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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1906

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Presentation to Mr. A. K Butter

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 14 April 1906 · page 3

At the conclusion of the annual meeting of the Trangie branch of the F. and S. Association, shortly after 4 o'clock on Saturday, an adjournment was made to…

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Special Sale of Store Sheep. At Goulburn on Wednesday Next

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 14 April 1906 · page 4

ONE of the biggest sales this season of store sheep of high quality is set down for Wednesday, next at Goulburn, when that well-known salesman, Mr. W, H. Wheatley, will submit to…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles, [All Rights Reserved,] Raising Hogs

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 14 April 1906 · page 2

THE feeding of corn to hogs on some kind of leguminous pasture, aspecially soy beans, probably returns about the most profit at the least labour. soy beans…

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Farm and Field. Nitrate of Soda—Position and Statistics

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 14 April 1906 · page 7

The annual circulars of the nitrate of soda experts were looked forward to this year in London, writes the "Mark Lane Express," with more than usual…

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Sure to Crop Up

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 14 April 1906 · page 2

'Do you know, my dear, she said, suddenly, as looked up from her work, 'Do you know that next week is the twentieth anniversary of our wedding?'…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association. Trangie Branch

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 14 April 1906 · page 3

THE annual meeting of the Trangie Branch of the F. and S. Association was held in Hefferman's Hall on Saturday afternoon, the attendance numbering about 70 members…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association. Annual Meeting of the Trangie Branch

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 14 April 1906 · page 3

The following ia an abridgement of the excellent report of the above meeting appearing in the columns of the TRANGIE ADVOCATE:…

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Arable Farm Notes

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 14 April 1906 · page 2

As regards potato ground, it will be a Wise plan to apply a dressing of dung before ploughing, if the weather will permit of hauling it on. Thus the work in got…

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Departing Farmers. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 14 April 1906 · page 4

Two more families from the Scone district passed through Manilla yesterday for Queensland. One of the teamsters said: "I tried to get land here, but could not…

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The Wheat Harvest

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 17 April 1906 · page 7

New South Wales had a narrow escape of heading the list of Australian wheat producing States. Victoria reached the biggest crop, 23½ million bushels, worth…

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The Farmers’ Friend

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 17 April 1906 · page 3

Though somewhat paradoxical it is, nevertheless, a fact that the much persecuted fox is a boon to the man on the land in some quarters. A number of…

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Presentation to Mr. A. K. Butter

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 18 April 1906 · page 2

AT the conclusion of the annual meeting of the Trangi[?] Branch of the F. and S. Association on Saturday, April 10th, an adjournment was made for the making of the presentation to Mr…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office. Tuesday Evening

The Western Herald · Wednesday 18 April 1906 · page 2

The weather, for this time of the year, is very hot, the glass bordering on 100 degrees in the shade. There are signs of a chage, but [?]me Fortune has been so fickle lately…

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Winchcombe, Carson, and Co's Review. The Wool Trade

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 18 April 1906 · page 2

We are in receipt of a well printed and attractive [?]ve. pamphlet from Winchcombe, Carson, and Co., being the firm's 17th annual wool review. It gives an interesting sketch of the…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association. Dubbo Branch. Annual Meeting

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 18 April 1906 · page 3

The annual meeting of the Dubbo branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held at the Town Hall, on Saturday afternoon last, the President,…

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Bread and Butter Dance

The Wellington Times · Thursday 19 April 1906 · page 4

Easter Monday night's social in the Oddfellows Hall, for the augmentation of the Roman Catholic Church 'funds, was very successful, about fifty couples…

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Of Interest to Farmers. Points of a Good Milking Cow

The Wellington Times · Thursday 19 April 1906 · page 8

An English dairy farmer says:—"You must not expect to find all of them in one cow, bat the more the better. The face should not be long…

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Sale of Suntop Farm

The Wellington Times · Thursday 19 April 1906 · page 4

Attention is drawn to Messrs. Wilkins and Mitchell's and A. E. Rotton's important sale of " Rose Lawn," Mrs. Reidy's Suntop farm of 511 acres…

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Wool Report. Winchcombe, Carson, and Co., Report

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 21 April 1906 · page 4

WOOL.--Pending the wool auctions to be held in Sydney at the end of this week, business is very limited, but prices are unchanged. The small quantity of wool available is held for the…

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Farm and Dairy. I Original Articles. [Add Rights Reserved.] Jersey cows

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 21 April 1906 · page 2

THE selection of a breed ot cattie to raise is as Important to a farmer as is the choice of a career by the business or professional man, and in each case should…

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