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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1902

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Farmers and Settlers' Association of N.S.W. Narromine Branch

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 20 September 1902 · page 3

THE annual general meeting of the above Association was held on Saturday last in the Council Chambers Hall. Mr. R. Wobb presided. A large number of farmers and settlers attended…

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Balladoran and Coalbaggie Farmers and Settlers' Association. Annual Meeting

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 20 September 1902 · page 4

THE annual meeting of the above Association was hold at the Balladoran Hotel on Saturday last. The attendance, owing to the threatening state of the weather and general circumstances…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 20 September 1902 · page 2

BALLADORAN AND COALBAGGIE BRANCH. THE annual general meeting of the Balladoran and Coalbaggie F. and S. Association was held at Balladoran on Saturday last…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles. Valuable Remedy for Codlin Moth

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 20 September 1902 · page 6

THE spraying experiments here noted were made upon apple trees about eighteen years old and from fifteen to twenty feet high. Just…

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Hand-feeding Sheep

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 24 September 1902 · page 4

MR. W. G. DOWLING, writing in the AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE for September on "How far should sheep be hand-fed in times of drought before their value is exceeded?"…

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Wool Sales

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 24 September 1902 · page 3

At the London wool sales on Saturday, crossbreds sold exceedingly well. Merinos were firm with a hardening tendency…

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Wool Sales. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 24 September 1902 · page 4

At the wool sales on Saturday, crossbreds sold exceedingly well. Merinos were firm with a hardening tendency…

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Pastoral and Commerial. Western Herald Office, Tuesday Evening

The Western Herald · Wednesday 24 September 1902 · page 2

The weather duting the past few day has been warm, and if it only continues raia is almost sure to fall shortly…

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Commercial. the Wool Market. Sydney, September 20

The Western Herald · Wednesday 24 September 1902 · page 2

The final sales of the monthly series were held on Tharsday, when small catalegues I aggregating 2076 bales were offered, and the total sales reputed, including the private…

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Salt-bush for Fodder in Time of Drought. (Coolabah Experimental Farm), in the Agricultural Gazette

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 24 September 1902 · page 4

THE drought which for several months past has been playing such havoc among the flocks and herds in nearly every portion of this State, and which has also…

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Mudgee Stud Sheep Sales

The Wellington Times · Thursday 25 September 1902 · page 4

Great importance attaches to Messrs. Stewart and Smith's stud sheep sales on Wednesday next October 1. The sales will be held on the Mudgee showground, where…

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Wheat=growing in Cape Colony

The Wellington Times · Thursday 25 September 1902 · page 2

Mr. Kidd, Minister for Agriculture, has received a report from Mr. Valder, the Commercial Agent for New South Wales in South Africa, as to the approximate wheat…

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Commercial News. Sydney Wool Sales

The Wellington Times · Thursday 25 September 1902 · page 2

At the monthly wool sales, which were held in Sydney on Thursday, six catalogues were submitted, totalling some 2077 bales. Most of the catalogues were of indifferent…

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Sheep-feeding by Irrigation

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 27 September 1902 · page 3

SOME attention has been drawn to remarks by Mr. N. A. Gat[?]nby, of Jemalong, Forbes, re the possible powers of lucerne grown by irrigation as a fodder for sheep in drought…

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High Price for Wool

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 27 September 1902 · page 2

WE have been shown a cabled advice of the sale in London of wool grown by Mr. H. C.Rogers, of Killaloolah, and shipped by him through the Commercial…

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Wool Sales. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 27 September 1902 · page 4

At the wool sales last evening business was brisk at unchanged prices…

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Wool Clip in Argentina

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 27 September 1902 · page 4

The Argentine wool clip will be exceedingly heavy, and is estimated to be worth ten millions sterling…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Friday Evening

The Western Herald · Saturday 27 September 1902 · page 2

The weather contiues very warm, H[?]vy clouds were overhanging the town last night, and it appeared as if a good downpour before morning wouldfresult, but beyond a few drops…

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Peculiar Death of Sheep in Forbes District

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 27 September 1902 · page 3

THE "Forbes Times" says, "A number of sheep have recently died at Messrs. Martin Bros.' Dronbalgie station, the cause undoubtedly being blood poisoning in some form. At first…

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Commercial. the Wool Market. Sydney, September 25

The Western Herald · Saturday 27 September 1902 · page 2

The Adelaide wool sales opened yesterday, Small quotations were offered and the competition vigorous, wilh an advance of from 10 to 15 per cent. on lust season'a rates…

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