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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1898

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The Wool Boycott. (By Telegraph.) Sydney, September 17

The Western Herald · Wednesday 21 September 1898 · page 2

The b[?]y[?]n is ended. The foreign buyers have all arrived and are sappering the Cooperative's openion sales on September 22, when three thousand bales will be offered…

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CORRESPONDENCE. [We do not necessarily identify ourselves with opinions expressed under this heading.] a Trip Amongst the Wheat. To the Editor of the Dubbo Liberal

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 21 September 1898 · page 2

SIR,—Having some business for my Department to attend to, connected with the commons at Wellington and Daviseville, or as it is now called Bodangora (a much…

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Dubbo Farmers' Association

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 21 September 1898 · page 2

THE adjourned meeting of the Committee of the Dubbo Farmers' Association was held at the Town Hall on Saturday afternoon. There was only…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Friday Evening, September 23

The Western Herald · Saturday 24 September 1898 · page 2

Wednesday last was the hottest day we have experienced this summer, the thermometer recording 100 degree in the shade. Thursday, however, was the most disagreeable day, as a [?] wind blew…

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The Wheat Crop

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Wednesday 28 September 1898 · page 3

The wheat crop of N.S. Wales has doubled in three years, and it is estimated that, taking the average for the colony for the…

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An English Clay Farm

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 28 September 1898 · page 4

IT is proved by statistics that wheatgrowing is going out of fashion in England, and more particularly on the stiff clay soils requiring the…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office. [?]riday Evening, September 30

The Western Herald · Saturday 1 October 1898 · page 2

This week we have been trouted to warm days and cold night's—real droughty weather. However at time of writing, there are signs that a change is likely: yet all hope has deserted us, at any rate for…

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The Wool Dispute

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Wednesday 5 October 1898 · page 3

THE following interesting letter on this subject appeared in the ‘D. Telegraph’ of 24th September…

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Wool Trade. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 5 October 1898 · page 3

It is reported that the recent trouble in the wool trade has been re-opened…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office. Tuesday E[?], October 1

The Western Herald · Wednesday 5 October 1898 · page 2

Summer weather is becoming very pronounced, and prospects of rain there are none, nor need any [?] looked for for some time, unless a thunderstrom should cause a fall…

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The Carriage of Wool. Queensland and the Border Rates

The Western Herald · Wednesday 5 October 1898 · page 4

The Queensland Railway Commissioner, Mr. Gray, on his return to Brisbane from the Sydney Conference, is reported to have stated that he was not…

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Farmers and Selectors' Association

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 5 October 1898 · page 3

A GENERAL meeting of the Narromine Branch of the Farmers' and Selectors' Association of New South Wales was held on Saturday last at Robinson's Hotel. Mr…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office. Friday Evening, October 7

The Western Herald · Saturday 8 October 1898 · page 2

The weather during the last two days has been simply ececrable. On Thursday the wind blew strongly from the north, and things were disagreeable; but throughout to-day a hurricane has been…

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A Great Wheat District. (To the Editor of the Dubbo Liberal.)

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 8 October 1898 · page 2

Sir,—Last week I visited Cobborah, on the Talbragar River, 50 miles from Dubbo, and the country looks splendid; the wheat crops are more backward than about Dubbo,…

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Pastoral and Commercial. [?] Herald Office Tuesday Evening, October 11

The Western Herald · Wednesday 12 October 1898 · page 2

Still the same dreary drought; clear sk[?]es, hot days and cold night; not a vestige of grass, and stock dying in all directions. We have received news from the Warrego, which states that serub-cutting is still…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Tuesday Evening, October 18

The Western Herald · Wednesday 19 October 1898 · page 2

The [?] noticed to our last [?] During the [?] days a [?] has been blowing, with few [?] [?] from the were [?] with the…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Friday Evening, October 21

The Western Herald · Saturday 22 October 1898 · page 2

Wednesday last was certainly the most disagreeable daywe ever remember: a hurricane blow from the west throughout the day, [?] everything [?] dust, and the succeeding [?] was simply…

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Pastoral and Commercial, Western Herald Office, Tuesday Evening, October 25

The Western Herald · Wednesday 26 October 1898 · page 2

The weather to-day has been oppressively hot, and the clouds that are gathering around the [?] cate the approach of a [?] Our [?]…

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Pastoral and Commercial. [?] [?]

The Western Herald · Saturday 29 October 1898 · page 2

We have been [?] for a change, and the weather since Tuesday has been wonderful [?] that way. Wednesday was [?] and [?] the [?] [?] delage. It event during the night in…

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Our Wheat Harvest

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 29 October 1898 · page 3

THE deputation from the Chamber of Commerce which waited on the [?] for Agriculture last week (says the [?] JOURNAL) appears to have influenced the…

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