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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1900

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 4

No. 120. Milking Cows—Cutting and Grinding Feed—Ripening Cream—The Battermaker—The Add Test—Value of Grasses—Maturity and Variety—…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office. Tuesday Evening, January 23. the Weather

The Western Herald · Wednesday 24 January 1900 · page 2

On Friday evening last indications pointed to very heavy rain, but the result has only given 110 points locally. Though the rain fell over a large are it was generally light, the heaviest return giving Murces…

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N.s.w. Wool Statistics

The Wellington Times · Thursday 25 January 1900 · page 3

The total output of wool from N.S.W. for the six months ended December 31, 1899, amounted to 528,696 bales, from which must be deducted 75,498 bales, the transhipments…

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The Western Herald · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 2

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Wheat Market. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 5

Wheat is unchanged in price…

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Farm and Garden. Original Artigles

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 3

No. 121. Butter Meters—Dr. Gerber's invention—Various sizes of machines— Electricity—Paris Green Spray—Insect Pests—Lime—Bordsauk Mixture—…

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What a Fall in Wool Means to Australia

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 30 January 1900 · page 2

The depreciation of wool values in the London market is naturally viewed with a good deal of concern in the colonics. " What does it mean to Australia ?" asked a prominent woolbruker…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office. Tuesday Evening, January 30. the Weather

The Western Herald · Wednesday 31 January 1900 · page 2

The weather during the past few days has bee extremely dis[?]ing. Rent and dust predominace, followed by long d[?]nks and p[?]kly heat. The question [?] when is [?]ck to be struck with [?]…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Friday Evening, February 2. the Weather

The Western Herald · Saturday 3 February 1900 · page 2

The weather continues searching hot, dusty, and murgy extremely distressing. Writing on Jan. 31, our Ford's Bridge correspondent says—Since last advice there has been a change…

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Quarter Sessions. (Before His Honor Mr. Acting Justice Harris.) [Continued from last issue.] Tuesday, Jan. 30. Alleged Sheep Stealing

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 3 February 1900 · page 6

Richard Cole was charged with stealing on October 29 at Little River, 29 sheep, the property of J. C. Hunt and others. A second count charged him with feloniously…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 3 February 1900 · page 4

No. 122. New Milk Treatment—Oxygen and Osrbonic Acid—Ripening of Dream— Temperature — Acidity — Uniformity — Granulated Butter—Method of making—…

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The Price of Wheat

The Wellington Times · Monday 5 February 1900 · page 2

Farmers in this district will be pleased to note that there are evidence of a decent advance in the price of wheat. For some time ruling quotations have been so low that all who were in position to…

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Wheat Market

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Wednesday 7 February 1900 · page 2

Mr. H. R. Carter, wheat broker, Sydney and Melbourne, reports as follows Shipping and [?] qualities have not changed in value since my last report, but…

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Pastoral and Commercial, Western Herald Office. Tuesday Evening, February 6. the Weather

The Western Herald · Wednesday 7 February 1900 · page 2

The heat is intense, the mercury reading up to 11 [?] degrees in the shade. There is s[?] a breath of wind, and clouds are continnalty gathering overhead, indicating storm not fur distant…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office. Friday Evening, February 9. the Weather

The Western Herald · Saturday 10 February 1900 · page 2

During the past few days the weather has been extremely trying, Scorching hot winds have been blowing from every point of the compass, and at present there are no signs of a change…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 10 February 1900 · page 3

No. 123. Rot in Potato Crops—Clauses— Onion-Growere — Prevalent Evils—Pot Flaute—Compost — Pots —Bulbs — After Potting—Ashes—Flowering—Mulching—…

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A Big Stack of Wheat

The Wellington Times · Monday 12 February 1900 · page 2

Anyone interested in wheat should pay a visit to Messrs. Quirk, McLeod, and Co's. immense stack of wheat which is daily accumulating there. There are now 13,000 bags pilled up tier upon tier, this…

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The Wheat of the World

The Wellington Times · Thursday 15 February 1900 · page 4

Ever since Sir William Crookes gave utterance to his remarkable prediction of an ultimate famine, the subject of the world's wheat has been one of the most widely…

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Wool Sales

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 5
Also in Narromine News and Trangie Advocate

Yesterday's wool sales were without any material alteration, 14d being the highest price paid for greasy, and 25½d for scoured…

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