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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1904

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London Wool Sales. London

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 3 February 1904 · page 1

The London wool sales prices are extremely strong for all descriptions…

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Wool Sales

The Wellington Times · Thursday 4 February 1904 · page 4

The local wool sales are firm. Best greasy reached 11½d, scoured 21d…

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The Wheat Market

The Wellington Times · Thursday 4 February 1904 · page 4

The "S.M. Herald" says:—The Sydney wheat market continues quiet, and farmers show no disposition to transact business on the basis of prices offering. For f.s.q. wheat…

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Wheat that will resist Rust and Bunt. Valuable Experiments

The Wellington Times · Thursday 4 February 1904 · page 7

In a recent interview with a representative of the "S.M. Herald" Mr. Campbell, Director of Agriculture, gave a lot of valuable information concerning the experiments…

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How to Stack Wheat a Safe and Effective Method. Explained by Mr. Frank Mack

The Wellington Times · Thursday 4 February 1904 · page 7

Mr. Frank Mack, partner in the well-known firm of Mack and Austin, of Narromine, the largest growers of wheat in New South Wales, writes to the Molong…

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Homebush.--thursday. Sheep

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 6 February 1904 · page 3

THERE were 14,153 sheep and lambs penned, and 14,592 drawn for. The quality, taken on the while, was good with a number of choice heavy weights, but with a big percentage of…

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The Wheat Harvest

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 6 February 1904 · page 5

THE Sydney "Daily Telegraph's" special Commissioner who is now touring the wheat districts of the State writes last week a eulogistic description of the output at…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles, Management of Comb Honey

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 6 February 1904 · page 4

ALL strong colonies of bees when run for comb honey will generally cast a swarm. The parent colony should be set aside and the swarm…

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The State's Sheep

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 10 February 1904 · page 3

SAYS the "S.M. Herald": The sanguine figures given by the Premier, regarding the pastoral industry are, it would appear, held in light esteem in well-informed circles…

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The Wheat Standard

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 10 February 1904 · page 4

ON Thursday last the grain trade section of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce were engaged in grading wheat samples and determining the standard. Mr. J. M…

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The Wheat Harvest

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 10 February 1904 · page 3

The Railway Commissioners estimate that by the end of the present wheat season 18 million bushels will have arrived by rail…

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The Wheat Harvest. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 10 February 1904 · page 3

At Mulwala 108 waggons and drays, carrying over 4000 bags of wheat, orossed into Viotoria from New South Wales in one day…

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Wool

The Wellington Times · Thursday 11 February 1904 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson and Co., report:—The feeling that war between Russia and Japan was imminent (and has now started) caused a rather easier feeling in the Sydney wool market. Cables are…

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To Farmers

The Wellington Times · Thursday 11 February 1904 · page 4

You are always requiring Machinery, and if you wants Giddings Plough, Braybrook or Martin-Gawler Stump Jump, Disc Plough, Disc Harrow,Cultivator, Chaff-Cutter, Horse Gear, Iron Roller, Corn Cracker…

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Homebush.--thursday. Sheep

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 13 February 1904 · page 5

THERE were 15,000 sheep and lambs penned, and 15,629 drawn for. The quality on the whole was good useful mutton, will a number of prime heavy sorts, and many medium…

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The Season's Wheat. Results of the Departmental Tests

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 13 February 1904 · page 6

THE Department of Agriculture has lately been conducting a number of analytical tasts of the present season's wheats the result of which will be of interest to…

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Latest Commercial. Wool. Winchcombe Carson and Co., LTD report Sydney, February 10th 1904

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 13 February 1904 · page 5

THE feeling that war between Russia and Japan was imminent has caused a rather easier feeling in the Sydney wool market. Cables are coming through from Europe indicating that business…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Fattening Poultry for Market

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 13 February 1904 · page 3

THE standard weights of Barred Plymouth Books are, cook, nine and a half pounds, hen, seven and a half pounds, cockerel, eight…

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To Farmers

The Wellington Times · Monday 15 February 1904 · page 2

You are always requiring Machinery, and if you want a Giddinga Plough Braybrook or Martin-Gawler Stump-Jump, Dise Plough, Disc Harrow, Cultivator, Chaff-Cutter, Horse Gear, Iron Roller, Corn Cracker…

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Export of Wheat

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 17 February 1904 · page 3

The barque Lyden Horn sailed for America to-day with 4,330 tons of wheat…

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