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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Oct 01, 1915
Page
3
An OCR fragment lists various commodities with dated prices and weights including Best American Kerosene, Best Victorian Flour from Thomas, sugar, tea canisters, Nectar Tea, Nectar Coffee, and Nectar Cocoa. It shows bulk and per unit pricing, weights from 3 to 150 pounds, and multiword product names, reflecting a 19th or early 20th century ad style.
Debates on a government loan scheme outline advances at 6 percent interest to assist dairymen. Applications span Western, North Eastern, North Western and Gippsland districts with totals in the tens of thousands pounds. Tests on cows were deemed desirable but impractical for cows already in calf. Debate adjourned as officials seek quicker action.
Fat cattle: seven head sold with half prime bullocks and the rest reful to prime cows and bullers. Prices fell overall from high rates. Fat sheep yarded: 2166 with prime to good sheep and some shorn wethers. demand softens with slight declines. Fat lambs: 1107 penned. more lambs than demand. prices receded from late highs with prime pens at 20/ to 25/ and small lambs 13/ to 14/.
The yarding showed notable improvement with the bulk of beef cattle of good quality and a fair share of prime pena in both bullocks and cows.
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