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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1900

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Farm and Garden Gardening

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 24 November 1900 · page 4

Seedlings to produce spring Cabbages should be planted out into prepared grounds. It is best to draw shallow drills for the purpose. The proper…

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This Year's Wheat

The Wellington Times · Monday 26 November 1900 · page 2

From the returns published by the Government Statistician, the cereal year 1900-1 promises to produce the highest yield yet recorded for the colony. The average…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Wellington Times · Monday 26 November 1900 · page 3

At the wool sales on Thursday three catalogues were submitted, comprising 5928 bales in all. The market closed firm for the week at late prices, bidding for all the better…

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Cattle Market. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 28 November 1900 · page 3

Cattle easier. Best bullocks from £9 10s, extra from £11, good from £9, medium from £8…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 28 November 1900 · page 3

AUCTIONS were resumed on Monday when 6632 bales were submitted. The selections were representative ones, principally of Southern, Central, and North-western wools with a few…

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The Wheat Market. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 28 November 1900 · page 3

Ten thousand bags of new wheat were sold yesterday in Sydney at 2s 6d a bushel, which establishes the opening price…

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The Latest Telegram. Sheep Market. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 28 November 1900 · page 3

Sheep unaltered. Best merino wethers to 15s 1Od, good 12s 6d to 13s, Shorns: Best merino wethers from 11s 6d, good from 11s…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Heard Office, Tuesday Evening, November 27

The Western Herald · Wednesday 28 November 1900 · page 2

Intense heat, verifying Mr. Wragge's forecast of another heat wave, has blasted Bourke all the week. On Monday the temperature reached 107 and to-day 103 degrees in the shade with every promise of still…

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Antwerp Wool Sales. (By Cable.) LONDON, November 24

The Western Herald · Wednesday 28 November 1900 · page 2

At the Antwarp wool sales, 776 bales of Australian wool found buyers at the closing rates of tha Inst London auction…

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Redfern Auction Sales. the Farmers & Settlers’ Co-operative Association, Ltd., [?]

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Wednesday 28 November 1900 · page 3

Since our last report there has been no change to report in the values of [?] at [?] of chaff by rail for the past week total 206 trucks, which…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Wellington Times · Thursday 29 November 1900 · page 5

At Monday's wool sales three [?]atalogues were submitted, aggregating 6632 bales. Buyers were present in full force, and bidding up to a certain point was animated…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 30 November 1900 · page 4

Harrison, Jones and Devlin wired as yesterday (Thursday) as follows: "We offered 2900 bales of wool by action and sold 2600. Yorkshire…

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Diseased Cattle

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 1 December 1900 · page 3

A DEPUTATION representing the Stock- owners' Association (says the "Telegraph") waited upon the Premier, to ask that the Government should contribute towards the…

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The Wheat Crop. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 1 December 1900 · page 5

The wheat crop is turning out well in the upper Hunter districts some patches are yielding 35 bushels to the acre…

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Cattle Market. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 1 December 1900 · page 5

Cattle lower. Best bullocks from £9, extra from £10 10s, good from £8 10s, medium from £7 10s…

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Sheep Market. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 1 December 1900 · page 5

Sheep firm. Best menuo wethers from 14s, good [?]s to [?]s 6d. Shorn— best merino wethers from 12s, good from 11s…

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The Wool Sales

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 1 December 1900 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson, and Co. report yesterday's wool sales firm. Greasy reached [?] and scoured 13d…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Hearld Office, Friday Evening, November 30

The Western Herald · Saturday 1 December 1900 · page 2

Fierco heat, accompanied by violent duststorms and some sp[?]uiduc attenote ti raubm gave prevailed all th week. The temperature, which on Wednesday reached 111 degrees in the shade, averaged daily…

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Sydney Wool Sales. (By Telegraph.) SYDNEY, November 22

The Western Herald · Saturday 1 December 1900 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson and Co. sold to-day greasy wool up to 9½d for superior [?]crino, 7½d for average crossbreds, the market was very active, values being unchanged…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. Milk and Disease Germs

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 1 December 1900 · page 3

One class of bacteria producing human disease passes directly from Sick cows into the milk. Tuberculosis is an example of this class; and a tuberculous cow may,…

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