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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1893

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A Charge of Sheep-Stealing

National Advocate · Saturday 11 March 1893 · page 2

At Burraga police court on Thursday before Mr. T. A. Smith, P.M., John Jones was charged with alleged sheep-stealing. Jones pleaded not guilty, and, after evidence had…

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Sydney Markets. Farm Produce

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 March 1893 · page 3

Prices realised at Redfern Railway Station yesterday morning were hardly up to the average. Buyers were in small attendance, and bidding lacked animation. Sales were made at the…

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Our Sunday Message. the Latest Information. All Crops Are Destroyed. and Hundreds of Persons Ruined. the Tremendous Force of the Water. the Embankment That Cost £20,000. Gives Way to the Pressure a Scene of Desolation. Sydney, Sunday night

National Advocate · Monday 13 March 1893 · page 2

Communication with Maitland was restored yesterday. It is now ascertained that the whole country for many miles round is entirely submerged. The river…

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Latest Cablegrams. London, Sunday Wool

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 14 March 1893 · page 3

Since the close of the last series of wool sales there has been considerable activity in the London wool market. The number of bales disposed of privately amounts to 4000…

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Border Leicester Sheep

The Bathurst Post · Wednesday 15 March 1893 · page 5

THE recent introduction by Messrs. Suttor Brothers, of Bathurst, of 11 Border Leicester sheep direct from Europe, taken in connection with the expressions…

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Daffodills in the Wheat

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 15 March 1893 · page 2

To me there is no more beautiful sight in nature—in the garden of the earth—than a field of ripened grain spangled and fringed with wild daffodills. Such a picture is one…

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The Koch Test for Tuberculosis in Cattle

The Bathurst Post · Wednesday 15 March 1893 · page 5

THE detection of bovine tuberculosis in its early stages by the ordinary methods is very difficult and, in many cases, practically impossible. By the time the…

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The Tobacco Industry. an Expert's Opinion. Interesting Facts and Figures. Important to Our Farmers a Great Export Trade Possible. Enterprising Experimentalists Wanted

National Advocate · Wednesday 15 March 1893 · page 3

Sir. Lamb, one of the two gentlemen who a short time ago was appointed by the Government as experts in tobacco culture, is at present in Bathurst. He…

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The Legislative Assembly. Receipt of Electoral Bill. Going on with the Estimates. the Camel Driving Bill. Protecting Married Women. a Stock Tax Recommended. Giving Receipts in Police Courts. Looking After Inebriates. Missing Word Competitions. Model Farms in the West. Income Tax Assessment Bill. Parliament House, Tuesday Night

National Advocate · Wednesday 15 March 1893 · page 2

The Speaker announced the receipt of the Electoral Bill from the Council with amendments. Upon the motion of the Hon. Edmund…

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Sydney Wool Market. SYDNEY

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 16 March 1893 · page 2

We offered 514 bales of wool at our usual fortnightly sale held yesterday and found the market very active greasy and scoured fleece showing a decided improvement upon…

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Here and There. Farming at Peel

National Advocate · Thursday 16 March 1893 · page 2

A remarkably interesting article on Mr. Trevitt's vineyard and Mr. Schofield's farm (Peel), will appear in the Advocate tomorrow. Crowded out of this…

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Latest Cablegrams. London, Wednesday. The Wool Sales

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 17 March 1893 · page 3

The Antwerp wool sales opened yesterday the quantity on offer being 7200 bales, includ-ing 1500 bales from River Plate. The Aus-tralian wool catalogued totals 1200 bales…

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First Edition. Friday, March 17. Here and There. Satisfactory to Wool-growers

National Advocate · Friday 17 March 1893 · page 2

The London wool market is firm, says a cable, and the prices being obtained are good…

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Special Notice to Farmers. for Mutual Benefit

National Advocate · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 2

The "National Advocate" being desirous of writing up the produce industry of the west on the lines of the first…

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The Baby Farming Case. Attempt to Upset the Conviction

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 2

A special sitting of the Fall Court was to Lave been held yesterday morning for the purpose of dealing with the points reserved in the Makin baby farming case The prisoners…

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Bathurst Free Press. Magna est veritas et prev[?]bit Monday, March 20, 1893 Rabbits versus Sheep

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 20 March 1893 · page 2

If the travelling correspondent of one of the Metropolitan evening papers be not romancing, there is a likelihood of run-holders in the Riverina district getting rid…

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Special Notice to Farmers. for Mutual Benefit

National Advocate · Monday 20 March 1893 · page 2

The "National Advocate" being desirous of writing up the produce industry of the west on the lines of the first…

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Our Produce Industry. Mr. John Schofield's Farm. a Magnificent Testimony to This Prolificacy of Nature and the Energy of the Farmer. How to Sow Lucerne. Ten Pounds to the Acre. Potatoes Ten Tons to the Acre. Fifteen Feet of Rich Soil. Corn Averaging 60 Bushels. Jumbo Pumpkins. a Wonderful Wall of Quinces. the Homestead on the Road. the Prize "Berkshires." Mr. G. Toobey, Opposite

National Advocate · Monday 20 March 1893 · page 2

It must have been of men of the John Schofield stamp that Goldsmith thought when, mourning the depopulation of his native village, he sang, much as under,—…

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Representing our Wool

National Advocate · Tuesday 21 March 1893 · page 2

Mr. Alexander Bruce, Chief Inspector of Stock, left for San Francisco yesterday to take charge of the colony's wool and sheep exhibits at the World's…

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To-day's Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. Cattle Market

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 21 March 1893 · page 2

Catt e-1,645 were yarded, and prices were maintained. Best beet brought 148 to 145 6d per Ioolbs; bullocks realising £3 4s to £6 8d, cows £2 I6s to £4 78…

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