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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1899

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 June 1899 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The fourth series of colonial wool sales opened this evening. Merinos advanced from 5 to 10 per cent., but low crossbreds…

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Australian Butter in England

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 June 1899 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—In their annual review Webbell and Co. state that unless an organised body is selected to uphold Australian values of butter,…

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Sheep Exhibition. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 June 1899 · page 5

The fifth annual exhibition of the New South Wales Sheepbreeders' Association was informally opened in the Royal Agricultural Society's Ground, Moore Park, this…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 June 1899 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—The fourth series of wool sales opened yesterday, when Messrs. Buxton, Ronald, and Company, Messrs. Jacomb, Son, and…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 July 1899 · page 6

Messrs. Dalgety and Co. are receipt of the following cable from their London house under date June 25:—"Wool sales opened with large attendance of buyers; competition…

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The Sheep Show. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 July 1899 · page 5

The annual show of the N.S.W. Sheepbreeders' Association was officially opened by the Governor at the Royal Agricultural Society Ground this afternoon…

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Something Like a Poultry Farm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 July 1899 · page 2

It is now more than a year ago since (writes Mary Gaunt) I advocated a poultry farm as a " Little Industry" by which a girl might learn to be…

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Pastoral Grievances. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 July 1899 · page 4

A deputation representing the delegates to the Stock Boards. Convention, now sitting in Sydney, waited upon the Minister for Mines and Agriculture this afternoon to…

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Pastoral Leases. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 July 1899 · page 5

The pastoral lessees in the Central Division of the colony waited on the Minister for Lands to-day, and asked for some consideration respecting the leases of their holdings,…

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Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 July 1899 · page 3

Old season's clip having not yet all been disposed of, shearing even in the warmer parts of the continent is not likely to begin extensively as early this year as last. Very…

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A New Butter-tin Filling Machine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 July 1899 · page 3

Mr. A. Christie, of the Junction, and the patentee of the automatic butter weigher and printer, exhibited to quite a considerable gathering at J. Ireland's creamery this…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 July 1899 · page 3

Distributing houses report an notive market during the week now closing, with bright prespects of a continued stendiness in trade and prices. Though there is no…

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Valuable Sheep

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 July 1899 · page 8

Quite a sensation was caused at Campbell's Hill Saleyards yesterday in connection with the sale of 82 crossbred sheep of extraordinary size and quality, the property…

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Arrival of the Katoomba. Sensational Passage. Four Hundred Sheep Lost. Seamen Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 July 1899 · page 5

Of the many vessels that have had to fight the tempest that from Sunday till yesterday has raged along the coast of this colony the Katoomba has had perhaps the hardest…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 July 1899 · page 6

Good business is reported by distributing houses for the week just closing, liberal orders from the country being the special feature. During the…

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Preservatives in Butter Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 July 1899 · page 4

Mr. Cook has received from the Agent General a copy of the correspondence addressed to the English Board of Agriculture by the Agents-General for the Various…

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The English Crops

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 July 1899 · page 5

LONDON, Friday. —The "Times" says that the yield of all field crops except hops, are considerably below those of 1898. Wheat is 95.8 per cent…

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Carrington. New Cattle Wharf

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 July 1899 · page 3

The new cattle wharf which has been in progress during the last six months is finished, and was inspected by the Government inspector, Mr. M'Millan, and handed over to…

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London Wheat Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 July 1899 · page 6

A cable received in New Zealand on the 19th inst. announced that the London wheat market is dull, Victorian being worth 29s per 496lb out of store, and in 480lb parcels…

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The Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 July 1899 · page 6

The estimated total quantities to be submitted at the series of sales, commencing in London on the 27th ult., were:—New South Wales, 35,002 bales; Queensland,…

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