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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1921

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Wheat

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 4 January 1921 · page 6

That there should be a wheat-growers' Association pure and simple, embracing all growers, as soon as possible, more particularly as the existing…

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[?] its [?] the Wheat [?]

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 4 January 1921 · page 4

[?] we are well [?] [?] of 1920- 21 [?] [?] harvost, I would like these farmers who are members or [?]…

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Round and About the Dubbo Wheat Belt. Rawsonville District. an Eight-bag Crop Likely

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 4 January 1921 · page 2

Sanguine townsmen of Dubbo, from information received, have been figuring on an average 10-bag crop. According to Rawsonville farmers they…

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Big Cattle Sale at Coonamble

The Wellington Times · Thursday 6 January 1921 · page 4

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., advertise a big sale of cattle, comprising 400 head, at the Coonamble show grounds on…

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Wheat Dockage. (To the Editor)

The Wellington Times · Thursday 6 January 1921 · page 6

Sir.—Until proper grades are fixed to more adequately represent tho variations of our qualities of wheat, we shall have the yearly task of adopting some…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Pit Ensilage. What to Ensile and How

The Wellington Times · Thursday 6 January 1921 · page 7

To make good, silage it is essenti[?] that the material used should contain the right amount of sap. If it is to dry it is likely to mould or to char—…

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Standard Wheat

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 3

The £.a.q. standard of wheat has been fixed at 60lbs. to the bushel, and all wheat not reaching that standard by chandrometer will, according to the…

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Wool Report

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 5

The A.M.L. and F. Co., Ltd., report under date 5th January.—From press reports it would appear that the proposed formation of the Australian Wool…

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London Wheat Market

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 1

Lindley Walker and Co. Ltd., report on January 5 : Our cable to-day states wheat in the United Kingdon further reduced 2…

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A New Wheat

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 4

Great things are being written in the American and Canadian papers of a new wheat, which is said to have the advantage of being strongly…

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Local and General Experiment Wheat Plots

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 2

An average of 37 bushels 24lbs. of wheat to the acre has' been harvested from the farmers' experiment wheat plots at Mr. J. Parslow's farm at…

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Local and General Maize Crops

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 2

There is a record area under maize in the Dubbo district this year, and the success of the enterprising farmers who calculated on a good spring and…

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Farmers' Wonderful Efforts, How They Overcame Difficulties

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 7 January 1921 · page 4

At the last meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society the secretary reported that he had accompanied tlie judge (Captain Birks) through the central-western wheat districts,…

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Wool Market

The Western Herald · Saturday 8 January 1921 · page 2

The following communication which was received by a local wool man should in a great measure prove as a guide to wool growers when they are…

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Wheat Advances

The Wellington Times · Monday 10 January 1921 · page 2

Mr. Dunn, in a statement on Friday, said it must be clearly understood in the case of wheat-growers that advances made by the Rural Industries Board…

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First Wheat Certificates

The Wellington Times · Monday 10 January 1921 · page 2

McLeod's Limited millers, annou[?] that they will issue the first wheat cart [?]cates on the 14th inst., the paymen[?] being 2/6. The second issue of…

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Wheat Payments

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 11 January 1921 · page 2

The uncertainly as to how and when the State Wheat guarantee of 2/6 a bushel was intensified further by a report which was current in Dubbo this…

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Wheat Dockages

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 11 January 1921 · page 3

Lindley Walker Co-operative Wheat Co. Ltd., write: -- Until proper grades are fixed to more adequately represent the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Flag [?]Mut of Wheat. Meth[?] of Control

The Wellington Times · Thursday 13 January 1921 · page 7

The spores [?] of flag smut (the fine black musty [?]tter which is observable on crushing [?] leaf of an infected wheat plant can [?] the wheat grain in two…

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Wheat Payments

The Wellington Times · Thursday 13 January 1921 · page 4

The first payment of 2/6 in connection with the Commonwealth guarantee regarding the wheat harvest will be made to farmers to-morrow. It will be made…

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