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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land
17 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers
Gardeners' Pumpkin Slicer and Stripper.—Before describing this machine—and its cogeners one, let us take a glance at the stock to be fed by the food prepared with such…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another dazzling morning broke out from the east, speedily aliasing the chill and dew of the moonlit night. By the time the sun was two hours' high, its beams were hot…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In farming, an any new country, there are some evils to be strictly guarded against. Among them, the culture of any one crop at the expense or neglect of all others. If you depend of Indian corn, and a dry season comes and finds you without any appliances for raising corn, with an old bullock toater for irrigation, the result is a dead loss. So with wheat, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →I have so often referred of late to oil cake and its uses, that for the information of some of the readers of the Chronicle, I will briefly add some particulars respecting it they may be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In my last I referred . to the manufacture of oil cake, and its uses. 1 am now about to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE first show under the auspices of the officers, committee, and members of the above association, was opened at Muswellbrook, on Thursday last, in the presence of a goodly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The disputed question of the most practicable method of developing the pastoral and agricultural capacities of the Hunter River districts, whether by amalgamating the operations of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[?] are informed by the Times that, taking the Manning [?]strict throughout, there will be a heavy crop of maize is season. If the price for his [?]real is good, it will, ace our[?]arming friends in a good financial posi[?]ion,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William Heydon, convicted of feloniously receiving stolen sheep, was, on Friday, 7th instant, sentenced to three years' imprisonment with hard labour in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reports from several stations in the Hunter district state that, notwithstanding the recent welcome rains and consequent resucitation of grass and herbage; the cattle are still in a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday morning the steamer Boomerang, making a special trip to this port, conveyed a cargo of one thousand sheep from the A. A. Company's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Collaroy, steamer, returned to Sydney yesterday morning, on a special trip, loaded with sheep from the A. A. Co,'s Warrah station…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Black Swan (s.), another special trip to his port yesterday, and conveyed a cargo of 800 sheep, in splendid condition, to Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE usual monthly meeting of this society was held in the School of Arts, Muswellbrook, on Wednesday, the 5th instant. Present :—The President (Mr. J. H. Keys.), Messrs. W…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trade is very dull in the metropolis. The serious fall in the price of wool in the English market has affected business of almost every kind to a remarkable extent, and it is feared…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The London Colonial wool sales opened yesterday. The total arrivals to date amount to upwards of 170,000 bales, and 3000 were held over from last sales. Upwards of 7500…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE London correspondent of the Glasgow Herald describes an amusing incident which occurred at Blackheath on the occasion of Mr. Gladstone's great speech on the…
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