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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1905

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Trangie. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Rain Delays Farmers

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 31 May 1905 · page 2

A THUNDERSTROM passed over the district on Friday evening, some 35 points of rain being registered, and on Sunday intermittent showers fell. This rain, whilst doing…

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Wool, Crain and Produce

The Wellington Times · Thursday 1 June 1905 · page 6

Dalgety and Company, Limited, report (May 27th):— Wool:—Owing to the very small arrivals of wool at the present time…

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Australian Farming. Butter Factory Managers. Scientific Methods

The Castlereagh · Friday 2 June 1905 · page 5

Sele[?] methods are not to be regarded as an unmixed blessing when they are in the hands of those who did not take the trouble to become…

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Farm and Field. What is a "Starter?"

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 2 June 1905 · page 3

The term "starter" when used in connection with buttermaking means a preparation used to assist in the development of lactic fermentation in the…

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Farmers' and Settlers' Association

The Castlereagh · Friday 2 June 1905 · page 4

Mr. John Perry M.L.A. for Liverpool Plains, and Senior Vice- President of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association gave an interesting address to a…

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The Butter Commission

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 5

The final report at the Butter Commission recommends that, legislation for betterment of trade should be in the direction of prohibition of anuses. It also refers to the dealings of…

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Stewed Sheep's Tongues

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

ngredientsJ doeen tongues, 1 pint etook or water; email pieoe of carrot, turnip and onion; 1 oz butter, 1 thin slioo baoon, 1 oz flour: salt and pepper to taste,…

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Storing Wheat

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 4

Some time ago in these columns we referred to the inadvisability of farmers storing wheat, and latterly several instances of the failure of this practice…

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Australian Butter Values in London

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 5

At every opportunity certain politicians representing country districts, find also some of the Government dairy experts in the Commonwealth, make it a point to…

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Mope About Macaroni Wheat

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 6

MB, W. Farrer, the wheat experimentalist, has received a highly interesting letter from Mr. Charles Binnie, who reoently visited Washington, and spent…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. Pruning Flowering Shrubs

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 2

APART from soil,[?]climate, and cultural management, success with flowering shrubs depends upon pruning—indeed, that is generally the one most important…

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Treatment of Wheat Seed for Built. An Expert's View

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 5

MR. W. FARRER, wheat experimentalist to the Department of Agriculture, writes thus (in the 'Agricultural Gazette' of May) on the matter of the treatment of wheat seed for…

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The Sydney Maize aud Wheat Trust- Verdict for the Defendants on Appeal

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 3

Before the Supreme Court in [?]Tuesday the case [?]out of [?]Sydney for the control of the selling price of maize and wheat further occupied the attention…

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Farm and Field. Action of Warm Water on Rennet

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 5

It is suited by the Canadian dairy journals that the discovery has been made in Canada that the use of warn water destroys the action of rennet. The…

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The Value of Timber on Stock Farms

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 8

THE homesteads on most farms in Australia look more attractive than was the case a few years ago (says the Adelaide "Chronicle.') When settlement first took place in many…

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Geurie Gossip. (From Our Owm Correpondent.) June 1. Weathee and Crops

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 4

WE have been receiving a superabundance of rain, for farming operations. Those who have not finished sowing are greatly impeded by the weather, consequently there…

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Farmers and Settlers

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 4

The monthly meeting of the Dubbo Farmers and Settlers Association will be held shortly, and perhaps it would not be amiss to urge a larger attendance…

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Narromine. (From Our Own Correspondent). Weather and Crops

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 4

Further rains, amounting to newly 150 points, have caused a suspension of farming operations, and the men on the land will be as grateful now for a month of drought as…

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Japanese Wheat Trade

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 7 June 1905 · page 4

THE course of events in the East is likely to be of enduring importance to New South Wales wheatgrowers. It appears certain thst Japan as a nation will, in the…

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The Man on the Land. Cows v. Sheep

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 7 June 1905 · page 2

SOME strong arguments were put forward by several speakers at a meeting of the Farmers and. Settlers' Association held at Trangie on Saturday, in order to show the…

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