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

Farming & the land, 1907

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Wheat Report. I

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 4

Pitt, Son and Badgery report:—In the absence of any sales this week, the wheat market is quiet, and values are mainly nominal. Sellers are asking 3s lid to 4b per bushel for prime grain, but buyers are awaiting further information from Home as to the state of the London market before entering…

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Horses Gorged with Wheat

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 20

Mr. E. L. Jones, of Roseneath, writes to the Express : — I have frequently noticed reports in papers where horses have died through eating wheat. The…

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Commercial News. Wool Report

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 4

GOLDSBROUGH, MORT & Co. report : — The market continues firm with a good inquiry, although transactions have been on a very limited scale, being…

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A Frugal Farmer

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 19

IN the Farmer and Settler, Mr. T. C. Worboys, of Parramatta, tells how he went into farming without capital. In the course of his interesting…

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Parkes Dairy Company

Western Champion · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 12

The amount paid to suppliers by the Parkes Dairy Company for the month of May was £241 10s, which was divided among 63 contributors. The…

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Experimental Farm

Western Champion · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 12

An urgent wire received by the local Crown Lands Agent (Mr W. H. Adams) just before we went to press intimated that the sale of the leases on…

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Labour for the Farm

Western Champion · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 19

THE Government-assisted immigration policy is bearing good fruit for the farming community of New South Wales in the shape of the large…

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The World's Wheat Yield

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 15 June 1907 · page 7

While the world's wheat crop, according to Beerbohm's compilation, Is 433,000,000 quarters, or 10,000,000 more than that of last year, the biggest crop…

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Bacteria in Water for Washing Butter

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 15 June 1907 · page 2

One of the greatest sources of contamination in factory butter comes from impure wash butter. The cream may be prepared with the utmost care,…

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Dairying. Using the Cream Separator

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 15 June 1907 · page 2

Variations in the richness of separator cream may be caused by changes in the temperature of the milk changes in speed of separator bowl,…

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The Dairy Why Keep Unprofitable Cows

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 15 June 1907 · page 7

The illustration which we reproduce from "Hoard's Dairyman" speaks eloquently of a very unsatisfactory condition of things prevailing amongst the…

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Dairying and Fertimty

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 15 June 1907 · page 7

Any branch of farming which Increases the general fertility of the farm land, while paying a living profit, Is worth more than another which steadily…

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Big Sheep

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 3

THE opinion of a prominent breeder on the question, " Does it pay to' Breed big sheep ?" is worth recording. He said, "I am inclined to think that…

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Wool

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 7

Schute Bell & Co. report under date 18th June:—Further substantial rains have covered practically the whole area of the State during the past week,…

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The Butter Business

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 20

In five yean the export of Australian butter has jumped from 18,000 to 33,000 tons; the dairy cows of this State alone having in that time…

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Kidman, the Cattle King

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 3

SID KIDMAN, the cattle king of Australia, is a man of medium height, dark complexioned, now tinged with grey, 51 years of age last birthday…

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Horses Gorged with Wheat

Western Champion · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 12

Mr E L Jones, of Roseo[?]th, writes to the Peak Hill ' Express ':—" I have frequently noticed reports in p[?]p[?]s where horses have died through…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association. Boree Branch

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 2

A meeting of the above was held in the Cranbury Hall on Saturday afternoon last. There was a good attendance. Formal business having been…

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Shocking Cruelty San Francisco Baby Farmer. Tortures a Child

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 5

According to the "San Francisco Chronicle" for January 9th, because her two-year-old grandson failed to obey her, Airs Victoria Ferslow, of…

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Antiseptics on Farms

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 6

While it is not expected that the average farmer will attempt much along the line of surgery, there are some things which the majority of them undertake…

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