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Farming & the land, 1897

3,680 stories in Sydney's papers · page 49 of 184

Butter From Newcastle. Foreign Exports. NEWCASTLE

The Australian Star · Thursday 1 April 1897 · page 6

Messrs. Ireland, manufacturers of the local Rosebud creamery butter, report that they have entered into large contracts to supply their butter in foreign…

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The Wheat Supply. London, March 30

The Australian Star · Thursday 1 April 1897 · page 6

The visible supply of wheat amounts to 56,288,000 quarters…

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London Wool Sales. London, March 30

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 April 1897 · page 5

At the wool sales this evening only a poor selection was offered, and sales dragged. Prices were unchanged. March 31…

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The Wool Sales. London, March 30

The Australian Star · Thursday 1 April 1897 · page 6

There was only a poor, selection of wool forward at the sales to-day. Prices remain unchanged…

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London Wool Market. the Sheepskin Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 1 April 1897 · page 7

LONDON, February 26. -- The periodical sales of Australasian "sheepskins, with wool on," were held yesterday and to-day before a full attendance of the somewhat limited number now engaged is the business…

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The American Tariff. the Duties on Wool

Evening News · Thursday 1 April 1897 · page 6

LONDON, March 31.—The proprietor of the various woollen mills in Massachusetts, United States, are strongly protesting against the " excessive duties" on wool…

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London Wool Market. (From Our Correspondent.) London, Feb. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 April 1897 · page 7

There is nothing stirring here in wool, and the trade are turning their attention to the opening of the next series of sales, a little more than a week hence. Things dont look over promising, and…

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Dairying News. Millthorpe

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 April 1897 · page 7

The milk supply to the butterfactory is falling off rapidly. The factory is only able now to get sufficient milk to separate on four days of the week, though this mouth should under a favourable…

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Pastoral Intelligence. Inverell

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 April 1897 · page 3

Stock passings:—198 stud cattle from Durham Court to Landown, Queensland, H. C. White owner; 2341 sheep, Combadelleo to Paradise, G. Maclean owner; 9500, Warabone to Gunnedah, W…

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The Butter Market

Evening News · Friday 2 April 1897 · page 6

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's cable: London, April 1.—Batter: Trade demand good. Fine qualities Australian range in value from 90s to 94s per cwt…

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London Wool Sales

Evening News · Friday 2 April 1897 · page 6

LONDON, April 1.—At the wool sales yesterday the following prices were realised: Bridgewater (scoured), 43 1/4d; Hill River, 7 7/8d; Gunnie, 7 7/8d; Elderslie (crossbred)…

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London Wool Sales

Evening News · Friday 2 April 1897 · page 5

LONDON, April 1, 7.15 p.m.—At the wool sales this evening prices were firm, American buyers operating freely…

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The U.s. Wool Duties

The Australian Star · Friday 2 April 1897 · page 4

Our free-trade contemporaries have at last ceased to insist that the election of Major M'Kinley to the Presidency of the United States was devoid of any…

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Wool Sales. London, March 31

The Australian Star · Friday 2 April 1897 · page 6

At the London wool sales to-day the bidding was slow, and prices remained unchanged…

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London Wool Sales. London, March 31

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 April 1897 · page 5

At the wool sales this evening business was slow and prices unchanged. April 1. The following rates have been realised:…

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Yorkshire Wool Letter. (From Our Correspondent.) Bradford, Feb. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 April 1897 · page 7

Two months in the present year have now gone by, and all that can be chronicled of the Bradford wool trade is that it is down; and like a big spoiled boy sulking in the back parlour, so does the wool…

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Dairying Industry. Singleton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 April 1897 · page 7

At the anuual meeting of the Glennie's Creek Gorangala Creamery to-day the balance-sheet showed a small loss, due to the bad season. The weather is very dry and the outlook most serious…

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The Dairy Expert

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 April 1897 · page 4

The new dairy expert, Mr. O'Ca[?]aghan, is losing no time in making himself thoroughly acquainted with the condition of dairying matters in the colony. He has been to the Hawkesbury…

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Weather, Pastoral, Crops, &c

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 April 1897 · page 698

There has been a distressing uniformity in the reports from the country districts during the past week. A few good showers descended in and about Sydney and along the coast, but the agricultural and pastoral…

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Butter

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 April 1897 · page 17

At the close of last week the butter market in England continued steady. London prices were unchanged, us follow: Australian, 90s to 91s: a few boxes realised 96s per cwt. It is cabled that the prosecution…

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