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

Farming & the land, 1907

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Work on the Farm

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 21 September 1907 · page 6

Wheat sowing is pretty well over now for the present season, but the majority of fields planted require something or other doing to them, and on that something…

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Poetry. If I Ware Not a Farmer

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 21 September 1907 · page 6

If I were not a farmer man, who labours in the dirt With pant-legs tucked in boot tops high…

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Wool Report

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 25 September 1907 · page 9

Hill, Clark and Co. report: A great amount of discussion has taken place as regards values, compared with prices of September, 1906,…

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Wool Report

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 25 September 1907 · page 5

Harrison, Jones and Devlin, Ltd., submitted at auction on Thursday an important catalogue of 3145 bales, consisting almost entirely of new clip wools in the grease…

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Sydney Wool Market

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 25 September 1907 · page 5

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Wool, Grain, and Produce Brokers. Sydney, report:-- Catalogues aggregating 22,000 bales have been submitted in the Sydney market during…

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Market Reports Sydney Wool Sales

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 25 September 1907 · page 9

Winchombe, Carson and Co., Ltd., report:--The wool market continues very active in Sydney, and prices are almost on a level with the opening of…

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Bots in Sheep

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 27 September 1907 · page 17
Also in Western Champion

THE report from our Orange correspondent that the bot fly is attacking sheep at Euchareena will awaken concern among flockowners, says the…

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Welss—Wool

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 27 September 1907 · page 2

Mr. A Weiss' advt. alteration is to hand, but unfortunately too late to permit of its Wage effected for this issue. Mr. Weiss desires sheep…

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Wool Report

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 27 September 1907 · page 16

SCHUTE, BELL & CO. report under date 24th instant:—Our sale last Wednesday, though of only moderate dimensions, was most successful,…

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Commercial News Wool Report

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 27 September 1907 · page 14

HILL, CLARKE & CO. report:—A great amount of discussion has taken place as regards values compared with prices of September 1906, and it is generally conceded…

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Commercial News. Sydney Wool Market

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 27 September 1907 · page 21

HARRISON, JONES & DEVLIN, LTD., : submitted at auction on Thursday an important catalogue of 3145 bales, consisting almost entirely of new clip wools in the grease…

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Dry Agriculture. Experiments in Wheat Growing

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 27 September 1907 · page 22

THAT there is every possibility of wheat-growing being extended to the semi-arid portions of the State is indicated by an important statement…

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TOMINGLEY Farmers' & Settlers' Association

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 27 September 1907 · page 7

A MEETING of the Tomingley branch of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association was held on Saturday afternoon, the President (Mr. R. G…

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A Lucky Farmer

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 27 September 1907 · page 8

A LUCKY discovery was made at Linton, Vic, last week, by Mr. D. McDonald, farmer. He dropped his whip from his waggon, and on going…

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Farm and Field. Judging a Sheep's Age

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 28 September 1907 · page 3

The age of sheep is generally determined by an examination of the front teeth, or nippers. There are eight of these, and the permanent ones appear…

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Wyalong Wheat

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 28 September 1907 · page 4

We have in our office a sample of wheat (portion of a parcel that took First Prize at Sydney R. A Show. It is of the Jonathan variety, has a great…

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Experiments in Wheat Growing

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 28 September 1907 · page 2

The experiments which Mr. G. L. Sutton, the Government wheat expert, is continuing at the Coolabah experimental farm, in working out a system of wheat-growing to…

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The Standard Bushel of Wheat

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 28 September 1907 · page 7

Speaking at a meeting of farmers held at Mallaia, South Australia, to consider the question of the standard weight of wheat per bushel, Mr J. Naim expressed…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles [All Rights Reserved.] The Clear-Winged Moths

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 28 September 1907 · page 6

There are thirteen species of these moths indigenous in this country. The caterpillars of ten species live in the roots, stems, and branches of various…

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