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

Farming & the land, 1907

775 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 17 of 39

Sheep’s Brains

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 3

Ingredients:—1 set of brains, 1 very small piece of onion or a [?] salt, egg, breadcrumbs, lemon. Method.—Soak the brains for half an hour…

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Farm end Dairy. Original Article [All Eights Reserved.] Breeding Central Grains

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 6

THERE is great need for considerable increase in the average yield of [?] field crops, by means of good cultivation and continued selection of the most…

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The Dairy. Effect of Food on Milk

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 7

The effect of food on milk is an oftdebated point, though difference of opinion frequently arises from ambiguity as to what is really meant. On…

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Farm and Field. Experiments with Potatoes

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 7

Some instructive experiments [?] [?]tatoes have been carried out this season by Mr L. Watson, of Clareville. New Zealand. The conditions were similar[?]…

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Farm Murder. Accused Lad Faints

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 4

When he appeared before the Crewe magistrates on Wednesday, 20th March, Thomas William Parratt (the sixteen-year-old boy who is charged…

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Market Reports Wool Report. [?]oldsbrougb, Mort and Co. report--

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 5 June 1907 · page 5

Following on the monthly sales, a quiet time has to be reported in the local market this week. There is, however a firm inquiry for wool, and…

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Wool

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 7 June 1907 · page 7

Schute, Bell and Co., Wool and Produce Brokers, Sydney, report under date 4th June:—The wool market continues steady with moderate transactions…

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Sheep Dip Mortality

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 7 June 1907 · page 5

The danger of sheep dips was referred to at the last spring meeting of the Wellington (N.Z.) Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals…

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Worms in Sheep

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 7 June 1907 · page 3

Preventive treatment for worms is, of course, the best, but a good deal can be done in this direction by supplying nutritous food, plus a…

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Sheep Fly Trouble

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 7 June 1907 · page 3

Last season sheep men in this and other districts experienced loss and considerable trouble through flies striking their flocks. On this subject…

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Shot Wheat

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 7 June 1907 · page 3

The recent rain — an average of about £ inch — has induced the wheat to shoot in many paddocks, but the continued dry weather has caused the…

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Pitt, Son & Badgery. Wheat Report

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 7 June 1907 · page 18

The local wheat market is firmer this week, and prices have advanced fully lid per bushel since reporting on the 22nd instant. There is a good enquiry…

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Commercial News. Goldsbrough, Mort & Co. Wool Report

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 7 June 1907 · page 18

Following on the monthly sales, a quiet time has to be reported in the local market this week. There is, however, a firm inquiry for wool, and…

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Farmers' Association

Western Champion · Friday 7 June 1907 · page 9

The monthly meeting of the Parkes district branch of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association was held on Saturday afternoon, the president (Mr…

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

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 8 June 1907 · page 6

IT is hardly possible to make the land too rich where cabbages are to be grown, but, it is possible to use fertilizers in such manner that their utility may be greatly…

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Farm and Field. Regulating the Weight of Horse Loads

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 8 June 1907 · page 7

It is highly probable that a good deal of general uncertainty exists as regards the actual hauling powers of horses. Prima facie, of course, a heavy animal…

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The Dairy. Improving the Dairy Herd

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 8 June 1907 · page 7

Extracts from a paper read by Mr Primrose M'Connell at the last Dairy Conference, London:—It is not very difficult to point out…

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Farm Manures

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 8 June 1907 · page 6

There has been some discussion regarding the comparative value of the liquid and solid manure. It was shown that, because of the way in which manure is frequently…

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Sheep Smothered

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 2

HARRY FRY, drover for Mr. Macarthur, drove 883 sheep to Lucas, neat Bruthen (Vic), on Monday, where he stopped for the night. On Tuesday…

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Glencoe Sheep

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 7

At the Homebush sales, the following, sheep were sold on account of Mr. John Newbigging, a Glencoe," Bogan Road : — 2 crossbred ewes at 21s , 82…

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