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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1909

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 December 1909 · page 9

Business continued dull in dairy produce lines, and prices generally are without much change. The butter market continues firm, with…

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Farm and Produce. Poisonous Sprays

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 December 1909 · page 11

During recent years there has been a very wide adoption of arsenate of lead solutions as a means to combat the codlin moth. Arsenate of lead is a highly…

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The Wool Season

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 December 1909 · page 9

The arrivals of wool to date to the agencies of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co. and Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., totalled 18,558 bales, compared with 26,926 bales…

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Farm and Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 December 1909 · page 6

The continuation of the series of articles of interest to producers will be found on page 11. The writer this week deals with the occurrence of prussic acid in sorghum…

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Farm and Produce. Prussic Acid in Plants

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 December 1909 · page 11

Each year reports are published of cattle lying after they have obtained access to growing amber cane. In many districts this has given rather a bad name to this…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 December 1909 · page 9

The depressed state of the dairy produce market continues, and as country orders are practically filled, agents anticipate a quiet time for the remainder…

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Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 December 1909 · page 9

The farm produce market has been very quiet. The market for wheat remains practically the same, millers buying on a…

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Gambling in Cotton. Excitement in America. Shortage in Crops. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 December 1909 · page 5

Reuter's correspondent states that there were wild scenes in the New York Cotton Exchange when the Burean report announced that the…

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The Wool Season

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 December 1909 · page 9

The arrivals of wool to date to the agencies of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., and Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., totalled 19,174 bales, compared with…

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Empire for Foreigners. Government Condemned. Ireland for Cattle Drivers. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 December 1909 · page 5

Lord Willoughby de Broke (Con[?]tive), speaking at Farnworth, Lancashire, said the policy outlined [?] Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of…

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Farm and Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 December 1909 · page 6

The writer of the series of articles of special interest to farmers, this week's instalment of which appears on page 11, deals at length with the question of the milk…

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Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 December 1909 · page 9

In farm produce, business was fairly good. The wheat market is practically on the same level as last week. There has…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 December 1909 · page 9

Business continued quiet in dairy produce lines, but country orders have been satisfactory. Butter supplies show a slight increase for…

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Farm and Produce. the Milk Standard

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 December 1909 · page 11

The conviction, at the Lambton Police Court on Thursday, and in the Newcastle Police Court yesterday, of several persons charged with selling milk below the,…

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Commercial News. Metals and Mining Scrip. Wheat and Beet Sugar. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 December 1909 · page 5

The closing prices of copper yesterday was £60 5s per ton, an advance of 5s. The wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 2,145,000 quarters,…

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Farmers' Union Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 December 1909 · page 6

All descriptions of farm and dairy produce were well represented at the weekly union sales yesterday, the features being large supply of potatoes…

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The Wool Season

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 10

The arriva[?] is of wool to date to the agencies of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright and Co., and Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., totatled 21,1[?]3 bates, compared with…

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State Dairying Industry. the Year's Progress. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 5

Despite the fact of the existence of a drought along the coast line south of Sydney, the State butter exports from the 1st July to the 30th November, 1909,…

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Farm and Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 6

The writer of the articles on Farm and produce, this week's instalment of which appears on page 11, has something to say about the farmers' Christmas box,…

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Farm and Produce. Breeding Unsound Stock

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 11

The New South Wales Government veterinary surgeons have condemned as unsound no less than 27 per cent, of the stallions, which have so far been…

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