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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1922

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Wheat Crop Reporting. Its Value to Growers

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 23 June 1922 · page 3

Syst[?]tic crop reporting originated in Ameri[?], and its highest de clopment has been attained there. Crop reporting had its boginning in an effort…

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Jetting Sheep. Safe Arsenical Strength

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 23 June 1922 · page 2

In reference to the strength of arsonical solution that may be used safely in jetting sheep for blow-fly, and its effectiveness, Mr. W. A. Russell, of…

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Farm Life

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 23 June 1922 · page 2

It has been well said that the telephone and the motor car have revolutionised rural life. Mr. E. B. Hawke was the first we heard to give…

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Wool Sales

The Western Herald · Saturday 24 June 1922 · page 2

Winchcombe Carson wired as follows on Tuesday:—We sold 5200 bales of wool at our Sydney sale to day, no super parcels on offer. All…

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Sydney Wool Market. Another Successful Sale. Farmers & GRAZIERS'

The Western Herald · Saturday 24 June 1922 · page 2

The Farmers & Graziers' Co op Grain, Insurance & Agency Co, Ltd, report:— "At our sale, on the 13th inst, we…

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A Sale of Wheat

The Wellington Times · Thursday 29 June 1922 · page 4

At the Forbes police court T. H. Turner was charged with aiding and abetting Powell Samuel Neilson in defrauding the Minister for Agriculture…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. the Orchard for Peach-leaf Curl. Now is the Time to Spray

The Wellington Times · Thursday 29 June 1922 · page 9

Peach-growers who would safeguard their trees from peach-leaf curl should get busy with either lime-sulphur or Bordeaux mixture (winter strength)…

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Insects and Maize. How To Protect the Crop in Store and Field

The Wellington Times · Thursday 29 June 1922 · page 9

Some twenty-eight species of insects have so far been recorded as attacking maize in New South Wales, and of those some twelve (notably weevil and…

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Wool

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 30 June 1922 · page 5

New Zeland Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report under date 29th June:—The interest in the wool selling trade this week centres upon the sales…

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World's Wheat Position

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 30 June 1922 · page 5

Writing under date June 27th, the Lindley Walker Co-op. Wheat Company slates:—Our cable to-day reads as follows:—"After pronounced weakness…

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Field Wheat Competitions. Good Entries Expected

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 30 June 1922 · page 4

At the Darlinghurst Quarter Sessions Gerald Beaumont, a young Frenchman, passionately pleaded with Judge Scholes and the jury to forget that they were…

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Strength of Wool Market Is a Marked Decline Likely

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 30 June 1922 · page 2

Winchombe, Carson, Ltd., report:-- Though fluctuations have occurred in values for the less attractive types of merino and x-bred wool, demand…

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The Farm of the Future According to Mr. Henry Ford

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 30 June 1922 · page 2

The world is thinking shout new methods of manufacture and the improvement of old methods of manufacture and production, and it is not…

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Alleged Wheat Stealing

The Wellington Times · Monday 3 July 1922 · page 2

On Thursday afternoon Detective Tibetts, accompanied by Sergt. Williams and Constable Wickes arrested a railway porter named Valentine Charles…

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"The Wheat Plant" Prof. Percival's Monograph

The Wellington Times · Monday 3 July 1922 · page 4

Few wheat-growers realise the world-wide pre-eminence of the wheat plants, both in regard to its antiquity and its importance as a food to mankink. It…

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Letter to the Editor. Orange Cattle Market

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 4 July 1922 · page 2

Sir,—In your last Friday's issue appears a very inaccurate report of the Orange cattle market, and in fairness to same, and the auctioneers who sell…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association. New District Council Formed Meeting Wril Attended

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 4 July 1922 · page 4

A meeting of delegates of the Farmers and Settlers' Association branches in the Dubbo district was held at Holmes Bros.' office on Friday evening…

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High Price for Cattle

The Western Herald · Wednesday 5 July 1922 · page 2

Three trucks of cattle trucked by R. H. Doyle on the 30th June and sold by Dalgetty & Co., on Monday 3rd July sold exceptionally well…

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Merino Wool Consumption. Bigger Italian Purchasing

The Western Herald · Wednesday 5 July 1922 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. report:—Only 281,000 bales of Bawra merino wool were held on June 1. At the beginning of 1921 over 900,000 bales…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Animal Manures. Waste that Causes Serious Leakage in Farm Profits

The Wellington Times · Thursday 6 July 1922 · page 7

'It is calculated that on the coast alone, if only 5 per cent of the total manure produced annually could be recovered, there would be over 300,000…

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