Commercial. the Butter Market
Messrs, Prescott, Ltd., in their Sydney butter circular, dated Saturday, report:—Butter.—The price of choicest butter was reduced to 90s on Wednesday, but…
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Farming & the land, 1911
346 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 18
Cattle Disease. Outbreak in Germany. Berlin
The "Kreuz Zeitung" states that the foot and mouth disease in Germany is assuming the proportion of the epidemic in the nineties…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Canada's Crops. Decrease Anticipated. Vancouver
The wheat, oats, and barley harvest of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta is estimated at 277,000,000 bushels, a decrease of 87,000,000 bushels…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sheep on the North Coast
UP to the present, sheep have not been kept with very satisfactory results in the North Coast districts of New South Wales. The climate is moist, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wool Season
The arrivals of wool to date to the agencies of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co. and Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., totalled 23,269 bales, as compared with…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Alleged Sheep Stealing. Adelaide
About a month ago a party of snipe-shooters were out near German Creek, about eight miles from Tantanoola, in the vicinity of Lake Bonney, when their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Produce. Potato Breeding
In several articles of the present series attention has been directed to the necessity of more care being taken in the selection of potato seed. The haphazard…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Farm Produce
The market for farm produce lines was fairly brisk, storekeepers being busy replenishing stocks. The wheat market is slightly better…
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There was only a fair demand for dairy produce. Supplies of most lines have been heavy in consequence of accumulations of stocks at the factories…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Alleged Sheep Stealing. Adelaide
Detective Allchurch is still inquiring into the circumstance connected with the discovery of an alleged sheep-stealer's lair at Tantanoola…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wool Season
The arrivals of wool to data to the agencies of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., and Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., totalled 23,305 bates, compared with 22,082…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farm and Produce. Seed Testing
A new method of making germination tests for seed is being advocated by Professor H. Pioper, the head of one of the German seed-testing stations, the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Farm Produce
The farm produce market has been fairly brisk, but the recent rains have interfered with deliveries. The wheat market is easier, as…
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Trade has born fairly good in dairy produce lines, but the market is without any special features. Supplies of butter continue in excess…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Warwick Farm Races
The race meeting held at Warwick Farm on Saturday was well attended. Early in the afternoon the sky presented a very stormy appearance, but the rain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London Wool Sales. London
The first series of Australasian wool sales opened last evening. Business was brisk, at from 5 to 10 per cent. decline on the last series…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Charge Of-sheep Stealing. Tantanoola Case. Adelaide
Police court proceedings were commenced at Millicent to-day against Robert Charles Edmundson, who was charged "that on or about and between September…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wool Season
The arrivals to date to the agencies of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright and Co, and Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., numbered 23,689 bales, compared with 22,146 bales in the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farm and Dairy. Cost of an Inferior Bull
The average farmer who is raising his own dairy calves little appreciates the net cost of a cheap or inferior bull, when in search of an animal to head his herd…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Historic Farmhouse Sold
The historic farmhouse of Ligny, where Napoleon won his very last battle against Blucher two days before his final defeat at Waterloo, has been…
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