Dairy News. Mudgee
The milk supply to the Mudgee factory for January totalled 75,335 gallons. The lowest test was 2-85, the highest 3-67, the average being 3-26…
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Farmers in Distress. a Jerilderie Meeting
JERILDERIE, Thursday.--A public Snooting was held here last night of conditional purchasers, homestead selectors, settlement lessees, besides the principal business people of the town…
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MUDGEE, Thursday.--The Mudgee Butler Factory treated 75,335 gallons of milk during January. The average test was 3.26…
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During the week ending Tuesday the elements, as is usual in a droughty season, have been playing one of their usual freaks. Whilst in some parts the weather has been cool and pleasant, in others the…
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WOLLONGONG, Friday.—The 22nd half-yearly meeting of the Unanderra Dairy Company was held on Wednesday. The directors' report was submitted to the meeting, and showed that for the…
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The making of whey butter, which is practised by many Somerset makers of Cheddar cheese, [?] without doublt a very thorough and economical way of obtaining from the milk of the fairm…
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N.S.W, and S.A. wheatgrowers are still holding for better rates to be realised locally later on, or by direct export to London. Large quantities of Victorian wheat and Hour are being imported by Sussex-street…
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The Bradford market is quiet. Prices for "tops" are: -- Common 60's, 20½d per lb.; super, 60's, 21½d. Price's for both common and super remain unchanged…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Agricultiiral and Pastoral. RAINFALL
During the last few days splendid rains have fallen over the northern coastal districts and high tablelands. The rain was of a tropical nature, and extended over a wide area of country. At…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Butter Market
There is a quiet, steady trade doing in the butter market. Australian is quoted at 100s., to 102s. per cwt., with finest samples at 104s. These prices are 2s higher on the week. Danish…
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The Aberdeen White Star liner Damascus, which sailed yesterday for London and Capetown, via ports, took away 775 boxes of butter for Capetown, the shippers being: -- Burns, Philp, and Co.,…
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Public attention has recently been directed to the fact that large cumbers of cattle were carried on the railway from Tenterfield, a distance of about 500 miles, and that during transport, which covered two…
Continued on Trove, page 248 →The Wheat Markets
The wheat markets are dull. Victorian wheat for February-March shipment is quoted at 28s 3d per quarter by sailing ship; and parcels at 27s 3d…
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The following cable has been received by Messrs. Dalgety and Co., dated February 1:-- "First series of wool sales closed at firm prices, except for inferior, faulty and earthy…
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The quantity of wool received at Newcastle for direct shipment to London during the week ended to-day was is 411 bales, making a total of 54,197 bales received since the commencement of the season, as…
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The week's departures comprised the Gulf of Venice, steamer (Gulf line), for London, 1819 bales; Miowera, R.M.S. (Canadian-Australian line), for Vancouver, 10 bales; Konigin Louise,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Cattle-breeding in the Argentine
Several times in the earlier history of the Sociedad Rural of Santa Fe efforts were made to secure the punishment of individuals arrested for stealing cattle. There never was the least doubt as to the…
Continued on Trove, page 248 →The Grazier. Argentina Sheep Sales
The Great Rural Exhibition, held at Palermo, had a fitting termination in the successful sales of stud sheep, at which remarkable prices were realised. Lincolns evidently hold the pride of place in…
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The report on the carcases exhibited at the last New South Wales Sheep-breeders' show, and subsequently sent to London, has given rise to some discussion on the important question as to the…
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