The Empire's Wool
Recently issued trade returns of the Empire demonstrate the economic importance of wool. Nineteen per cent. of the United Kingdom's imports of raw…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1930
1,654 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 83
£40,000 NUGGET! "Found in Australia" N.S.W. Farmer's Story London
"I just heard someone over the wireless asking me to return to Australia Immediately, because my brother Peter has found a nugget…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hurricane's Fury Cattle Pens Smashed Two Steamers Battered Calcutta, December 31
The steamer Sutton Hall, laden with cattle, returned to port with the pens crushed in like matchwood. Cattlemen worked desperately, and were lucky that,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Moisture in Wheat
The discovery of a device for the testing of wheat for moisture content was mentioned at a recent meeting of the Wheat Research Committee in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Anthrax Outbreak Five Hundred Sheep Dead SINGLETON
Anthrax has broken out at Oaklands, Ravensworth, on the property of Mr. W. E. Fielding Jones. Five hundred of 1500 sheep in one paddock were found…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Straying Cattle on Road
The increasing week-end motor traffic through Charlestown, on its way to the beaches and the Lakes, is menaced by the stray cattle, which usually…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Australia's Wool Clip
"Australia's receipts for wool this season, from Europe, Japan, and the United States, will it is estimated in various quarters, total fully £15,000,000 less than…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farm and Dairy
As an indication of the important bearing feed has on milk production, no better example is afforded us than a study of butter production figures of the New…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Dairy Produce
Trade in all sections of dairy produce has been very quiet since Christmas, and local prospects do not point to any appreciable change…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commercial the Week's Review Farm Produce
Shipments of potatoes received this week were very light, and prices advanced £1 a ton. Ready sales were made at the increased price, £13 a ton, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Warwick Farm Eight Races Listed Beckwith and Fondant for Double Sydney
After four days' activities at Randwick, the Australian Jockey Club will again take up the running and provide sportsmen with the sinews of war at Warwick Farm…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Sales Resume To-day
After a break of a few weeks, the wool sales will be resumed in Sydney to-day, and will continue until January 15. During the period total of 73,500 bales will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cleave Surprises Easy Win at Warwick Farm Sunderlee and Solitaire Successful Sydney
That it is hard to follow form on the racecourse was eloquently illustrated yesterday at Warwick Farm, when Cleave appropriated the Sefton Handicap. Since…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dominion Farmers Sail on Australian Visit Capetown, January 5
The South African contingent of Dominion farmers who are to visit Australia sailed to-day by the Runic. The Chairman, Mr. Allan, who…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Horses at Warwick Farm : Heavies at Stadium Jurf Notes
A number of prominent Newcastle; sportsmen were absent from the Newcastle race meeting on Saturday. They) made the trip to Warwick Form…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Export Bounty on Butter Sydney
Private advices received from Melbourne to-night, state that the General Committee of the Australian Stabilisation Committee has decided that the export…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Sales Resumed Good Competition Sydney
The wool sales were resumed to-day, when an average selection totalling 10,692 bales, were offered at auction. Of this number, 9830 were sold. Private sales…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Record Wheat Yield
The continued dry spell in Tamworth and district is offset to some extent by the fact that record wheat yields at stations in the north and north-west are…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Sales Market Again Firm Sydney
A firm market ruled at the wool sales to-day, when an average selection, comprising 10,483 bales, was submitted. Sales at auction totalled 9868, while an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Collective Farming Soviet Government's Decree Moscow, January 6
In furtherance of the campaign against well-to-do peasants, coupled with the failure of the present harvest, the Soviet has decreed that all grin land must be…
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