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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1909

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 16 January 1909 · page 5

The N.Z. L. and M. Agency, Ltd., report by wire tinder Thursday's date:— Our sales yesterday found the market very firm at an advance of 2½ to 5 per cent,…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Friday evening

The Western Herald · Saturday 16 January 1909 · page 4

The weather is warming up again, and the theromometer has shown as high as 110. To-day the mercury rose to 109. There is a north east wind blowing and we…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Messrs. Goldbrough, Mort, & Co. Report

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 16 January 1909 · page 5

At the sales held this week competition was very keen from all sections of the trade, and prices obtained were equal to the highest of the present season…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles, (All Rights Reserved) Sterilising Dairy Utensils

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 16 January 1909 · page 2

A very effective method of sterilising dairy utensils is to fill them with water containing ordinary washing soda in the proportion of lib. to 20…

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Farmers and the Single Tax. to the Editor of the 'Dubbo Dispatch.'

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 16 January 1909 · page 3

SIR, -- Opponents of land value taxation constantly seek to make out that taxation of land values only would be specially hard on farmers. As a matter of fact it would greatly reduce the…

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Farmer S Fruit Cake

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 16 January 1909 · page 7

Ingredients.—Take 1 cup of dried sour apples, 1 cup of golden syrup, 1 cup of sugar, one-third cup of butter, ½ cup of sour milk, teaspoonful of…

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The Experimental Farm Question

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 16 January 1909 · page 4

Members of the Dubbo branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association will be interested in knowing that Mr. W. H. Sutton, manager of the Cowrs…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 January 1909 · page 2

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., Ltd., report (14th January):—At the sales held this week competition was very keen from all sections of the trade, and…

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Loitering Sheep

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 20 January 1909 · page 2

RESIDENTS of the village of Wongarbon have in the past been subjected to some annoyance and inconvenience owing to travelling sheep and cattle being allowed to wander through the…

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The Wool Market

The Western Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1909 · page 2

Ba[?]gely & Company, Limited, report; Notable business has been transacted in the Australian wool centres since our last report. It has been well expressed that…

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Diseases in Stock. Bots In Sheep

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 20 January 1909 · page 4

A REPORT was published in the 'Agricultural Gazette,' in December, 1901, drawing attentions to 'bots' (or larvae of the Estrus ovis) being found in the frontal sinuses and…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western [?]Rald Office. Tuesday evening

The Western Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1909 · page 2

Since our last very heavy monsoonal rains have recu[?]red in Nerth Queensland, and althrough we do not ex[?] to get anything like it here, we may get some. Agusty…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Dalgety and Co., Limited

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 20 January 1909 · page 3

Notable business has bee transacted in the Australian wool centres since our last report. It has been well expressed that 'all markets to-day are light about face and instead of being…

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Experimental Farms. The Claims of Dubbo

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 20 January 1909 · page 2

As intimated in our last issue, Mr. Sutton, manager of the Cowra Experimental Farm, passed through Dubbo on Saturday on route to Trangie, He was met at the station by a…

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An Experimental Farm. Deputation to Mr. W. H. Sutton

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 20 January 1909 · page 2

On Saturday morning Mr. W. H. Sutton, manager of the Cowra Experimental Farm, passed through Dubbo on his way to Trangle, and on the arrival of the train at…

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On the Land. Sydney Wool Sales

The Wellington Times · Thursday 21 January 1909 · page 6

Winchcombe, Carson and Co., Ltd., report (13th January):—The wool market retains its strength, the best rates of the previous week being fully…

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N.s.w. Wheat Harvest. the 1908-9 Season

The Wellington Times · Thursday 21 January 1909 · page 7

The revised estimate of the area in New South Wales under wheat, and the probable yield of grain and hay, for the present season, have just been…

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Wool Reports

The Cobar Herald · Friday 22 January 1909 · page 6

Schuts, Bell, and Co. report:— Auctions were confined to three days during the past week, instead of as usual, four owing to the Brisbane…

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Wool and Wheat Traffic

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1909 · page 8

During last week the Railway Department handled 8656 bales of wool, a decrease of 665 bales,as compared with the corresponding week of last year. Thus far this season…

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Our Wool

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1909 · page 8

In the coures of an interesting lecture given before the Shipley Textile Society (England), on "The Wools of New South Wales," Mr. S. B. Hollings described the…

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