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

Farming & the land, 1906

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Farm and Field. Watering and Feeding Horses

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 4

The proper time to water horses is a matter that has caused a considerable amount of controversy for the past hundred years or more. Many people…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles [All Rights Reserved.] High Temperature Injures Cheese

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 19 May 1906 · page 6

THE first effect of a high temperature, and one which is always noticeable, is to make the texture of the cheese rough and mealy, and in extreme cases to show a…

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Winter Dairying

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 19 May 1906 · page 6

The winter supply of milk to towns is a subject that might well be more carefully considered by farmers in general. In the wither months we all know that frequently…

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Agricultural. Comparisons in Wheat Production

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 23 May 1906 · page 7

With a population of about 4,000,000 people Australia produced 54,535,282 bushels of wheat last year. This is equal to 13½ bushels per head of…

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Farming 100 Years Hence

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 23 May 1906 · page 7

What will farming be like 100 years hence, when the world belongs to our great grandchildren ? The question is a curious one, as it…

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Cattle Sales

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 25 May 1906 · page 10

PARKES.—G. W. Seaborn & Co. will sell at Parkes on Tuesday, 29th May, 50 well-bred dairy cows, 100 poddies, 40 2-year-old seers and 60 cows…

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Yankee Invention for Pasturing Sheep

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 25 May 1906 · page 14

A NEW way of pasturing sheep has been invented—good for the grass and good for the sheep. A curious pen some 15ft. square built of wire and…

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Comparisons in Wheat Production

Western Champion · Friday 25 May 1906 · page 13
Also in The Peak Hill Express

With a population of about 4,000,000 people Australia produced 54,535,532 bushels of wheat last year. This is equal to 13½ bushels per head…

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Farm Competitions

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 25 May 1906 · page 18

SOME time ago we mentioned that the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD and MAIL were arranging for a series of farm competitions. The State has been…

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Farm and Field. The Farm as a Factory

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 25 May 1906 · page 15

The farm is a factory which is always in operation, writes the "American Fertiliser." The farmer converts his raw products into manufactured articles. The…

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The Recent Farmers' and Settlers' Meeting. (To the Editor of the Wyalong Star.)

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 25 May 1906 · page 2

SIR,—According to the Press report of the proceedings of the recent meeting of the Wyalong F. and S. Association, members appeared to be under a…

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Why Butter Goes Rancid

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 26 May 1906 · page 6

There is a peculiar form of bacterium which, when it finds a proper place iN WHICH TO multiply, develops an acid with well-known and well-liked flavour. This…

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The Sheep Shearing Industry

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 26 May 1906 · page 3

DOES a connection with the great wool industry of Australasia conduce to woolliness in some ill-balanced minds ? Apparently it does. Because…

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Comparisons In Wheat Production

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 26 May 1906 · page 8

With a population of about 4,000.000 people [?]…

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Dairy Farming

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 26 May 1906 · page 4

A lecture, under the auspices of the P. A. and R. Association, was delivered by Mr. A. Rothwell, of the Cawra Dairy Company, on Saturday afternoon in the Centennial…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Breeding Cow

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 26 May 1906 · page 6

LESS attention has been given to the breeding of corn and the selection of seed than has been given to the cultivation and maintaining of the soil fertility…

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Farm and Field. The Lamb Export Trade

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 26 May 1906 · page 3

The South Australian Government a few months ago commissioned Mr F. W. Ralph, when on a visit to England, to inquire into the distribution of…

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The Farmers’ & Settlers’ Association

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 26 May 1906 · page 4

The ordinary monthly meeting of the members of the [?] held on Saturday in the [?] Hall Present’s Messrs’ [?] (president)…

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Loombah Sheep

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 1 June 1906 · page 4

MR. GEORGE BRUCE, of Loombah Station, Cumnock district, is in receipt of an offer from the Transvaal Government to purchase 500 of Loombah's…

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