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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1919

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Western Age · Tuesday 18 November 1919 · page 4

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. 444…

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Dairying. Cows Under the Soiling System. Some Points in Feeding

Western Age · Tuesday 18 November 1919 · page 4

The advantages of the "soiling system"—the practice by which the farmer grows a succession of green fodder crops and carts them out to the animals…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. What to Keep for Grain. Federation or Hard Federation

The Wellington Times · Thursday 20 November 1919 · page 7

During recent years Hard Federation bat become popular with farmers as a first-class grain wheat, but owing to the similarity of its name some growers are…

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Fertilise Your Maize Crops. What the Experiment Plots Tell

The Wellington Times · Thursday 20 November 1919 · page 7

Farmers who are sowing maize crops on the North Coast just now should recall the excellent results obtained on the farmers' experiment plots last year…

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"General Principles." a Farmer's Views on Farm Economy

The Wellington Times · Thursday 20 November 1919 · page 7

In a season so excessively trying for the man on the land as the present, when the soundest general principles are temporarily hustled by the urgency of…

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The Pastoral Finance Association

Western Age · Friday 21 November 1919 · page 4

The Pastoral Finance Association, Limited, Sydney, reports under date 18th November, 1919:— Wool-Our seventh catalogue of…

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Wool Report

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 21 November 1919 · page 2

The A.M.L. and F. Co., Ltd., report under date 191Ii November:—We held a further appraisement last week of 3900 bales. The catalogue, whilst not…

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The Wheat Harvest

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 21 November 1919 · page 4

It is estimated that the wheat harvest of Australia this year will not exceed 44,060,000 bushels-- South Australia 15 millions, Victoria 14 millions, W…

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Local and General Wheat Harvest

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 21 November 1919 · page 2

An estimate of the wheat harvest for Australian for the year 1919-20 has been Compiled from figures obtained from the four wheat-growing States, and shows…

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Market Reports. Farmers and Graziers' Co

Western Age · Friday 21 November 1919 · page 4

The Farmers and Graziers' Co Operative Grain, Insurance and Agency Co., Ltd., report under date 15th November, 1919:…

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Revised System of Offering Wool

The Western Herald · Saturday 22 November 1919 · page 2

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report:—As stated in our report recently the usual procedure of offering wool in its order of arrival into store has been…

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Top Prices for Fat Cattle

The Wellington Times · Monday 24 November 1919 · page 2

J. H. Beale and Co. report having sold, on Thursday last, at Homebush, on account of Mr. Alec. Stewart, five extra prime bullocks, at £34, easily topping…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Western Age · Tuesday 25 November 1919 · page 4

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. 445…

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A Timely Catch Crop. Sow Maixe

Western Age · Tuesday 25 November 1919 · page 4

In view of the failure of many wheat crops, the matter of sowing suitable catch crops during the next week or two to provide feed has lately been…

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Malformation in Young Cattle. Some Pre-disposing Causes

The Wellington Times · Thursday 27 November 1919 · page 7

Photographs of some typical malformations due to "osteomalacia" in young cattle appear in the November issue of the "Agricultural Gazette."…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. the European Maize Borer. a Possible Intruder

The Wellington Times · Thursday 27 November 1919 · page 7

This moth has already made its appearance in the United States, where State and Federal quarantine measures concerning it have recently been passed…

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The Farmer's Bank

The Wellington Times · Thursday 27 November 1919 · page 7

An acre of maize drinks up and sweats (or transpires) through its leaves about 24 tons of water daily during a mid-summer month, or about equivalent to…

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Sheep Losses

Gilgandra Weekly · Friday 28 November 1919 · page 1

'Some very heavy losses have been reported in the Mudgee district during shearing and lamb-marking from blood poisoning and tetanus…

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Alleged Sheep Stealing

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 28 November 1919 · page 3

John Coventry Nicholl was charged with that he did at Ungarie, in the State of New South Wales, on the 24th September, 1919, steal 50 sheep the…

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Market Reports. the Pastoral Finance Association

Western Age · Friday 28 November 1919 · page 4

The Pastoral Finance Association, Limited, Sydney, reports under date 21st November, 1919:— Wool.—The fear that it would be…

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