The Wool Business. a Wild Rumor
There is a silly rumor flying about Sydney to the effect that the editor of this paper is in league with a man who wants to form a Co-operative…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farming & the land, 1896
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Agricultural Pursuits. the Question of Seed Wheat
A representative of the Herald had and interview yesterday with Mr. Sydney Smith, Minister for Agriculture, who has just returned from a visit to the Wagga Wagga, Bathurst, and Orange…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Wool Report. Thursday Noon, April 23rd, 1896
The local sales were resumed on the 20th and 21st instants when 3749 bales were submitted, viz., 1802 on Monday and 1947 on Tuesday. There was a good attendance of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cook Park and the Sewage Farm
The Under-Secretary and Commissioner for Roads, by desire of the Hon. J. Young, Minister for Public Works, han forwarded to the Hon. J. H. Carruthers a minute of the Board of Water Supply and Sewerage…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Free-trade and the Farmers. a Sugar Grower's Experiences. The End of the Industry. A Farmer's Losses--Throe Years of Bad Seasons
A gentleman residing in Sydney has handed us a letter which he has received from a sugar grower in the north respecting the condition of the farmers in that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Policy for Farmers a Bogus Exodus From Victoria Victoria The Truth of the Matter. A Free-trade Misstatement Cleared Up
The free-traders are fond of talking about crowds of Victorian farmers coming over to New South Wales, and the Melbourne Age recently made inquiry into an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairying Intelligence
CORAKI, Thursday.--Mr. Lance, the secretary of the New South Wales Creamery, when interviewed by a large number interested in the dairying industry to-night, promised that a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Experimental Farm Work
It has been decided by Mr. Sydney Smith to separate the scientific work on the experimental farms from the general farm work. This be is doing so that a precise account…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Departmental Advice to Farmers
The Department of Agriculture has issued some advice to farmers. It recommends them to sow early; to use pure seed, true to name; to (other things being equal) give the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Weather, Pastoral, Crops, &c
Foggy mornings and cool nights, with a decided change to coolness, have been the chief features of the recent weather. The absence of the now muchneedad rainfall is causing many fears in the pastoral…
Continued on Trove, page 849 →Butter
On April 17 the butter market in London was depressed. Australian was quoted nominally at 88s to 92s per cwt. Danish was unchanged…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Victorian Butter
There is always a tendency in modern commerce as its proportions expand to squeeze oat the middlemen. These intermediaries have come in for a good deal of abuse, but often without any…
Continued on Trove, page 851 →Imported Butter
The "Grocer," of London, has called attention to the prevalence of adulteration in imported butter. Analysis by the Board of Agriculture has revealed the fact that no less than 50 out of 146 samples…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Queensland. Cattle Diseases
BRISBANE, Friday.--It is understood that if the New South Wales authorities will allow cattle within the 21st and 22nd parallels to be examined by an inspector…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Deficiency in Wheat
The present is a most opportune time for considering the statistical position of the local breadstuffs market. Just now when millers have satisfied their pressing needs for several…
Continued on Trove, page 847 →Pastoral Intelligence. (From Our Correspondent.) Deniliquin
The stock crossings reported to-day were:—2000 owes, A. Austin owner, from Murgha station to Deniliquin; 1800 ewes, same owner, from same station to the Waratah station, Wagga Wagga…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Advances on Butter Shipped to England
Our Melbourne correspondent telegraphs on Monday:—The contract between the P. and O. and Orient shipping companies and the Agricultural Department for carrying butter to London will terminate…
Continued on Trove, page 847 →The Central Queensland Wool
To the export of wool, as everyone knows, Central Queensland principally owes its present prosperity. One has only to visit the wharves at Rockhampton during the wool season to be…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →The Wool Trade. Friday Evening
Some idea of the scarcity of wool for realisation in the local market may be gained from the fact that at the auction sales held at the beginning of the present wools only 3749 bales could be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bradford Wool Market. Further Failures
LONDON, April 24.—The Bradford wool market is very cautious, as fresh, failures are reported. Common 60's are quoted a shade higher at 19½d; and super 60's a…
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