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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1918

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Farm and Produce. Dairying Around Dungog

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 September 1918 · page 9

The report of the annual meeting of the Dungog Co-operative Butter Factory, Limited, of which Mr. G. Scarr is manager, reveals what an important part dairying is playing in…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 September 1918 · page 5

The volume of business in dairy produce has been wolf maintained, and good sales have been effected in most lines. Supplies of butter are beginning to Increase,…

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Commercial. the Week's Review. Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 September 1918 · page 5

The past week's operations in farm Produce have disclosed no new feature. Prices have undergone but little change, and speculation is practically absent…

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Australian Wheat Pool. Liability of £44,000,000. MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 September 1918 · page 4

Mr. Hagelthorn, the Minister for Agriculture, speaking in the Legislative Council on the wheat position, said in the Australian pool there were 2,000,000 tons…

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Germany Buys Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 September 1918 · page 5

It is reported that, in addition to Germany's purchase of seventy-five million marks' worth of the Argentine and Uruguayan wool clip in 1917, she has purchased…

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Low-priced Sheep

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 September 1918 · page 10

Flock owners who are worrying themselves over the slump in the price of cheep that they say will inevitably be caused by the price-fixing practices of the central…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 September 1918 · page 5

There has been a good inquiry for most lines of dairy produce. Butter is in much better supply and merchants are now able, with the help of…

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Commercial. the Week's Review. Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 September 1918 · page 5

There is very little to report with regard to operations in farm produce during the past week. Merchants state that business is exceedingly dull, and storekeepers are…

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Farm and Produce. Thorough Cultivation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 September 1918 · page 9

With the approach of spring farmers will be busy preparing land for summer and autumn crops. Every agriculturist should hear in mind that success in the matter of yields…

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In Sheep's Clothing Humbled "All Highest" London Wednesday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 26 September 1918 · page 1

The internal conditions in Germany are revealed by the strenuous methods necessary td restore the Kaiser'a undoubtedly waning popularity…

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Farm and Produce. the Late Chicken

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 September 1918 · page 9

Writing in the "Agriculture Gazette," the poultry expert of the Department of Agriculture says: Of all the afflictions of the poultry industry, the most damaging is the "late…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 September 1918 · page 5

There has been a good volume of business in most lines of dairy , produce, Butter is now in ample supply, and merchants report a satisfactory turnover, Cheese is still scarce,…

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Commercial. the Week's Review. Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 September 1918 · page 5

Reports from merchants are to the effect that business in farm produce is extremely dull, more so than it has been at any time during the last three months. The general…

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Our Sydney Letter. So Many Yeas, So Many Nays.—"a Form of Outlawry."—the Ballot.—what of the Farmer?—our Soldiers' Dependents.—the Crippled Man Who Did.—house Agents and Their Views.—strange Ships with Stranger Names. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 September 1918 · page 4

Judgment has been given, and so far as a hasty inquiry here and there can elucidate, opinion in Sydney is that the outstanding fact is that full jurisdiction in…

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Rare Cattle Disease

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 October 1918 · page 7

Mr. J. Lance Lawson, secretary of the Newcastle Abattoir Board, stated yesterday day that an interesting case of disease in a bullock had recently been noted at…

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Melbourne Butter Market. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 October 1918 · page 4

The prices for first grade butter have been slightly reduced, and are to be 149s 4d a cwt., wholesale, and 1s 6½d per pound retail…

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Dairy Produce Pool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 October 1918 · page 6

One definite effect of the new Dairy Produce Pool, with its full statutory powers, should be that no district, factory, or firm, will reap any undue…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 October 1918 · page 5

There has been a good demand for most dairy produce lines, and as supplies have been well maintained in nearly every line, a substantial volume of business has been…

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Commercial. the Week's Review. Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 October 1918 · page 5

Owing to the dry weather in various portions of this State and Queensland business in forage lines has been better. There is a fairly good demand from the north and north…

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Farm and Produce. When to Wean Pigs

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 October 1918 · page 9

In the ordinary course, says an expert, a young pig can make sufficient progress within the first eight weeks of its life to enable it to carry on without the aid of its mother…

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