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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1898

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Wheat Testing

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 17 August 1898 · page 4

RECOGNISING the imvortance of a system which will allow of small samples of wheat being tested for their milling qualities, the Hon. the…

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

The Western Herald · Wednesday 17 August 1898 · page 2

Since our last report the weather has undergons a great change, the atmesphere has been warm, and the heavy clouds which are continuing gathering everhead give promise of a goal fail of rain [?]…

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The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate. Wednesday. August 17, 1898. the Coming Wheat Export

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 17 August 1898 · page 2

UNDER the above heading we recently published an article written by Mr. H. R. Carter—till recently a prominent menber of the Melbourne…

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Farmers' and Settlers' Association

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 17 August 1898 · page 2

THE annual conference of the above association will be held in Bathurst on the 23rd, 24th, and 25th instant. A meeting is to be held at Narromine on Saturday evening…

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

The Western Herald · Saturday 20 August 1898 · page 2

The weather continues very unsettled; during the past two or three days though the sky was bright and clear, the atmosphere has been [?] cold, but there are no indications of rain…

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Methods of Common-sense Farming

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 20 August 1898 · page 4

A PLAIN, practical talk with practical farmers—so to term an article of this purport—cannot prove otherwise than engaging, if not entertaining and…

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Latest Telegrams. Wheat Market. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 24 August 1898 · page 3

Prices nominal…

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The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate Wednesday, August 24,1898. Co-operation for Farmers

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 24 August 1898 · page 2

THE Govrement to secure union among the agricultural is of this part of the colony, and incidentally of New South Wales as a whole, must heartily…

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Farmers and Settler's Association

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 24 August 1898 · page 3

A MEETING, called by alvertiscoiunt for the purpose of considering the advisable nasa of forming a branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association of New South…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office. Friday Evening, August 26

The Western Herald · Saturday 27 August 1898 · page 2

Any description of the weather at present would be but a repetition of our Tuesday's report—beautlful, and only wanilng a good fall of rain to make it perfect…

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The Farmers' Conference. Sydney, August 26

The Western Herald · Saturday 27 August 1898 · page 2

The Farmers Conference passed a large number of Land Reform resolutions. A proposal in favor of placing the Land Department in commission was negatived. High…

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Methods of Commonsense Farming. (Continued From Last Issue.) the Use or Non-use of Manure

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 27 August 1898 · page 4

Interviews witn many farmers in the colony during the past crop season have shown that there is quite a widespread and derided aversion to the…

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Farmers Settlers' Association

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 27 August 1898 · page 3

THe seventh anual conference presentation was from the various of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association throughout the colony was opened in the…

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Condemned Cattle. Sydney, August 30

The Western Herald · Wednesday 31 August 1898 · page 3

The number of cattle condemned at Home-, bush stock market average five beasts at each sale, A valuable benat shut yesterday was in the first stage of tuberculosis…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office. Tuesday Evening, August [?]0

The Western Herald · Wednesday 31 August 1898 · page 2

On Monday night, of carly on Tuesday morning light rain commenced to fall, and it continued at into[?]als until 2 p.m. on Tuesday. At 9 a.m the record was 23 points, and when it caused over three…

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The Wool Boycott. [To the Editor Bligh Watchman]

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Wednesday 31 August 1898 · page 3

SIR,—It is rather difficult just now for woolgrowers who are most interested in the free sale of wool to get a clear understanding of…

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The Fort Bourke Bore. Four Hundred Thousand Gallons Perdiem, a Big Farm. in Prospect

The Western Herald · Wednesday 31 August 1898 · page 2

We have been informed by Mr. J, P. Fitzgerald, Manager of Fort Bourke station, that success has again attended the enterprise of his firm, Messrs. M. P. Fitzgerald & Co., in…

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Dubbo Farmers' Association

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 31 August 1898 · page 2

THE adjourned meeting of members of the Dubbo Farmers' Association, formed on 20th instant, was held in the Town Hall on Saturday afternoon. The Mayor (Mr, E…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Friday Evening, September 2

The Western Herald · Saturday 3 September 1898 · page 2

On Tuesday evening Indications induced the hope that heavy rain would follow, and that hope was strengthened during thought, when a smart thunderstorm passed over, which gave only three points…

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