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

Farming & the land, 1906

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Right Reserved.] Mouled Butter

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 6

MODERN butter-makers’ [?] to fine granules so that the salt may all parts of the butter as uniformly as possible, but batter in which the. salt is…

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Pure Butter

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 3

The, question of pure butter Is being widely discussed in agricultural circles In Great Britain. At a recent meeting of the Bucks Chamber of Agriculture,…

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Farm and Field. Remarkable Butter Yield

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 3

A most remarkable account of butter production from a Jersey cow is being published in the American papers, to which a few references may be…

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New Butter Making Process

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 3

A committee of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, has Just made public its report on the Taylor process for butter making. It is recommended that Mr…

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Dairy Salt

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 3

A good sample of dairy salt contains 97.5 to 99.5 per cent, of sodium chloride; the balance consists of such impurities as lime, calcium chloride, and magnesium…

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Wool. Sydney, January 30th, 1906

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson and Co. report having held a most successful sale to-day, disposing of 5500 bales by auction and privately. The market was very…

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Pastoral & Agricultural "A prosperous yeomanry is the backbone of a country."

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

Since the commencement of the wheat session there was been delivered at Temora Railway Station 35,145, bags of wheat. Up to the present time 14,000 bags of…

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What the Farmers Pay

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 4

GIVING evidence before the Tariff Commission last week, the Australian manager for Massey-Harris declared that £38 was the fair market price for…

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Farm Oilstones and Grindstones

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 16

Freqently the oil and grindstones on a farm become irregularly worn, and in a condition to ruin edge tools, as at A (fig 1.) At fig. 2 is shown a stone worn into an…

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Local and General News. Thinking Farmers

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 8

IF you see a farmer who has u thorough system and method in his work, you may be sure ho is a thinking man and has given much thought…

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Educating the Farmers. New Departmental Scheme. Important to P. A. & H Societies

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 6

The Department of Agriculture has prepared a list of the conditions upon which in future, additional subsidies will be paid to agricultural societies,…

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Morocco Butter

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 3 February 1906 · page 3

The Moors prepare butter in an original way and get a different taste from the usual one. Fresh butter (‘sibida,’ as he calls it), as known to us, he despises, and uses only…

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The Wool Market

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 3 February 1906 · page 2

Dalgety and Company, Limited, Wool and Produce Brokers, Sydney, report under date of January 27th :— The record of business transacted in the…

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Farm and Field. Keeping Records of Dairy Cows

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 3 February 1906 · page 4

In keeping the record of the milk, we use a ruled sheet with a split column in which to record the morning and evening milking (writes a practical…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Good Bred Fowls Best

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 3 February 1906 · page 6

SOME poultry-keeper have wrong impressions regarding pure bred fowls and their profitableness. Many people may say that although good bred birds are…

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Butter Curing Method

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 7 February 1906 · page 7

The following method of curing butter used to be practised by some Scotch farmers, and was said to give their butter a great superiority :--…

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A Wool Record

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 7 February 1906 · page 4

Mr T. J. Brady, of Ruby, received a splendid price for his wool, sold by Messrs John Bridge and Co. on the 17th January last, The lots going as…

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Agricultural. Wheat Shippers' Complaint

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 7 February 1906 · page 2

Wheat shippers complain bitterly of the want of system in the handling of the traffic by the Victorian Railway Department, says the Melbourne Age…

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Wealth in Wheat. Settlers and the Soil How to Get on the Best Land

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 7 February 1906 · page 3

Everybody interested in the supreme [?]uention of settlement knows that the available virgin area for agricultural settlement is gradually growing less. Keen compretition…

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Farmers and Settlers Association

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 7 February 1906 · page 1

A meeting of the members of the above was held at Mrs. Reynold's Family Hotel on Saturday afternoon last, there being present:--Messrs J. T. Gavel (President), P. J…

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