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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1905

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Rust-Resistant Wheat

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 3 January 1905 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture has recently been approached by a gentleman who has devoted several years to carrying out…

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Rust Resistant Wheat

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 4 January 1905 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture has recently been approached by a gentleman who has devoted several years to carrying outexperiments with the object of demonstrating…

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What a Wheat Failure Means

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 4 January 1905 · page 2

THE information contained in a Foreign Office report just to hand convoy's some idea of the wide-reaching effects of a failure in the Australian wheat crop such as that of 1902-3…

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The Wheat Harvest. A Gain of £1,000,000 to the Australian Farmers

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 4 January 1905 · page 2

THE what harvest in Now South Wales this year totals only sixteen million bushols, against the twenty-seven million bushels of 1903, but there is a very substantial cutoff in the butter…

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Draughters for Farmers

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 4 January 1905 · page 2

DRAUGHT horses are the best the average farmer can breed, for these reasons; (1) That fewer mistakes are made in breeding them; (2) that they can be…

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The Wheat Harvest

The Wellington Times · Thursday 5 January 1905 · page 4

The wheat harvest in New South Wales this year totals only sixteen million bushels, against the twenty-seven million bushels of 1903, but…

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Wool, Grain, and Produce

The Wellington Times · Thursday 5 January 1905 · page 3

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd, report (31st Dec.) As is usual in the Sydney market, there have been no sales this week of…

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Bathurst State Farm Crops. Results of Modern Methods

The Wellington Times · Thursday 5 January 1905 · page 2

Several theories have been put forward to account for the fact that the wheat crop on the Bathurst Experimental Farm this year will go 20…

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60,000 Bags of Wheat Destroyed

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 6 January 1905 · page 2

The railway traffic officers have received a telegram from the Superintendent at Janee to the effect that On the stations along the Corowa live…

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Bright Pastoral Outlook

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 6

THE pastoral outlook in Australia is generally regarded as brightening, and the eastern side of the continent has made a substantial effort to shake off…

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The Sheep Maggot Fly

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 6

THIS pest has, during the past season, proved very troublesome. and has put shepp-owners to considerable trouble and expense. It most not be confused with…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 5

JOHN BRIDGE AND CO, LIMITED:--Although no public auctions have been held since our our last report, we have nevertheless cleared a satisfactory quantity of wool privately at…

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Wool Sales. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 5

At Hobart wool sales soma coarse qualities realised the highest prices recorded since the Crimean war…

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A District Yield. Farming at "Belle Vue."

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 6

MR. W. BROWN, of "Hello Vue," some ten miles from Dubbo, in an interview with a representative of this office on Thursday, reported that he had harvested 2235 bags of wheat from…

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Poisoned by Young Grass. Dairyman Loses Eight "Valuable Cows

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 3

MR. Campbell, of Oak Hill, near Yass, has lost eight valuable cows in curious circumstances. He drafted 18 of his best milch cows into a small a luxurious growth of…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Breeding Corn Commericially

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1905 · page 2

COMMERCIALLY the corn breeder has but one aim, and that is utility. The acre of land is the farmers' unit. There are three ways to increase his profits…

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Yamble Butter Factory

The Wellington Times · Monday 9 January 1905 · page 2

Our friends at Yamble have now had a few weeks of experience with the newly-founded batter factory and have no doubt in that time picked up…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Wellington Times · Monday 9 January 1905 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson, and Co. report (Jan. 3rd):—Business will not be actively resumed in the Sydney wool market until January 9th…

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Wool, Grain, and Produce

The Wellington Times · Monday 9 January 1905 · page 3

Australian Mortgage Land and Finance Company, Limited, report (6th Jan.) :—No auction sales have been held…

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How to Make Farming Pay

The Wellington Times · Monday 9 January 1905 · page 2

The most reliable of all recipes for the above is Industry. Up-to-date methods and discriminating experimentalism are splendid things in…

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