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

Farming & the land, 1899

1,508 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 8 of 76

The Alleged Cattle Stealing Case. Lett not yet Captured. Jones Committed for Trial

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Friday 10 February 1899 · page 12

At the Gulgong police court on Tuesday the man, James Jones, who was arrested on a charge of cattle stealing under circumstances detailed in our last,…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles

The Carcoar Chronicle · Friday 10 February 1899 · page 4
Also in The Gulgong Advertiser

No. 69. Flax (continued)—Drying—Objections—Drying for Different Purposes—Rippling—For Cambric—Water-Retting—Running Streams and Standing Pools—…

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Molong District Dairying Company Cumnock Meeting

Molong Argus · Friday 10 February 1899 · page 2

DDRESS BY MESSRS. P. P. A. KINNA, F. E. CHURCHILL, G. W. GRIFFITH, JOHN YOUNG, and GEORGE BRUCE. In was a large and representative audience…

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Valuable Farm Composts

Molong Argus · Friday 10 February 1899 · page 6

I wasted hundreds of tons of manure before I adopted a plan for composting all [?]ortilising material. I top-dressed meadow land, and sometimes gained a…

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Aid for the Farmers

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Friday 10 February 1899 · page 13

Luckily the farmers in the Mudgee district have no need this season to ask for Government assistance, as the harvest has been bountiful…

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The Drought at O'connell. Loss of Crops

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 10 February 1899 · page 3

O' CONNELL, Tuesday.--The weather still continues dry, with a cold easterly wind blowing. All hopes are now abandoned as regards the maize crops in this district. It is very doubtful if there…

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Weather, Stock, and Crops

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 10 February 1899 · page 4

Only two points of rain registered in Lithgow for the week ending this morning. To-day the weather is dry and hot with no appearance of a change. Early this afternoon there was a slight…

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Cattle

National Advocate · Saturday 11 February 1899 · page 2

One thousand and seventy yarded, prime being scarce and the market a shade lower. Best pens of heavy bullocks sold to £810s; good. £6 10s to £7; inferior, from £4…

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Loombah Sheep Sales

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 11 February 1899 · page 7

NEXT Wednesday should be a gala day at Gumnock, wind and dust permitting ; when 350 merino rams of Mr. Goo. Bruce's famous Loombah flocks will he offered at public auction. We…

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Wool Export

Leader · Saturday 11 February 1899 · page 2

In 1880, New South Wales exported some 160 million pounds weight of wool Last year the amount had increased to 281 millions. The total weight exported by all…

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Trucking cattle SYDNEY. Friday

Leader · Saturday 11 February 1899 · page 4

A deputation yesterday urged upon the Railway Commissioners the necessity of providing means for the feeding and watering of cattle in transit, especially on journeys of…

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Victorian Wheat. SYDNEY

Leader · Saturday 11 February 1899 · page 4

Ten thousand quarters of Victorian wheat, February shipment, have been sold in London at 27[?] per quarter…

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The Co-operative Butter Factory. Meeting at Cumnock. Success Seems Assured

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 11 February 1899 · page 5

IN accordance with the programme drawn up by the promoters of the proposed Molong Co-operative Butter Factory, a public meeting was held at Cumnock, in the hall, last Saturday…

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Farm and Dairy

Leader · Saturday 11 February 1899 · page 2

[We shall be pleased lo receive contributions to this column from any farmers or settlers in the district. Wheat can grow with much less moisture…

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Late and Early Crops

Leader · Saturday 11 February 1899 · page 2

Fanners should nut carry all their eggs in one basket. As none but the weather prophets can say what [?]t of a season we are going to have next year, it would be wise to…

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Bathurst Free Press "Magna ost veritas at prevalebit." TUESDAY, 14th FEBRUARY, 1890. The Farmers ard Butter Factories

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 14 February 1899 · page 2

THE movement which was initiated by the Progress Association, and which yesterday received practical endorsement from the committee of the A.H. & P. Association, in…

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The Value of Good Blood hi Sheep

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Tuesday 14 February 1899 · page 2

A comparison between this and last year's prices for lambs wool in Mrs. F.S. Cox's Meroo clip, shows the value of good blood. Last year…

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Butter Pasteurisation. Action by the Minister

The Bathurst Post · Wednesday 15 February 1899 · page 4

THE Minister for Agriculture, being firmly convinced of the necessity of having the butter of the colony pasteurised, so as to avoid the use of…

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The Bathurst Show and Its Sheep Judges

The Bathurst Post · Wednesday 15 February 1899 · page 3

FOR some years past this district has been going ahead rapidly with the American type of Merino sheep. Enormons sums of money have been…

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