Live Stock on the Farm
"The future prosperity of Western Canada depends entirely upon the adoption of proper methods of agriculture, among which exclusive grain growing…
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Farming & the land, 1913
347 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 18
Dairy Produce
Dairy produce lines have been in active request during the week. Butter is somewhat firmer, owing to the dry weather in some of the…
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The market for most lines of produce has been fairly firm. Orders have been of good volume, and, with a keen local demand merchants have been kept busy. The…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farming by Dynamite
An interesting demonstration of tilling the seil by dynamite has been carried out on a farm in Kent belonging to Sir John Cockburn, and has attracted a good…
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"The varieties of potatoes are endless," said Mr. R. Camerini, in addressing the members of the Sackville branch of the Agricultural Bureau on the…
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Business in dairy produce lines has been up to the usual standard during the week. In regard to the charge that it has been decided in Sydney to impose for boxes of…
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The demand for all lines of produce has been rather on the quiet aide during the week, and no special interest has been shown in any one particular line. The…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wheat Shipping Difficulty. Board Will Be Convened. Sydney
The wheat shipping trouble is becoming cute. Mr. Carmichael, the Minister for Labour, stated to-night that representatives…
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The wheat strike at Darling Island has been settled. The men have agreed to return to work to-morrow, pending the award of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London Wool Sales. London
The second series of wool sales of the year opened yesterday. There was strong competition, and prices varied from par to an advance of 7½ per…
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A good deal of interest is being taken in North Coast district, in the, experiments with sheep which are being conducted at Grafton experiment farm. Not…
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Although inability to get wheat to the seaboard from the country, and the industrial unrest amongst the workers, are both playing havoc with the shipping of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Produce. Green Fodder Trials
Reporting on the trials of green fodders which were made on the farmers' plots on the South Coast last year, the inspector for the district remarked particularly on…
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The market for most lines of farm produce has been fairly firm, and operations have been on a tolerably extensive scale. Wheat was easier, consequent upon the…
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During February 53 cases were tried under the Customs Act, and fines inflicted for the export of butter which was below the standard, or short in weight…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Winter School for Farmers. Sydney
Arrangements have been made for the 1913 winter school for farmers to commence at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College on Tuesday. 24th June, and to…
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Sir George Reid, the High Commissioner, for Australia, has had an interview with six Tooley-street agents who are selling the Co-operative…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney Wool Market. Sydney
A good inquiry is evident locally, but the absence of wool available for sale precludes any transactions of note. Consignments are arriving very slowly, as a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farm and Produce. Irrigation
Quite lately the irrigationist of this department visited several small farms in the Gunnedah Muswellbrook, and Singleton districts, on some of which a…
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There has been a steady demand for all lines of produce, with the exception of chaff, orders for this line, from the country, having ceased, a result of the…
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