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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1909

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The Wool Market

The Western Herald · Saturday 13 November 1909 · page 4

A selection of 14,414 bales comprising some of the best grown wools of the State has been placed before buyers during the past week and total clearance at auction and…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Friday Evening

The Western Herald · Saturday 13 November 1909 · page 4

The weathes is hot, and there are appearances of a chango The Post Office "refrigerator" makes the shade heat several degrees lower than it really is. The thing…

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Selling Wool. How Big Catalogues Are Handled. the Famous Table Top Clip. Recoed Prices

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 13 November 1909 · page 2

The enormons amount of work and enterprise required to successfully conduct a large wool sale is sear[?]ely realised outside of those closely-connected with the…

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Farmers' Calendar

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 13 November 1909 · page 7

THE September issue of the 'Agricultural Gazette,' just to hand, includes in its contents a, farmers calendar,' and it is stated that the aim of the Department of Agriculture is to…

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Fire on Mr. T. Wilkins' Farm

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 13 November 1909 · page 4

WE regret to report an outbreak of fire which took place at one of Mr. T. Wilkins' cultivation paddocks on the Bourke road on Wednesday. The paddock was about 20 acres, with a quantity…

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The First Crop Fire

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 13 November 1909 · page 4

A fire, which had been smouldering in the rubbish tip at the top of Bourke Hill, communicated itself on Wednesday to Mr. T. Wilkins crop of wheat on the east side,…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. (All Rights Reserved.) Preventing Scours in Calves. (Dr. David Roberts.)

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 13 November 1909 · page 7

Scours in calves or calf cholera in many instances differ from diarrhoea in grown animals, and has special features of its own, taking the form of…

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Another Sheep Freak

The Wellington Times · Monday 15 November 1909 · page 2

Some few weeks ago the "Forbes Times" published particulars of a some-what remarkable sheep freak at Melrose Plains, the animal being literally…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Wellington Times · Monday 15 November 1909 · page 3

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. Ltd. report (10 inst.):—We offered to-day a good catalogue of wools drawn from almost every district of the State,…

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Wheat and Hay

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 17 November 1909 · page 2

Although it is perfectly clear to the average observer that more wheat is being out for hay than was originally intended, still the wheat is far from being a failure…

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Pastoral and Commercial. Western Herald Office, Tuesday Evening

The Western Herald · Wednesday 17 November 1909 · page 2

Threatening weather, but no rain…

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Good Wheat and Lots of It

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 17 November 1909 · page 2

There was a time not so long ago when the growing of wheat was none too profitable a venture. A time then came when, by an expenditure of half-a-crown per acre…

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The Coal Strike Will Wharf Laborers Join? Not Out Yet. Strikers to Work Two Mines. Wool Trade Suffering. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 17 November 1909 · page 2

A great mass meeting of wharf laborers was held in the Oddfellows' Temple yeaterday morning to consider the question of striking or otherwise. The building was…

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The Wellington Butter Factory

The Wellington Times · Thursday 18 November 1909 · page 4

Operations at the Wellington Butter Factory have been particularly brisk during the past month and the favourable nature of the season has been…

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Sydney Wool Sales Suspended

The Wellington Times · Thursday 18 November 1909 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson and Go, Ltd, write: — Owing to the difficulties caused by the coal strike, and the inability of the buyers to make shipping…

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Wool Cultivation. Or the Science of Wool-growing

The Cobar Herald · Friday 19 November 1909 · page 2

That science plays a highly important part in the growing of a first-class fleece of wool, no intelligent man will for a moment gainsay. In agriculture…

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Seamen to be Controlled by their Executive. Wool at Country Railway Stations Victorian Railway Department. 50,000 Tons Coal on Hand

The Cobar Herald · Friday 19 November 1909 · page 4

The Seamen's Union met in Sydney last night. While expressing sympathy with the coal miners, it was decided to leave…

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Poultry. the Intruder. Crop Troubles in Poultry. a Form of Indigestion. Pat Man's Daring

The Cobar Herald · Friday 19 November 1909 · page 7

Poultry of all ages die as a result of trouble in the crop. This (says a writer In the "Farmer and Stockbreeder") Is really a form of indigestion, but It It was at Leicester that we struck him. We were all mentally thanking our stars that we were a full carriage with…

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Local Sheep Sale

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 20 November 1909 · page 1

Messre. Cadell and Co. report having sold at auction on Wednesday on account of Mr. J. F. Prefrement, of Limbri, near Tam worth, 2600 ewes at prices ranging from 4s 6d to…

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Wool Cultivation, Or the Science of Wool-crowing

The Western Herald · Saturday 20 November 1909 · page 2

That science plays a highly important part in the growing of a first-class fl[?]ce of wool, no intelligent man will for a moment gainsay, in agriculture…

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