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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1887

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Select Poetry. the Farmer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 September 1887 · page 10

ONCE on a time he used to plough, And rise at morn to milk the cough, And drive with merry song and laugh. To pasture Brindle and her caugh…

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The Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 September 1887 · page 5

There is a better demand in the wool market, and 12,500 bales were offered…

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LONDON, Saturday. the London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 September 1887 · page 5

Wool arrivals: 10,600 bales. The market is firm…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 September 1887 · page 5

Wool arrivals, 11,600 bales. The market is firm…

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The Wheat Harvest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 September 1887 · page 5

The wheat harvest in France is estimated to yield 117,000,000 hectolitres…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 September 1887 · page 5

Wool arrivals, 11,500 bales. The market is firm…

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[Reuter's Telegrams.] London, Tuesday. London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 September 1887 · page 5

Wool arrivals, 11,600 bales. The market is firm…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 September 1887 · page 5

The wool market is steady, but inactive The total withdrawals are 19,000 bales. Good scoured and scoured crossbreds are ½d to 1d lower;…

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Assisting the British Farmer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 September 1887 · page 5

Addressing a meeting yesterday Lord Randolph Churchill referred to the agricultural depression in England, and said that it would be…

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Combative Sheep

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 September 1887 · page 8

THE Shepparton correspondent of the Melbourne Herald says:—A slight act of inadvertence on the part of Mr. Thomas Wilkinson, of Thornley, Kialla West, a few days…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 September 1887 · page 5

Wool sold, 7600 bales. There is a fair demand…

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The Wheat Market. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 September 1887 · page 5

The average quotations for British wheat is 28s 8d per quarter, being the lowest during the last century. Australian wheat has fallen 5s per…

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A Scotch Farmer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 September 1887 · page 4

Not long ago a Scotch lad ran away from farm service, and, on being questioned by his friends as to the reason, he said he did not like the meat he…

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[Reuter's Telegram.] London, Wednesday. the Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 September 1887 · page 5

Wool sold, 12,500 bales. There is a fair demand…

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The Wool Season

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 October 1887 · page 2

A LARGE quantity of wool has arrived in Newcastle during the past fortnight from the Northern district for transhipment to Sydney or to London direct. The first consignment…

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Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 October 1887 · page 5

Off coast cargoes Adelaide wheat, 30s 9d…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 October 1887 · page 5

Wool sold to-day, 7300 bales. The market is steady, but there is not an active demand…

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The Wool Market

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

At the London wool sales the demand was steady. There is not an active demand…

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LONDON, Wednesday. the British Hop Crop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 October 1887 · page 5

The estimated yield of the British hop crop this year is 230,000 packets. The quality of the crop is generally considered good. The damage…

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The Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 October 1887 · page 5

Entries for the next series of colonial wool sales are announced to close on 22nd prox…

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