Sydney Produce Market. Sydney, Friday. Wheat Closes Weak
The close of the week finds wheat in a distinetly weaker position that it occupied at the beginning. September wheat has now been adjusted, and sufficient has…
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Farming & the land, 1912
362 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 19
Farm and Produce Budding the Vine
In a recent "Agricultural Gazette" the viticultural export described a system of budding which is called in Italy (where it originated)t he "flute-graft of the vinc."…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fatal Explosion. Poultry Farmer Killed
Mr. William Mansfield, an olderly man, a poultry farmer at Tuggerah, was fatally injured through the explosion of gollgaite yesterday morning. With a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm Produce
Nothing of an unusual character has characterised transactions in the farm produce market during the week, only actual requirements being asked for…
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There has been more activity in the dairy produce market during the last week then has obtained for some little time previously, the demand being keen in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wool Season
The arrivals of wool to date to the agencies of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright and Company, and Dalgety and Company, for the present season are 5489 bales as…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sydney Produce Market. Sydney, Friday. The Wheat Market
Wheat operators were nervous this morning. The light rainfall reported in the Riverina, together with the critical position in the Balkans, has an unsetling…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farm and Produce. Borers on Grapevines
"We have always found that if grapevines are attacked by the large weevil borer they are old and dry, or there is some old timber or dying trees in the…
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The market for all kinds of farm produce has been on the quiet side during the week, and no transactions of any great importance have been reported…
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Operations in dairy produce during the week have been animated, and there has been a particularly keen demand for bacon and hams, while lard has also…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →West Australian Wheat Charters
Western Australia will have a lot of wheat for export this season, hence charterers are taking up a fair amount of tonnage. They began to show their hands…
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The arrivals of wool to the agencies of Messrs, Gibbs, Bright, and Company and Dalgety, and Company for the current season total 7102 bales, as compared…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Maitland District. Exportation of Stud Sheep
Mr. W. J. Robson, of Maitland, northern representative for Pitt, Son and Badgery, is shipping from Newcastle to-day 4000 stud owes for Mr. Allison, a big…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →For the Little Folks. Moles and Cattle
Farmers used to think that moles were bad for the fields where their herds grazed, but this opinion seems to be on longer held. If the creatures sometimes…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Sydney Produce Market. Sydney, Friday. Wheat and the Weather
Operators in the wheat market are beginning to watch the weather with a good deaf of anxiety. In the early part at the week there were some useful fails or rain…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farm and Produce. Rearing the Calf
The beat method of effecting improvement in the dairy herd is to purchase a bull of undoubted milking pedigree, and keep the calves by him from the best…
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The inquiry for all lines of dairy produce has been exceptionally good during the week, and although prices are hardening, there seems no diminution in…
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There has not been any excitement in the produce markets during the week, only actual requirements as a general rule having been asked for…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Queensland Dairy Regulations
The Queensland Government has approved of additional regulations to the Dairy Produce Act, particularly with the recording of milk and cream tests…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alleged Sheep-stealing
Charles L. Halter Keith W. Dines, and Reginald E. Henston, three youths, were charged that at Singleton on the 6th August they did steal five lambs, the…
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