Ohio Prison Farm
Does plain, common, everyday humanity, the man to man kind, count in the handling of convicts? Do convicts take advantage why a man kindness? Is there…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1912
362 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 19
Australian Wool. Melbourne
The Federal Government has received circular communications from the Bradford chamber of Commerce complaining of the prevalence of black and grey…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Prizes for Butter Fat. Melbourne
Commercial and dairying circles are greatly interested in the proposal that the Federal Government should had prizes for producers obtaining the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Canada's Golden West. Duke's Ready-made Farms
The Duke of Sutherland (says the "Express") has returned to London from Canada, having perfected his arrangements for openings up large tracts of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Combating Sheep Fly
Mr. C. W. Phillips, of Canimbla, via Cowra, gives the following experience in preventing the maggot fly amongst his sheep. Seven hundred ewes and hoggets…
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 19,464 bales, compared with 23,204…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sydney Produce Market. Sydney, Friday. Wheat Unchanged
The wheat market is unchanged. The bulk of business recorded is small. Millers are picking up handy-sized parcels, but shippers are awaiting news from…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farm and Produce. Intensive Dairy Farming
A very interesting experiment was made recently at the Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station, showing a marked variation in the profits from four…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Education for Farmers
Not every man who gees "back to the land" is able to plough a living out of it. It is quite as necessary for a farmer to know his trade as it is for a shoemaker…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A Farmer-surgeon
Mr. Rickman Godlee, a Fellow of London University, who has been selected to succeed Sir Henry Butlin in the presidency of the Royal College of Surgeons,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farm Produce
The market for all lines of farm produce has been fairly brisk, a good many consumers, realising that prices are not going to be much lower, have put in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dairy Produce
Business in dairy produce lines has been fairly active. Butter has been selling well, but only a small percentage of supplies coming…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Melbourne Butter Market. Melbourne
The price of butter advanced a half-penny to-day in the wholesale trade, from 1s 1½d to 1s 2d per lb for the best…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne
The second series of wool sales for the season, 1911-12 opened to-day, when 10,000 bales were differed. The attendance was very large. The competition was animated, and prices…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne
At the wool sales to-day, bidding w[?] animated. A strong market prevailed, yesterday's price being maintained…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →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 19,511 bales, compared with 23,201…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →United States Wool Tariff
The chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the United States House of Representatives, Mr. O. W. Underwood, says the people of the United States pay…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →London Wool Imports. Sydney
Dalgety and Company, Limited, are in receipt of a cable message from their head office, stating that the wool imports into London for the twelve months…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sydney Produce Market. Sydney, Friday. Wheat Easier
Private cable messages were received to-day from London stating that reports as to the progress of threshing in Argentina were more favourable, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farm Produce
The market for all kinds of farm produce has been brisk, a good amount of speculation being indulged in, Prices generally are on the up grade…
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