Fat cattle and sheep sale at Wagka market with steady values
Agents report a joint fat cattle and store sheep sale before Christmas week. Prime cattle were scarce yet prices held firm while lambs and store sheep drew keen demand. Buyers from Coonambie Leeton Narandera and surrounding districts attended. quotes cover fat sheep, store sheep, and various weights with modest changes versus prior sale.
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Wagka Oinicipal
Mosbred Wether
ISWS
Tom Curlewis
Coonambie
Leeton
Twat
Narandera
Gundayal
Ih Wase
Melbourne Stock Sales Report Shows Wide Price Variations
Melbourne stock sales show heavy prime cattle pulling 13 to 15 pounds with extras. Newmarket cows on Thursday about 1 pound lower. Prime heavy cows and heifers 8 to 8 pounds 16. prime light 6 to 8. sheep demand weak with mixed xbred and woolly lambs reaching up to 36 shillings 10.
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Newmarket
Wodonga Cattle Sale Prices At Wodanka Sale Yard
Cattle sale prices reported for Wodanka yard on Tuesday show bullocks and steers reaching various pence per pound levels, noting prime cows and West Calvers in broader ranges. Store cattle demand remained firm with bullocks and other categories trading at mixed rates, dairy cattle milkers cited and pigs maintaining steady values.
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Wodanka Salow
Hersford
Porkern
Young Digs
Geelong Wool Sale Ends With High Fleece Prices
The Geelong wool auction closed its sixth day with Continental and tocatuyere firming prices as merchants kept Difoss on a steady average. The top bid reached 3144 for Tore bales of extra super combing wool from Wer dh Nerein.
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Beudtor
Continental
Tocatuyere
Geelong
Watering Sheep With Troughs Improves Health and Supply
The article argues that trough watering in sheep paddocks provides cleaner, cooler water free of mud and dung, reduces parasite risk, and offers a more permanent supply than open tanks. It notes troughs ease water access and counteracts foul, vegetation-rich waters. where tanks exist, aeration and chemical treatment may be used to improve quality.
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Durem
Country Schools consider housing for married teachers
Mr Kelly, a Wages delegate, urged the Teachers Federation to support building residences for married teachers in country districts. He cited his own need to travel eight miles to work after marriage and the accommodations he faced. The conference discussed funding via federation efforts to establish housing beyond metropolitan and near-neighboring areas where demand exists.
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Kelly
Federation
Ivan
Newesade
Dairymen urged to cool cream and avoid chemical taint
Hints warn that warm weather worsens cream quality with a condition dubbed junkety. Scott explains contamination from separators and improper cooling speeds spoilage, urging immediate cream cooling, thorough cleansing, boiling water for utensils, and cautious use of chlorine.
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Scott
Scott Ponts
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Edmondson
P.D
Wagga
Gurwood Street
Bellair's Commercial Hotel
Central
M. E. Mongan
Beecham
Melbourne
Wodonga Cattle Sales
Country
Richardson & Whitford
Mada
Vienna
BTRAM
Dmonget
Gatland
Fitzmaurice Street
Wanda
XMAS
Criterion Hotel
Enfold
Hnford
OKC
Criterion Motel
Randy
Star Hospital
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