Weather, Pastoral, Crops, &c
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 7
The late nine have had a most beneficial effect upon the pastures in several northern districts, which should prove of special value to dairy farmers. Prom other parts of the colony reports are not so…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 4
The high prices ruling for butter from April to September proved very remunerative to the producer. When the drought was at its worst and butter was scarce 1s 6d per lb, was paid—the…
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Evening News · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 5
LONDON, December 31, 6.55 p.m.-Messrs. W. Weddel estimate that the imports of all butter (colonial, Danish, etc.) during January will amount to 30,000cwt. below the imports for the…
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Evening News · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 6
LONDON, December 31.-The market for colonial butter is slack, but prices are unchanged. Danish is slightly firmer…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 9
The P. and O. R.M.S. Rome, sailing hence on Monday for London, will take a shipment of 100 tons of butter for the English market. A shipment of 394 boxes of butter for Capetown was…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 22
Milton is situated within a short distance of the flourishing town of Cootamundra, and is owned by Mr. W. H. Matthews, the well-known merchant of that place. The house is…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 16
The clip of wool in N.S.W. has not all been marketed yet, but, up to the present the variation in condition as between clips from different portions of the colony is so great that…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 12
The departures with wool since last report comprised the following vessels:--Orotava, R.M.S. (Orient line), for London, with 665 bales; the North German Lloyd liner Bremen, for Bremen…
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The Australian Star · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 3
The butter market is slack, the prices remaining unchanged. The position of Danish butter in the market is slightly firmer…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 16
The closing sales for the present year were held on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday last, upon which days 33,318 bales were offered, and at auction and privately 29,605 bales were reported sold. The…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 22
Our [?] shows a load of wool which attracted a great deal of attention as it was drawn through Sydney on the 21st ultimo. The imposing pile of ba[?] numbered 70, and was loaded by Mr…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 9
The holiday season and the partial cessation of business it has brought about have made the past week a very quiet one, many of the buyers being out of town enjoying a well-earned rest…
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The Australian Star · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 15
In their review, W. Weddel and Co. estimate that the import of butter from all parts for January, 1893, will show a decrease of 3 80,000 cwt. as compared with the imports for…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 14
The sixth and concluding series for the year of the London colonial wool auctions commenced yesterday and will continue as at present arranged until December 7…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 5
Operations on the farm during this first month of the year might be very easily described in a calendar if custom and usage were taken as the only guide for what is to be done in the future…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 7
Harvesting operations ate now nearly completed in the Carrathool district, and already about 4000 bags of wheat have been delivered at the railway station here. The yield is not as good as was…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 7
At the Taralga Butter Factory for November 21,000 gallons of milk were treated, yielding 70001b. butter. Suppliers received an average of 2d per gallon for a 3-1 test, also their skim milk free…
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Liverpool Herald · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 9
No. 14. — GRASSES (continued) — WATER MEADOW—DWARF MEADOW — CREEPING BENT — COUCH — COCKSFOOT — MILLET, GUINEA CORN AND SORGHUM—MILLET, ITS…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 17
The Narellan Factory, paid suppliers 2¼d per gallon for milk during November. The Cobbitty Factory paid suppliers 2[?]d. The Camden Park creameries are paying suppliers 2 15-16d. per…
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Sunday Times · Sunday 2 January 1898 · page 8
THE complete official returns show that the actual area sown to wheat was 3,191,309 acres, which is an increase of 10 per cent, over last year's area. Of this, it is estimated that the…
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