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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1898

217 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 11

Wool and Frozen Meat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 7

The total wool arrivals at the two local sheds to date amounted to 45,437 bales, as against 50,274 bales for the corresponding period of last season. During the week 743…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 7

The exceptional business, with its consequent rush, which characterised the weeks immediately before the beginning of the Christmas holidays, has given place to a…

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Export of Butter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 January 1898 · page 4

The P. and O. R.M.S Rome salling from Sydney to-day for London, will take a shipment of 100 tone of butter for the English market. A shipment of 394 boxes of butter for Capetown was taken away…

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Cattle for Fremantle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 January 1898 · page 4

The Adelaide Co.'s steamer Kirklands is due here on Wednesday to bunker, and will proceed hence to Sydney to load general cargo, afterwards returning here to load 250 head of cattle for Fremantle…

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A Wheat Corner. a Great Profit

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1898 · page 4

LONDON, Monday.—Mr. Leiter, the Chicago speculator who was recently stated to be trying to effect, a " corner " in wheat at Chicago, and…

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The Shipment of Cattle. Further Facilities at the Dyke

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1898 · page 4

THE Railway Commissioners, who have always shown a desire to facilitate the important shipping industry, recently completed new cattle yards at the dyke capable…

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A Great Bonanza Wheat Farm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 January 1898 · page 5

IT is difficult to present the idea of the bigness of these farms to the person whose preconceived notion of a farm is a little checker board lying upon a hillside or in a…

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Siberian Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 January 1898 · page 5

A NEW departure was witnessed recently (says an English trade paper) in the shape of the arrival in this country of Siberian wheat, flour, and oats, the first cereal products, we…

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The Butter Market. Prevailing Depressed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1898 · page 5

LONDON, Friday. — The unseasonable weather is depressing the butter market. Colonial butter is dull of sale at from 96s to 98s per…

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Wool and Frozen Meat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1898 · page 7

The total wool arrivals at the two local sheds for the week ended yesterday amounted to 45,582 bales, as against 51,482 bales for the corresponding period of last season…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1898 · page 7

The of week experienced just after Christmas holidays has given place to a period of renewed activity, all lines being in request with the exception of dairy butter…

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Swedish Butter Exports

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 January 1898 · page 4

Dr. Engstrom, State Agricultural and Dairy College, Alnarp, gives some particulars of dairy farming in Sweden, from which it appears that a good deal of the butter…

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Spider Farming

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 January 1898 · page 3

PERHAPS the most peculiar agricultural industry is that of spider-farming. There are not many spider-farms in existence. We have only heard of…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 January 1898 · page 5

DALGETY AND Co.'s Melbourne wool sales were resumed to-day after the Christmas recess, when they offered 5000 bales, comprising representative clips from all the…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 January 1898 · page 2

Business passing in all dairy produce lines during the week just closing has been good. Many lines received marked attention at the hands of buyers. Butter is unaltered in…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 January 1898 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—Merinos have advanced a farthing and a half-penny, crossbreds one-eighth to a farthing…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1898 · page 5

DALGETY AND COMPANY continued their wool sales to-day, offering about 1000 bales. They comprised mostly consignments from Gippsland and other late districts of…

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London Wool Sales Rise in Prices

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 January 1898 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—At the wool sales to-day the prices for merinos were fully 5 per cent. above the December rates…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 January 1898 · page 7

The total arrivals at the two local sheds to date amounted to 46 350 bales, as against 52,937 bales for the corresponding period of last season. During the week 517 bales…

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Wool Ships Home

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 January 1898 · page 4

Messrs. Dalgety and Co. have received cable advices from London stating that the wool ships Samuel S[?]msoll and Salamis arrived there on January 21. from Sydney and Newcastle…

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