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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1916

579 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 29

Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 April 1916 · page 9

A big volume of business is reported in dairy produce for the week. Supplies of butter are being well maintained, and the quality is excellent. Good…

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Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 April 1916 · page 9

There has been no appreciable change in the markets for farm produce, and the dull feeling that has prevailed for the last three weeks is still much in evidence…

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Loading Government Wheat. Big Contract for Flour. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 April 1916 · page 5

There was an interesting function at Glebe Island this morning, when the first shipment of Government wheat was loaded on the sailing ship Amasis. Mr. Grahame,…

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Bulk Handling of Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 April 1916 · page 4

No matter what developments may take place in the State politics during the next few weeks the question of the bulk handling of wheat is not likely to…

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Farm and Produce. Maize for Dairy Cows

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1916 · page 12

On 9th November two plots of maize were sown at Wildwood Farm Whittlesea. The varieties, Horsetooth and Hickory, King, were drilled In at the rate of one…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1916 · page 9

Brisk business has been passing during the week in nearly all dairy produce lines, butter cheese, bacon, and eggs commanding most attention…

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Indian Wheat Export. Simla

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1916 · page 7

The private exportation of wheat is permitted, subject to restrictions as to quantity, during the war…

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London Wool Sales. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 May 1916 · page 5

At the wool sales to-day there was a very strong market, and keen competition for all classes or wool at full rates. Prices obtained included the following:—…

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Swiss Cattle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 May 1916 · page 11

Switzerland has three recogaised breeds of cattle-Brown Swiss, Simmenthal, and Fribourg. The Brown Swiss are especially bred in south-eastern Switzerland, with…

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Berlin's Butter Allowance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 May 1916 · page 2

The population of Greater Berlin is now restricted in the amount of butter it may buy to a quarter of a pound per week for each individual. Ostensibly this strict…

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State Wheat Harvest. a Record Output. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 May 1916 · page 4

The work of compiling the returns of the actual results of the wheat narvest for the season 1915-16 is almost complete, and admits of the publication of the…

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Farmers Organising

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 May 1916 · page 13

The recent actions of the various Governments with regard to the farming interest and the holding up of wheat, butter, etc., by strikes on tin wharves, have…

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Fox Farming

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 May 1916 · page 12

Much has been written during the last three or four years regarding the remarkable development of fox farming in Canada, especially in Prince Edward Island,…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 May 1916 · page 9

Business in dairy produce has been very brisk during the week, almost all lines being in keen demand. Supplies of butter continue to come…

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Farm and Produce. a Prolific Shorthorn

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 May 1916 · page 11

An unusual breeding performance on the part of one of the cows in the pedigree Shorthorn herd at Brockhampton Park, Gloucestershire, England is recorded in…

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Diseased Cattle Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 May 1916 · page 5

Joseph Bailey proceeded against F. J. Dwyer, for the return of £14, the price of two beasts, alleged by the plaintiff to be diseased, and it was also alleged that the…

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India's Wheat Export. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 May 1916 · page 7

Mr. C. H. Roberts, ex-Parliamentary Secretary for India, stated in the House of Commons to-day that the Government of India was permitting the private…

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Farm and Produce. Feeding Immature Crops

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 May 1916 · page 11

The common practice of using crops in an immature state is both unsatisfactory and uneconomic. When they are either cut or pastured before they have reached…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 May 1916 · page 9

The only material change in prices in dairy produce during the weck has been an advance of a penny a pound in butter, which has, been granted by the…

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Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 May 1916 · page 9

A more cheerful outlook is apparent in the produce section of trade than has been the case for some little time past. There is much better inquiry for nearly…

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