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

Farming & the land, 1901

1,373 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 4 of 69

The [?] of Wheat

Molong Argus · Friday 18 January 1901 · page 2

SOME [?] of the bountiful harvest our agriculturists have becn[?] son are causing no tittle emusment to the owners of…

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Cumnock News. Alleged Sheep Stealing

Molong Argus · Friday 18 January 1901 · page 3

AT the Cumnock Police Court on Friday, before Messrs. William Black, C. Miller and H. J. Young, J'[?] P., Richard Home was charged with…

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Sydney Wool Sales. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Friday 18 January 1901 · page 3

We offered 4,200 bales of wool to-day, gelling at auction and privately 4000. Competition wan active, especially for good merinos, but prices showed some irregularity, and…

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Farm & Orchard Original Articles. Plums and Prunes

The Carcoar Chronicle · Friday 18 January 1901 · page 2

HORTICULTURISTS are now and always have been at variance as to what should be called a prune. In some parts a prune is any plum that can be dried and sold…

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Dairying Notes

Molong Argus · Friday 18 January 1901 · page 7

MATTERS are in a fair way for the establishment of a creamery out at Eugowrs. A call of 54 upon the Parkes…

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Distressed Farmers

Molong Argus · Friday 18 January 1901 · page 8

EVERY one is aware that a number of farmers in different parts of the Molong electorate have suffered grest [?] in consequence of recent hailstorms and…

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Horses, Cattle, Sheep

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 13

Mr. R Frogley, auctioneer, of Manildra, will conduct an important sale of horses, cattle, and sheep, in the Manildra Sale Yards, at an early date. There will be some tip-top stock on view…

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Butter Adulterants

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 4

Earthy matter, such as chalk, gypsum, heavy spar, is reported to have been met with as adulterants, but is unsuitable for the purpose, and rare. Starch and potato meal…

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BUTTER. (Continued from last issue.) Manufacture of Artifical

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 4

THE manufacture of oleomargarine, or artifi[?] butter, has, in various parts of the world, reached large proportions. In the United States alone, there were produced, in 1894…

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Farmers and Settlers Association

Millthorpe Post · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 4

At a special meeting of the Executive Council of the Farmers’ and Settlers’ Association of New South Wales, held at Sydney on the 3rd inst., the following pla[?]orm was…

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Farming Notes. Eggs and Fowls

Millthorpe Post · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 3

It is often urged in arguments regarding the merits of different breeds, one of which lays a large and the other a small egg, that since eggs ate Bold by the dozen and not by…

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Record Price for Wool

National Advocate · Monday 21 January 1901 · page 2

Messrs. Gilmour Bros. obtained a very high price for their crossbred wool sent to last Sydney sales. The brokers, Pitt, Son and Badgery,…

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Samples of High-Priced Wool

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 21 January 1901 · page 2

Mr. Campbell Lawson, representative of J.C. Young and Co., the well-known firm of woolbrokers, sends us samples of Mr. Bloomfield's wool for…

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A Big Butter Factory

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 24 January 1901 · page 8

Berrima District Creamery received 319,606lb. of cream during December, producing 159,576lb of butter. During the past year 1,800,000lb of cream…

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Tying Wool Fleeces With String. Views of Bradford Traders

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 24 January 1901 · page 2

By the last English mail, Mr. Richard T. Baker, F.L.S., curator of the Technological Museum, Sydney, received the following letter from Mr. Fred. Hooper, secretary of…

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A Cattle-branding Invention A Novel and Ingenious Process. Some Practical Tests

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 24 January 1901 · page 5

The vast importance of the question of the branding of cattle, and the pressing necessity for a radical improvement on the obsolete fire brand…

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Spring Rust in Wheat Crops

Molong Argus · Friday 25 January 1901 · page 3

The When Experimentalist has received complaints from farmers to the effect that their wheat crops are becoming very rusty and asking what is the…

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London Wool Sales

National Advocate · Friday 25 January 1901 · page 2

London cables state that at the wool sales faulty wools showed a 5 per cent, decline, but good wools were very firm. Crossbreds had an upward…

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I Poultry and Dairy. Original. Articles. Minorcas As General Purpose Fowls

The Carcoar Chronicle · Friday 25 January 1901 · page 1

M INORCAS received their name from having been originally brought from the Minorca island of Spain, and have been…

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