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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1906

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The Wheat Market

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 3 January 1906 · page 2

According to the general manager of the Farmers and Settiers' Co-operative Society, farmers will score well by to[?]ding their Wheat for a little while. In a letter to Mr…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Tuesday Evening

The Western Herald · Wednesday 3 January 1906 · page 2

Thunderstorms have fallen and the weather is muggy…

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Important Auction Sales. Horses, Cattle, Sheet and Machinery

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 3 January 1906 · page 2

ON Saturday, January 13th, Mr. A. Tyers Wood will offer for sale at Yarrans, Mundooran, a number of horses, cattle, and sheep, and a quantity of machinery. For particulars see…

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Victorian Wheat Harvest

The Wellington Times · Thursday 4 January 1906 · page 2

The Victorian wheat harvest is estimated at 22,386,000 bushels, leaving 14,611,000 bushels for export. The surplus valued at £2,375,000…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Wellington Times · Thursday 4 January 1906 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson and Co report:—The wool market retains a holiday tone, most of the buyers being away from town enjoying a few [?]…

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Wheat. Fixing the F.a.q. Standard

The Wellington Times · Thursday 4 January 1906 · page 4

The grain sectional committee of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce will not meet to determine the f.a q. standard of the new season's wheat until about…

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The Wheat Market

The Castlereagh · Friday 5 January 1906 · page 3

Many large fruits are advising their country [?] to hold back the supply of wheat owing to the probability of a strike of whart [?]…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Mouled Butter

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 2

MODERN butter-makers' churn to fine granules so that the salt may reach all parts of the butter as uniformly as possible, but butter in which the salt is…

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Under-Weight Butter

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 7

Reports form London stated that the weights of Victorian butter are not so satisfactory on arrival in England as are the consignments form New Zealand…

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Wheat Market

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 4

Messrs. J. Raven and Co., wheat brokers and agents, 148 Clarence-street, Sydney, under date of January 2nd report as follows:…

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Victorian Wheat Harvest

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 5

The Victorian wheat harvest is estimated at 22,386,000 bushels, leaving 14,611,000 bushels for export. The surplus is valued at £2,375,000…

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Does Salt Increase Weight of Butter?

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 7

It is generally taken for granted that when an ounce of salt is added to a pound of butter the weight of the salted, butler, is an ounce more than before the…

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Important Auction Sales. Horses, Cattle, Sheet and Machinery

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 5

ON Saturday, January 13th, Mr. A. Tyers Wood will offer for sale at Yarrans, Mundooran, a humber of horses, cattle, and sheep, and a quantity of machinery. For particulars see…

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Cheapening Wheat Production. Wide Push "Sunshine" Harvester

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 4

Considerable interest has been aroused in grain growing districts by the announcement of the results of field trials of a large push "Sunshine" harvester, almost double…

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Sheep Show Points. The Shropshire In N.S. Wales

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 3

IN sheep circles (says an exchange) the new Shropshire boom has for the time almost supplanted the great Australian merino. The Sheepbreeders' Association has devoted…

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Cheapening the Reduction of Wheat. Wide Push "Sunshine" Harvester

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 3

CONSIDERABLE interest has been aroused in grain growing districts by the announcement of the results of field trials of a large Push "Sunshine " Harvester, almost double the size of the…

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The Harvest. Through the Dubbo Wheat Belt. (By Our Special, Commissioner) (Conclusion)

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 4

On finally leaving Dubbo, I was directed to Dungary (Mr. Joe Howard's) as being a likely place at which to get information [?] the cross country route I purposed…

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Farm and Filed

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 7

Dairying on Costly Land. why is dairying in Holland prosperous in spite of her high-priced lands, high taxes and other high costs of production?…

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Latest Commercial. Dubbo Farmers' Exchange Report

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 5

At the Farmers' Exchange on Saturday 1as the fallowing prices were obtained:--Turkey gobblers, medium, 9s to 10s, heavy 12s to 13s 6d pr; turkey hens, 5s 6.1 to 6s 6d pr: fowls…

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Farms for the Poor of London

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 5

The Virginia Commissioner for Agriculture has made an offer to the Lord Mayor of London to settle 30,000 of the poor of London on Virginian farms…

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