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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1898

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Victorian Farmers Emigrating

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 3 September 1898 · page 4

A CORRESPONDENT writes:—"Large numbers of Victorian farmers and their sous are drifting to New Sooth Wales, and some of them are bringing…

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Wheat Export

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 7 September 1898 · page 4

ANTICIPATING the expected surplus of wheat for export during the season 1896-9, Mr, Cook, Minister for Mines and Agriculture, is considering the…

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The Wheat Harvest

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 7 September 1898 · page 3

IT may be certainly said that the immediate future welfare of this colony is largely dependent on the results of the coming harvest (says the DAILY…

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

The Western Herald · Wednesday 7 September 1898 · page 2

A heavy windstorm on Sunday evening resulted in 17 points of rain locally, and general light rain is reported over a large area of country. The late rains, though light, have caused a good spring in both grass…

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Wheat Export

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 10 September 1898 · page 3

THE prospect of a big harvest and a large exportable surplus of wheat (says the TELEGRAPH) naturally suggests better methods for handling, with a view to…

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

The Western Herald · Saturday 10 September 1898 · page 2

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The Latest Telegram. the Wool Boycott. Sydney. Friday, 6 57 p.m

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 10 September 1898 · page 3

The Co-operative Wool and Produce Company wire as follows:—"A telegram has frist been received from Albany from fifteen lending…

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Fodder Crops and Ensilage

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 10 September 1898 · page 4

ALL stockowners, and dairymen in particular (says the RORAL AUSTRALIAN), should now be getting the land prepared for the sowing of summer…

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The Wool Boycott

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Wednesday 14 September 1898 · page 3

We need hardly say, we are in full accord with Mf. W. E. Abbott in his proposal to resist the impudent attempt of the…

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The Wool Boycott, and the . Way to Meet it. [TO the Editor BEION Watchman]

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Wednesday 14 September 1898 · page 3

SIR.— A short time since I wrote urging that every wool-grower in the country who could do so, should ship his wool to London and refuse to sell…

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Dubbo Farmers' Union

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 14 September 1898 · page 2

THE Committee of the newly-formed Dubbo Farmers' Association met at the Town Hall on Saturday afternoon to drift rules for the government of…

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The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate. Wednesday, September 14, [?] the Dubbo Farmers' Union

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 14 September 1898 · page 2

THE meeting of the committee of the proposed Dobbo Farmers' Association stands adjourned till Saturday next, it being understood that in the…

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Pastoral and Commercial. [?] Herald Office. Friday Evening, September 16

The Western Herald · Saturday 17 September 1898 · page 2

Dry weather still prevents, and there is not even a cloud in the sky, white the [?]eat is [?] strength everyday. From time to time reports reach us as to the state of the district. from there we gather that…

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Intensive Farming. (Agriculture Gazette.)

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 17 September 1898 · page 4

WE read and hear a good deal about the income that American and Continentat farmers derive from the production of a wide variety of crops on…

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The S.a. Farmers' Union

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 17 September 1898 · page 2

THE South Australian Farmers' Cooperative Union having been somewhat prominently referred to in the recent meetings held in Dubbo in…

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Cattle Market. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 21 September 1898 · page 3

Prime bullocks brought to £7 18s, extra to £9 7s 6d, good £5 to £6, medium £4…

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Sheep Market. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 21 September 1898 · page 3

Prime merino wethers brought to 13s 8d, extra 14w [?]d, good 9s 6d to 10s 6d, medium 7s 6d to 8s 6d…

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The Stud Cattle. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 21 September 1898 · page 3

The Minister for Agriculture explains that the method of distribution of the stud cattle adopted by the Government is only intended,…

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Wheat Market. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 21 September 1898 · page 3

Wheat, old, 3s to 3s 1d per bushel…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Harald office. Tuesday Evening, September 20

The Western Herald · Wednesday 21 September 1898 · page 2

The weather is becoming better daily, and with at the hope is increasing that rain may follow. The [?]t rain en[?]ed a sight shoot of grass and herbage, but nothing of consequence, and unless rain soon falls,…

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