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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1897

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Seed Wheat

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 6 March 1897 · page 4

IT should be a seasonable reminder at this time that 41bs. of picked seed (and all wheat seed should bo picked), well sown and cultivated at the…

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London Wool Sales. London

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 12 March 1897 · page 4

THE second series of the London wool sales for the present season will be opened to-morrow. The arrivals of wool to date amount to 406,000 bales, and 89,000 bales were carried forward from the last…

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Treatment of Seed Wheat

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 13 March 1897 · page 4

AT a recent meeting of the Mount Gambier (South Australian) Farmers' Institute (says an exchange) Mr. Wedd said that a much larger…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Offfice. Friday Evening, March 12

The Western Herald · Saturday 13 March 1897 · page 2

Beautifully settled weather prevailsts at per-ent, the days being bright and warm, with cools evenings. nights and early mornings. Our Parna[?] correspondent writes on March 8—…

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The Wool Market. [By Telegraph.] SYDNEY, March 12

The Western Herald · Saturday 13 March 1897 · page 2

At the opening of the London wool sales values were fully maintained…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office. Tuesday Evening, March 16

The Western Herald · Wednesday 17 March 1897 · page 2

Delightful weather continues, but as a sort of set-off mosquitoes and stagnent gutters are decidedly on the increase, and, as a consequence, we may reasonably expect typhoid amongst us at uo distant date…

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Breed of Sheep for Early Lambs

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 19 March 1897 · page 3

The following notes are given in the Melbourne "Leader" with an illustration of a Hampshire Down ram, bred by Mr. Alfred de Mornay, Wallingford, England. The Col d'Arbes Hamp…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office. Friday Evening, March [?]

The Western Herald · Saturday 20 March 1897 · page 2

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London Wool Sales London, March 18

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 23 March 1897 · page 2

At the London wool sales this evening there was a brisk sale and prices were very firm. Good scoured merinos were dearer. The prices obtained for faulty sorts were in buyers' favour…

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The Cattle Market. Stdney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1897 · page 3

Cattle were firm, and up to last Thursday's rates. Best beef worth 14s 6d per 100lbs…

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Wool Market. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1897 · page 3

Wool is firmer, especially for greasy merino, which is about the value of 8d per lb, also for bulk good xbred wools…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Norten [?] Office Tuesday Evening, March[?]

The Western Herald · Wednesday 24 March 1897 · page 2

The weather since our last issue has true variable. On sunday and Monday the atmosphere was very oppered and black threatenin: cloud [?] about. but the only result was a coupie of very last showers…

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Duties on Wool. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1897 · page 3

The New England (United States) manufacturers are protesting against imposing the MacKiuley duties on the importation of raw wool…

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The Latest Telegrams. the Sheep Market. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1897 · page 3

In the sheep market very prime merino wethers brought 8s, good to 6s6d…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office. Friday Evening, March 2[?]

The Western Herald · Saturday 27 March 1897 · page 2

The weather, since our last issue, has assumed a threatening appearance, and rain appears probable, as the wind is from the right quarter. A communication from Barringum, dated 20th inst.,…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald office, Tuesday Evening, March 30

The Western Herald · Wednesday 31 March 1897 · page 2

The weather is still genlal, but very dry, An inch or so of rain would answer beautifully just now…

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London Wool Sales. London

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 2 April 1897 · page 4

THE following prices for fleece have been obtained at the London wool sales:--Afton, 7½d; Mulwala, 7½d; Kalendi, 9d; Grubben over Newton, 9¾d; Piedmont, 9½d…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Hearld Office. Friday November, April 2

The Western Herald · Saturday 3 April 1897 · page 2

The weather [?] [?] [?] [?]…

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The Wool Market. [By Telegraph.] SYDNEY, April 2

The Western Herald · Saturday 3 April 1897 · page 2

At the London wool [?] [?] [?] [?]…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Tuesday Evening. April 6

The Western Herald · Wednesday 7 April 1897 · page 2

The hot dry weather noticed in our last issue contines, with increasing heat, the thermometer having recorded 99 deg. in the shade to-day, and there are no visible indications or a change at present…

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