Sheep and Lambs. Market Irregular
A total of 19,700 sheep was penned at Home-bush on Monday. Merino wethers formed the bulk of the supply, with a fair sprinkling of ewes and lambs. Light hoggets were scarce…
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Breadstuffs. Wheat Market Easier
Buyers' limits for wheat were reduced by a half-penny per bushel yesterday, owing to the easier tendency of the oversea market, quotations being 4/5 for bagged wheat in country…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Heavy Wheat Traffic Continues
The Railways publicity officer reports that returns supplied by the goods superintendent show that, up to the end of last week, a total of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tick Infested Sheep. Drover Heavily Fined
Charged with having driven 2500 tick-infested sheep from Alice Downs, in the Mores (N.S.W.) district, to War[?] a drover named S.Stanley…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wheat Outlook Go Slow Policy
The outlook for wheat-growers at the present time is not encouraging. Yesterday millers and shippers reduced their buying limits on advice that the European market was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Markets Local Prices Reduced
An easier position has developed in the overseas wheat markets and local millers and shippers have reduced their offers to growers by ½ per bushel, to 45 in the country and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne
The February series of wool sales closed to-day, with catalogues of 3386 bales and 4255 bales, submitted by the Australian Estates and Mortgage Co. and Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co. All the best features…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wool Estimates. Mr. Waddell's Views
Mr. C. G. Waddell, chairman of the Australian Woolgrowors' Council, stated yesterday that extravagant estimates of the value of the 1926-27 wool clip in New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →2,500 Types of Wool
The classification of wool has been brought to such a state of perfection that at least 2,500 different types can be safely accounted for…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Skin Wool Case MELBOURNE
The chairman of the Central Wool Committee (Sir John Higgins) received cable advice from London yesterday to a the effect that the hearing of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wheat and Chaff a Cheap Barometer
Mrs. Smith—"What's that thing you've been buying?" Mr. Smith—"A barometer. I've got it to tell me when it is going to rain."…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The Wheat Market. Low Prices Overseas
Prices offered by shippers and millers far bagged wheat during the week was on the basis of 4/5½ a bushel at country stations, equal to 5/1 a bushel…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Melbourne Sales Sheep From Burnt Areas Graziers Active
About 30,500 sheep were penned at the weekly sales in Melbourne on Tuesday. The market opened with a steady demand and prices for all…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Grown Wool. Improvement and Utilisation
The British Wool Breeding Council is studying questions relating to the improvement and utilisation of wool grown in Great Britain. The work has…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sydney Wool Sales Thursday, February 17
At the Sydney wool sales on February 17, of the 10,068 bales catalogued, 9654 were sold by auction. Private sales included: Uncatalogued 494; ex previous catalogues, 429…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wool Quality Australian Methods American Inquiry
Americans want to know how Australian and South African woolgrowered produce their quality of wool how they meet mill…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wheat Growing Wellington Trials Value of Superphosphate
The application of half-a-hundredweight of superphosphate to the acre resulted theis season in an increase of cloven bushels of wheat at Wellington…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Chicago Wheat Options. New York, Feb. 23
Chicago options are quoted:—May 139½ cents per bushel (down [?] cent), July 133½ cents (down ½ cent), September 130½ cents (down [?] cent)…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →World Wheat Exports. Two-thirds from Canada
The world wheat imports during the year ended July 31, 1926, totalled 529,000,000 bushels, of which 275,464,000 bushels were from Canada. That left…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Chicago Wheat Options. New York, Feb. 21
Chicago options are quoted as follows:—May, 140⅓ cents per bushel (down ⅝ cent); July, 133⅝ cents (down ½ cent); September, 131⅓ cents (down ¼ cent)…
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