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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1898

4,300 stories in Sydney's papers · page 56 of 215

Driving Horses and Cattle Through the Streets

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 April 1898 · page 3

A COMPLAINT FROM CAMPERDOWN. A few weeks ago a number of the residents of Cumperdown. petitioned the local council to prevent the driving of horses and cuttle through the streets in the…

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London Wool Market. London, March l8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 April 1898 · page 7

For weeks past the impression in trading circles has been that values for fine wools at next London auctions must advance. This belief on the part of holders and staplers induced them to keep a firm…

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English Comm[?]l. London, April 20. Wheat Statistics

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 April 1898 · page 7

The quantity of wheat aud flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,920,000 quarters, against 2,930,000 quarters last week. The quantity afloat for the Continent is 1,855,000 quarters,…

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WOOL Manifested at Darling Harbour, Wednesday April 20, 1898

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 21 April 1898 · page 7

Danger, Gedye and Co— Emu Plains 59-WB in diamond Pitt Son and Badgery- Aberdeen 35—…

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Pastoral Intelligence. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 April 1898 · page 6

The stock movements are: l8 tat bullocks, Bungowannah to Melbourne, W. Cary, 91 crossbred [?] Albury lo B[?] D. Little: 3700 merino w[?]rs, Goombargana to M[?] West, O. Daly; 130 fat…

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Butter for Australia

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 22 April 1898 · page 4

Three thousand boxes of butter were to leave Taranaki yesterday for Australia. This is the record shipment from that district for Australia…

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London Wheat Market

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 22 April 1898 · page 4

The price of wheat in London has advanced 1s per quarter, and there has been a corresponding advance in flour. The market is very strong…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 April 1898 · page 7
Also in Daily Commercial News and Shipping List

The Sydney Wool-selling Brokers' Association report that wool sales were held to-day (Thursday) at the Wool Exchange, Macquarie-place, when the quantity catalogued totalled. 1877 bales, and the sales amounted to 2761…

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Wool Sales in Brisbane

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 22 April 1898 · page 3

A strong movement is taking place in Brisbane, in the direction of establishing local wool sales, which appear likely to be successful…

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Rise in Wheat. Market Very Strong

Evening News · Friday 22 April 1898 · page 6

At Mark Lane to-day wheat advanced 1s per quarter (S bushels). and there was a corresponding advance in flour…

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Wheat and Flour. Market Very Strong. London, April 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 April 1898 · page 5

The price of wheat has advanced 1s per quarter, and there has been a corresponding advance in flour. The market is very strong…

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Farmers and Federation to the Editor " Stock Journal."

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 22 April 1898 · page 3

SIR,—The President of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association has conferred with his colleagues on the executive council as to the desirability of making…

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Hunter River Farmers' Produce Sales. West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 April 1898 · page 7

The usual weekly sales of Hunter River farmers' produce were held at South Maitland on Wednesday, in the presence of an excellent attendance of buyers, including metropolitan and south-western representatives. Produce…

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Weather, Pastoral, Crops, &c

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 April 1898 · page 850

With the exception of a few light showers in parts of the Western district, and an occasional unimportant fall on the coast, there has been no sign of a break in the dry weather which has prevailed…

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The Wheat Markets. General Advance

Evening News · Saturday 23 April 1898 · page 4

LONDON, April 22.—There are no sellers of cargoes of No. 1 Californian shipping wheat for prompt delivery. The English, American, and Continental markets are all firm and…

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The Wool Trade. Friday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 April 1898 · page 4

For the auction sales held here this week the quantity on offer totalled 2662 bales of wool, a modest supply, though as much as can be expected at this the tail end of a contracted season. For…

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Antwerp Wool Sales. London, April 22

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 April 1898 · page 9

The Antwerp wool sales will be held on the 27th and 29th instant. There will be a catalogue of 6745 bales, of which 745 will be Australian…

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Yorkshire Wool Letter. BRADFORD. March 11

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 April 1898 · page 850

I last wrote there has been no very material on in the wool situation, either backward or [?]; but if anything is to be said the spirit of [?] is rather in the ascendancy than otherwise…

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Mr. Geo. Loder's Black Polled Cattle. (See illustration on this page.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 April 1898 · page 22

At the recent Royal Agricultural Society's show, Moore Park, Mr. George Loder, St. Clair, Hunter River Valley, showed a number of his famous Aberdeen Black Polled cattle, and was awarded…

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