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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1910

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World's Wheat Crops. Argentine and India Good. West Canada a Failure. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 July 1910 · page 5

The latest report regarding the wheat crops shows that the prospects of the Argentine Republic are quite favourable…

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Our New Zealand Letter. Wellington, July 15. a Sheep-shearing Trouble

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 July 1910 · page 16

What is tantamount to a strike of sheep-shearers is at present being engineered in New Zealand. The employers offered 17s 6d a hundred and the men…

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Miners and Farmers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 July 1910 · page 6

Sir,—In yours of the 9th instant is a letter from Councillor Ayerst, containing some very remarkable statements. I will deal with the first, which appears to me…

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Farm and Produce. Cool Storage and Grapes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 July 1910 · page 11

It is a somewhat extraordinary thing that in all matters pertaining to the fruit industry New South Wales is the most backward of all the States. This…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 July 1910 · page 9

Business in dairy produce lines was fairly good, but there is nothing special to report in regard to market changes. Butter supplies continue to fall off, and…

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Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 July 1910 · page 9

Business in farm produce has been fairly brisk, and a good amount of general lines changed hands. If there was amore efficient service with the north-west…

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Fight with Negroes. on a Mississippi Farm. Two Fatally Injured. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 July 1910 · page 5

A telegram from New York reports that seven negroes, armed with pitch-forks, attacked a deputy-sheriff named Cauley, who was arresting a negro…

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Victorian Irrigation. Delegates in England. Farmers Interested. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 July 1910 · page 5

Mr. H. M'Kenzie, the Victorian Minister for Lands, and Mr. Elwood Mead, the irrigation expert, are visiting the west of England…

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Australian-philippines Cattle Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 July 1910 · page 4

It is reported that the fleet of vessels employed in the cattle trade between the north-west coast of Australia and the East is to be strengthened by another vessel, the…

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London Wool Sales. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 July 1910 · page 6

Compared with the closing rates of the May series, prices for merino combings at the opening of the London wool sales were unchanged and firm. Short, faulty…

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The Live Cattle Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 July 1910 · page 7

Agricultural questions, the price of beef, aid the embargo on the importation of live cattle from the Argentine produced an interesting debate in the House of…

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London News. London, June 24. the Rendezvous of All Nations.—the Women's Demonstration.—the Compromise.—skyscrapers.—the Live Cattle Trade.—woman Dairy Expert.— a Methodist Celebration. the Rendezvous of All Nations

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 July 1910 · page 7

Walk down the streets of Central London during the streets present month, and there is interest everywhere. “I love to stroll down the Strand on these June…

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Woman Dairy Expert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 July 1910 · page 7

Completely surrounded by deed-boxes and portfolios Miss E. A. Maidment, the woman lecturer, who has been engaged by the British South African Company to teach…

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Farm and Produce Potato Blight Suppression

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 July 1910 · page 11

The attitude of certain members of the Hunter River Agricultural Association towards the State Agricultural Department is by no means a desirable one, and indicates a…

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Great Men. How to Increase the Crop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 July 1910 · page 13

Men of great creative genius are born with an extraordinary mental equipment, and it is quite possible to recognise their special abilities at an early age (writes…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 July 1910 · page 9

There have been no movements of importance in the market for dairy produce during the week. The supply of butter is very…

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Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 July 1910 · page 9

The market for produce was fairly quiet during the week; and, with the exception of flour, the only business transacted was in respect of actual…

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Warwick Farm Races

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 August 1910 · page 3

The Bank Holiday race meeting of the Warwick Farm Racing Club is to take place to-day. Proceedings will open with the hurdle race, in which Treat holds…

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Wheat Afloat. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 August 1910 · page 5

The wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 2,625,000 quarters, and for the, Continent if 985,000 quarters. The shipments of…

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Miners and Farmers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 August 1910 · page 2

Sir,—In my first letter under this beading I said that the Tarro Shire was badly managed, and that the agricultural riding never at any time received fair treatment…

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