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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1924

999 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 50

Market Firm London Wool Sales LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 29 March 1924 · page 1

At the wool gales 6800 bales were offered to a full attendance of buyers. Recent rates were, maintained, but there were frequent withdrawals of…

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Commercial. the Week's Review. Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 March 1924 · page 3

There was an improved tone in the demand for farm produce during the week. Potatoes were slightly easier, ruling…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 March 1924 · page 3

Business in dairy produce during the week was of an average volume, with several alterations in quotations. Owing to the partial collapse of the…

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Hunter River Dairying Mr. Scarr's Impressions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 March 1924 · page 5

Mr. P. A. Scarr, manager of the Raymond Terrace Co-operative Dairy and Produce Company, Limited, has Just concluded an extensive tour of New…

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Farm and Produce Slimy Milk

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 March 1924 · page 14

In reply to a correspondent who asked for information concerning slimy milk, the editor of Hoard's "Dairyman'" writes as follows: "To determine which quarter…

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Sun Power Motors on the Farm LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 29 March 1924 · page 1

A British Company is being formed to exploit, the revolutionary discovery of a Berlin professor, who invented a sun-power machine…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 April 1924 · page 5

The first of a series of three clearing up wool sales was held at Sydney to-day. At auction 6667 bales were offered and 5808 sold. Private sales totalled 1313…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 April 1924 · page 8

Eric John Duff was charged with having, at Gresford, on January 25, 1924 stolen three cows, the property of Albert Edward Harris John Hoffman, and…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 April 1924 · page 7

At the wool sales to-day 9022 bales were offered at auction, and 7296 sold. Private sales totalled 2458. The selection was again below average…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 April 1924 · page 5

The final of the April clearing-up wool sales was hold to-day, when an interior selection of wools was offered. At auction 6738 bales were offered, while 5692…

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Brisbane Wool Sale

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 April 1924 · page 12

Last week witnessed another brilliant wool sale in the Brisbane market. Some forty thousand bales were offered, to a record attendance of buyers, and under…

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Commercial. the Week's Review. Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 April 1924 · page 11

Business is farm produce was of average volume. The market for potatoes was easier, stocks being disposed of a[?] from £9 to…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 April 1924 · page 11

Trade in dairy produce during the week has been fairly brisk. Advises from the butter factories show that there has been a slight…

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Farm and Produce Continued Testing Pays

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 April 1924 · page 12

Some cow testing association members have the impression that after they have been in a cow testing association for a year, unless they have a number of…

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Wheat for Biscuits

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 April 1924 · page 2

"Rivett" wheat, a peculiar old-fashioned variety which was grown in England in Elizabethan times, has become indispensable to biscuit manufacturers,…

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"Commercial Suicide" Exporting Stud Sheep What Britain Did Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 April 1924 · page 4

The danger to Australia's wool trade by the export of merino sheep to other countries was foreseen 20 years ago by Mr. C. Atkins, a prominent…

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Amazing Growth Digger's Cotton Crop. MUSWELLBROOK

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 April 1924 · page 6

Experts are said to be enthusiastic over a crop of cotton which has been grown at Yarrawa by. Mr. A. W. Barry, a returned soldier…

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Control of Butter

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 April 1924 · page 6

A Proposal that the Federal Government should control butter and cheese was supported at an interstate conference…

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The Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 April 1924 · page 5

The Yorkshire newspapers hostilely criticise the Australian proposals for a regenerated British-Australian Wool Realisation Association…

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Cotton Crop Failure

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 April 1924 · page 4

The cotton crop is practically a failure. The rainfall at Darwin for the season is over 20 inches below the average, and it is now too late for…

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