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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1904

290 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 15

Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 December 1904 · page 10

Business in farm produce has been good. In the Manilla district it is expected that the seasan's yield of wheat will amount to from 350,000 to 400,000 bags of the value of…

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Butter Agents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 10

Most people thought that the Butter Commission had got quite as much evidence as it or the public could digest, but the New South Wales people were anxious…

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Maitland District Diseased Cattle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 6

At the Mouswellbrook Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., Richard T. Keys, grazier, of Bengalla, was charged, on the information of James…

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The Wool Season

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 10

The wool season is slackening off, the arrivals to the local agencies of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., and Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., during the week…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 10

Business in dairy produce lines has been particularly brisk during the week, seasonable goods moving out with considerable freedom…

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In an Old Farm House. Written for the "Newcastle Herald" by Hunt Coleman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 12

A BUGGY drawn by a fasttrotting roan mare rattled down the hill, turned in through the open gate,…

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Egg-farming Extraordinary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 December 1904 · page 6

In the biggest egg farm in the world fourteen hens are Kept the year round in each house. Mr. Hayward, the owner, abandoned the open-run system ten years…

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Wheat Ship Damaged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 December 1904 · page 4

A cable message has been received from London stating that the ship Invercargill, which left Sydney for Falmouth on August 27 with a wheat cargo, has just reached Queenstown,…

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Wool Store Destroyed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 December 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—A large wool store at Buenos Ayres, the capital of the Argentine Republic, has been destroyed by fire. The losses are heavy…

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The Wool Season

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 December 1904 · page 10

The week has been quiet in regard to wool. Since the opening of the season 26,266 bales have come to the local agencies of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co. and…

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