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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1887

206 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 11

The Hop Crop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 June 1887 · page 5

The hop crop is improving, but is still in a backward state…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 June 1887 · page 5

The third series of colonial wool auction sales commenced to-day. There was a good attendance of home and foreign buyers. Some 10,000…

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Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 June 1887 · page 5

At the wool sales to-day 12,600 bales were offered. There was good competition. Scoured were half-penny to a penny lower than at last sales…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 June 1887 · page 5

In the third series of colonial wool sales, prices fell from half-penny to a penny per 1b…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 June 1887 · page 5

At the wool sales to-day 8700 bales were offered, making a total of 31,400 during the series. There was a fair demand. The total withdrawals…

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Tasmania. Hobart, Saturday. the Crops

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 June 1887 · page 5

The recent agricultural statistics show that the crop of potatoes has trebled itself in 10 years. The other crops show no advance. There is…

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LONDON, Saturday. London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 June 1887 · page 5

At the sales 11,900 bales were offered. There was a fair demand…

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LONDON, Tuesday. Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 June 1887 · page 5

At the wool sales 8700 bales were offered. There is a steady but not an active demand…

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The Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 June 1887 · page 5

At the London wool sales to-day, 12,600 bales were offered. Prices are being firmly maintained…

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The Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 June 1887 · page 5

Wool offered, 13,500 bales. The tone of the market is firmer…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 June 1887 · page 5

The general results of the wool sales show that the April rates are maintained for all sorts, with the exception of coarse crossbreds, which are a…

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The Price of Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 June 1887 · page 5

Adelaide wheat off coast cargoes, 35s 6d…

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The London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 June 1887 · page 5

At the wool sales to-day 11,900 bales were offered, making a total of 100,300 bales offered during the series. The market is firm…

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English Hop Crop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 June 1887 · page 5

Aphis, to a very serious extent, has appeared in the English hop crop…

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The Large Farms of America

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 June 1887 · page 9

THERE is a rather remarkable decrease in the sizes of farms in the United States of late years. Twenty years ago the largest farms, in the average…

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Cablegrams. London, Friday. the Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 June 1887 · page 5

AT the wool sales to-day 12,400 bales were offered. The market was flat…

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The Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 June 1887 · page 5

Wool arrivals, 10,704 bales…

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Central Asian Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 June 1887 · page 5

Large quantities of wool from Central Asia are arriving at Marseilles…

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The Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 June 1887 · page 5

Wool offered, 11,200 bales. The market is firm, with an active demand…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 June 1887 · page 5

Wool offered, 11,500 bales. Prices are fairly maintained…

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