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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1907

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Bathurst Experimental Farm Apples in London

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 17 July 1907 · page 3

THE shipment of apples sent through the Department of Agriculture from the Bathurst Experimental Farm created considerable interest on this tide. They were sold in the city…

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A Dairyman Killed. Sydney, Tuesd&y. I

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 17 July 1907 · page 2

While Casey, a dairyman, was returning to his home at Casino on Saturday night, be was thrown from his horse and killed…

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Feeding Wheat Crops Off by Sheep

The Wellington Times · Thursday 18 July 1907 · page 7

The practice of feeding of the early wheat crops in one which is followed by many farmers who combine sheep-raising with wheat-growing. This…

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Wool Report

The Wellington Times · Thursday 18 July 1907 · page 3

Schute, Bell and Co., wool and produce brokers, Sydney, report under ate 16th July:—The London sales are progressing satisfactorily, keen…

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Alleged Wheat Ring

The Wellington Times · Thursday 18 July 1907 · page 7

The Produce Commission, at present sitting in Adelaide, took evidence last week on the existence of a wheat ring in Adelaide. Without making any…

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London Wool Sales

The Wellington Times · Thursday 18 July 1907 · page 4

A cablegram to-day states that at the London wool sales prices are firm and competition is keen…

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Cattle. Teeth Tell the Age

The Wellington Times · Thursday 18 July 1907 · page 8

The following is a simple plan for judging the age of cattle by their teeth:—Twelve Months.—An animal of this…

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On the Land. Wool Prospects

The Wellington Times · Thursday 18 July 1907 · page 3

Mr. M. G. Cater reports:—Notwithstanding that the Australasian wool production totalled last season 2,090,000 bales, an increase of 220,000…

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Farmers' Conference. a Fighting Political Body

The Wellington Times · Thursday 18 July 1907 · page 2

What may he termed the political aspect of the association engaged the attention of the Farmers and Settlers' Conference last week. The result,…

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Succession of Wheat Crops

The Castlereagh · Friday 19 July 1907 · page 3

Mr Prout, of Sawbridgeworth. Herefordshire, England, the "Mark Lane Express" states, has grown wheat year after year profitably, with the aid of…

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Footrot in Sheep

The Castlereagh · Friday 19 July 1907 · page 3

In the very old days, when the sheep were mostly merino, footrot was incessant, and men used to be turned on to cut the long hoofs off, with a mallet and…

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A Book for the Pastoral Industry

The Cobar Herald · Friday 19 July 1907 · page 2

"The Manual of the Pastures Protection and Stock Acts of New South Wales," a handy little work by Mr. W. G. Acocks (author of "The…

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Farm and Field. Malting Barley

The Cobar Herald · Friday 19 July 1907 · page 7

Unlike the wheat crop, which can be Brown on almost any description of soil, barley of a fine malting quality can only be grown on a special and very limited…

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Farm and Field. An Ohio Farmer on Potato Growing

The Castlereagh · Friday 19 July 1907 · page 3

In a recent issue of the "American Agriculturalist" there is on article on potato-growing by one of the best potato experts in the State of Ohio. The…

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The Dairy Milk Fever

The Castlereagh · Friday 19 July 1907 · page 10

Mills fever disease is a disease that until the last few years, was perhaps, the most fatal that the dairyman had to deal with. It is commonly…

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Wool Classes

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 20 July 1907 · page 4

Mr. Joseph Field, who has been active in the above matter, is in receipt of the following letter from Mr. J. W. Turner, Superintendent of Technical Education:—…

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Wheat in Store

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 20 July 1907 · page 5

The quantity of wheat Stacked fat country railway stations amounts to 638,770 bags at against 850,000 bags at this time last year,…

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Sydney Wool Shipments

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 20 July 1907 · page 8

The first shipments of wool for the current statistical year from Sydney were made on the 6th inst., when three vessels cleared tho Sydney Customs with an…

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A Great Wool Year

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 20 July 1907 · page 3

DALGETY AND Co,, Ltd., in their summary of the 1906-7 wool year, commencing July 1st, 1000, and closing June 30th, 1907, find that the past year's clip has been a record one for…

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Wheat in Store. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 20 July 1907 · page 4

The quantity of wheat stacked at country railways stations amounts to 538,776 bags, as against 650,000 bags at this time last year…

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