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

Farming & the land, 1905

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Cattle Sale

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 25 October 1905 · page 3

Mr F. Dempster will sell on Saturday next 28th inst., a fine lot of dairy cattle including some high-class Jersey cows and bull on account of Messrs…

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Wheat Supplies

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 25 October 1905 · page 4

The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom was on October 17th estimated at 1,290,000 quarters, as against 1,355,000 quarters for the…

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Agricultural. the Wool Market

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 25 October 1905 · page 7

WINCHCOMBE, CARSON AND Co's report:--We offered a large catalogue of our wool market to-day and sold by auction and privately 4,500 bales. The…

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Experimental Farm

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 25 October 1905 · page 3

At the last meeting of the Farmers and Settlers' Association a letter was road from Mr W. A. Ewers, of Bena, with reference to the establishment of an experimental…

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Farmers' and Settlers' Association

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 25 October 1905 · page 2

A meeting of the above Association took place at Campbell's Empire Hotel, on Saturday. Mr J Jones President occupied the Chair and the…

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Farm Notes

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 25 October 1905 · page 4

In our Fifield correspondence last week, the intelligent camp, got mixed in his figures and accredited Mr G. F. Sweeting with owning some ewes that cut 16lb. The ewes in…

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Bluestoning Wheat

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 27 October 1905 · page 3

A PRACTICAL object-lesson in the treatment of wheat with bluestone was given by Mr. J. C. Tibbits at a meeting of the Dubbo branch of the Farmers…

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Cross-Breeding of Sheep

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 27 October 1905 · page 14

TOO many (formers are under the im-pression that any class of sheep is good enough to use for crossbreeding; in fact, this idea has prevailed to such an…

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Local Wool Clips

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 27 October 1905 · page 4

At Winchombe, Carson and Cole sale on the 16th instant the following excellent prices were obtained for district clips :—Jas. Williamson and…

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Local Wool Sales

Western Champion · Friday 27 October 1905 · page 12

At Goldsbrough, Mort and Co's sales on Wednesday, portion of the Gunningbland clip was sold as follows: —10 1st com. at 11¾d, 7 1st com. at…

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Foreign Substances in Wool

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 27 October 1905 · page 15

The following circular, which has been issued by the Bradford Chamber of Commerce, England, should receive the serious consideration of Australian…

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Lessons in Wool Classing

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 27 October 1905 · page 15

The "Sydney Mall" reports a growing tendency on the part of many of the small sheep farmers m New South Wales to become experts in the classing…

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Pastoral & Agricultural "A healthy yeomanry in the backbone of a country."

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 27 October 1905 · page 3

Wheat is quoted at 3s 6½d for prime in Sydney. Wool market still OK, and every prospect of remaining so…

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Farm and Field. Composition of Calf Foods

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 27 October 1905 · page 15

A leaflet on "Calf Meals," issued by the Irish. Department of Agriculture, states that samples of these mixtures, which are largely imported into Ireland…

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The Dairy. Congestion of the Udder. Disease Described and Its Treatment Told

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 27 October 1905 · page 6

The veterinary department, experiment station, Kansas agricultural college has issued a bulletin, signed by F.S. Schoenleber on "Garget" (congestion of the…

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Socialism on the Farm

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 27 October 1905 · page 13

Insidiously the Government stroke is making its way into the farmyard. The contagion has not yet spread to man; political scientists, with more…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Good Butter in Hot Weather

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 28 October 1905 · page 6

IN order to obtain good b[?] in the first instance, there ust be good milk to operate on, as good butter cannot be made from impure milk. The pails,…

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Farm and Field, Aeration and Cooling of Milk

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 28 October 1905 · page 3

By aeration of milk we understand the exposing of milk to air, of the forcing of air into milk. The theory of the practice is that the…

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Farmers’ and Settlers’ Association

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 28 October 1905 · page 4

—The usual monthly meeting of the local branch of the above association was held in the up-stair room of the Centennial Hall, on Saturday, when twelve members put in an…

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Pastoral & Agricultural "A healthy yeomanry is the backbone of a country."

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 31 October 1905 · page 2

Wheat is quoted at 3s 6½d for prime in Sydney. Wool market still OK, and every prospect of remaining so…

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