Wool Shipping Question
The members of the Aberdeen branch of the Primary Producers' Union continue to interest themselves in the furthering of the interests of Newcastle as a port of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1918
488 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 25
Wool Workers. Melbourne
In the Federal Arbitration Court to-day, Mr. Justice Higgins reserved his decision on the application by the Australian Workers' Union against Dalgety and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australian Wool Empire's Control London, Friday Night
Lord Balfour of Burleigh, referring to the report of the Committee on Post-War Trade, states that the supply of all kinds of wool is likely to be insufficient for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Like King Edward. Prince of Wales Sketched. Not Wrapped in Cotton Wool
He looks you straight in the face as a man should a clear, frank, steady gaze. That is the first thing one notices in the Prince of Wales, and the impression it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Commercial. the Week's Review. Farm Produce
Business generally has, during the week, been good in all lines, merchants advising an improved turnover in practically all lines. A good deal of trouble is existing with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Produce. Stringless Beans
The wax pod and other stringless French beans, dwarf and runner, are not so much grown as one would have expected, seeing that they are so highly spoken of by those…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Dairy Produce
During the week there has been considerable shrinkage in the supplies of butter, and if the decline in supplies continues, local merchants will have to look to the Pool to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The American Farmerette
Miss Helen Stevens furnishes in the New York "Times" a droll account of her experiences as one of the pioneer bands of city girls who have, at the call of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →If Our Line Breaks Borden Warns Farmers Urgent Need for Fighters LONDON, Sunday Night
Reuter's correspondent at Ottawa telegraphs: Replying to a deputation of Ontario farmers asking that farmers' sons should not be called up owing to the scarcity of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Butter and Cheese Supplies Decreasing
The whole of the best grade production of butter is now required to meet the retail demand, for there has been a continual falling off of factory output. The increased…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Sydney Letter. 126,832 "Subscribers."—criticising Our Finances Adversely.—the Enlisting Spirit.—a Painters' Exhibition.—the Postal Rates.—premiers in Conference.—the Archbishop's Pastoral.—our Casualty Lists.—the "Lucky" Prize-winner. Sydney
The Federal Treasurer's final figures for the Sixth War Loan have been reviewed in the same way. Though the amount realised and contracted for has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Butter Boxes Seasoned Wood Shortage
Butter supplies were still on the small side at the Newcastle markets to-day. One merchant stated that owing to the supply of seasoned timber being short of requirements…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Produce. Green Manuring Orchards
In green manuring orchards the following course is recommended:—Plough the ground as soon as possible after the fruit has all been gathered in, and sow with dun peas…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Commercial. the Week's Review. Farm Produce
There was a large volume of business passing in general lines of farm produce during the past week. Merchants have been busy railing goods to the country, and coping with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairy Produce
A steady trade was reported in dairy produce for the week. Butter is in shorter supply, but merchants are still able to meet all requirements, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers' Appeal Canada's Fighters Borden's Straight Reply OTTAWA
Sir Robert Borden to-day replied with startling frankness to the farmers' appeals against calling men of nineteen to twenty-two, and said: "if the scattered and broken…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Improving Maize American Farmer's Experiment
A Wisconsin farmer relates in "Hoard's Dairyman" how he improved his strain of maize so as greatly to increase the yield and to adapt the period of maturity to his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Grasping Sydney Wool Clip Grievance Industrialists Should Move
"There is no doubt about it—we have been sat on very harshly by the tremendous interests in sydney."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Federal Parliament. the Senate. Interests of the Farmers. Melbourne
Senator GIVENS, the President of the Senate, took the chair at three o'clock this afternoon. Senator MILLEN, the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Butter and Cheese Shortage of Supply
The trouble with regard to the unseasoned for butter boxes is not quite so pronounced as it was last week, and will diminish as stock become more seasonable…
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