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

Farming & the land, 1906

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Sydney Wool Report

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 19 September 1906 · page 4

The following is Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Wool, Grain and Produce Brokers' report from Sydney under date of September 14th: --…

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Latest Wires. SYDNEY, Wednesday. the Wheat Market

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 19 September 1906 · page 1

Wheat is quoted at 3s 3½d local, Manitoba fetching 4s 2d…

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Wastes on the Farm

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 19 September 1906 · page 4

On all farms there is produced a quantity of waste material which should be utilised for fertilising purposes. The British Board of Agriculture, in a…

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Wool and Wheat

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 21 September 1906 · page 7

INQUIRIES have been made by the Minister for Works regarding the prospects of the wheat harvest, and he is assured that it promises to be a very…

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Wool

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 21 September 1906 · page 2

Messrs Schute Bell & Co. report as follows under date 17th September:— Competition at the Brisbane sales on Saturday last ws brisk at to about the…

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Remedy for Mottled Butter

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 21 September 1906 · page 15

If, after standing a few hours, the butter is found to show a mottled appearance, this can be overcome by putting it on the worker and giving in an…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 21 September 1906 · page 4

THE following is Dalgety and Company's, Limited, Wool, Grain and Produce Brokers' report from Sydney:—The recent general rains having…

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The Improvement of New South Wales Dairy Cattle. State Dairy Expert. the Shorthorn. (Continued)

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 21 September 1906 · page 1

"Anticipating the making of ideal farm dairy cows from present breeds, we apprehend that such animals must contain a large proportion of Shorthorn…

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ENSILAGE. Quantity Required by Sheep. Cost of Feedings, &c

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 21 September 1906 · page 2

WHILE there is any dry feed about, a ration of 1lb a day will be quite sufficient for sheep, hut as the dry feed disappears, it will be advisable…

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Bee Farm Sites

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 21 September 1906 · page 15

A number of applications for bee farm Rites and ranges on what is known as the [?]lue Blocks country were dealt with by a local Land Board at Hamilton, on 9th…

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Farm and Field. Cracked Heels in Horses

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 21 September 1906 · page 15

The first indication of cracked heel is that the horse will be noticed a little stiff in the morning coming out of the stable. This stiffness soon goes off…

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The Behind-time Farmer

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 21 September 1906 · page 13

SOME farmers are always behind hand with their work. They must have been born behind time and have never yet caught up. They rise from bed…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles [All Rights Reserved.] Growing Persimmons

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 22 September 1906 · page 6

PERSIMMON trees may be secured from the nurseryman, or each grower may have a small nursery of his own. Each method has advantages,…

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Farm and Field. Grindstone with Pedal

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 22 September 1906 · page 3

A reader of one of our exchanges has Revised a simple means of turning the grindstone by foot power. As shown In the illustration, the gearing of a bicycle…

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An Autocrat of the Poultry Farm

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 22 September 1906 · page 4

Josiah Preston always had been of a despotic disposition, but his natural tendency in this direction seemed to strengthen after his remunerative…

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Treating Bunt in Wheat

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 26 September 1906 · page 7

Until bunt resisting varieties are produced and are in general cultivation, it is advisable to assume (says Mr. Geo. L. Suttor, of the Cowra Experimental…

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The Value of Sheep

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 28 September 1906 · page 10

As evidence of the value of fat sheep just at the present time, we give some particulars which we obtained from Mr. Charles Burton (Sec. F. & S. Association) a day or so ago…

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Farm and Field. An International Agricultural Institute

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 28 September 1906 · page 15

The report of the British delegates at the International Conference on Agriculture at Rome has been issued as a Blue Book. The British delegates state that…

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Area Under Crop

Western Champion · Friday 28 September 1906 · page 12

From the returns compiled by the local officers we learn that the area under crop in the Police District of Parkes this season amounts to 46,245…

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Regulation of Wool Trade. [?]

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 1

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