Butter Shortage Grocers Without Stocks
During the last fow days the butter shortage has been more keenly felt than for somo time previously. In a good many cases grocers' stocks have been depleted…
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Farming & the land, 1918
488 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 25
New Kind of Boiler. Boer Farmer and Mine
A Boer farmer and his son, who found a mine on the shore near Eland's Bay, South Africa, are fortunate to be still alive. An official report made to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairying Outlook After the War
What are the prospects of the dairying industry? The present is a period of considerable prosperity, for we have has a couple of good seasons, and prices for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Million Sheep Lost Wellington (N.z.)
It is estimated that the recent snowstorms in the south island will result in the loss of a million sheep…
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There has been a keen demand for almost every lion of dairy produce, but shortage of supplies in some commodities has restricted business to some extent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Commercial. the Week's Review. Farm Produce
Business in farm produce has been rather quiet during the week, and merchants have been forwarding clearing up orders to the country. Fodder is in inquiry for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Produce. Flax-growing in Great Britain
"Although at one time extensively cultivated both for its fibre and sued, practically no flax has been grown in Scotland, and very little in England during the last 30 years,"…
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The butter position at the Newcastle markets to-day was unchanged. Grocers [?] receiving only 30 per cent. of their requirements. No alteration is looked for until the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Famine Not a Single Box Sydney
There was a butter famine at Sussex-street markets to-day. Not a single box was available for the retail grocers. This, it was stated, is the first occasion in the history of the trade…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stop-press News No Sheep Yarded
At War[?] stock sales to-day, the yardings comprised light supplies of [?] and cattle. For the second week in succession no sheep were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rush for Butter Scenes at Sussex-street SYDNEY
The rush for butter in the Sussex-street markets today was unprecedented. There were wild scrambles for the commodity as it was taken off the lorries into the stores, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Sydney Letter. War Discussions.—the Reticent Soldier.—"returns" and Their Living.—the Loyalty Brigade.—"one Big Union."—something in the Temperance Line.—an Income Tax Decision.—meat, Butter, and Milk.—a Very Fine Warship. Sydney
The city has been making ever so much of the anniversary of the British declaration. The ceremonies of one kind and another have now been carried over some…
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Grocers who were looking for butter in Sussex street wholesale markets this morning were informed that there was not a box to be had. Merchants, however, were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairying Notes
After making the junior three-year-old world's record, the Jersey Goldie's Nehalem Beauty is living proof that a cow can make a big record without impairing her health,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Farm and Produce. Feeding Adult Poultry
With the present rate of progress that is taking place in the poultry industry, some scarcity of food-stuffs other than wheat and maize threatens to become a factor that will…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Commercial. the Week's Review. Farm Produce
Trade generally has been quiet in farm produce, and the recent rains have had the effect of checking further business in fodder in the country. It is stated that…
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There is no improvement in the supplies of butter. The Government stocks of salted first-grade have been distributed, and merchants are now dependent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Butter Still Scarce SYDNEY
Butter is still scarce at the wholesale market. Retailers to-day had in orders for 15,000 boxes, but not one-third of these were executed; The arrivals from all producing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter Still Short Onions Reach £23 a Ton
Small quantities of butter were arriving at the Newcastle markets to-day from Victoria, but not sufficient to improve the position. Next week the supplies from Victoria are expected to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Better Than Whisky Sheep Trotters' Oil Meat By-Product SYDNEY
Since the Government interference in the meat industry, more than half the plant at John Kitchen and Sons' works at Alexandria has been lying idle, said Mr. Charles…
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