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

Farming & the land, 1906

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Temora Butter Factory

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 27 March 1906 · page 2

IN to-day's issue we publish the prospectus for the establishment of a Butter Factory in the Temora district. This proposal is one of paramount…

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Latest Wires. SYDNEY, Wednesday. Wool Sales

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 28 March 1906 · page 9

A large number of buyers attended the wool sales yesterday, bidding being very keen and prices satis factory from a sellers standpoint,…

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The Wool Clip. (From Goldsbroug Mort. Co.'s Review)

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 28 March 1906 · page 2

The season just closed has proved one of the most satisfactory for many years past. for both sellers and buyers A good healthy staple has been onoof the chief characteritic[?]…

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Dehorning Cattle

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 30 March 1906 · page 17

DAIRYMEN who practise dehorning do away with a lot of trouble at milking time. The following, given by an authority, is a simple dehorning…

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Wool

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 30 March 1906 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson & Co., Ltd, report under date Sydney, 27th March. 1946:—We had quite an excited sale to-day with an exceptionaily good…

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Wheat Market

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 30 March 1906 · page 10

RAVEN and Co., wheat brokers, Sydney, report under date 27th March:—Since our last report there has been a further slight advance in prime milling…

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Depth of Sowing Wheat

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 30 March 1906 · page 15

What is the best depth to sow wheat? According to an American report farmers who are wise and given to investigation do not sow as much wheat per…

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Farm and Field. Humus

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 30 March 1906 · page 15

The successful farmer keeps his ground well supplied with humus. Humus not only contains a large amount of fertilising material, but it assists in…

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How the German Farmer Is Protected

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 30 March 1906 · page 15

The lot of the German farmer in his own country should be a nappy one. He is protected in his industry by a paternal Government, and the…

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Dairy Salt

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 30 March 1906 · page 16

A good sample of dairy salt contains 97:5 to 99:5 per cent. of sodium chloride; the balance consists of such impurities as lime, calcium…

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"Poor" Farms

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 30 March 1906 · page 17

"POOR farms produce men. They rear our clearest thinkers, our true economists, our strongest men. He who can wrest a living or perhaps a…

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Up-To-Date Poultry Farm

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 30 March 1906 · page 20

MR. W. T. SHERRINGHAM, of Norwich Farm, won, as usual, most of the prizes in the poultry section at Cumnock Show. If any man deserves to be a…

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Our Open Column. Active Farm Horses. (To the Editor)

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 30 March 1906 · page 2

SIR,—In looking over the last issue of the STAR I noticed a paragraph which stated that Mr. W. Cobley, who acted as judge of draught horses at the recent…

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Farmers' and Settlers' Association

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 30 March 1906 · page 2

THE annual meeting of the Wyalong Farmers' and Settlers' Association was held yesterday. Present—Messrs J. C. Holmes (chair), W. Hutchison, W. Lange, J. and C…

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The Wool Market

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 31 March 1906 · page 4

Messrs Winchcombe, Carson & Co,, Ltd., report—‘We had quite an excited sale on Tuesday with an exceptionally good demand for wool. No particular description was left…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved,] Planting and Cultivating Gooseberries

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 31 March 1906 · page 6

FOR cultivations gooseberries the ground is usually prepared during the autumn by heavily manuring it with barnyard manure and then ploughing it from…

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Farm and Field. Farm Yard Manure

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 31 March 1906 · page 3

Writing on the value of farmyard manure, Mr Shortt, chemist to the Experiment Farms, Canada, makes the following remarks in a recent…

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The Farmers’ & Settlers Association, Annual Report

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 31 March 1906 · page 2

Appended is the annual report and treasurer’s report of the above Association, which we wore unavoidably compelled to hold over from last issue, owing…

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Cudgellico. Annual Meeting--wire Netting -- Railway Extension--model Farms--the Lachlan Shire

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 4 April 1906 · page 4

At the annual meeting, Mr J. E Pooler, president, in the chair, lengthy correspondence was dealt, with. The President introduced Mr A. W…

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Wool

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 6 April 1906 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson & Co. Ltd. report under date Sydney, 4th April, 1906—In Sydney there is an anxious inquiry for wool at the best rates established at…

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