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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1919

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The Wheat Guarantee. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 January 1919 · page 5

Mr. Watt, the Acting Prime Minister, stated to-night that he had effected agreements with the banks for the payment of the Guarantee in respect of the…

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Farm and Produce. Cream and Butter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 January 1919 · page 10

Lecturing at the Scottsdale dairy school, Tasmania, recently, Mr. M. A. O'Callaghan, Federal dairy expert, mentioned that all forms of…

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Commercial. the Week's Review. Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 January 1919 · page 2

The continued dry weather prevailing in practically all the States, and the bush fires raging in various parts of New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland,…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 January 1919 · page 2

There has been a good volume of business passing in dairy produce. Butter is getting into shorter supply, and inland factories are now drawing…

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The Northern Territory. Pastoral Possibilities

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 January 1919 · page 6

One cannot be satisfied with merely saying vaguely that there are immense possibilities in the pastoral settlement of the Territory (writes ex-Senator T. D…

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Australian Wheat Probable Sale Abroad Allied Pool London, Sunday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 20 January 1919 · page 1

Mr. Hughes is endeavoring to sel[?] Australian wheat to the Inter-Allied committee charged with the duly of feeding Europe. Authoritative…

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Indian Affairs Australian Wheat London, Monday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 January 1919 · page 1

Reuter's Delhi correspondent telegraphed on January 6 that the new Excess Profits Tax, which will be enforced on April 1, is one-fifth per cent…

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Compulsory Farming

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 January 1919 · page 6

At Leeminster (England). Richard Edmunds, owner and occupier of lour farms with a total area of 664 acres, was fined £100 on each of Four…

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Necessitous Farmers. Help From the Government. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 January 1919 · page 5

The State Cabinet this afternoon considered the question of making advances to necessitous farmers, who have been the victims, not only of the bad season…

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Wheat Lumpers Cease Work. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 January 1919 · page 5

A message received from Goulburn this afternoon announces the refusal of about 200 wheat-lumpers, employed at Cook's Cutting, to start work. This…

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Maitland District. Coastal Farmers' Society

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 January 1919 · page 6

The half-yearly meeting of the Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Society, Limited, was held at the town hall, West Maitland, yesterday, when there was an attendance…

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Dairymen's Distress Poor Milk Supplies Higher Price Wanted

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 23 January 1919 · page 5

Mr. R. P. King, Commonwealth Prices Commissioner, held an inquiry at the Great Northern Hotel in Newcastle this morning in response to…

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The Sale of Wool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 January 1919 · page 5

The executive of the associations of export merchants of raw materials and yarns in Bradford are pressing for the sale at the earliest possible moment…

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Commercial. the Week's Review. Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 January 1919 · page 2

Dry weather continues in most agricultural districts, and the heat and bush fires are causing pastoralists an exceedingly anxious time. Fair inquiries are…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 January 1919 · page 2

There has been a good demand for nearly all lines of dairy produce. Butter continues to show a shrinkage in supplies, and although merchants are…

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Farm and Produce. a Farmer's Results

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 January 1919 · page 10

Amongst those who have proved the value of rape as a feature of the wheat and sheep farm and who have esteemed the results so good as to justify them…

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The Wool Position

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 January 1919 · page 5

M. Goldfinch, addressing the Wool Council in London, said the danger of a short supply of wool had passed. Sufficient was available to keep the mills in…

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Pudding Without Milk, Eggs. or Butter

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 30 January 1919 · page 6

[?] pound rice. ½ glass lukewarm water. 3 or 4 drops essence of mint. 4 spoons apricot marmalade…

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Waratah Sales Many Pigs and Cattle

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 30 January 1919 · page 4

There was a large yarding of pigs at Waratah sales to-day, including the usual large percentage of stores unsuitable for trade purposes. Values for buconers…

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Cornstalk Battle Question of Tariff Farmers' Demands VANCOUVER

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 31 January 1919 · page 1

The Canadian Manufacturers' Association has issued a statement in reply to the recent demands of the Western Prairie drain Growers. The…

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