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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1925

1,014 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 30 of 51

Crushed By Sheep SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 17 July 1925 · page 7

While climbing over tho fence of a sheep pen at the Homebush saleyards yesterday, Mr. Edward Payne, a well-known buyer for the Riverstone Meat…

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Wheat Shipments Why Not Newcastle? Erection of Silos

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 17 July 1925 · page 5

Mr. Baddeley, Minister for Mines, has informed the Chamber of Commerce that he had taken up with the Minister for Agriculture the question…

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English Wool Sales Safeguarding Small Men Bradford Conference London

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 17 July 1925 · page 5

"Unfeasible, unnecessary, un-workable, and unwanted," said Mr. H. E. Bush (W.A.) at a Bradford wool conference, referring to Mr. Geo. Fairbairn (Vic), advocated the stabilisation of prices by means of a small committee of wool-growers, backed by £500,000, with a…

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The Wool Trade London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 12

Advantage was taken of the presence of a large number of Dominion woolgrowers in England to hold a conference at Bradford on the wool trade on…

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Farm and Produce Pigs and Maize in America

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 13

America's home consumption of maize depends considerably upon the number of pigs kept in that country, and it is to be noted that the porcine…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 3

Trade in dairy produce has been brisk. The only notable event of the operations was an increase of a half-penny a lb in the price of butter. Production at the…

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Commercial. the Week's Review. Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 3

The volume of trade in farm produce during the week was well maintained. A feature of operations was an excitation of the potato market as the result…

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Homebush Sales Prime Sheep Firm SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 20 July 1925 · page 5

Merino wethers carrying good skins sold readily at Homebush to-day, By noon a first market had been established. On the other hand, inferior grader were…

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Sydney Wool Sales Best Merinos Higher Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 July 1925 · page 5

After a lapse of a few months wool sales were resumed in Sydney to-day. There was a strong market, and best merinos advanced 5 to 7½ per cent…

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Jumped From Building Wheat Speculator's End Failed for Millions Chicago

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 July 1925 · page 1

EDWARD WAGNER, formerly one of the biggest figures in the U.S.A. grain trade, committed suicide by jumping from the fifteenth…

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The Wool Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 July 1925 · page 6

The satisfactory condition of the wool market, as now proved by the sales in London and in Australia, may be taken as arising from the…

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Sydney Wool Sales Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 July 1925 · page 7

A selection of only average quality, totalling 6146 bales, was offered at the Sydney wool sale today. Sale at auction totalled 5436 bales, while 1722 changed…

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London Wool Sales Values Well Maintained LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 22 July 1925 · page 1

At the London wool sales to-day the recent rates for Australian and New Zealand offerings were well maintained…

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Eggs Firm Dairy Produce Market SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 22 July 1925 · page 5

There was exceptionally keen demand for dairy produce in the wholesale markets to-day. All available supplies of eggs were quickly absorbed, and agents…

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Paterson Butter Favored by P.P.U.

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 23 July 1925 · page 12

At a meeting of the Butter Stabi[?]sation Committee, it was decided to recommend to the other States the adoption of tho "Paterson" scheme…

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Sydney Wool Sales Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 July 1925 · page 5

A good selection of wool, totalling 5954 bales, was offered at auction to-day, and 5504 were sold. Private sales totalled 502 bales…

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Sheep Feeding Concentrates Experiment

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 24 July 1925 · page 3

Requests that investigations be undertaken with regard to the provision of additional food for ewes and lambs when the latter are intended to be…

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London Wool Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 July 1925 · page 7

At the London wool sales yesterday, 12,500 bales were offered. There was a good selection, but only about half was sold…

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Bradford Strike Wool Trade Held Up LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 24 July 1925 · page 4

The Bradford wool and tops market are at a standstill owning to the strike of the spinning operations against reduced wages…

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Handfeeding Sheep

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 July 1925 · page 13

In the course of a paper read at a meeting of the Mount Hope branch of the Agricultural Bureau, of South Australia, Mr. R. L. Meyers said that there was a…

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