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Farming & the land, 1899

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WOOL. Manifested at Darling Harbour, Tuesday, March 14, 1899

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 15 March 1899 · page 3

H Haigh and Son—Liverpool 9—GMS Do 11—SCR Sundries 8—…

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Wool Exports. Season 1898-9 Eight Months Ended Feb. 28, 1899

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 15 March 1899 · page 2

The Customs authorities having kindly supplied us with the returns of wool transmitted borderwise since July 1, 1898, to date, we are enabled to furnish our numerous…

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London Wool Sales. Animated Bidding. LONDON, March 13, 6.50 p.m

The Australian Star · Wednesday 15 March 1899 · page 6

At the London wool sales to-day the bidding Was animated, and merinos sold at the extreme prices. The Australasian Mortgage and Agency…

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London Wool Sales. the Market Animated. Extreme Prices for Merinos. London, March 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 March 1899 · page 7

The second series of wool sales market has maintained the hardening tendency of last week. At the opening the rates were generally…

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Wool Sales Postponer Dense Fog in London. LONDON, March 14, 3.49 p.m

The Australian Star · Wednesday 15 March 1899 · page 5

Owing to the dense fog prevailing in London it was found necessary to postpone today's wool Sales. , Messrs. Harrison, Jones and Devlin,…

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Warwick Farm

Referee · Wednesday 15 March 1899 · page 3

Though there was no cricket as a counter attraction to Saturday's race meeting at Warwick Farm, the weather loocked doubt-ful, which accounted for the fact that the…

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Turf Topics and Tips. Wins of the Week. The Flemington Finish-Slow Time for the Champion Race-The All-Aged Stakes Mile. Strathroy Has a Win. Bobadil Easily the Champion. Baeiug at Warwick Farm-Fairy Prince Performs-The A.J.C Autumn Meeting. Selections for Rosehill. the V.R.C. MEETING

Referee · Wednesday 15 March 1899 · page 3

The central item of the big meeting at Flemington was undoubtedly the brilliant form shown by Bohadil. Sydney visitors to the meeting are fully impressed with the…

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Farm and Station Notes. Deep v. Shallow Cultivation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 March 1899 · page 4

As soon as rain falls ploaghing will be general in the wheat-growing districts. There is a confliet of opinion among practical farmers as to the proper depth to plough, and the question has…

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Pastoral Products. City Yards

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 March 1899 · page 9

PIGS.--297 penned. The quality was not as good as yesterday's yarding. Baconers again sold very well at good prices. Values taken all round were unaltered for baconers and prime porkers, but other description were…

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Price of Butter

Evening News · Thursday 16 March 1899 · page 2

The protracted drought, and the extreme prices of artificial feed, are advancing the price of butter. This morning the Berrima Company, the Fresh Food Company, and several other firms…

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Wheat Supplies

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 March 1899 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday.--The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 3,146,000 quarters, or 127,000 quarters more than last week. The quantity afloat for the…

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London Wool Sales

The Australian Star · Thursday 16 March 1899 · page 5
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The following cable has been received by Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Limited, dated March 14, 1899:--"The wool market is firm, with good general demand. On the average…

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High-priced Wool

Evening News · Thursday 16 March 1899 · page 3

JUNEE, Wednesday.—The Erin Vale wool has again brought good prices in London. At the January sales 62 bales greasy combings realised l1d per lb; 21 bales greasy combings l0d, and…

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Australasian Produce in Europe. Wheat

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 March 1899 · page 3

LONDON, February 10.--The market is dull and featureless. The result of the special inquiry of the United States Department of Agriculture into the area and yield of the wheat crop of 1898…

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English Commercial. London Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 March 1899 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday.--The sales which were to have been held to-day were postponed owing to the fog in the city…

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London Wool Market. London, Feb. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 March 1899 · page 9

Since the close of the first series of London colonial wool auctions buyers have found their way home, and had time to look over samples of wools bought during the auctions, and also…

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London Wool Sales. London, March 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 March 1899 · page 7

The wool sales to-day were postponed on account of dense fogs prevailing…

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London Wool Market. Quiet, Without Weakness

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 March 1899 · page 8

LONDON, February 10.--The position of the wool markets may be briefly summed up in the words, "steady, but quiet." That is to say, there is no great business doing beyond getting…

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Dairy News. Nowra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 March 1899 · page 9

The Jindiandy Dairy Company for the month of February treated 50,967 gallons milk, producing 21,9291b. butter. The average test was 3.79. Suppliers were paid 8?d per 1b. for butter, equal to an…

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