The Wheat Market
LONDON, Wednesday.—The cargo of Vetorian wheat ex Endymion from Geelong has been sold at 27s per quarter…
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Farming & the land, 1899
224 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 12
Wool and Frozen Meat
The total wool arrivals at the two local sheds to date amounts to 57,981 bales, as compared with 49,213 bales for the corresponding period of last season. During the…
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A splendid volume of business is reported by distributing houses for the week just closing, the hardening of values for some lines being thus accounted for. Butter has…
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Messrs. Dalgety and Company are in receipt of the following cable from their head otlice:—"The March sales have closed firm, and lately reported available, including old stocks, colonial (Australasian…
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The Adelaide S.S. Co's steamer Willyma sailed hence last night for Fremantle and Geraluton with a quantity of coal, 150 pigs, 250 bullocks, 1880 sheep, and a quantity of produce. The same company's…
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Tile climate of Klondyke is not nearly as inhospitable as it would appear to be from what we hear of the sufferings of the visitors. Though the winter is long and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Russian Farmer's Sorry Lot
Here is an account of the trials of many of the poor Russian farmers:—The "Popular Science Monthly" says that owing to imperfect or expensive transportation the Russian…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Butter Industry in Victoria. the Use of Government Bonuses. Interview with a Visiting Expert. Victoria's Financial and Industrial Position
Mr. W. H. Vagg, the general manager of the Melbourne Chilled Butter and Produce Company, of Flinders-lane, Melbourne, paid Newcastle a visit yesterday, after…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Meat of Chillingham Cattle
"The Chillingham Wild Cattle" is the title of an instructive paper which Sir Jacob Wilson contributes to the "Land Magazine," and there are very few whose…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Distribution of Seed Wheat. Sydney
Up to the present time the Department of Agriculture has authorised the distribution of 1581 bags of seed wheat to 133 farmers, and is dealing as rapidly as possible, it is…
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The steamer Port Stephens, which arrived at Wallaroo on the 25th ultimo, completed her loading of 29,298 bags, or 3[?]10 tons of wheat, on the 30th, that his is to say, in less than four working days. That is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Premier at Belmont Probable Crisis with the Upper House. the New Legislative Councillors Mr. Reid Explains His Attitude. the Farmers and Selectors. Prospects of a Surplus
The Right Hon. the Premier, Mr. G. H. Reid, P. C., who has been spending the Easter with Mrs. Reid and family at Lake Macquarie, was, one Saturday evening,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The New Caledonian Cattle Trade
The French mail steamer Armand Behic, which has arrived from Noumea, brings word that the French Government of the colony has passed an Act, which comes into force on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District News. Carrington the New Cattle Wharf
The new cattle wharf at the top end of the basin is now nearing completion, ballasting alone requiring to be done to finish Mr. Callen's contract. The water leading…
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LONDON, Thursday—There is much speculative inquiry for merino wools, and it few have been sold at advanced prices in anticipation of a rise at the…
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A continuance of last week's excellent turnover in all dairy produce lines is reported by the larger distributing houses, northern centres ordering on an unusually…
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What with Dutch factory butter at £5 4s 6d per cwt. and "Cork firsts" at £4 7s 6d, the extraordinary development of scientific dairying in Holland, as indicated in the…
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Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Newcastle, are in receipt of a cable from their London office saying that for River Plate wools prices as compared with February are 10 to 15 per cent. higher for the bulk of…
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The Department of Agriculture is meeting with a good deal of difficulty in connection with the distribution of seed wheat to distressed farmers…
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Mr. Cook, Minister for Agriculture, intends leaving Sydney to-morrow night, with the object of visiting the Wollongbar Experimental Farm, which is situated at a…
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