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

Farming & the land, 1907

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Farm and Field. Farmers Should Keep Books

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 3

Every farmer should adopt a system of exact book-keeping, just as men do in other lines of business. A farmer is a manufacturer and a…

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Farm and Field. Wheat and History

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 16 August 1907 · page 5

The first free emigrant to Australia who undertook the cultivation of the soil of tills broad continent was (writes the "Sydney Mail"), a German, by name…

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Flour v Wheat

Western Champion · Friday 16 August 1907 · page 7

The problem of how best to encourage the exportation of flour instead of wheat engaged the attention of a committee of experts in Melbourne recently…

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Soundness in Wool

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 16 August 1907 · page 5

Soundness in wool is a characteristic which concerns every wool-grower in every part of the world. Only those who have seen wool through every stage…

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Weakness in Wool Fibre

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 16 August 1907 · page 6

The cause of weakness in wool fibre (writes "Woolman" in the "Farmer and Stockbreeder") is usually Improper nourishment of the sheep, which may be…

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Wool Report. Goldsbrough, Mort & Co

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 16 August 1907 · page 20

DURING the past week matters in the local market may be characterised aa quiet, little or do wool is available with the exception of local scoureds…

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Mice and Wheat. A Practical Suggestion

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 16 August 1907 · page 15

A WELLINGTON district farmer declares that he has almost entirely escaped the ravages of the mice pest in his stacked wheat by placing beeswing between…

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The Dairy the Dual Purpose Cow

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 16 August 1907 · page 6

This is an age of specialisation; not from choice, but from force of circumstances. In tills connection, writes John Bower, in "Hoard's Dairy," let us…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Article?[am Rights RESERVED.]Mangolds for Cattle

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 17 August 1907 · page 6

Now that the season for supplying cattle with mangolds is upon us, it will be well to remember that for the first few weeks they should be given…

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What Does Butter Cost?

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 17 August 1907 · page 7

How many dairy farmers in this country face the question of how much their butter costs? Do they realise that as farmers they must buy every pound of…

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The Dairy Art of Butter a Prize Essay. the Shed and Yards

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 17 August 1907 · page 3

Among the features of the recent winter dairy show at Manawatu, New Zealand, was a competition for a handsome cup presented by Messrs Lovell and…

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The Dairy Dairying and Child Labor

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 17 August 1907 · page 7

Complaints have been made from time to time about the employment of child labor in some of the dairying districts of Victoria. It appears that a similar…

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Farm and Field. Potato Experiments

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 17 August 1907 · page 7

The Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station has Issued Bulletin No. 97, entitled "Potato Experiments." The bulletin makes the following…

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Farm and Field. The Potato Boom

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 17 August 1907 · page 3

The movement in England and Scotland for raising new seedling potatoes was a most beneficial one, but it went too far, and expanded into a boom which…

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Travelling Sheep

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 23 August 1907 · page 20

THE following letter has been received fey the local Council from the Municipal Association of New South Wales : The Council Clerk, Peak Hill.—Dear…

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Wool Report

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 23 August 1907 · page 7

SCHUTE, BELL & Co., wool and produce brokers, Sydney, report under date 20th August:—Values are expected to be steady at the auction sales in this…

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Commercial. WOOL

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 23 August 1907 · page 7

Dalgety and Company, Limited, Wool. Grain and Produce Brokers, Sydney, report under date 16th August, 1907:—Owing to supplies…

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Prospects of a Rise in Wheat

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 23 August 1907 · page 2

" THE farmers are going to get good prices for their wheat this season," said Mr. Carruthers at the Country Storekeepers' Convention held recently…

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Farm Labourers As Immigrants

Western Champion · Friday 23 August 1907 · page 20

The Government's immigration policy is maintaining a steady inflow from the United Kingdbm of farm-labourers and strong, willing lads, who have by…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles [All Right Reserved.] Effects of Food on Butter

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 24 August 1907 · page 6

Food has a considerable influence upon the constitution of the milk, especially as regards flavour, and as to the colour and texture of the but[?]er…

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