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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1900

228 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 12

Fire on the Willyama. Cattle Suffocated

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 December 1900 · page 4

About 8 o'clock last night a fire broke out on the steamer Willyama, lying at the Carrington dyke. The vessel was to have sailed through the night…

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Wool Sales. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 December 1900 · page 5

Dalgety and Co. offered at their wool sale to-day about 5000 bales, and report the market firm, at the slight improvement in values established last week for merinos…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 December 1900 · page 2

The total wool arrivals at the two local sheds to date amount to 49,182 bales, as compared with 34,487 bales for the corresponding period of last Season. The week's…

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Price of Wheat. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 December 1900 · page 5

The difference in the selling price of wheat between Sydney and Melbourne and Adelaide was brought under the notice of the Premier to-day…

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Warwick Farm Races. Boreas Ii. at Last

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 December 1900 · page 3

The Warwick Farm races attracted a very large attendance on Saturday, the principal event being won by Boreas II. Following are the details:—…

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The Currant Crop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 December 1900 · page 5

Practically the whole supply of currants comes from the [?]onian Islands and that part of Greece which lies to the south of the Gulf of Corinth. In fact the name "current"…

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Electricity on German Farms

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 December 1900 · page 5

The following is a recent report in full of Mr. Hughes, United States Consul at Coburg:—"In this and neighbouring parts of Germany considerable attention is being paid to…

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A Wheat-growing Experiment

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 December 1900 · page 8

Farmers will at this season be interested in a wheat-growing experiment which was tried last year on the Earl of Denbigh's Wanwickshire estate, and now reported in…

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Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 December 1900 · page 6

The wool season from a local standpoint promises to be the best for some years past, and will go very close to record figures. The total arrivals to date amount to 50,852…

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Attitude of Farmers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 December 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—It transpired that very few respectable farmers joined the enemy south of Thaban' chu, while, on the other hand, many…

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