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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1902

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Commercial. the Wool Market

The Western Herald · Saturday 8 November 1902 · page 2

Mr. M. Good has received from Sydney account sales in connection with a recent consignment of wool from his Mount Alfred Station. 8 bales of A Combing brought…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Friday Evening

The Western Herald · Saturday 8 November 1902 · page 2

Summer is quite here now. For the past few days it has been very hot, the thermometer showing an average of 1052/3 degrees in the shade. Hot winds prevailed to-day, and…

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A Sheep's Thigh Bone As a Human Arm

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 8 November 1902 · page 3

A most remarkable surgical operation was performed a short time ugo which, if successful, and it given every promise of being so, will mark…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles Growing Onions for Market

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 8 November 1902 · page 5

THE onion is an expensive vegetable to cultivate because it requires a rich and well fertilised soil and constant care in keeping the…

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A Partner's Sheep

The Wellington Times · Monday 10 November 1902 · page 2

Wagga, Thursday.—Gratifying success is attending the experiments which are being conducted at the Wagga Experimental Farm by crossing the Shropshire rams with…

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The Sydney Wool Sales

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 11 November 1902 · page 2

Amongst the catalogues of wool sold this season we notice the following well-known known brands Pine Ridge, Gulgong, 11¼d Ohan, Coolah 9½ Denmy Plains from…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Tuesday Evening

The Western Herald · Wednesday 12 November 1902 · page 2

A climax came to the excessively not weather on Saturday afternoon when a thunderstorm came up from the west and north, The storm gave us 36 points of rain, and…

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The Wheat Shortage. Fron Seven to Twelve Million Bushels

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 12 November 1902 · page 3

THE estimate of a Melbourne paper that the Australian wheat shortage will amount to 12,000,000 bushels, is regarded in well-informed circles as being an over-statement of the…

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Wool Sales

The Wellington Times · Thursday 13 November 1902 · page 4

At yesterday's wool sales prices were without material alteration. Greasy wool reached 11d, scoured 18d…

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A Good Crop

The Wellington Times · Thursday 13 November 1902 · page 4

Estimates of the present crops in the Wellington district very very much. Some (they are optimists) say we may get nearly half the usual returns, others that we will be…

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Land Under Crop

The Wellington Times · Thursday 13 November 1902 · page 2

The Government Statistician (Mr. Coghlan) has completed his estimate of the land under crop during the present season. The condition of affairs disclosed ia extremely…

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Meeting of Farmers

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 14 November 1902 · page 2

A meeting of farmers and settlers was held at Bell's Exchange Hotel on Saturday afternoon last. There were between twenty and thirty present and…

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Open Column. Farmers' and Settlers' Meeting. to the Editor of Narr[?] News

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 14 November 1902 · page 2

Sir,—I understand that farmers and others of this district propose holding a meeting in Narromine at an early date in order to being, in a forcible…

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Wool Prices

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 15 November 1902 · page 3

WHILE buyers are having to pay something like 11d, to 12d. per lb. for grease combing wools the reader can well understand that invoices are strongly scrutinised, and there…

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Homebush Sales--thursday. Sheep

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 15 November 1902 · page 5

There were 21,000 sheep and lambs forward, comprising for the greater part medium and light quality, with odd lots of primes. With few exceptions, the sheep were all shorn…

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Loss of Sheep. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 15 November 1902 · page 3

A drover passing through Murrunburrsh, en route for Queensland, reported that he lost 6400 out of 10,400 sheep…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Friday Evening

The Western Herald · Saturday 15 November 1902 · page 2

Wednesday was a very hot, disagreeable day, and the night was just as bad. On Thursday the atmosphere was thick with a tine insinuating dust that penetrated…

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Decrease in the Wool Traffic

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 15 November 1902 · page 5

The railway returns of the wool traffic show that so far during the present season the quantity carried represents 100,000 bales less than was carried during the same period last season,…

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Sydney Wool Report. Winchcombe, Carson, and Co., LTD., report

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 15 November 1902 · page 5

OUR next sale will fall on Monday 17th inst. Meantime the market is practically unchanged since we last reported. The demand for good wools continues very active, the tendency being…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles Ground Stock Feed

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 15 November 1902 · page 6

THE value of grinding food for stock has two sides for and against the praotice, like many other methods in farm management. Many…

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