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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1898

118 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 3 of 6

Wheat

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 30 July 1898 · page 8

Mr. H. R. Carpenter, wheat broker, Sydney and Melbourne reports as follows, on [?] The market is very [?] with scarcely any business doing owing the millers needs being so [?]…

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The Wheat Market

Western Champion · Friday 5 August 1898 · page 5

Mr H. R. Carter, Wheat Broker, Sydney and Melbourne, reported as follows on July 26:- Although still nominal in the…

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Our Surroundings. Representative Farmers. Mr. Geo. A. Frape, of "The Secrets."

Western Champion · Friday 5 August 1898 · page 12

In a district that is attaining notoriety in leaps and bounds as an essentially agricultural one, and whose interests are all converging to one…

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Farmers' Association

Western Champion · Friday 5 August 1898 · page 9

At the annual meeting of the Farmers' Association, held on WednesMr. F. Nicholls was elected president; Messrs, C. T. Loader and J, Grimmett…

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Sheep

Western Champion · Friday 12 August 1898 · page 5

Ab before stated, the show of sheep was somewhat disappointing, owing to about a score of exhibits representing the far-famed Burrawang…

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Wheat Market

Western Champion · Friday 12 August 1898 · page 10

Mr. H. R. Carter, Wheat Broker, Sydney and Melbourne, reports as under:—Since my last report no change of movement has come over…

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The Wheat Market

Western Champion · Friday 12 August 1898 · page 8

Mr, H. R. Carter, wheat broker, Sydney and Melbourne, reports:—The market remains as dull as reported last week, there being very limited offerings,…

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Our Wheat Exports

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 13 August 1898 · page 9

The following is a copy of a letter forwarded by Mr. H. R. Carter, confidential broker, Sydney, to the President of the Chamber of Commerce— Dear Sir.— In view of [?]he prospect of New South…

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Revolution [?]n the Wheat Supply

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 13 August 1898 · page 9

It has been estimated that the new Siberian Railway will bring under wheat cultivation a zone of something like two hundred thousand square miles, or about one hundred and…

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Sheep for Export. Cross-ereds on the Bathurst Experimental Farm

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 20 August 1898 · page 5

The N.S. Wales Sheepbreeders’ Year Book, the first issue of which has just reached us from the Association in Sydney, contains the following : —…

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The Dispute in the Wool Trade

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 20 August 1898 · page 2

"SEND my wool to London for sale till the wool buyers and wool selling brokers give fair play to the Cooperative Wool and Produce Company." This, in a more militant…

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Wastes on the Farm

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 20 August 1898 · page 3

ONE of the things most forcibly impressing the merchant who feels a desire to return to the cultivation of the soil is the waste and leakage which seem naturally a part of farm…

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Wheat Market

Western Champion · Friday 26 August 1898 · page 10

Mr. H. R. Carter, wheat broker, Sydney and Melbourne, reports as follows, under date August 24th:—Since my last I have to…

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Travelling Sheep a Special Case

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 27 August 1898 · page 5

A case which has been referred by the Chief Justice sitting in Chambers to the Full Court for consideration, came before that tribunal on Friday 19th inst. It was in the nature of an…

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Wheat Market

Western Champion · Friday 2 September 1898 · page 9

Mr. H. S. Garter, wheat broker, Sydney and Melbourne reports as follows, August 31st:—There is a little better inquiry for wheat as some…

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Rural Topics. How to Make Farming Pay. a Lesson From Germany

Western Champion · Friday 2 September 1898 · page 16

In the present depressed condition Of the agricultural interest all over the world, and especially in the older countries of Europe, considerable…

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The Wheat Crops

Western Champion · Friday 9 September 1898 · page 8

According to statistics published during the week by a Sydney daily, there are this year in the Parkes district 18,605 (?) acres under crop as…

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The Wheat Market

Western Champion · Friday 9 September 1898 · page 10

Mr. H. R. Carter, wheat broker, Sydney and Melbourne reports as follows, September 7th:—The wheat market is firmer and slightly…

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The Wool Boycott, and the Way to Meet it. (To the Editor of the Cowra Guardian.)

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 10 September 1898 · page 4

SIR,—A short time since I wrote urging that every wool-grower in the country, who could do so, should ship his wool to London and refuse to sell in the Sydney markets where the associated…

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The Wheat Crops

Western Champion · Friday 16 September 1898 · page 8

An advice from Forbes states that most of the wheat crops of that district are in a very forward condition, and with further rains this and next…

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