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

Farming & the land, 1906

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The Farmer’s Fowl

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Sunday 29 April 1906 · page 6

Most farmer’s consider utility as the important thing to be considered before embarking upon any new enterprise, and inquire, Is there a fair profit in raising…

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Charge of Wheat Stealing

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 1 May 1906 · page 2

William Henry Heidtman and Leo Herbert Parrott were charged that they, on the 18th of January last, did steal 7 bags of wheat to the value of about £4, the…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 2 May 1906 · page 5

In their weekly wool report dated April 24th., DALGETY AND CO, LTD, Wool, Grain and Produce Brokers, Sydney, report:--…

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Quarter Sessions. Wheat Stealing. Wednesday, 25th April. (Before Judge Rogers.)

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

William Henry Heidtman and Le[?] Herbert Perrott were charged with stealing on 13th January, 1906, from Allen Heas[?]p, of the Marsden road,…

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Wool

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 4 May 1906 · page 6

Messrs. Scl[?]te, Bell & Co, report under date 25th inst:—At the auction sales held this week brisk competition prevailed, and although offerings were…

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Wool

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 4 May 1906 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson & Co., Ltd, report under date Sydney, 2nd May, 1906: There is no alteration in the market since our report of last week. Business…

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Wheat Essays

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 4 May 1906 · page 2

WE have received a copy of the Wheat Essays published by the local P.A.H. & I. Association. The book is well printed, and each of the ton essays are supplied to the…

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Wheat Report

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 4 May 1906 · page 10

MESSRS. J. RAVEN & Co., Wheat Brokers, Sydney, under date of May 1st, report, the market has improved slightly, chiefly owing to the light…

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Heavy Mortality Among Cattle

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 4 May 1906 · page 10

A WIRE from Forbes states;— A heavy loss of cattle occurred through their eating Scotch thistles. Messrs. Welford, of Eugowra, and Bowman, of…

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Historic Importance of Wheat

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 4 May 1906 · page 15

Wheat, since the earliest period to which history reaches, has always been accounted the most valuable grain of the culmiferous tribe, hence all…

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Prevention of Bunt in Wheat

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 4 May 1906 · page 18

MR. F. M. WOODS, chemist, Forbes, sends the TIMES the following particulars re the use of formalin for treating wheat for the prevention of…

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CORRESPONDENCE Coonamble Sheep Prizes. To the Editor of the EXPRESS

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 4 May 1906 · page 9

SIR,—In your issue of 13th April I noticed a paragraph that Coonamble P. and A. Association were offering a £100 prize for three unhoused rams…

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Our Open Column. Smut in Wheat. (To the Editor)

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 4 May 1906 · page 2

SIR,—I see by your issue of the 27th that Mr. H. J. Thompson is asking some questions on the cause and presence of smut in wheat. The first is "What is…

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Support Local Industry. Farmers, Read This

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 4 May 1906 · page 20

THOSE who have had the patience and interest to study the evidence taken before the Tariff Commission, will find no fact more strongly emphasised…

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Crop Insuring

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 4 May 1906 · page 20

IN discussing the question of insuring grown crops, a Riverina agricultural society has concluded that insurance where, no fire break was made was not…

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Poultry Farmers' New Premises

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 4 May 1906 · page 3

The Poultry Farmers' Co-operative Society, Limited, held their first sale of table birds in their new premises, Parker-street, Sydney, on the 6th inst…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles [All Rights Reserved ]Raising Hogs

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 6

THE feeding of corn to hogs on some kind of leguminous pasture especially soy beans, probably returns about the most profit at the least labour, Soy beans…

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Farm and Field. Farm Animals in the United States

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 3

A return of the numbers of farm animals in the United States on 1st January has been issued by the Department of Agriculture, at Washington, with the…

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Notes on Current Events the Farmers

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 10

VICTORIAN farmers haven't gained a very high opinion of the Labour party. The president of their association, at their annual conference, points out…

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Arable Farm Notes

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 6

As regards potato ground, it will be a wise plan to apply a dressing of dung before ploughing, if the weather will permit of hauling it on. Thus the work is got…

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