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

Farming & the land, 1906

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Farmars'Association

Western Champion · Friday 8 June 1906 · page 6

The usual monthly meeting of the Parkes Farmers' and Settlers' Association was held at the Royal Hall on Saturday afternoon, Mr Joseph…

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Parkes Dairy Company

Western Champion · Friday 8 June 1906 · page 12

Yesterday Mr Cyril Staunton, who has been the manager of the above Company for the past three years,left to take up the position of Manager for…

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Farm and Field French Method of Feeding Horses

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 8 June 1906 · page 3

The French method of feeding working horses is described in a British agricultural journal as follows:—Three meals are necessary and sufficient, with…

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Those Active Farm Horses

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 8 June 1906 · page 6

We have received to following from Mr. Jas. Dwyer:—"Acting on Mr Cobley's invitation to go and see his horses, I called one day last week and…

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Sheep Farming

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 9 June 1906 · page 6

The main thing in the profitable management of sheep is to keep them in such a manner as to ensure rapid, uninterrupted progress. Time is [?] and food is wasted…

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Farm and Field. Wheat Crown by Electricity

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 9 June 1906 · page 3

An experiment of the greatest Interest in farmers and gardeners is now being conducted by Messrs R. and B. Bomford, of Pitch[?] and Bevington, near Evesham…

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Essay on Wheat

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 9 June 1906 · page 10

WHEAT is a cereal, i.e., a hard grained annual and it is the best grass over known. Is very old for, it has been found in the clenched hands of Egyptian mummies. What…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Spraying Trees

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 9 June 1906 · page 6

SPRAYING trees is usually started about the time [?] are expected and continued at intervals from time to time until the seeming necessity has…

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Public Meeting. an Experimental Farm

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 9 June 1906 · page 2

A public meeting for the purpose of discussion the advisability of agitating for the establishment of an experimental farm in [?] [?] was hold at Duan's Chio Hotel…

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Lecture on Rotation of Crops

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 9 June 1906 · page 2

At the close of the P. and A. Association committee meeting on Saturday afternoon it was intimated that Mr. H. V. Wigg would read a paper on " Rotation of…

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The Wool Market

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 13 June 1906 · page 5

DALGETY AND COMPANY, LTD, Wool and Produce Brokers, Sydney, report:-- The Sydney wool market is quiet…

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Wool

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 15 June 1906 · page 2

Messrs. Schute, Bell & Co. report under date 12th June:— Buyers still show every disposition to do business, this being specially the case with operators…

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Forbes Cattle Sale

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

MR. W. K. GARNSEY, SEN., Stock and Station Agent, Forbes, reports:— At our auction sale on Saturday, 2nd June, when we offered 250 head…

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Marvellous Sheep Breeding

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 15 June 1906 · page 14

MR. ERNEST GRIFFIN, a farmer of Kingswood, near Aylesbury, is the owner of a wonderful ewe for whom a record in sheep-breeding is claimed…

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Queensland Pine for Butter Boxes

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 15 June 1906 · page 3

Before the Tariff Commission at Brisbane, Mr J. C. Brunnich, analytical chemist, Queensland Department of Agriculture, gave evidence of experiments…

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Farmers and Settlers

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 15 June 1906 · page 9

AT the monthly meeting of the Dubbo branch of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association the following resolution was carried:—"That this branch, ask…

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Farm and Field. Farming 100 Years Hence

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 15 June 1906 · page 3

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

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Forbes Cattle Sale

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 16 June 1906 · page 2

W. H. Wheatley, Goulburn, reports holding an auction sale on Wednesday, June 6, in conjunction with Edward Weaver & Co, Forbes…

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The "Little Wonder" Koerstz Patent Farmers'wool Press

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 16 June 1906 · page 3

IN these days of rapid improvement in all things mechanical, and when different methods are in use to effect the same purpose, he would be a bold…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles [All Rights Reserved.] Ducks Profitable

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 16 June 1906 · page 6

DUCKS are the easiest raised and most profitable. They are not half the trouble that chickens are, they are not subject to vermin, and are uniformly healthy…

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