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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1903

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Wool Sales. London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 20 May 1903 · page 3

At the wool sales last evening prices for medi[?]m orossbreds tended upwarde. Contineiital buyers are taking the bulk of the merinos at extreme rates…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Hedsrald Office, Tuesday evening

The Western Herald · Wednesday 20 May 1903 · page 2

The weather continues bright and clear…

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The London Wool Market. The May Sales

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 20 May 1903 · page 3

The third series of colonial wool sales in London for the current year opened on Tuesday week, and cable reports as to the condition of the market are very…

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Proposed Experimental Irrigation Farm. Not to be Started at Gin Gin Weir

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 20 May 1903 · page 2

Mr. S. PHILLIPS, M.L.A., has received the following letter from the Department of Mines and Agriculture :--"Sydney, 14th May, 1903…

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Proposed Irrigation Farm

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 20 May 1903 · page 2

Mr. S. Phillips, M.L.A., sends the following for publication:—"Department of Mines and Agrinlture, Sydney, 14th May, 1903…

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Wool Sales

The Wellington Times · Thursday 21 May 1903 · page 4

At the wool sales yesterday greasy reached 9½d scoured 24d. Market strong…

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Commercial News. Wool Market

The Wellington Times · Thursday 21 May 1903 · page 2

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltdt, report:—Wool.—The cables regarding the London sales now in progress indicate an upward tendency and…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office. Friday evening

The Western Herald · Saturday 23 May 1903 · page 2

The weather on Wednesday experienced a change. A thunderstorm came up from the west and south-west, while the wind was blowing from the north-east. The clouds…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Proving the Soundness of a Horse

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 23 May 1903 · page 6

IN the first place give the horses quick trot or gallop to see if he is lamel; as soon as he stops, put your [?]ar to his nostrils in order to detect, if…

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Stud Sheep Sales

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 27 May 1903 · page 4

Preliminary arrangements have been made-in [?]nnection with the annual st[?]d sales, which are to be;held in Sydney early in July, and although it is impossible to…

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Homebush.--monday. Sheep

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 27 May 1903 · page 3

THERE were 8888 sheep and lambs penned, out of the 9886 drawn for. The quality on the whole was fairly good, with odd lots of primes. The market at the opening was little different…

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Wheat Cargo. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 27 May 1903 · page 4

A large cargo of wheat arrived yesterday from Buenos Ayres…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Tuesday evening

The Western Herald · Wednesday 27 May 1903 · page 2

The weather, since our last, has been exceedingly cold, owing to the south westerly winds. Snow must have fallen somewhere. The country looks green, but there is no…

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A Ring in Currants. Entire Crop Purchased by an English Syndicate

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 27 May 1903 · page 2

The Greek currant monopoly has been completed. An English syndicate purchased the entire annual crop, estimated at 150,000 tons. The Federation of Grooers of the United…

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Selecting Seed Wheat

The Wellington Times · Thursday 28 May 1903 · page 6

The selection of seed wheat causes all growers who recognise the importance of planting the best sample available, much thought. The farmer who raises his own…

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Mysterious Deaths of Cattle

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 30 May 1903 · page 5

At Springvale, Victoria, forty-eight cattle tiled mysteriously on Wednesday night on an acre of land…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Friday evening

The Western Herald · Saturday 30 May 1903 · page 2

The Weather continues very cold…

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Commercial. the Wool Market. May 27, 1903

The Western Herald · Saturday 30 May 1903 · page 2

The monthly auctions were continued on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday last, when the selection embraced some, useful wools in the grease, and an attrative…

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Farm and Garden; Original Articles. He Dairy Cow and the Production of Sanitary Milk

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 30 May 1903 · page 6

PROBABLY no animal on the farm utilises its food so-completely in the work of production as the dairy cow. In ordinary branches…

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An Immense Cargo of Wheat. Imports for the Year

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 30 May 1903 · page 3

AUSTRALIA is at present importing large quantities of wheat from America. This State alone has since the drought used over one and a half million centals, And shiploads…

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