The Carriage of Wheat
The grain traffic still continues to be heavy on the railways, and it is reported that from December 1 up to the present time nearly 900,000 bags have been…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farming & the land, 1902
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Fat Stock Sales. Homebush YARDS.—Thursday SHEEP
About 31,540 sheep and lambs penned at to-day's sales from 123 consignors. The sheep mainly comprised useful trade sorts, a rather larger propertion of good to prime merinos than on last sale day; a moderate…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Inter-state Fat Stock Sales. Melbourne. Sheep
On Tuesday 25,000 sheep were penned. Prime crossbred wethers, 14s 6d to 16s; good, 11s to 13s; middling and inferior, from 7s; prime crossbred ewes, 10s to 12s;…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Cancer in Cattle. the Cause of "Lumpy Jaw."
A series of interesting investigations relative to the cause and nature of tumours taken from cattle in various parts of South Australia has been forwarded…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sydney Wool & Stock Journal. A Bi-Weekly Review of the Wool, Fat Stock, and Station Produce Trades. Published Every Tuesday and Friday. the Wool Trade. Sydney, Thursday, March 6
After an interval of three weeks, public auction sales were resumed on Tuesday and the two days following, when all the brokers submitted catalogues containing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This Northern Wool Rates. Report of the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce
At the sixteenth annual meeting of the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce held last week a long and exhaustive report, prepared by the president, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers and Settlers' Association. RYLSTONE
The usual monthly meeting of the Rylstone branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association took place on the 1st inst., when the following resolutions…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Rebel Farmers. London, March 5
A farmer in the Barkly West district has beon sentenced to three years' imprisonment for joining the enemy. Another farmer has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool
The Bradford market is firm. Tops, common 60's, are quoted at 19¾d per lb., and super at 20¾d. These prices show no further change this week…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Exports of Pastoral Products
The events of the last five years in the exportation of pastoral products to countries outside Australia have conclusively shown that the future of the pastoral industry is fraught with quicksands…
Continued on Trove, page 590 →State Butter Competition
The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Kidd) advises that the judging for the recent State butter competition is just completed. The prizes were offered, valued at £30, £20, and…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →The Butter Market
The market for imported butter is steady, best colonial being quoted at 110s to 112s per cwt., or the same as last week. The Australian supplies are practically exhausted, but New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wool Sales
After a three weeks' recess, there was a large attendances of buyers at the resumption of public auctions on Tuesday, and competition was vigorous and well sustained, the market…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Agricultural Pastoral Answers to Correspondents
Horse Sickness.—Garnet: We submitted your queries to Mr. Stewart, the Government Veterinary Surgeon, and he replies that it is impossible to say what the trouble is with your horse without an examination. The throat…
Continued on Trove, page 590 →The Wheat Markets
The English wheat markets are lifeless, but the Continental markets are firm. On the other hand, the American are weak, owing to the huge stocks both in the United States and Canada…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →London Wool Sales
Goldsbrough, Mort, and Company, Limited, have received the following cable from their London house, under Thursday's date: "Public sales opened at an advance of 1/4d per 1b for merino and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wool Trade
The wool receipts at Newcastle during the week ended to-day amounted to only 14 bales, making a total of 45,215 bales as compared with 57,164 bales at the corresponding date of last year, thus showing…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Commercial. Wool Sales
The Australasian Mortgage and Agency Co., Limited, reports:--After an interval of three weeks we yesterday brought forward a catalogue of 784 bales, and sold at auction…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →On a Mexican Cattle Ranche
On a ranche one may sometimes find a skeleton of a horse or cow torn in pieces, for the wolves in their wild hurry to gnaw the flesh from the bones frequently sever the joints asunder. A…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Making Cheese from Sheep's Milk
Co-operation has been effected in the early stages of the manufacture cf Roquefort cheese in France. Dairies, or as we call them, cheese factories, have been built all through the…
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