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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1910

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Commercial News. Wool and Mining Scrip. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 April 1910 · page 5

The visible supply of American wheat, according to "Bradstreets," 52,094,000 bushels. At the sales or Australian tallow…

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The Wool Season

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

The arrivals of wool to date, to the agencies of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright and Co. and Messrs. Dalgety arid Co., Ltd., totalled 23,662 bales, compared with 32,741…

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Dairy Produce

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

A fairly brisk demand was experienced for all dairy produce lines. Butter supplies show a marked falling off, but there is still available a surplus…

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Farm Produce

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

Business in farm produce was satisfactory, most lines receiving attention. The market for wheat resolved into practically a fight between holders and…

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Farm and Produce. the Irish Blight

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

The seriousness of the outbreak of Irish potato blight in the Maitland district cannot be overestimated. That the disease is widespread is unfortunately too true, and…

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Butter Export Trade. Recommendations Approved. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 May 1910 · page 5

The butter trade welcomes the recommendation of Mr. N. Lockyer, the Assistant Comptroller-General of Customs In Australia, to limit the…

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Our Sydney Letter. Our Crowded Quay Difficulty.—something Will Have to Be Done.—the Labour Party and the Share Market.—a Great Day and Month.—a Love for the Horrible.—australia's Chance As a Great Wheat Exporter. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 May 1910 · page 5

What is to be done to berth the many big steamships that are now entering this harbour? At the present moment there is a heated controversy over the proposal of…

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Commercial News. Wool & Wheat London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 May 1910 · page 5

The London Stock Exchange did not meet yesterday, it being the May Day holiday. At the wool sales last evening business…

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The Cattle Tick

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 May 1910 · page 4

The area in which the cattle tick has been found in New South Wales has up to the present been confined to a comparatively small portion of the…

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Irish Cattle Driving. London

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

There has been a recrudescence of cattle driving in Westmeath…

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The Wool Season

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1910 · page 9

The arrivals of wool to date to the agencies of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Company and Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, totaled 23,902 bales,…

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Farm and Produce. Grading Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1910 · page 11

The proposal that the grading of dairy produce for export should be made compulsory by the Commonwealth has naturally attracted a lot of attention,…

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German Tree Farming

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1910 · page 13

The man who plants trees is sowing a crop which his great-grand-children-or those of someone else—may reap to great profit, but few…

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An African Elephant Farm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1910 · page 13

One of the great obstacles to agricultural development in the equatorial districts of Africa is the difficulty of procuring beasts of burden…

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Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1910 · page 9

There was a good volume of business passing in farm produce lines. The wheat market made a turn for the better on Thursday when a sale in…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1910 · page 9

A good turnover can be reported for dairy produce lines, and supplies generally have fallen off. The demand for butter continues good,…

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The Wool Season

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 May 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 24,805 bales, compared with 33,315…

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Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 May 1910 · page 9

The market for most lines of farm produce was fairly good, and owing to the dry weather all lines have firmed considerably…

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Farm and Produce. Rural Development

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 May 1910 · page 11

Two items which have been published this week give some interesting, although rather bald, information, which indicates the development which is…

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Butterfly Farm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 May 1910 · page 6

A prosperous butterfly and moth farm, not only breeding those insects by the tens of thousands, but also raising a large proportion of its own fodder plaints and…

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