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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1906

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2000 Store Cattle

The Wellington Times · Thursday 3 May 1906 · page 5

Messrs. Wood and Co., the well-known Goulburn auctioneers, announce an important special sale of store cattle for Thursday next, 10th inst., when…

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Cattle, Poultry, Etc

The Wellington Times · Thursday 3 May 1906 · page 4

The cattle show, though not large was of quality. Mr. G. Bruce, of Loombah, was the principal winner, The dog and poultry sheds were…

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Farmers' and Settlers' Association

The Castlereagh · Friday 4 May 1906 · page 4

Those interested are reminded that the usual monthly meeting of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association will be held in Townsend's Hall, to-morrow…

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Homebush.--tuesday. Sheep

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 5

About 17,800 sheep and lambs were penned at to-day's sales. There was a lares attendance of buyers, and as the supply was about within trade requirements, the market opened in to free…

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Wool Market

The Western Herald · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 2

The monthly auctions were held during the two days of the past week wehn catalognes were small and of an off season character. The demand ruled strong from…

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Wheat-grain Germinating Experiments

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 4

Owing to the varied conditions [?] which wheat farming is practiisd throughout this State, it it important that a betters knowledge should exit, of the various…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Artioles. [All Rights Reserved.] Bredding Corn

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 2

LESS attention has been given to the breeding of corn and the selection of seed than has been given to the culti vation and maintaining of the soil fertllity…

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Farm and Field. Breaking-in Farm Horses

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 7

Young farm horses and cart horses should be broken in to the collar when they are about two and a half years old, or a little older, and it is the general…

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Ploughing Under Rape at the Bathurst Farm

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 8

In the [?] retention of the fertility of the soil at the Bathurat Farm, rape plays an important part. For the sheep carried on the farm an area of rape…

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Hogs for Small Farmers

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 5

There is one advantage about pigs that make them emphatically the stock for the poor man or the small farmer, and that is the very quick returns which they afford…

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Grading Butter

The Wellington Times · Monday 7 May 1906 · page 2

It is believed that 85 or 90 per cent, of the butter factories and producers of Victoria are opposed to the system of grading and working under the…

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Loombah Wool

The Wellington Times · Monday 7 May 1906 · page 2

Mr. George Bruce, of Loobah, has received a catalogue from Messrs John Hoare and Co., London, showing prices of his second shipment of wool, which…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Tuesday Evening

The Western Herald · Wednesday 9 May 1906 · page 2

King's weather…

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Trangie. Farmers' and Settlers' Association

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 9 May 1906 · page 2

THE monthly meeting of the Trangie Branch of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association was held in Heffer[?]an's Hall on Saturday afternoon. The President (Mr. J. T. Horrigan) occupied…

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Victoria Butter Factory

The Wellington Times · Thursday 10 May 1906 · page 4

In this issue Messrs. Tremain Bros. advertise that the Victoria Butter Factory (situated in Warne-street, next the old flour mill) is now ready…

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The Wool Market

The Wellington Times · Thursday 10 May 1906 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson & Co. report: In Sydney the wool market has undergone no change. The demand continues as firm as ever, and all…

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London Wool Sales

The Wellington Times · Thursday 10 May 1906 · page 4

At the London wool sales prices were fully maintained, and competition was animated…

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Cattle

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 12 May 1906 · page 3

Many persons, in view of the continuance of the dry weather, did not look for the really high standard shown in regard to the beasts penned in this section. In the…

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Sheep

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 12 May 1906 · page 3

The sheep were fully up to the entries of previous years and in quality and general excellence they were fully equal to those of former displays. There was some delay in…

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Wool Report

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 12 May 1906 · page 5

Dalgety and Company, Limited, Wool and Produce Brokers, Sydney, Report. There is still a temporary shortage of supplies of wool available for sale by private treaty…

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