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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1922

840 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 22 of 42

Dairy Cow Value

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 June 1922 · page 13

Many examples might be quoted to show the need for fixing a standard, and for disposing of all cows whose milk yields fall below it. On a farm in the South…

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Commercial. the Week's Review. Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 June 1922 · page 9

The industrial depression ruling in Newcastle has had a marked effect on the business in the farm produce section during the week, and operations were on a…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 June 1922 · page 9

The supplies of butter that reached the market during the week again, showed a shrinkage. The trade depression has affected the demand in Newcastle…

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Silage Facts Conserving Fodder Making Farming Safer

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 10 June 1922 · page 6

Farmers are still all too careless of the necessity of conserving fodder in the form of silage. Farming will be a more profitable and a safer thing in…

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World Wheat Shortage

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 June 1922 · page 5

It is reported from Washington that the Foodstuffs Division of the Department of Commerce stated that a world shortage, of wheat would begin to be felt at the…

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British Trade. Stock Market Dull. Demand for Butter. Wool Prices Maintained. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 June 1922 · page 5

Nervousness about Ireland ,and the uncertainly regarding the Reparations question have had a chilling effect on the stock markets. Business all-round has been…

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Trained on Farm Marathon Champion Third Successive Win LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 12 June 1922 · page 1

A young Leicester farmer, A. R. Mills, who does not train, but relies on hard farm work, with an occasional short cross-country run, won the…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 June 1922 · page 4

At the Sydney wool sales to-day, 7090 bales were offered, at auction, and 5746 sold. Private sales totalled 1318 bales. The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 June 1922 · page 4

At the wool sales to-day 6757 bales were offered and 5673 sold. Private sales totalled 944. The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers…

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Irish Electioneering Intimidation of Farmers' Candidates "Deliberate Attempt on Life" Concerted Attack on a Home London

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 14 June 1922 · page 1

The Soft of [?]idation which the independent candidates are experiencing in South Ireland was revealed at a meeting of the National Executive of the Farmers' Union in Dublin, where allegations were made of violence and even deliberate attempts at life…

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Fortune Burned Farmer Postpones Death

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 14 June 1922 · page 6

The remains of a large bonfire in the street and the discovery of minute fragments of banknotes on their doorstep when they arose have just…

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Luce an Engine Dairy Cow's Body Value of Rugging

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 14 June 1922 · page 6

Rugging of dairy cattle during the winter months would be more general, says a writer in the Victorian "Journal of Agriculture," if farmers The two Junior wireless operators limited ashore on the boatswain's chair from the doomed vessel…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 June 1922 · page 5

At the London wool sales yesterday 13,259 hales were offered, of which 3867 were Now Zealand and 3039 Puntas. There was a miscellaneous selection…

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Wool Sales. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 June 1922 · page 6

At the wool sales to-day, 8436 bales were offered, and 6718 sold. Private sales totalled 771 bales The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers…

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Voluntary Wheat Pool. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 June 1922 · page 4

Representatives of the voluntary wheat pool this afternoon saw Mr. Hughes, the Prime Minister, and placed before him a proposal that a second advance of 1s 6d…

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Stock Sales Singleton Market Sheep Values Firm

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 15 June 1922 · page 3

Grainger and Falkiner. Ltd., report on this week's Singleton sales:— Fat Cattle The supply was a fairly heavy one, the…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 June 1922 · page 5

There was a poor selection of merinoes at yesterday's wool sales, but though prices were without change, home competition was slightly more active…

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Cattle Tick Eradication. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 June 1922 · page 4

The conference between the northern farmers and the Minister for Agriculture on the future campaign for the cradination of cattle ticks concluded to-day…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 June 1922 · page 4

At the wool sales to-day 7005 bales were offered and 5980 sold. Private sales totalled 1440 bales. The Sydney wool-scling brokers report…

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Farmer's Death

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 16 June 1922 · page 6

Mr. George Freer, a well-known former, who came from the South Coast 40 years ago, selected land at Cullinga, and subsequently retired and…

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