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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1901

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Experimental Labour Farm. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1901 · page 5

The Minister for Works has approved a scheme for the established of an industrial farm as submitted by the Labour Commissioners as a practical means of…

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A Sydney Letter. the Queen's Death.—woodfall Would Fall, and Now Is Captured.—the Window and Her Little All. a Royal Letter of Sympathy.—establishing a State Farm.—what of the Duke of York's Visit.—the Contingent.sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 January 1901 · page 5

The despondency caused by the death of the Queen is still the supreme feeling. Time, no doubt, which wastes huge stones with little water drops, will make us as glad to have…

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Wool and Frozen Meat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 January 1901 · page 2

The wool arrivals at the two local sheds to date amount to 54,657 bales, as compared with 35,761 bales for the corresponding period of last season. The Melbourne transhipments…

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Enormous Wheat Traffic. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 January 1901 · page 5

Sir William Lyne stated to-day that during the last few days he has been inundated with applications for trucks for the conveyance of wheat from…

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Cause of "Fishy" Butter. Important Discovery. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 January 1901 · page 3

Mr. O'Cailaghan, dairy expert to the Agricultural Department, reports having made a discovery which is of great importance to butter-makers not only…

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Maitland District Alleged Cattle Stealing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 January 1901 · page 8

At the West Maitland Police Court yesterday before Mr. Norman Black, J.P., an elderly man named Patrick Ryan, alise Thomas Ford, alias Patrick F[?]an, was…

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War in South Africa. the Cape Colony Invasion. Captured Cattle Recovered. Raiders Repulsed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 January 1901 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—The cattle which were captured et Slypklip have been recaptured. The fireman of the captured train escaped. He raised the…

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Projected Russian-american Coalition. to Control the Wheat Supply

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 February 1901 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—Russian newspapers advocate a Russian-American coalition for the control of the European wheat supply…

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Wonders in Wheat-growing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 February 1901 · page 10

A remarkable article in the January number of "Pearson's Magazine" describes some wonderful experiments that have been made with a view to…

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Wool and Frozen Meat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 February 1901 · page 2

The wool arrivals at the two local sheds to date amount to 55,446 bales, as compared with 36,414 bales for the corresponding period of last season. The week's arrivals…

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Australian Butter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 February 1901 · page 6

It is now possible, says the "Argus," to obtain a faitly comprehensive view of the exports of Australian butter to the United Kingdom, the shipments from July 1 to date…

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Wool Sales. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 February 1901 · page 4

Dalgety and Co. offered twelve hundred bales at their wool sales to-day, comprising a rather irregular selection. There was the customary…

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Victorian Grain Crop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 February 1901 · page 4

Victorian deliveries of wheat for the first five weeks of the year totalled 700,000 bags, whilst there are over a million bags of wheat staked at country railway stations. In all nearly two million bags…

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London, Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 February 1901 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—At the wool sales yesterday the following prices were realised: Tautane, 6[?]d; Vernon, 6[?]d; Moorna, 7d; CY, 8[?]d; Nalang,…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 February 1901 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—At the wool [?] this evening merinos were firm; [?]oured crossbreds and slipes were weak, and largely withdrawn…

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Wool and Frozen Meat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 February 1901 · page 2

The wool arrivals at the two local sheds for the week ending yesterday amounted to 55,736 bales, as compared with 36,549 bales for the corresponding period of last season. The…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 February 1901 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—The wool sales were brisk. Prices were, however, unchanged…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 February 1901 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—The wool sales closed yesterday for all classes, and the average rates of the series were maintained. Fine haired shaftly scoured…

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Manifesto by De Wet and Steyn. the Cape Farmers Threatened

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 February 1901 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—General De Wet and ex-President Steyn have proclaimed that they intend to enter the Cape Colony and give the farmers there a…

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A Sydney Letter. the Duke of York's Visit.—will He Come As Prince of Wales.—the New Council Clerk.—the "Jubilee" of the Discovery of Gold.—a Preference for English Goods. a Ghastly Suicide.—regarding Shouting.—our Wheat Surplus. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 February 1901 · page 3

As all along anticipated in the "N.M. Herald," the Duke of York is not to abandon his visit to Australia because of the death of Queen Victoria. There were rumours all last…

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