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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1897

3,680 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 184

The Wheat Supply London, February 2

The Australian Star · Thursday 4 February 1897 · page 6

According to "Bradstreet's Circular" the visible American supply of wheat is 68,100,000 bushels. The total quantity of wheat and flour…

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London Wool Sales. London, Feb. 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 February 1897 · page 7

At the London wool sales this evening American buyers secured the bulk of the wool offered. Prices are unchanged. Feb. 3…

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London Wool Sales London, February 2

The Australian Star · Thursday 4 February 1897 · page 6

At the wool sales to-day the American buyers secured the bulk of the bales offered. Rates were unchanged from latest quotations…

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The Wool Sales. London, February 3

The Australian Star · Thursday 4 February 1897 · page 3

At the London wool sales yesterday the catalogues offered consisted of best New Zealand crossbreds and fine Geelong wools. Special prices obtained…

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EXPORTS 1896-7. For Six Months ended Dec. 31st, 1896. WOOL

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 4 February 1897 · page 2

Shipments (Intercolonial expected), from July 1st to December 31st, 1896 462,289 Do. Corresponding period last year 163,858 Decrease 1,569…

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The Butter Market

Evening News · Friday 5 February 1897 · page 5

New Zealand, loan and Mercantile Agency Company's cable: London, February 3.—Butter: Market quiet Quotations unchanged. . j…

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Bonus for the Export of Butter

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 February 1897 · page 5

BRISBANE, Thursday.--The various dairy companies along the south-western railway line have been paid a bonus of 1d per lb. on the 60 tons of butter shipped by them recently for London…

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The Wool Sales. London, February 4

The Australian Star · Friday 5 February 1897 · page 3

At the London wool sales yesterday American purchasers took all the wool offered. Prices realised for special clips Included the following:--…

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London Wool Market. the Past Yeah

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 February 1897 · page 3

LONDON, January 1.--As the business of wool-growing and wool-selling must in the nature of things go on, like the brook, "for ever," one may perhaps venture at the outset of a new year to give expression to a sincere…

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London Wool Sales London, February 3

The Australian Star · Friday 5 February 1897 · page 6

At the sales of wool to-day the superior, selected, and best Geelongs fetched the highest rates. The prices prevailing for the series were maintained…

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London Wool Sales. London, Feb. 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 February 1897 · page 5

At the wool sales this evening a superior selection of best Geelong wools was offered. The highest rates of the series were maintained…

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A New Wool and Pro duce Firm

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 5 February 1897 · page 6

We understand that the old established firm of stock agents, Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd., will open a wool and produce business at an early…

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Our Farmers Blocked. Produce Glut at Redfern. Railways Refuse to Carry. Imported Produce Holds the Mark--Our Farmers Crops May Rot Under Free-trade--No More Accommodation for Unsold Produce

The Australian Star · Friday 5 February 1897 · page 5

The farmers of this colony who produce to supply the Sydney market are experiencing just now one of the glorious benefits of free-trade which allows…

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London Wool Market. (From Our Correspondent.) London, Jan 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 February 1897 · page 7

The past week has been mostly taken up with holiday festivities; no one has felt disposed for business, nor has it been necessary. Inquiries, let alone orders, have been entirely absent. Trade is at a…

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Weather, Pastoral, Crops, &c

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 February 1897 · page 278

The dry weather which succeeded the favourable rains in January made itself very severely felt last week. In hot districts where the grass had begun to send up tender shoots as a consequence of the…

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Butter

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 February 1897 · page 16

Our Loudon cablegram states that the butter business in the English market is fair, and prices are unchanged…

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Pastoral Intelligence. Walgett

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1897 · page 9

The stock movements for the week were 963 store cattle from Gregory, North Queensland, to Muswellbrook; T. B. Brown, of Quambone, owner. NARRABRI, Friday…

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A Successful Butter Factory

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 February 1897 · page 11

WINDSOR, Friday.--25,255 gallons of milk were treated at the Jersey Butter Factory at Windsor last month, yielding [?]950 pounds of butter. £250 was distributed to the suppliers, who…

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Sheep-stealing Near Bathurst

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 February 1897 · page 11

BATHURST, Friday.--Complaints have been received from O'Connell Plains of frequent cases of sheep-stealing. The thieves are now becoming more daring, and actually steal mutton after the…

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A Cruel Cattle Trade

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 February 1897 · page 310

Captain Walker of the new steamer Baltazan, will hardly have earned the gratitude of his owners, Messrs. Heury Fernie and Sous, of Liverpool, by his statement concerning the River Plate cattle trade…

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