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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1914

403 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 21

Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 March 1914 · page 9

Business in most lines of farm produce has been more or less of a hand-to-mouth character during the week. Wheat remains at about the same…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 March 1914 · page 9

Butter was further reduced during the week owing to increased supplies and weakness of the London market, but there has been no appreciable alternation…

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Farm and Produce. Calves and Tuberculosis

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 March 1914 · page 11

The Royal Agricultural Society of England has issued a report of the experiments carried out at Woburn for the purpose of demonstrating that by means…

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Prison Farms

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 March 1914 · page 11

The treatment of offenders cannot yet be regarded as having progressed much boyong the experimental stage, and one of the most interesting experiments in…

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Farming with Brains

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 April 1914 · page 15

Two things are essential to the success of agriculture—capital and brains. It makes me boil with anger when politicians talk as if no capacity was required…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 April 1914 · page 9

There have been good sales of butter during the week for local consumption, but prices did not undergo any change…

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Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 April 1914 · page 9

No transactions of any note taken place during the week, and business, if anything, had been rather dull, but with the opening of the month it was…

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Farm and Produce. Feeding for Bone

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 April 1914 · page 11

Although the importance of dense, hard bone, with its accompaniment of strong London attachments, has been recognised by horse-breeders from early times, it has…

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To Assist Farmers. Government Action. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 April 1914 · page 5

Lord Lucas, Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Board of Agriculture, speaking at Hitchin, announced that the Budget will include considerable…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 April 1914 · page 9

A brisk demand has been experienced in most lines of dairy produce during the Week. An outstanding feature of the market…

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Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 April 1914 · page 9

Business in most lines of farm produce has been of a restricted nature, and the market has been devoid of any special feature…

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Farm and Produce. Pure Milk Supplies

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 April 1914 · page 11

A suggestion is made by Mr. D. Cuddle, in the "New Zealand Journal of Agriculture," that dairy factories should pay for milk and cream supplies according…

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Prince As Farm Hand

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 April 1914 · page 4

Prince Eric of Denmark, a nephey of Queen Alexandra, is living the simple life of an English farmer's son at Fairford, in Gloucestershire. He is the third…

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Ostrich Farming. Train Full of Birds. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 April 1914 · page 5

A unique sight was witnessed at Echuca, when a special train of fifteen trucks, containing 366 ostriches steamed into the platform, consigned by their…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 April 1914 · page 9

Butter has been on an even keel during the week. Supplies have been increasing, but the demand practically remains stationary…

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State Dairy. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 April 1914 · page 4

Mr. Estoll, the Minister for Labour and Industry, is pleased with the success that has so far attended his State dairy scheme. At Bunnerong Farm, where the…

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Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 April 1914 · page 9

Business in most lines of farm produce has only boon of a hand-to-month character, without any special features to predominate…

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Farm and Produce. Experiments on the Farm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 April 1914 · page 11

The value of experimental work carried out on practical hues is being recognised more and more by leading agriculturists experiments that require a special…

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Meeting of Farmers. Wagga

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 April 1914 · page 5

A meeting of the Wagga Farmers and Settlers' Association yesterday afternoon protested against the closing by the Chief Construction Engineer for Railways of…

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A Bill for Farmers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 April 1914 · page 5

All parties gave their blessing to a little bill which has passed its second reading in the Commons and been sent to Grand Committee. It is a measure…

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