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

Farming & the land, 1906

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The Farm Cream Separator

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 14 February 1906 · page 7

The cream separator for farm use has proved its utility, and we want to impress upon those of our readers with milch cows the absolute necessity of…

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The Wheat Crop

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 16 February 1906 · page 3

THE present wheat harvest is estimated at about 19,000,000 bushels. Figures, when they run into millions, do not convey a real idea of bulk. If erected…

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Sheep Poisoned

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 16 February 1906 · page 19

MR. P. RYAN, a farmer in Canowindra district, has had a number of sheep, recently poisoned with phosphorus. The sheep picked up portions of the…

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The Wheat Market

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 16 February 1906 · page 10

MESSRS. RAVEN and CO. report under date Sydney, 13th February:—At the time of Writing the wheat markets are quiet and depressed, shippers are only…

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Local and General News. Size of Wheat Bags

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 16 February 1906 · page 3

IT is said that when the New South Wales Parliament resumes business, suggestions may be made with a view to the reduction of the weight of bags…

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A Farmer's Experiments

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 16 February 1906 · page 17

MR. GARLICK, a Blayney farmer, has this year experimented with Taragon, Sussex, Purple Straw, Bobs, White Hogan and Tuscan wheats (received…

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Parkes Dairy Company

Western Champion · Friday 16 February 1906 · page 12

A meeting of the newly-elected directors of the Parkes Dairy Company was held at the close of the annual meeting on the 7th instant,…

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Parkes Dairy Co

Western Champion · Friday 16 February 1906 · page 5

The annual meeting of shareholders in the Parkes Dairy Company was held in the Council Chambers on Wednesday evening, 7th inst, the chair…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved,]forming a Dairy Herd

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 6

IN starting with herd of grade crossbred or mixed cows it is necessary first to select the good ones and dispose of the unprofitable, replacing them as far as…

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“Bobs” Wheat. Extract of Letter Mr. W. Farrer to Mr. George L. SUTTON

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 4

“ In regard to that extract from the “Evening News.” it appears to me to be full of unsound information. In dealing with ‘Bobs’ the writer says that the…

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Wire Netting for Farmers Extract From Circular Sent to P.P. BOARDS

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 2

... "Before committing individual landholders to an expenditure based upon the cost of the highest class of netting, the Minister…

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A Psalm of Farm Life

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 7

Tell me not in broken measures Modern farming does not pay, For the farm produces chickens, And the hens—do they not lay?…

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Farm and Field. Shrop[?] Cross Preferred

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 3

The following report regarding the competition in London as referred to has been received by the National Association of Queensland, from Mr W. B…

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Keen Competition for Farms

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 7

The Byron Estate was offered for sale on Saturday at Inverell by Harrison, Jones, and Devlin. The sale attracted a large number of buyers. Prices ranged…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Dalgety and Company, Ltd

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 21 February 1906 · page 5

Wool and produce Brokers, Sydney, report under date of February 16th:-- The weekly series of wool sales which has been in force in the market,…

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Parkes Dairy Coy

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 21 February 1906 · page 8

The annual meeting of the above was held at Parkes last week and some important business was transacted…

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Agricultural. a Dairy Instructress

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 21 February 1906 · page 2

Miss N. Breen, dairy instructress, recently appointed by the Department of Agricultural, has for the last three months been doing good work on the…

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Riviera Flower Farms

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 21 February 1906 · page 6

The area on the Riviera devoted to flower farms, where whole fields are cropped with beautiful and odoriferous flowers, is a very considerable one, and…

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Pastoral & Agricultural Produce Markets

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1906 · page 3

Following are the prices ruling in Sydney, viz:— Wheat—New f.a q., 3s 1½d to 3s 2d per bushel…

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Fatalities Among Sheep

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 23 February 1906 · page 17

IN consequence of a report from Messrs. Stevenson and Tink and others, that sheep on their holdings are dying from eating the carcases of…

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