Letter to the Editor. the Farmers and the Tariff
Sir.—Things happen when Mr. Meggy interests himself in figures. So they do when a small boys prays with matches near a barrel of gunpowder. Chaos…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1928
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Wool Report
Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd., report: Evidently realisation that the anticipated shortage in productio nof wool in Australia has been under…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hints on Sheep-raising
FRIEND: "Have the flies been bad this summer?" SQUATTER: "About as usual. We have to watch all the time or they attack the sheep." NEWCHUM: "I was reading that if anything is hung twenty feet from the ground flies won't reach it—have you tried that?"…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rising Wool Values
Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report: Our Sydney wool catalogue on Thursday comprised 563 large lots. We sold 560 of them at auction…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On the Land. Wool Report
New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited, reports:—The outstanding feature of the sales which have been held during the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Molong Farmer Killed
When his team swayed with the strain of pulling a load of wheat from a paddock, the driver was caught between the waggon and a fence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral Research. Sydney
Speaking at the Science Congress at Hobart, the president said the action of pastoralists in arranging for an Australian pastoral research trust to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Sheep Movements
The drought in the Aramac, (Q.) district has been broken by a rainfall of eight to 16 inches. In the Winton district 80,000 sheep are being returned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →N.Z. and the Wheat Duty Auckland
The Minister for Agriculture of New Zealand expressed the hope that Australian Ministers would go to the Dominion to discuss the tariff. He had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bale of Wool. Missing on Railways. Conspiracy to Defraud Alleged. Prominent Men Implicated
There was a full ground-floor gallery of spectators at the Dubbo Police Court yesterday, to hear the case against three well-known residents for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmer Killed at Molong
Hubert Dickson, 42, a well-known ex-resident of Millthrope, was fatally injured at Molong, at 3.30 on Saturday afternoon, while taking a load of wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Killed on Line. Level Crossing Crash. Beni Farmer the Victim
Laurence Lloyd Buckley, of Beni, was killed in a level crossing accident on the Cobborah-road near the hospital last evening…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Store Sheep Prospects
For many months in 1927 the store sheep market was exceedingly depressed. Month after month there was little or do business mainly because of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tomingley Wool
German buyers competed keenly for Mr. L. J. Harrison's merino fleece wool offered at Winchcombe, Carson's Sydney auction last Wednesday. A parcel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Record Wheat Yield
The record yield to [?] for a [?] area of wheat was gathered at [?] in the Wi[?] in 1921. [?] of [?] Imperial (Wa[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pastoral Past and Future. Seasonal Survey
Now is a good time of the year to discuss retrospect and prospect. To be sure it is sure it is much easier to de the one than the other. We have a fairly good…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Six Sheep to the Acre. on Lucerne and Wimmera Rye. Trangie Farm Sets a Lead
A paddock of 100 acres of lucerne and Wimmera rye grass, grown in 1926 on the Trangie Experiment Farm, has been constantly stocked at the rate of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lower Freight for Seed Wheat
All important concession which will prove of considerable to wheat growers has just been made by the Railway Commissioners in the way of a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On the Land. Fortunes in Wool
Figures show that there is a fortune in wool. Many of Australia's millionaires have secured their incomes per medium of the golden fleece. England…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trangie. the Land of Fat Stock. and Rich Pastoral and Agricultural Land
Last Friday the new proprietor of the "News" paid his first call to Trangie. The visit was a most enjoyable one, and resulted in many excellent…
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