying 14 days. The feg caused no break, although the…

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London Wool Sales. Prices Very Firm. London, Jan. 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 January 1896 · page 9

At the London wool sales yesterday a fair selection was catalogued. The tone of the market is unc[?]anged, and prices are very firm…

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New South Wales Wool Industry-m 'Burney, Wallis, and Company

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 January 1896 · page 23

M'Burney, Wallis, and Company's magnificent new wool show room is a sign not only of the rapid, growth of this successful firm,.butt also of the extension of the…

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Some Diseases ot Sheep. Parasites of the Liver- Fascioliasis "Rot," or Fluke Diseases. (Concluded.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 January 1896 · page 22

Symptoms.— In our last paper we traced the development of the egg, or ova, from its leaving the fluke-infested sheep until it was swallowed by ano ther in the pupa cyst form, and we now propose…

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