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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1905

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Warwick Farm Races

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 10 January 1905 · page 2

Farm Stakes : Makutu Mulison Macrocarpa; Corinthian Mile : Panama Braemar [?]; Nursery: Woodlander Lady [?] Mary Dorset; Warwick…

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Wool Sales

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 11 January 1905 · page 3

At yesterday's wool sales free wools were firm at December closing rates, with occasionally a trifle of improvement. Greasy reached 12¾d, scoured 21½d…

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The Wool-Growers of the State. Who Holds the Flocks?

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 11 January 1905 · page 2

IN closing the Wool Exhibition at Sydney on Friday Sir Francis Suitor, speaking as representative of the Sheepbreeders', Association, said he wished to reply to the statement so…

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The "Agricultural Line" and the Rainfall. The Western Limit for Wheat Raising

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 11 January 1905 · page 3

IN an article published in the " Agricultural Gazette" for January, illustrated by a map, Mr. T. A. Coghlan, Government Statistician, shows what he designations " crop line" and…

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Trangie. Farmers and Settlers' Association

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 11 January 1905 · page 2

THE monthly meeting of the Teangie Branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held in [?]efferman's Hall on Saturday afternoon. There was only a very small attendance. In…

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Wool and Wheat

The Wellington Times · Thursday 12 January 1905 · page 3

Business is in full swing now after the holidays. I visited some of the leading wool and grain stores here. Wool is slacking off now, as the…

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Farmers Who Keep Sheep

The Wellington Times · Thursday 12 January 1905 · page 3

Farmers who pride themselves on the good quality of their sheep and on the care and attention paid to them very often fall into the fatal error of…

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South Australian Wheat Crop

The Wellington Times · Thursday 12 January 1905 · page 2

Daring 13 months from December 1, 1903, to December 31, 1904. it is reckoned that, approximately, 10 1/2 million bushels of wheat and flour have…

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Wool Sales Strike

The Wellington Times · Thursday 12 January 1905 · page 5

The wool which would have been offered at yesterday's sales, but for the suspension of operations as a protest against the poundage charge levied…

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Australian Farming. the Highest Bidder

The Castlereagh · Friday 13 January 1905 · page 2

A Melbourne weekly prints an account of a harvester near Warnambool who was somewhat in demand, owing to the scarcity of labor, and…

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Visit to the Ostrich Farm

The Castlereagh · Friday 13 January 1905 · page 8

On Friday afternoon the visiting delegates were driven by P. Wrigley to Messrs. Kearns and Sanderson's Ostrich Farm. The birds and farmyard…

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Country Wheat Weights. Are Farmers Detrauded?

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 5

A CORRESPONDENT, who is a wheatgrower, writes to the EVENING NEWS from a large wheat railway station on the New South Wales Northern line:—"Farmers here, who…

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The Wool Difficulty

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 5

The difficulty between the wool buyers and the shipping companies still unsettled. The former will this afternoon consider the position. It is rumoured two companies are prepared to…

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The Sheep Maggot Fly. (Continued.)

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 6

MY observations upon the sheep-fly have been taken from careful observations among the blown sheep in the paddocks while they were being mastered up;…

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Big Shipments of Wheat

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 5

Two shipments amounting to 30,000 bags of wheat leave Sydney tomorrow. Other big shipments will be made within a few days…

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District Wheat. a High Reputation

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 4

FROM enquiries made it would appear that the wheat in the district this year is a very mixed lot indeed, and as the manager of the Dubbo Milling Co. says, some of it is…

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Wool Sales Suspended. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 6

The wool sales were suspended yesterday owing to the wool buyers declining to pay primage charge levied by shipowners under the Sea Carriage of Goods…

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Wheat Crowing. Early Sowing and Harvesting

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 3

EXPERIENCE is now making it plain to even the least systamatic wheat farmers that the man who reaps the best results is he who fallows his land, ploughs early and…

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Thursday's Telegrams. Wool Sales. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 6

THE NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY Co., LTD., report:— At our wool sale yesterday there was keen competition and a good general…

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Wool, Grain, &c. Datgety and Company, Ltd

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 3

WOOL,--Sales in the Sydney market will be resumed on Monday, 9th instant, and it in anticipated that during next week the offerings will aggregate from 30,000 to 33,000 hales…

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