Wool
Wool continues to come to hand freely, the arrivals at the two local sheds to date amounting to 44,805 bales, as against 38,845 bales for the corresponding period of last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1898
217 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 11
Dairy Produce
Wholesale houses report that the closing week of November and the initial days of the current month are the best from a business point of view than has been the case for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ladies As Farmers
Farming being quite the most fashionable occupation for women nowadays, and a craze for agricultural pursuits having taken possession of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wool Exports
The total quantity of wool exported from Sydney and Newcastle to home, Continental, and foreign ports, for the five months ended November 30th last amounted to 289,[?]6 bales, as against 243,608 bales for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne
Dalgety and Co. sold to-day about 3000 bales of wool. The market showed more animation than has prevailed since the opening of the London sales on Tuesday last, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cattle Watering Appliances
The complaint which appears in another column with regard to the lack of convenience for the watering of animals at the wharf yards should…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Watering of Cattle
Sir,—Will you Kindly allow me to call attention to the necessity of some means for watering cattle at the wharf yards. I have managed to-day to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Produce
A continuance of the good business reported last week augurs well for the close of the year. Butter has advanced a halfpenny per lb for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne
Dalgety and Co. sold to-day 2800 bales of wool, including representative clips from all the colonies, and the first appreciable quantity of Tasmanian wools. They had a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alleged Cattle Stealing
Michael Lewis Tierney was charged that he did, on the 23rd November, at Rathluba, near West Maitland, steal one cow, the property of Richard Lambert, of Tarro…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alleged Cattle Stealing
In the case in which Michael Lewis Tierney was charged with stealing a cow the property of Richard Lambert, of Tarro, the jury retired to consider their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Commercial. London Wool Markets
Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, have received the following cable from their London Office, dated yesterday:—"The November-December wool sales have closed very firm with an occasional…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →American Farmers' Prosperity
LONDON, Wednesday.—The value of the corn and oat crops in America for 1898 is estimated at 83,000,000dol greater than that of 1897. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Warwick Farm Races. Como and Eastern King
The race meeting at Warwick Farm on Saturday attracted a very large attendance. The sport was of a really interesting character, and betting on the different…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairy Produce
An excellent turnover in all dairy produce lines has marked the festive season, now so close at hand. Butter, primarily owing to the great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Butter Industry
The prospects of the butter manufacturing industry in Australia are undoubtedly highly encouraging. In New South Wales those engaged in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Greater Clarence District. the Growth of the Dairying Industry. Interview with Mr. G. H. Varley
The dairying industry on the Clarence has made wonderful progress during the past 8 or 9 years, and a chat with Mr. G. H. Varley, the chairman of the Clarence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Don'ts for Dairymen
Don't keep cream after it is ripe, but churn at once. Don't send it to market wrapped in parts of cast-off clothing…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Frog Farming As an Industry
Edible frog-farming is profitably carried on in various parts of the Continent and in America. The demand for frogs as a table delicacy was so great a few years ago…
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