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

Farming & the land, 1906

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Government Control of Dairy Produce in Denmark

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 10 August 1906 · page 15

A law relating to the import and export of agricultural produce was passed by the Danish Legislature in March last. The law exacts that butter, cheese…

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Forbes Dairying

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 10 August 1906 · page 8

THE dairying industry in the Forbes district has been making rapid strides of late, and everything points to a prosperous' future. The report just…

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Dry Farming

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 10 August 1906 · page 12

THE system, of "dry farming" followed in the arid areas of America consists of intense cultivation during summer in order to conserve the little rainfall…

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Parkes Dairy Company

Western Champion · Friday 10 August 1906 · page 15

The month of July proved one of the most successful yet experienced in the history of the Parkes Dairy Company, the amount paid to suppliers…

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Farm and Field. Uniform Quality of Danish Butter

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 11 August 1906 · page 3

The annual report of the butter exhibitions in 1905 at the Danish Government Laboratory for Agricultural Research has just been issued. Nine…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles[all Rights Reserved,]incubator Tupkeys

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 11 August 1906 · page 6

IT is not now considered remarkable that chicks should be hatched in an incubator. But many people have an idea that turkey eggs must be hatched in some…

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Wool Scouring. What Is Being Done for the Grower

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 11 August 1906 · page 3

THE wonderful revival in business throughout Australia, and more particularly in New South Wales, has to be credited mainly to the great wool…

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The Improvement of Dairy Cattle

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 17 August 1906 · page 4

A noteworthy feature of Mr Primrose M'Connell's excellent paper, "How to Improve Dairy Cattle," read at the recent Dairy Conference in London, is the…

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Butter Factory

Western Champion · Friday 17 August 1906 · page 9

The manager of the Parkes Butter Factory, Mr W J Henry, kindly supplies us with the following interesting information:—The returns for July…

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Wool

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 17 August 1906 · page 2

Messrs Schute, Bell & Co report as follows:— Russian political troubles are still a serious disturbing factor in European…

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The Improvement of New South Wales Dairy Cattle. (Continued.)

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 17 August 1906 · page 6

"There seems to be a consensus of, opinion that our dairy cattle require more constitution and more udder development, and our average horse more stoutness…

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Farm and Field. Periodicity in the Yield of Wheat

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 17 August 1906 · page 4

At a recent meeting of the Royal Society, London, a paper was read by Dr W. N. Shaw, Director of the Meteorological Office, entitled "An Apparent…

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Local and General News. Sheep For Sale

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 17 August 1906 · page 10

MR. T. W. SPENCE, local stock and station agent, announces that he has several Hues of sheep for sale cheap…

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Farm and Field. Spraying Potatoes for Blight

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 17 August 1906 · page 15

Mr Kirk (Government Biologist for New Zealand) states that the potato crop in that colony will show a shortage for the season. The havoc this year was in…

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The Dairy. Cow Losing Cud

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 17 August 1906 · page 4

"What is an animal's cud? Can't they lose it?" Both sheep and cows are ruminating animals, or, in other words, they ruminate or chew their…

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The Federal Wool and Machine Shearing College

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 18 August 1906 · page 3

This College is under the management of the Federal Sheep-Shearing Com-pany, and is situated at 8 Harrington Street, in close proximity to Circular…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles.[ All Rights Reserved,]raising Geese

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 18 August 1906 · page 6

ON many farms a flock of Toulouse geese may be profitably of Toulouse year, the number depending on range and other facilities, The Toulouse breed are…

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Stud Sheep

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 22 August 1906 · page 2

On Saturday Mr W. Cattle, of Caroon road, received a consignment of four valuable merine ewes from Mr C. Hall, of Yeumburra, Yass. They…

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In the Far West. Object Lesson in Farming

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 22 August 1906 · page 4

A farmer on the Lower Darling is showing what can be done with the land in the much-malinged west. In the vicinity of Wentworth--about as…

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Dairy Cattle — Various Breeds

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 24 August 1906 · page 6

I have frequently been asked the question: What is the best breed of cattle for dairy purposes? Now, no more indefinite query could be put,…

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