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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1906

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Friday Evening

The Western Herald · Saturday 3 February 1906 · page 2

As reported in our last issue, the weather was cloudy and muggy on Tuesday evening last, and early in the evening a few drops of rain fell. On Wednesday evening,…

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Wool Sales. London, Thursday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 3 February 1906 · page 4

The wool sales closed firm with prices unchanged…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Selecting Vegetables for the Table

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 3 February 1906 · page 2

THE selection of vegetables suitable for the table is a more important matter than many people recognise, so much so that the condition when ready for…

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Dalgety and Company, Limited, Wool and Produce Brokers, Sydney, Beport

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 3 February 1906 · page 3

THE record of business transacted in the Sydney market during the past week has again been of a satisfactory nature, the favorable selling conditions of the previous two…

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Dairy Salt

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 3 February 1906 · page 7

A good sample of dairy salt contains 97.5 to 99.5 per cent, of sodium chloride; the balance consists of such Impurities as lime, calcium chloride, and magnesium…

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Pig Farming

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 3 February 1906 · page 2

The real profit in making pork depends largely on securing the growth and accumulation of fat as rapidly as possible. One can thus see the importance of starting the…

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Western District Council. Farmers and Settlers' Asscoiation

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 3 February 1906 · page 3

The following is the agenda paper for the inaugural meeting of the above Association, which will be held at the Dubbo Town Hall on Wednesday morning the 21st…

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Wheat Report

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 7 February 1906 · page 2

Mr. Joseph Field reports that a very serious set-back has occurred in our Western wheats. The shippers to whom we look to taking large quantities will now…

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Pastoral and Commerical. Western Herald Office, Tuesday Evening

The Western Herald · Wednesday 7 February 1906 · page 2

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The Wool Market. February 5, 1906

The Western Herald · Wednesday 7 February 1906 · page 2

Harrison, Jones and Devlin, Limited, report as follows:—We submitted on Thursday a catalogue of 1226 bales, about two-thirds of which were in the grease, and the…

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Trangie. Farmers and Settlers' Association

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 7 February 1906 · page 2

THE monthly meeting of the Trangie Branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held in Hefferman's Hall on Saturday afternoon. The president (Mr. J. T. Horrigan) occupied…

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Farming Exodus to Queensland

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 7 February 1906 · page 3

Twenty-five farmers from various parts of this State passed through Newcastle by last night's Brisbane mail train on route to Southern Queensland. They think the facilities for…

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Exodus of Farmers. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 7 February 1906 · page 2

A contingent of twenty-five farmers from varions parts of this State, left last night by train for Southern Queensland. They think the facilities for acquiring land…

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Trancie Farmers and Settlers' Association

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 7 February 1906 · page 3

The ordinary meeting of the Trangie Farmers and Settlers' Association was beld at Heffernan's Hotel on Saturday afternoon, the 3rd instant…

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Wool Sales

The Wellington Times · Thursday 8 February 1906 · page 4

At Winchcombe, Carson & Co's sales yesterday, greasy fetched 11½ to 14d and scoured 2s 2d…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Wellington Times · Thursday 8 February 1906 · page 7

The offerings at the wool sales showed a considerable falling of on Monday when three catalogues, comprising 4275 bales, were submitted,…

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Record Load of Wheat

The Wellington Times · Thursday 8 February 1906 · page 4

What we believe is the record load of wheat this season was drawn into town yesterday morning by Mr. Fred. Giddings, for Mr. W. Pulley, of…

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Wealth in Wheat. Settlers and the Soil How to Get on the Best Land

The Wellington Times · Thursday 8 February 1906 · page 7

Everybody interested in the supreme question of settlement knows that the available Virgin area for agricultural settlement is gradually growing less. Keen competition…

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A Dairyman's Change

The Wellington Times · Thursday 8 February 1906 · page 7

There is no fun in a farmer paying rent all his life Far better that the money earned out of the farm should go in purchasing that farm. This is…

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Farmers' and Settlers' Association Monthly Meeting

The Castlereagh · Friday 9 February 1906 · page 4

A meeting of the local branch of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association held in Townsend's Hall on Saturday afternoon last, Present—Messrs S…

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