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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1911

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The Sheep-stealing Sensation

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 5

Robert Charles Elmondson was committed for trial at Millicent (S.A.) in connection with the sensational sheep steeling charge…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 5

John Bridge and Co. report that on Wednesday they offered a catalogue of 4414 bales of wool (their first for this year). As compared with the…

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Pastoral and Commercial Western Herald Office, Friday Evening

The Western Herald · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 4

Weather cool and fine…

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For Bagging Wool. a Handy Method

The Western Herald · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 6

The accompanying illustration shows how to construct a handy apparatus for packing wool. The four legs of the sacker are made of 2 x 4in stuff, 6%ft…

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Sydney Wool Market. (By Telegraph.) Dalgety and Co. Report

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 4

The results obtained at the first weekly sales in the new year in the Sydney market have unfortunately proved the same as those experienced at other centres earlier in the month…

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Wheat Held Up. Traffic Paralysed for a Day. by a Score of Boys

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 6

Twenty-two gantry-boys held up the whole of the wheat export trade of New South Wales on Monday last (says the "Telegraph"). They stopped…

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Farmers' Calendar

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 6

THE 'Agricultural Gazette,' has published 'farmers' calendar,' and it is stated that the aim of the Department of Agriculture is to provide farmers, and more especially newcomers in…

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Narromine Demonstration Farm. Deputation to Mr. Trefle

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 3

ON Wednesday a deputation, consisting of the Mayor of Narromine (Alderman Hogan), and Mr. O'Niell, a local farmer, waited upon Mr. Tref[?]e, Assistant Minister for Agriculture, to…

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Farm Produce

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 5

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report under date January 17:— Wheat—The London market is steady at equal to 3s 7½d per bushel…

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Demonstration Farm for Narromine

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 4

The Hon. Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Trefle) has promised to consider an application for a demonstration farm at Narromine. The request for…

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Sydney Wool Report

The Wellington Times · Monday 23 January 1911 · page 4

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., wool salesmen, Sydney, report—Results obtained at the first week's sales in the new year in the Sydney market have, unfortunately…

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Australian Wheat. Scottish Commissioners' Criticism

The Wellington Times · Monday 23 January 1911 · page 4

it is of course quite the correct thing now for distinguished visitors to Australia to give us, as a young people, a bit of friendly advice, either just as…

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Weekly Wheat Report

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 4

Mr. Joseph Field writes under date 21st January:—The market had a further set back this week, and the limit at present is 3s 6½d delivered at…

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Pastoral and Commercial Western Herald Office, Tuesday Evening

The Western Herald · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 2

For several days past the indications for rain have been promising, but, as yet, that is all we have got out of it. However, observations lead us to believe that we will…

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Wheat Market. Joseph Field Reports

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 3

THE market has a further set-back this week, the limit at present being 3[?]6½d delivered at Sydney. There was a fall of 1d during the week. and from reports to hand the market is…

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Death of Five Horses from Eating Wheat

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 2

Mr. John Lynch, of Wongarbon, has had more than his share of ill-luck with his horses this year (writes our Wongarbon correspondent). Some…

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The Wool and Produce Market. (By Telegraph.) Sydney January 21

The Western Herald · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 2

At Winchcombe, Carson's wool sales yesterday, competition was more general, and the market in sellers' favor. Greasy brought from 11½d to 12½d…

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American Farmers Coming Themselves

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 2

Mayor Harris, a representative of the Victorian. Government in London, says a recent cable, is receiving a great number of inquiries from farmers in…

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Remarkable Turnover in Sheep

The Wellington Times · Thursday 26 January 1911 · page 9

As an instance of the wonderful profits in sheep and the way in which one mob changes ownership, Messrs. Bedford, Taylor and Weston, Ltd., of…

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On the Land. Sydney Wool Report

The Wellington Times · Thursday 26 January 1911 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:—We held our first sale of the new year on 23rd instant, when compared with the opening sales, the market showed a…

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