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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1927

667 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 34

Farm and Produce the Cow's Udder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 June 1927 · page 13

The cow's udder is composed, of two separate glands, right and left halves, divided longitudinally by a fibrous membrane. This partition extends along the…

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Canadian Wheat Pool

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 June 1927 · page 5

Mr. Maclood, the director of publicity of the Canadian Co-operative Wheat Producers, Limited, has informed the Australian Press Association at Winnineg that…

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Cyclist Charged Cattle Break Loose MELBOURNE

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 June 1927 · page 7

While a party of telephone linesmen at Sale was going to work on bicycles, one of a passing mob of cattle charged and knocked down Jack Smith…

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Sydney Wool Sales Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 June 1927 · page 4

A series of three cleaning-up sales commenced in Sydney today. There worn 7086 bales offered, and 6027 sold. Private sales totalled 3117. The selection…

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Sydney Wool Sales Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 June 1927 · page 7

At the Sydney wool sales to-day a moderate selection, comprising 7844 bales, was offered. At auction 7145 bales were sold, while a further 6926 bales were…

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Sydney Wool Sales Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 June 1927 · page 5

The quality of to-day's offering at the Sydney wool sales was decidedly below the average. A total of 9393 were offered at auction, and 8177 were sold. Private…

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Townsmen As Farmers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 June 1927 · page 7

"An intelligent man, who sets his mind to learn agriculture as he would set his mind to learn chemistry or engineering, will make a better farmer than an…

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Breakaway Proposed Kearsley Shire Movement Farming Areas

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 23 June 1927 · page 9

Agriculturists within Kearsley Shire are organising a move whereby they might break away and attach their respective areas…

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Farm Management

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 14

The farmer who has dairy cows to milk need not be greatly concerned about the question of over-production. The factor that the farmer should consider is his own…

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Farm and Produce the Rooting of Pigs

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 14

One is often asked why pigs root (says the London "Live Stock Journal"), and what it is that they so very diligently search for beneath the soil. Is it not…

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Commercial the Week's Review. Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 3

A fairly brisk inquiry ruled during the week for all lines of farm produce. F.a.q. which is still firm, and supplies ore difficult to locate:…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 3

Trade in dairy produce has been quiet, without any alteration in quotations. Hunter River butter factories advise a fairly rapid decrease in production…

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Electrified Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 June 1927 · page 5

A report from Berlin, April 5, says: State electricity, the mysterious energy that is the bane of radio reception, and about which the greatest electrical…

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Self-help in the Wool Industry

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 June 1927 · page 4

THE growing of wool is not a mere matter of sitting back and watching it grow longer and longer on the sheep's back. It is a highly skilled business, with difficulties and problems absolutely unknown to the city man, who only sees the wool when he is…

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American Farm Problems

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 June 1927 · page 2

American agriculture has been flying signals of distress for some years now. In the chorus of rejoicing over the abounding prosperity of the United States there…

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"Have You Any Wool?"

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 2 July 1927 · page 1

A youthful admirer of one of the stud sheep at the Sydney sheep show…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 July 1927 · page 2

Owing to the approach of the end of the month, business in dairy produce in the early part of the week was fairly quiet, but it brightened considerably at the…

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Farm and Produce Rhubarb Seed Stalks

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 July 1927 · page 13

If seed stalks are allowed to grow the vitality of the plant that would otherwise be used to grow stalks will be used up. They should be cut off as soon as they…

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Those Russian Wool Buyers

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 July 1927 · page 6

IF there is one sort of migrant which Australia docs not want it is the Bolshevik. We have plenty of our own here. Now we are informed that, having been chased out of England by a Government which knows the tribe only too well, Soviet agents are…

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Want Our Wool Soviet Delegation LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 July 1927 · page 6

The Soviet authorities, according to the [?]ga correspondent of "The Times," announce the despatch of Bolshevist delegates to Australia to…

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