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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1905

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Wool

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 18 November 1905 · page 4

Winch[?]be Caroon and Co., Ltd., report:—The demand for superior wools is well maintained; medium grades show increasing firmness, but there is no…

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Record Receipt of Wool

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 18 November 1905 · page 5

At Sydney on Thursday the receipt of wool at Darling Harbor was probably the heaviest for a single day on record 11,110 bales coming to hand…

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The Harvest. Through the Dubbo Wheat Belt

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 18 November 1905 · page 5

I notice that many paddocks which were infested with black oats last year are far worse this season. This may be attributed largely to the fact that much of the stubble…

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The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate. Saturday, November 18, 1905. the Anglican Pastoral

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 18 November 1905 · page 3

The pastoral letter issued by the Anglican Bishops of Australia is in some respects a remarkable [?]ment. The verbal redundancy of its [?] may be overlooked, for…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Cold Storage on the Farm

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 18 November 1905 · page 2

EVERY grower of fruit know that Just about picking time that we are apt to have days—and sometimes several days in succession—during which the…

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Belarbigill Notes. (From Our Own Correspondent). the Crops

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 18 November 1905 · page 3

The weather is at present such as to cause grave anxiety. We have experienced great heat for this time of the year, which has had as injurious effect on the wheat…

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Doonside. (From Our Own Correspondent). the Crops

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 18 November 1905 · page 3

The local crops, unless we have food raius from this out, will not pan out as well as last year. In many cases the late frouts have had their effect on the wheat…

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The Experimental Farm. Bent Reserve as Leaseholds. Farmers and Settlers Protest

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 18 November 1905 · page 8

The proposal to cut the Bani experimental farm reserve up into areas for special leases it resented by the Farmers and Settlers' Association. At last Saturday's…

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Wool Sales

The Wellington Times · Thursday 23 November 1905 · page 4

At the wool sales yesterday greasy reached 14 1/4d, scoured 21d There were record prices for fine crossbreds…

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London, Thursday Adulterated Butter

The Castlereagh · Friday 24 November 1905 · page 3

A Preston (Eng.) [?] is being presented for [?] an adulterated [?] as Queensland butter…

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Experiments in Wheat

The Castlereagh · Friday 24 November 1905 · page 3

Successful experiments have been made at the Moses Experimental Farm with drought [?] and [?] Proof wheat…

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Commercial News. the Wool Market

The Castlereagh · Friday 24 November 1905 · page 5

Messrs Dalgety and Company Ltd., Wool and Produce Brokers, Sydney, report:—There has been no important…

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A Model Farm

The Castlereagh · Friday 24 November 1905 · page 3

"Age" writes:—Could not the Farmers' and Settlers Association advocate in Gilgandra, or could an organisation be formed in this town to…

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Horse Cattle and Sheep Sales

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 25 November 1905 · page 4

MR. A. TYERS Woon, auctioneer, notifies in our business columns that he intends from December 2nd to hold sales of horses, cattle, and sheep at the Corporation…

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Wool and Wheat. Heavy Railway Traffic

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 25 November 1905 · page 4

THE results of the weed trade on the railways are exceeding expectations The total increase for the season has now reached 100,000 bales. On Monday 16,633 bales were carried by the…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles, [All Rights Reserved.] Making Butter at Home

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 25 November 1905 · page 2

IN districts where creameries are common not much butter is made on the larm, but there are as yet many planes where creameries are few and far between the former's…

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Origin of Purple Straw Wheat

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 25 November 1905 · page 7

Mr T. H. Calaby, of Mount Barker, South Australia, has still got a sample of the famous wheat grown on his mother's farm over thirty years ago…

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The Harvest. Through the Dubbo Wheat Belt

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 25 November 1905 · page 5

I visited "Doonside" school which Mr. A. W. Muir—who, as well as an able teacher is an excellent mechanio—is fast making "a thing of beauty," though it…

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Motor Waggons for Farmers

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 25 November 1905 · page 7

The motor waggon system in agricultural districts in England is extending Two services of motor waggons have been establishment to meet the needs of…

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Model Soil for Cereal Crops

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 25 November 1905 · page 7

Some years ago an extremely Important experiment was completed by a French scientist, since dead, who had been endeavoring to ascertain as…

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