London Wool Sales. London, March 11
At the wool sales to-day prices were extremely firm. Medium merinos are hardening…
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London Wool Sales The Market Hardening. London, March 11
At the London wool sales to -day competition was very brisk, and the market was extremely firm. The demand for medium quality merinos…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Diseased Cattle. More Prosecutions. Cases at Newtown Court. The Question of Costs-- Statements by the Solicitors-- The Circular from the Minister for Justice
There was another batch of prosecutions by butchers against live stock salesmen for selling diseased cattle at the Newtown Police Court this morning before Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Land and Income Taxes. Position of Dairymen. Incomes From Piecework. Answers to Correspondents
Among the multitudinous questions that have arisen under the Land and Income Tax Assessment Act is whether persons who earned money on piece-work during 1895 will have to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Weather, Pastoral, Crops
March came in with high ranges of temperature. The averages of last week were very high for the season. The coast line sweltered to a great extent under what was about 80—a moist heat; while…
Continued on Trove, page 529 →Butter
Ouf London cablegram of March 6 states that a fair business has been clone in butter, but prices have sustained a slight decline. Danish 4s quoted at 109s, and Australian at 96s to 100s, occasional lots bringing…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Seed Wheat for Farmers
The Minister for Mince and Agriculture states that the Government has decided to distribute seed wheat to distressed farmers ob similar lines to those adopted about 1890. This will only apply to districts such…
Continued on Trove, page 535 →The Butter Market
LONDON, March 13.—The butter market is steady. Colonial is unchanged. Danish is quoted at 106s per cwt…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ophthalmia in Cattle
A disease, afflicting the eyes of cattle has recently appeared in the district. It may happen that the animal becomes nearly blind in one eye, the other recovering. In…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Flavor of Butter
The importance of dry cold for the preservation of the flavor of butter was emphasized by the condition of a tub of well-made butter which constituted one of the exhibits at the Iowa State Fair. It…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Bradford Wool market
LONDON, March 13.—The Bradford wool market remains unchanged. Values do not respond to the advance in London…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Butter-fat from Scotch Cows
In an important paper on "Milk, and How to Buy It," which Mr. Smith, of the Dairy Supply Company, Edinburgh, read recently at a meeting of the Glasgow Dairymen's Association, he gave a statement…
Continued on Trove, page 528 →Cattle, Meat, and Produce Export
Mr. M. C. Thomson, a director of the Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company, lately floated in London with the object of purchasing the English part of Messrs. Nelson Brothers' business,…
Continued on Trove, page 527 →WOOL. Weekly Review
Since our: last review little local business has to be recorded, last week being an "off" one, with no public auotions; which, however, will occur on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, when some 3000 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →The London Wool Sales
LONDON, Thursday Night.--At the London-colonial wool sales to-day prices still showed a hardening tendency…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Value of Good Seed Wheat
The Department of Agriculture has received through the secretary of the Tumut Agricultural Society a letter stating that some seed wheats procured from the Experimental Farm at Wagga…
Continued on Trove, page 527 →Seasonable Topics. Wheat Seed Advances
The Government of Victoria is gradually learning that it is possible to overdo what is known as assisting the farmer. The Seed Wheat Advances Act has not been more than a week in…
Continued on Trove, page 527 →The Wool Trade. Friday Evening
The usual fortnightly sales have been held this week, the quantity catalogued totalling 3796 bales. With the exception of one or two lots in each section—greasy and scoured—the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London Wool Sales. Second Series
The second series of Lonodon wool sales of Australasian wools, which commenced on March 3, were continued all last week. Medium and inferior merinoes showed an advance of fully 5 per cent., when…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Is Sheep Management on New England a Conundrum?
The above heading is the title of a small pamphlet recently issued from the press of Messrs. W. Brooks and Co., of this city. The author, who modestly writes under the pen name " Arsenic,"…
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