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

Farming & the land, 1905

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Farmers' Parliament

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 1 November 1905 · page 4

The Dubbo correspondent to the Cootamundra "Herald" says:—Some time ago the Dubbo Bunglegumbie branch of the Farmers' and Settlers'…

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Farming Experiments

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 1 November 1905 · page 4

WHEN it was urged some few months ago that the paternal. Government should establish an Experimental Farm in Condobolin on the area dedicated…

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The Sheep World

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 3 November 1905 · page 3

THE official figures for 1904, just pub-lished, indicate that the sheep flocks of the world have decreased at least 93,000,000 head since 1873, an average…

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A Bull in Sheep

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 3 November 1905 · page 7

AN exchange not a thousand miles away reports that a sheep owner has sold a line of lambs, and in describing them said :—"They are a…

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

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 3 November 1905 · page 2

Why the difference? A six-ton truck of maize can be sent from Tumut to Sydney for about £4 per truck; yet to send six tons of butter…

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Aphis in Wheat. Report By The Government Entomologist

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 3 November 1905 · page 18

THE following report by Mr. W. W. Froggatt, Government Entomologist, on aphis in wheat in the Molong, Wellington, and Narromine districts…

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Tomingley Crops

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 3 November 1905 · page 2

THE showers of the past fortnight have done an immense amount of good in Tomingley district. Many of the crops had just reached a critical stage, and…

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Farm and Field. Watering Horses

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 3 November 1905 · page 15

Opinions probably differ more on the subject of water for horses than on any other part of their treatment, and owners, breeders, and grooms are never…

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A Prolific Dairy Cow

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 3 November 1905 · page 18

A DAIRY farmer at Scene writes :—On my father's dairy farm at The Page, Segenhoe, near Scone, is a remarkable cow, that has just given birth to twin…

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Parkes Dairy Co

Western Champion · Friday 3 November 1905 · page 12

Work at the local butter factory has continued brisk during the month just closed, the disbursements to suppliers reaching £450. Advices from the…

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Cattle Exports from the United States

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 4 November 1905 · page 3

An interesting address was recently delivered before the Texas' Cattle Ranchers' Association, U.S.A, by Mr T. W. Tomlinson, on "Exports of Meat…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.]care of the Dairy Cow

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 4 November 1905 · page 6

THE cow has a different system of converting her food into human food from that of her relative, the beef steer. The steer converts his food into fat and…

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Farm and Field. Consumption of Phosphate of Lime

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 4 November 1905 · page 3

An estimate was recently prepared by the "Mark Lane Express" showing the quantity of phosphate of lime extracted annually from the soils of Great Britain…

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Dairy Notes

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 4 November 1905 · page 6

At this season there is no greater trouble to the average dairymaid than a thundery atmosphere, and unless great precautions are taken it will soon find its way to the…

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Experimental Farm. Scientific Agriculture

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 4 November 1905 · page 4

The local branch of the Farmers’ and Settlers’ Association alive to the advantages be derived from the work in progress at the Experimental Farm visited there…

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

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 7 November 1905 · page 2

The atmosphere on Monday had a bush-fiery odour about it, though it is rather early for the Fire Fiend just yet. Upwards of 700 tons of ensilige were…

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Cattle Sale

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 8 November 1905 · page 2

Messrs Gelling and Rudduck announce that they will sell on Saturday 11th inst., a fine lot of milking cows with calves at foot. As dairying…

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Salt for Sheep

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 8 November 1905 · page 7

All kinds of stock relish a "salt lick," but none repay the use of this any better than, if so Veil as, sheep. Round the coast in many places there…

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Pupils for Farming. (To the Editor of the LACHLANDER.)

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 8 November 1905 · page 7

SIR,-- There are many lads and men in this State who wish to take up farming, but who do not possess the necessary knowledge and experience to…

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Cattle and Sheep Stealing

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 10 November 1905 · page 4

IT is a well-known fact that in ninety nine cases out of a hundred, persons charged with sheep or cattle stealing, are acquitted. If persons suspected of…

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