High-priced Fat Cattle
At the Newcastle Show yesterday, Messrs. Hawkins, Limited, sold the fait cattle exhibits of the A.A. Company, from Warrah Station, Willow Tree,…
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Farming & the land, 1918
488 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 25
Wheat in South Africa
It is reported from Capetown that the Cost of Living Commission recommends fixing the price of wheat at 32s per bag of 200lbs, non mixing wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farm and Produce. Poisoning Green Timber
As a means of hastening the effect of ringbarking timber, arsonic has been used in increasing quantities in recent years, with the result that where it…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Maitland Stock Sales. Cattle in Good Supply
There was a good supply of fat cattle at Maitland stock yards to-day and prices realised showed considerable variation, bullocks selling at from £14…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wheat Pool. Melbourne
The second annual conference of the Australian Farmers' Union has opened. Mr. A. K. Trothowan, M.L.C., of New South Wales, president, in his opening…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Price of Wheat. Melbourne
A deputation from the Australian Farmers' Organisation waited on Mr. Hughes, the Prime Minister, to-day, and represented that thousands of wheat growers were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Produce. the Mosquito Danger
Under this title a useful leaflet has been issued by the British Museum (Natural History) at South Kensington, London. It admirably summarises the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Dairy Produce
It most lines of dairy produce, business has been of satisfactory volume during the week. Butter continues in ample supply, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Commercial. the Week's Review. Farm Produce
There has been a fairly good volume of business in farm produce generally during the past week. Reports from merchants are to the effect that activity has been manlfast…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland Sales. Good Cattle Market
At the stock sales at Campbell's Hill yards, west Maitland, to-day, there was a fairly large supply of cattle, consisting chiefly of good to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storing Wheat in Bulk. Silo at Hamilton Mill
The erection of a large silo at the flour mills of Messrs. C. S. M'Intyre, Limited at Hamilton, has been in progress for about six months, and it is now nearing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Boys at Front Themselves at Home Farming and Football Athletics and Air Sport Australian Headquarters
Australian divisions inhabit this part of Belgium as though they were firmly planted here. They throng the towns, and are billeted ia every village and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat Stacking Dispute. Adelaide
In connection with the wheat stacking dispute, the Port Adelaide branch of the Waterside Workers' Federation, has decided to accept the offer made by Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Markets. The Butter Position Maize Slightly Lower
Supplies of butter are decreasing slowly on the Newcastle market, and the falling off will become more pronounced during the next few weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trouble at Darwin Meat-killing Suspended Sheep Experiments Succeed
The definite announcement that there will be no killing season in Darwin this year came to the Northern. Territory community with a rude…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local Subscriptions Response From Dairy Farmers
In the course of his address at the Inspection of the Newcastle abattoir yesterday afternoon, Mr. Ball stated that tho appeal for the Sixth War…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →North Queensland Cyclone the Casualties. Loss of Sugar Crops. Brisbane
The latest reports from Innisfall state that the Goondl sugar mill was razed to the ground, and the pilot station at Flying Fish Point demolished…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Growing
Already the Government is finding the wheat purchase scheme, on which it embarked last year for the encouragement of wheat crowing in this country, a serious…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farmer Disappears Missing From Stockton Hotel Victim of Insomnia
The sudden disappearance of a young man who was staying at Stockton has been reported to the Newcastle police…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm and Produce. Freshwater Shells
In Egypt and Africa the Bilharzia worm affects man, causing the passage of blood in the urine. The young stages of the worm are passed in certain…
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