Alleged Cattle Stealing
At the Liverpool Police Court on Wednesday before Mr. T. E. MacNevin P. M., Cornelius McDonald, a well known resident of Bankstown, was brought up on three charges…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farming & the land, 1897
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Selectinig Seed Wheat
The importance, of sound, pure seed is being realised more and more by farmers. Common experience and the experiment stations have shown that there is not only a great difference in varieties…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The Wheat Markets
LONDON, January 14.—The English wheat markets are firmer, but with little doing. The Continental markets are firmer. The American markets are tending…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wool Fleet
The departures since last report with wool comprised the R.M.S. Oroya (Orient line) for London, the steamer Buluwayo (British and Colonial line) for London, Hull, and Antwerp, the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Bradford Wool Market
LONDON, January 14.—The Bradford wool market is tending downward, with changed prices. Common tops 60's are ¼d lower at 17½d, and super 60's ¼d lower at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Charges on Wool
The Wool-selling Brokers' Association announces elsewhere that it has decided to revert to the old system of charges on wool, namely a consolidated charge of 3 per cent, on amounts over…
Continued on Trove, page 111 →A Year's Supply of Cattle
The returns of stock traffic on the railways for the year just past show that no less than 111,000 cattle and 2,690,000 sheep were brought down to the Flemington…
Continued on Trove, page 111 →The Wheat Market. Melbourne
The wheat market was firm. Some buyers were offering 6s 9d to 5s 10d per bushel, without being able to obtain the lots wanted, the scarcity of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wool Trade. Friday Evening
During the past week an average business for this time of the year has been done, 25,853 bales having been catalogued, and 20,706 bales are reported as having been sold. The approaching…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →South Australia. the Wheat Harvest. Adelaide
A preliminary forecast of the yield of the wheat harvest made by the Register gives the acreage reaped as 1,000,000 acres, producing 2,500,000 bushels, or an average of 2½ bushels per acre…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wool Duties in America. LONDON, Jan. 8
The woolgrovrers have assured the Ways and Means Committee of the United States House of Representatives that free wool meant bankruptcy. Some demand a high…
Continued on Trove, page 122 →The United States. the Duties on Wool. Demands Oe Ohio Growers
LONDON, January 7.—The Ways and Means Committee of the United States House of Representatives has been assured by the woolgrowers that the free…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The American Wool Industry. Free Importation Equivalent to Bankruptcy. Demands for a Tariff
LONDON, Friday.—The Ways and Means Committee of the United States House of Representatives has been fissured by the wool-growers that the free importation of wool is equivalent to bankruptcy for…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →The Wool Fleet. Sydney Experts £5,678,000. London and Local Sales. Sydney Shipping Firms
The week under review has been characterised by a degree of briskness in the wool world, consequent on the energetic resumption of business after…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victorian Farmers in Queensland. Brisbane
That the central parts of Queensland are attracting the attention of southern farmers had a further exemplification by the presence in Bnsbane of two well-known…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Dairy News. Robertson
For December the Robertson Dairy Company paid suppliers £1320 for 105,000 gallons of milk, being at the rate of 3d per gallon. The supply was the highest for one month for the last two years. The…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Soft Crop
" Mr. Editor:—I have some hens that are very singularly effected. They droop, loss their appetite and their crops fill with water. On several occasions I have held them up by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Messrs Nicola and Raymond's Model Farms
Before closing our description of Forbes we must make a short reference to the beautiful model farms of Messrs. Nicolos and Reymond. About two miles in a southerly direction along the banks of the…
Continued on Trove, page 125 →Dairy Notes
The Mudgee factory treated during December nearly 70,000 gallons of milk, testing from t to 9.6, averaging 7.86. The Burrundulia Company treated 30,000 galions, the tests ranging from 7 to 8.87,…
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