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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1907

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Preparation of Wool for Market

The Cobar Herald · Friday 8 November 1907 · page 7

The British Wool Buyers' Association has issued the following suggestions to wool growers on the preparation of wools for the market…

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Wheat-growing in Manchuria. The Theatre of the Late War

The Cobar Herald · Friday 8 November 1907 · page 2

A REPORT has recently been addressed to the Premier by Mr. J. B. Suttor, Commercial Agent for New South Wales in the East, in which some very…

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The Dairy Points of a Shorthorn

The Cobar Herald · Friday 8 November 1907 · page 7

A well-known authority, dealing with points in Shorthorns, says:—"In Shorthorns, width between the eyes is indication of good breeding quality in both…

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Good Crops in a Dry Season

The Castlereagh · Friday 8 November 1907 · page 8

The Director at Agriculture for New South Wales (Mr. W. S. Campbell) has received samples of some wheat crops grown at the Corowa experimental…

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Farm and Field. The Best Potatoes

The Castlereagh · Friday 8 November 1907 · page 8

The question is often asked which is the best potato to grow, and it is one that is difficult to answer. Of the hundreds of now varieties (or new names)…

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The Dairy Bacteria and Dairying. (Professor H. W. Conn. in "Country Gentleman," New York.)

The Castlereagh · Friday 8 November 1907 · page 8

Twenty years ago, practically nothing was known about the relation of bacteria to milk. During the two decades the whole dairy industry has been more or…

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Reimportations of Wheat

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 9 November 1907 · page 3

It has been decided by the Minister for Customs that consignments of Australian wheat which are now either on the water, or loaded in ships still in Australian waters,…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 9 November 1907 · page 5

For 50 bales fleece wool Mr. Norman E. Lane, of Dubbo, realised 12¾d per lb at Winchcombe Canon and Co's sale this week. The let pieces made 10½d per lb…

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The Wool Traffic

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 9 November 1907 · page 6

For the first time since the current season opened the truckings show a decrease for the week just passed as compared with the corresponding week of lost year. The…

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The Wool Market

The Western Herald · Saturday 9 November 1907 · page 2

Winchcombe Carson and Co Ltd. report: At Monday's sale superior wools fully held their position. This particularly refers to the finest wools. There was some irregu…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office. Friday evening

The Western Herald · Saturday 9 November 1907 · page 2

The weather is remarkably cool for this time of the year, no doubt owing to the recent rain Nothwithstanding the low temperature, however, there are indications…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles [All Biseib Rebbbvid.] Early Pullets

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 9 November 1907 · page 2

All poultry raisers should make every effort to raise a few early pullets —that is, pullets to produce early eggs next year just at the' time when [?]…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association Trangle Branch

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 9 November 1907 · page 3

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

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Wool

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 13 November 1907 · page 2

Very satisfactory prices were obtained for Mr. John Tink's Binalong wool last week by Messrs. Pitt, Son and Badgery, Eight bales comeback fleece made…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Tuesday evening

The Western Herald · Wednesday 13 November 1907 · page 2

The wenther is hot. On Monday the thermometer showed 101 in the shade, and to-day has been quite as hot. The wind, what there is of it, id coming from the…

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Cattle Mortality at Cumnedah. Cause of Deaths not Anthrax

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 13 November 1907 · page 4

Mr. Stewart, Chief Inspector of Stock, has been seen with respect to the recen[?] mortality that occurred amongst travelling cattle near Gunnedah, and Dr. M'Lean's…

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The Mortality in Cattle at Gunnedah. An Erroneous Medical View

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 13 November 1907 · page 2

NEARLY the whole of a mob of cattle, numbering 500 or 600, died in one night at Gunnddah last week, and the local medical officer alarmed the country by declaring that the cause of death…

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The Position of Wheat

The Wellington Times · Thursday 14 November 1907 · page 2

The rain gave the wheat market a very decided knock-back (says the "S.M. Herald.") From balancing in the neighbourhood of 6s on Thursday…

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First Western Wheat. From the Past

The Wellington Times · Thursday 14 November 1907 · page 6

It is a long cry back to 1816 (writes Mr. Charles White, author of " Old Convict Days,') when George III. was king; yet it was in January of that…

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Bathurst Experimental Farm. Is It Run at a Profit?

The Wellington Times · Thursday 14 November 1907 · page 2

"Is the Bathurst Experimental Farm run at a profit?" This is a question often asked, and speaking at a luncheon at "Logan Brae" on…

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