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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1901

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Dubbo Sheep Directors

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 17 April 1901 · page 3

A meeting of the above was held on Monday. There were present--Mr. B. T. B. Gaden (in the chair) J. D. Mckay, F. Mack, T. Baird, and S. Cameron…

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Cattle Market. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 17 April 1901 · page 3

Cattle firm. Best bullocks from £9 15s, extra from £13, good from £8 15s, medium from £8…

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The Butter Market. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 17 April 1901 · page 3

Wholesale prices of butter have been lowered by a penny per lb all round, making the rate for choice creamery 10d…

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The Latest Telegrams. Sheep Market. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 17 April 1901 · page 3

Sheep firm. Best merino wethers from 14s, good 12s 6d to 13s, medium from 11s…

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Cabbages for Dairy Cattle

The Wellington Times · Thursday 18 April 1901 · page 2

The following information is taken from the March number of the "Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales":—At the departmental experimental farm at…

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Fourteen Dairy Rules

The Wellington Times · Thursday 18 April 1901 · page 3

The following rules are written by Hoard's American "Dairyman," and therefore many are not applicable to this country, where we have no bad winter, but they all contain…

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District News. Glencardie Farmers' Union

The Wellington Times · Thursday 18 April 1901 · page 7

The usual monthly meeting of this union was hold at Mr. T. Brummell's, Suntop, on April 6th. Mr. T. Collins occupied the chair…

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Police Court. Saturday, 13Th April, 1901. (Before W. O'Neill, Esq., J.p.) Sheep Stealing

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 19 April 1901 · page 5

Charles Haylock and John Thomas Haylock were charged with having at Dappo, on the 12th day of April, 1901, stolen one sheep, the property of…

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Cattle

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 20 April 1901 · page 2

Judges: Messrs. John James, Robert Clark James Baylis, Edward Ingram, and J. A. Badgery. Bulls, 3 years and over: John Grant's…

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Fat Sheep

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 20 April 1901 · page 2

Judges: Messrs. Geo. Oldham, J. Wilson, and J. S. Agnew. Best pen of five merino wethers, 1st prize £5 5s., presented by the Fat Stock Salesmen's…

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The "Sraoko" Sheep Shearing Machine

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 20 April 1901 · page 8

Not many years back the idea of shearing sheep by machinery was laughed at as a fanciful impossibility, but in this marvellous age of progress there seems to be almost no…

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M'Dougall's Non=Poisonous Sheep Dip

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 20 April 1901 · page 5

If there is one question more than another of interest to this State it is the improvement of our staple product—wool. To effect an increase of even a quarter of a pound in…

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Government Agricultural Exhibits. The Experimental Farms

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 20 April 1901 · page 6

The large crowd which thronged the building where the exhibits from the Governmental farms were displayed told its own story of deep interest and the desire to…

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Ponies and Cattle

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 24 April 1901 · page 3

Enormous numbers of breeding cattle have been sent to Basutoland in exchange for ponies…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Millet

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 24 April 1901 · page 4

THERE are at the present time several varieties of millet-each of them having particular characteristic qualities, suitable for varisus…

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Sheep and Wool

The Wellington Times · Thursday 25 April 1901 · page 3

Good sheep are not necessarily confined to any one breed. Scrubby and runty lambs are not valuable stock from which to breed. Unruly sheep, like cows, should be weeded…

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Interesting to Farmers. Manitoba Wheat

The Wellington Times · Thursday 25 April 1901 · page 4

Manitoba or File wheat grown in New South Wales, from seed originally imported from Canada, has realised bigh prices in the Sydney market. Just recently when…

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Homebush Yards.--monday. Sheep

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 3

ABOUT 12,500 sheep and lambs penned at to-day's sales. The bulk of the sheep con sister of medium and indifferent quality merinos, a few prime, not many crossbreds…

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The Wool Sales

The Western Herald · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 2

At the Antwerp wool sales merious were five centimes in advance of last sales, but crossbreds were neglected and suffered a fire centimes decline…

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The War. Capture of Cattle. London

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 5

Lord Kitchener's Scouts have capturad, near Roosenekal, a big herd of cattle…

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