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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1898

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Sheep Market. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 2 March 1898 · page 3

Sheep unaltered. Prime merino wethers 8s 10d, good 7s to 8s, medium 5s to 6s…

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Pastoral and Commercial. [?] [?], March 1. the Weather

The Western Herald · Wednesday 2 March 1898 · page 2

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Hints on Dairying

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 4 March 1898 · page 3

MR. O'CALLAGHAN, the Agricultural Department's dairying expert, has been lecturing to the Bathurst farmers. He says;--In dairying one of the first thoughts was that of the class…

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Cattle Market. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 5 March 1898 · page 2

Cattle advanced. Prime £7 8s, good £4 10d to £5 10at medium £3 10s…

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Sheep Market. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 5 March 1898 · page 2

Sheep lower. Prime merino wethers 9s, good 7s to 8s, medium 5s to 6s…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office. Tuesday Evening, March [?]. the Weather

The Western Herald · Wednesday 9 March 1898 · page 2

The expected rain undo its appearance on Saturday evening last. A thunders torm came up from the west and sout-west, and just before dark the rain [?] [?]…

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Cattle Market. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 3

Cattle were dull in price. Prime bullocks brought £6 10s, good £4 to £5, medium to £3…

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Sheep Market. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 3

Sheep were lower. Merino wethers brought 9s 10d, good 6s 6d to 7s 4d, medium 4s 6d to 5s 6d…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office. Friday Evening, March 11. the Weather

The Western Herald · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 2

The weather has been very time during the week, with warm days and cool enjoyable evenings and mornings. The effects of the late [?] are visable everywhere. In many favoured localities food is…

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Serious Assault on a Farmer Four to One. the Assailants Arrested

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 4

To be set upon by roughs and almost killed after going through nearly 60 years of life without accident to health or limb is one of the hardest…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office. Tuesday Evening, March [?]. the Weather

The Western Herald · Wednesday 16 March 1898 · page 2

The weather on saturday and sunday was hot and oppressive. On sunday night, however. a wind storm brought a pleasent change, and a few drops of rain. ever since then the sky has been everest with…

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The Wool Market. [?] LONDON, March [?]

The Western Herald · Saturday 19 March 1898 · page 2

At the London wool sales [?] [?]…

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Butter Firm Without Ice

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Wednesday 23 March 1898 · page 3

The following is a simple method of keeping butter firm without the use of ice: Take a tight box (10 or 12 inches high, 12 or 14 inches wide, and…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Westeen Herald Office. Tuesday Evening, March 22. the Weather

The Western Herald · Wednesday 23 March 1898 · page 2

On Saturday last the atmosphere was very close and in the evening a light shower felt, 15 points being recorded. Since then the weather has been beautiful. Every point of rain does good now, and it is to be…

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The Wool Market. [By Telegraph.] SYDNEY. March 22

The Western Herald · Wednesday 23 March 1898 · page 2

Wincheombu and Carson sold privately yesterday 75 bales Lakeside scoured [?] at ISD, being the recont for the season In any Australian market, and only once exceeded in Sydney during the past eight…

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An Acute Farmer

The Western Herald · Wednesday 23 March 1898 · page 4

Along the banks of the Cape Fear River in North Carolina are lowlands behind which lies a higher level or bench. The lowlands are subject to…

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Fluke in Sheep

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 25 March 1898 · page 4

LAST year a board was appointed to make some experiments to tost the value of a specific invented by Mr. L. G. Jones for the cure of fluke and other parasites in sheep. The report…

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The Australian Wool Trade

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 25 March 1898 · page 3

GOLDSBROUGH, MORT, AND Co., LTD., have issued their annual review of the Australian wool trade, which is, as usual, interesting. The reduction in last Year's wool dip they place at…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office. Friday Evening, March 25. the Weather

The Western Herald · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 2

During the past week splendid weather has prevailed. Things pastoral, howover, are becoming dry, and a good downfall of rain is required, and would be voty welcome…

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