The Wool Season
There were no arrivals of wool to the local agencies during the week. The number of bales received to date is 28,167, compared with 28,610 during the corresponding period of last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1904
290 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 15
Dairy Produce
In dairy produce, business during the week was quiet, buyers operating chiefly in small parcels only. In butter, prices have been well maintained,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Weight of Wheat Sacks. Sydney
A deputation representing the Wharf Labourers' Union waited upon the Minister for Mines and Agriculture. Mr. Kidd, this afternoon, to ask that legislation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wool Season
There have been no arrivals of wool to the Newcastle agencies during the week. The number of bales received since the opening of the season was 28,167, compared…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dairy Produce
Business has been quiet in dairy produce, but orders from the country on next months' accounts have been fairly satisfactory. The market has been without…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →London Wool Sales
LONDON, Wednesday.—The May series of wool sales opened last evening, with brisk competition. Prices were from par to 7½ per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dungog Show. Good Display of Cattle. Dungog
The Dungog Agricultural and Horticultural Show was opened to-day under favorable circumstances. The attendance was good, a very large number of visitors…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wool Sales
LONDON, Friday.—At the wool sales last evening business was very animated. Prices were firm, with an upward tendency…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wallsend. Poultry Farming
A number of local residents interested in poultry keeping paid a visit of inspection recently to the poultry-farming premises of Mr. James Ware, at Heaton, who…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Produce
There has been a satisfactory volume of business passing in dairy produce lines during the week, as is usually experienced in the early part of the month…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Farm Produce
In farm produce there was a good volume, of business during the week. In this department the new railway freight rates continue to excite some attention, but as…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →London Wool Sales
LONDON, Wednesday.—At the wool sales last evening crossbreds were firm. Merinos are tending, upwards, owing to the strong Continental…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London Wool Sales
LONDON, Friday.—At the wool sales last evening, competition was animated, and prices were very firm…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairy Produce
Business in dairy, produce has been very quite during the week. There has been good local inquiry for butter, but practically no orders have…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →London Wool Sales
LONDON, Saturday.—At the wool sales yesterday prices were very firm. Crossbreds realised the highest prices of the present series American…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. Fighting on Land. Russians Driven Like Sheep
LONDON, Monday.—The correspondent at Shan-hai-kwan of the London "Daily Chronicle" reports that firing has been heard near Newchwang…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Special Cattle Sale
Mr. O. K. Young conducted a clearing-out sale of dairy cattle at the residence of Mr. J. E. Fenwick, Tarro, yesterday, in the presence of a large and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairy Produce
Business in dairy produce lines was brisk during the week. The local inquiry for butter has been well maintained, and outside buyers…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Motor Farming
The poet hoped that the time would come for men to beat their swords into pruning hooks. It was a noble wish, but like many other desires of virtue, it is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Machinery for the Farm
Much of the picturesque charm of country life has gone out of it with the necessary introduction of machinery, and it is impossible (says "Chambers' Journal")…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →