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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1910

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Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 March 1910 · page 9

Business in farm produce lines generally was good. The wheat market has been very peculiar, some of the shippers operating on…

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Farm and Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 March 1910 · page 6

This week's instalment of the series of articles of special interest to farmers will be found on page 11. Our contributor has an interesting note on the jubilee of the…

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Farm and Produce. a Hunter District Jubilee

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 March 1910 · page 11

A most interesting history of the development of agriculture in the Lower Hunter River district during the last fifty years could be written in connection with…

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Irish Butter. Palming Off Australian. As the Hibernian Article. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 March 1910 · page 5

A report issued by the Irish Butter Committee declares that the stoppage of production in the winter is most harmful to the industry…

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Wheat Afloat. Shipments to Europe. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 March 1910 · page 5

The wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 4,230,000 quarters and for the Continent at 2,130,000 quarters…

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Farmers' Union Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 March 1910 · page 6

The supplies of farm and diary produce forward at the weekly sales yesterday were not quite as large as has been the rule lately. Hay, melons pumpkins…

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A Butter Boycott. Protest in Germany. Stored for High Prices. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 April 1910 · page 5

The machine builders' and metal workers' unions of Germany have organised a butter boycott as a protest against the high price, 1m 70pf (1s 9d)…

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The Wool Season

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 April 1910 · page 9

The arrivals of wool to date to the agencies of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co. and Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd. totalled 23,231 bales, compared with…

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Farm and Produce. Breeding Corn

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 April 1910 · page 11

In America many growers have by experiments and careful selection succeeded in producing superior varieties of corn. By this means the yield per acre…

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Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 April 1910 · page 9

A fair amount of business was transacted in farm produce lines, a good volume of orders being received from the mining districts…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 April 1910 · page 9

Business was brisk in dairy produce lines, local orders particularly being heavy. There were no changes of importance…

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West Australia's Needs. Wives for Its Farmers. Mr. Moore in London. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 April 1910 · page 5

At a gathering of intending emigrants yesterday, Mr. N. J. Moore, the Premier of West Australia, stated that he had received a message from West…

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Commercial News. Metals and Mining Scrip. Sales of Wheat Cargoes. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 April 1910 · page 5

Bar silver Was quoted yesterday at 2s 6½ per ounce standard Stocks of tallow amount to 3107 tons. The imports during the past month totalled…

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Emigrants for Canada. to Ready-made Farms. Railway Company's Offer. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 April 1910 · page 5

Thirty, thousand emigrants will leave Britain for Canada during the next month. The Canadian Pacific Railway…

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German Butter Boycott. Demand of the Boycotters. Admission of Foreign Butter. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 April 1910 · page 5

The butter boycotters in Germany have strongly urged the removal of the prohibition of the importation of Australian and New Zealand butter…

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The Wool Season

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

The arrivals of wool to data to the agencies of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co. and Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., totalled 28,238 bales, compared with 31,565 bole…

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Farm and Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 April 1910 · page 6

The writer of the articles of special interest to farmers this week's instalment of which will he found on page 11, gives some interesting details of one of…

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Farm and Produce. Economic Entomology

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 April 1910 · page 11

Press cable message received in Australia from London this week included a truly American yarn about some farmer who had procured two and a half million…

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Dairy Produce

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

Business in dairy produce was good, the demand for all lines being brisk. Butter supplies have fallen off slightly, but there is still available a rather…

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Farm Produce

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

Business in farm produce line was very good. The wheat market still retains its firmness, but very little speculation is…

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