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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1914

1,299 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 26 of 65

Militant Farmers

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 22 May 1914 · page 6

Resolutions are being sent by the Walla Walla branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association to the conference, protesting against wharfage…

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Bulk Handling. Sea-Carriago of Wheat

The Western Herald · Saturday 23 May 1914 · page 2

Farmers' Bulletin, No. 81, entitled "The Sea Carriage of Wheat," which is new available for distribution, is intended to provide briefly the answers…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. G. Ashford, Minister for Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 159. Viticultural. Narara Viticultural Station. The First Season's Besults

The Western Herald · Saturday 23 May 1914 · page 2

It was surely a stroke of fortune that decided the Forestry Department to resume an area of 100 acres of near Gosford just at a time when the…

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Dubbo Cattle Sale

The Wellington Times · Monday 25 May 1914 · page 2

On Friday last, the 22nd instant, Messrs. Bedford, Taylor, and Weston, Ltd., and Messrs. Cadell and Co., conducted one of the most successful cattle…

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12,000 Store Sheep

The Wellington Times · Monday 25 May 1914 · page 2

A monster sheep sale is to be held on Wednesday next, the 27th instant, when Messrs. Bedford, Taylor and Weston, Ltd., will yard at Wellington, 12,000…

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Successful Cattle Sale

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 26 May 1914 · page 2

Cadell and Co., in conjunction with Bedford, Taylor and Weston, Ltd., report holding a most successful 'cattle sale on Friday, when the yard was…

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FAT SHEEP—Prize £1 1s

The Western Herald · Wednesday 27 May 1914 · page 3

Weight of Sheep 49½lbs. Miss A. Pearce, and Messrs. J. Maxwell and F. Gooch each guessed the exact weight, and divided the prize…

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Pastoral and Commercial the Weather. Western Herald Office, Tuesday evening

The Western Herald · Wednesday 27 May 1914 · page 2

Weather fine…

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2,000 Store Sheep

The Wellington Times · Thursday 28 May 1914 · page 4

On Saturday next, at the Commercial Yards, Wellington, 2,000 grand store sheep will be drafted and sold in lots to suit purchasers. This splendid…

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Record Wheat Harvest

The Wellington Times · Thursday 28 May 1914 · page 9

In March the Government Statistician prepared a progress return of the last harvest, which indicated that a record wheat crop of 36,800,000 bushels, at…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Onion Culture. Soil, Method, and Diseases

The Wellington Times · Thursday 28 May 1914 · page 7

A Cowra correspondent recently asked the Department for advice in connection with onion-growing, and the reply of the Inspector of Agriculture…

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Poultry. Starting a Poultry Farm

The Wellington Times · Thursday 28 May 1914 · page 7

"Naturally, many who essay to go into poultry keeping, start out with the idea of buying up hundreds of laying pullets. The plan seems feasible…

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Wool Report

The Cobar Herald · Friday 29 May 1914 · page 3

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report :— Auction sales have been held on three days during the past week…

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Electrically Treated Wheat

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 29 May 1914 · page 7

Experiments in electroculture carried out in the United States Bureau of Plant Industry during the past year have not had encouraging results. Electrically treated plots of wheat gave…

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Stacking Wheat the Producers Losses

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 29 May 1914 · page 2

The extra monetary charges imposed on wheatgrowers owing to the inability of tho railways to handle the harvest to not the least of the losses the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Cobar Herald · Friday 29 May 1914 · page 2

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. G. Ashford, Minister for Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department…

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Poultry. Starting a Poultry Farm. Various Ways Considered

The Cobar Herald · Friday 29 May 1914 · page 2

"Naturally, many who essay to go into poultry keeping, start out with the idea of buying up hundreds of laying pullets. The plan seems feasible when…

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Appreciation of the Great Dairying Industry

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 29 May 1914 · page 3

The strides made by the dairying industry in this State during the past quarter of a century have been simply wonderful, and nobody twenty-five…

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Two More Homestead Farms

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 29 May 1914 · page 4

The Minister for Lands has approved of the revocation of about 1700 acres of the reserve near the Coalbaggie Creek, on the southern side of the main…

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English Boys for the Farm. the Movement in South Australia

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 29 May 1914 · page 8

The South Australian Government are moving in a direction which might well be followed by the Government of this State, and doubtless would be…

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