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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1912

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 2

John Bridge and Co., Ltd., report under date 7th March:—No sales have been held in Sydney this week, and with the exception of a few clearances…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Cobar Herald · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 2

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Trefic, Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. The Department can solve many problems concerning the land and production which would be impracticable to the individual producer…

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Note and Comments. the Riverbank Wool Scour

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 3

Last week I was initiated into some of the tricks of trade connected with wool scouring and fellmongering. I visited the Riverbank Wool Scour on…

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Bathurst Experimental Farm

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 7

Returns have just been made available in connection with the past season's crops at the Bathurst Experiment Farm, but, owing to the heavy storms…

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For the Farmer. EDUCATION Of AGRICULTURE. Vacancies for Apprentices on Government Farms

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 15 March 1912 · page 7

Commencing from the 1st February the Department of Agriculture him had its scheme of training farm apprentices in full going order…

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Butter Making. Causes of Inferiority

The Western Herald · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 6

Some of the causes of inferior quality in butter are a want of cleanliness in dealing with the milk, leaving the cream so long on the milk that it…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Western Herald · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 2

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Trefle, Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. The Department can solve many problems concerning the land and production which would be impracticable to the individual producer…

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Profitable Dairying

The Western Herald · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 6

A very interesting paper has been published by Mr A. M. Draper, of Bannockburn, near Inver[?]ll. New South Wates, giving the result of dairying on…

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The Dairy. Breeding Pigs. Question of Rations

The Western Herald · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 6

The feeding of pigs, with special reference to their development for breeding purposes, is the subject of a special report which has just been issued by…

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Poultry. Fowls on the Colony System. the Methods on a Large Farm

The Western Herald · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 6

For the ordinary farmer keeping a few scores or hundreds of fowls, with plenty of grassland to run them on, the colony system will always take first place,…

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Sydney Wool Report

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 March 1912 · page 4

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., wool salesmen, Sydney, report under date of 14th instant:—The wool market has been quiet throughout the past week, no doubt…

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Wandering Cattle. Intentions of the Police Magistrate

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 March 1912 · page 2

At the police court on Friday, before Mr. Gates, P.M., the sanitary inspector proceeded against a number of residents for allowing stock to stray in the…

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Dubbo Wheat Traffic

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 19 March 1912 · page 2

The wheat which for some time has been stored at Dubbo has all been sent to Sydney, and the large grain shed is now empty. Traffic on the Dubbo…

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Commercial News. Wool

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 19 March 1912 · page 4

The A.M.L. and F. Co., Ltd., report:— Business in the local market and other Australian wool centres continues very quiet, and transactions during the week…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. a Troublesome Sheep Disease

The Wellington Times · Thursday 21 March 1912 · page 7

The Inspector of Stock at Cobar, in the March number of the "Agricultural Gazette," directs attention to a disease in sheep which is becoming widespread…

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Wool and Produce

The Wellington Times · Thursday 21 March 1912 · page 6

Senate, Bell and Co., Ltd., wool and produce brokers, Sydney, report under date 18th March:— WOOL…

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Bulk Handling of Wheat a Ministerial Statement

The Wellington Times · Thursday 21 March 1912 · page 4

The subject of the bulk handling of wheat came under review in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday night, on the following motion by Mr. Ball:…

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Farming Inventions

The Western Herald · Thursday 21 March 1912 · page 2

Messsrs. Griffith. & Hassel, Patent Attorneys of 173 King Street, Sydney, and 9 Queen Street, Melbourne, report that the following applications…

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Serial Story. Romance of an Irish Farm

The Wellington Times · Thursday 21 March 1912 · page 8

Ned met this communication with reserve. "Yes?" he remarked, interrogatively…

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Wool Report

The Cobar Herald · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 8

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report for week ending March 16 :— The market continues quiet, and…

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