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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1929

1,197 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 19 of 60

Have Australian Wheat Pools Been Left in the Lurch? Wheat Prices Cut Unloading the Old Stock; Argentine Deal "Australia Left in the Lurch?" LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 1

"What has really happened about the wheat prices," says a leading Liverpool merchant, commenting on the falling prices at Chicago and Winnipeg, the Canadian reaction representing a fall of 4½d a bushel, "is that Canadian and Australian wheat…

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American Tariff New Bill Introduced Higher Wool Duties Meeting Foreign Costs (Australian Press Association.) WASHINGTON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 5

Mr. Hawley, the Chairman of the Way's and Means Committee in the House of Representatives, yesterday, introduced the Tariff Bill, designed to bring the 1922…

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London Wool Sales. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 3

Of the 10,680 bales of wool offered at the sales yesterday, 6184 bales were from Australia, and 4186 bales from New Zealand. There was an excellent selection of…

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Tumbling Down World Wheat Prices Early Recovery? London

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 1

The Baltic Exchange and other authorities are very reticent concerning the wheat situation. The special representative of…

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Enormous Stocks World Wheat Excess the Price of Flour Cheapest Since 1914 (Australian Press Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 7

"The price of flour may easily be reduced another 10/ a quarter," says a leading Liverpool trader. Stocks in Liverpool warehouses exceed…

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Flood Havoc Rivers Break Banks Crops Destroyed London

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 1

After the melting of the snows on the Anatolian Mountains, says the Bagadad correspondent of "The Times," the Euphrates and Tigris…

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London Wool Sales. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 2

At the wool sales, yesterday, 7635 bales, including 2089 bales from Australian, and dust from New Zealand, were offered. There was a small offering of greasy…

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Farm and Dairy the Suckling Sow

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 13

The is sometimes trouble with the sows which are sucking a large family in the autumn. It is generally due to insufficient feeding and the lack of…

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London Wool Sales Merino Combings Bring 42d LONDON, Friday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 7

At the London wool sales to-day 9500 bales only were offered, of which 500 were the Australian merino, being mainly greasy, and speculator lots…

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Dairy Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 2

The general depression continues in the dairy produce section, and sales are slow. The further increase of 1d per dozen on new-laid eggs, has had the effect of casing…

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Commercial the Week's Review Farm Produce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 2

The demand for potatoes this week has been considerably easier owing to the reports of the damage done to crops by the Tasmanian floods. The quality of…

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CARRIERS? Dairy Employees Sydney Typhoid Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 6

Although over 50 cases of typhoid fever have occurred in the municipalities of Holroyd, Granville, Auburn, and Lidcombe during the past…

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Farms' Raided Bolwarra Losses

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 13 May 1929 · page 5

Thefts of vegetables from farms at Bolwarra, near Maitland were reported at the West Maitland Police Station to-day. The farms are unfenced area…

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Butter Production Factories Amalgamating

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 May 1929 · page 6

The report of the operations at the Hexham factory of the Raymond Terrace Co-operative Dairy and Produce Co., Ltd., states that for the month 110½ tons of…

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American Wheat Strained Situation Further Falls Feared Chicago

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 May 1929 · page 7

Traders forecast that the price of wheat will be less than a dollar a bushel unless something happens this week to clear up the strained situation, which has…

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London Wool Sales. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 May 1929 · page 3

At the wool sales yesterday, 7804 bales, including 3212 bales from Australia, and 3730 bales from New Zealand, were offered. There was a very miscellaneous…

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Emus Destroy Crops

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 May 1929 · page 4

Emus have become so numerous in parts of West Australia that they threaten Prospect of wheat growers. The menace made its appearance in the…

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A New Prolific Wheat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 May 1929 · page 15

Consumption of broad is barely met by wheat supply and the increase in the world's population lends particular significance to the efforts which are being…

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Farm and Dairy Mineral Pig Foods

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 May 1929 · page 13

No domestic animal possesses the instinct of knowing what its system requires better than the pig, says an Australian farming journal, and the same…

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Wheat Glut Attempt to Create Panic World Situation Montreal

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 18 May 1929 · page 1

Another month will elapse before the Eastern Canadian ports will have cleared themselves of the grain blockade. There are still 20,000,000 bushels…

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