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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1913

347 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 18

Feeding Off Grain Crops

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 June 1913 · page 11

In order to test the advantage or otherwise of feeding off cereal crops intended for grain, the principal of the Roseworthy Agricultural College, South Australia, has…

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Queensland Farmers Confer. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 June 1913 · page 5

The Farmers' Union Conference went into committee to-day to consider the political situation, and it was announced subsequently that the Farmers' Union…

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Sheep on the North Coast

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 June 1913 · page 11

In a report on a recent trip through the Manning district, the sheep and wool expert of the Department of Agriculture reafirms his opinion that sheep can be…

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Great Farm Implements

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 June 1913 · page 5

Speaking of or rather to the Farmers Conference, the question may be asked, if, generally speaking, we are as up-to-date as we should be. One goes through…

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Science and Farming

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 June 1913 · page 11

Science is continually contributing something fer the benefit of the farmer, If the farmer would meet the scientist half way, the condition of each would be…

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Farm and Produce. Victorian Lucern Hay

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 June 1913 · page 11

The fact that dairy cattle on the Hunter River are being fed on lucern hey and chair grown in Victoria is of much more than passing interest. That the southern…

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Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 June 1913 · page 9

There has been only hand-to-mouth business transacted in the produce section of the markets during the week, and no activity has been displayed in any…

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Farm and Produce. Prevention of Phylloxera

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 June 1913 · page 11

The action of the State Department of Agriculture in appointing honorary inspectors to assist in the work of keeping the Hunter River district free from…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 June 1913 · page 9

The only dairy produce lines that underwent changes were butter, bacon, honey, and eggs, the first and second having substantial advances, while eggs…

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Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 June 1913 · page 9

Flour continues dull of sale at Unaltered prices. The wheat market is quiet, and shows an easier tendency, notwithstanding a…

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Farms, Big and Little

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 June 1913 · page 9

I do not believe this country is ever going to be a country of peasant proprietors. I believe that it is economically desirable that the bulk of the land should…

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Japanese Farm Land

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 June 1913 · page 11

The cultivated land in Japan is for the most part subdivided into small, narrow, and irregular lots, with an insufficiant and often unreasonable system of roads,…

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South African Dairying

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 June 1913 · page 11

South Africa to-day possosses upwards of on well-established cramoeices, the total output of which is said to be in the neighbourhood of 8,000,0001b per year, in…

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Farm and Produce. Farmers' Bulletins

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 June 1913 · page 11

The issue of Farmers' Bulletins is a most remarkable part of the work which is being done by the State Department of Agriculture, and it is surprising that it…

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An English Potato Farm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 June 1913 · page 11

So little is done for the English farmer in the way of advertising him that overseas peoples are apt to forget that he still leads the way in many of the highest…

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Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 June 1913 · page 9

Most lines of produce have been exceptionally dull. Little business has been done with the north, trade being confined principally to Newcastle and a few…

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Strike of Farm Hands. Police Called In. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 June 1913 · page 5

A strike of farm hands has occurred in the Ormskirk district of Lancashire. The police are conveying the farm…

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Australian Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 July 1913 · page 4

The beginning of July sees the commencement of another wool year in Australia. The season which has just closed has emphasised the continued…

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Butter and Margarine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 July 1913 · page 4

The sale of margarine in the United Kingdom has attained such proportions that those who are in a position to judge say that it is becoming a serious…

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London Wool Sales. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 July 1913 · page 5

The wool sales were opened yesterday, There was good competition in all lines, but there is no quotable change from prices at the previous sale…

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