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

Farming & the land, 1907

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Wheat Report

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 11

LINDLEY, WALKER & Co. report under date of 22nd January, 1907:—Since the Christmas vacation, Mark Lane, London, has exhibited a disposition to…

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Commercial. WOOL

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 5

Schute, Bell & Co., report under date 22nd January:—The easier tendency noticeable in lower quality wools at the closing sales of last week decidedly…

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Doings in Wheat

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 5

Since the Christmas vacation, Mark Lane, London has exhibited a disposition to review the world's wheat situation in its many varied aspects, and has only…

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Commercial. Wool, Produce, Etc

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 6

Dalgety & Company, limited, Wool, Grain and Produce Brokers, Sydney, report:—The second week of the Sydney wool sales in the new year has been…

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A Phenomenal Butter Producer. 28lbs. Per Week

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 11

A CORRESPONDENT writes:—The cow holding the record for butter production in Australia, if not in the world, is owned by Mr. Thomas Darcy, of…

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Fire in Crops. Owner Committed

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 10

ON Thursday last the Wagga Coroner held an enquiry into the occurrence of four fires on a local farm. The police evidence gave forth that the owner's…

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Dry Farming

Western Champion · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 13

Some little time ago many Ausfaalian papers published articles on the Campbell system of "dry farming," as practiced in the United States…

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Apples and their Culture. Special Visit of Fruitgrowers and Farmers to the Bathurst Experimental Farm on Thursday, 14Th February

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 6

In view of the prospects of a good crop of apples at the Bathurst Orchard, the Minister for Mines and Agriculture (Mr. S. W. Moore) has arranged that facilities…

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Dairying

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 2

It will be remembered that some few months ago at a public meeting held in the local School of Arts Hall it was [?] to institute a movement with the…

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Labour for the Farm

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 4

CURRENT events now point to the fact that the New South Wales assisted immigration scheme is proving a distinct success, and is the means of…

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Farm and Field. Drill and Broadcast

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 4

It is generally understood that it more advantageous to apply artificifertisers to the soil with the dri[?] instead of sowing the manure broad…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Article?. [All Rights Reserved.] Raising Incubator Chicks

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 26 January 1907 · page 6

POULTRY breeders generally experience a greater loss in raising incubator hatched chicks than from those hatched and cared for by hens. A larger mortality is…

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To Be a Farmer’s—wife !

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 26 January 1907 · page 3

Just think, our now cook gets up at six o’clock without being called.’ ‘She must be a jewel.’ ‘Yes; she’s going to be married to the…

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Wheat Trucks

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 2

The bungling manner in which the business of the Railway Department is carried out is shown by the following letter received by Mr Fraser…

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Wet Sheep

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 1 February 1907 · page 2

AT the Molong Police Court, before Mr. E. Marriott, P.M., Major Claude Smith proceeded against Frederick Woollbank and Jas. Thomas for…

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Local Sheep Sales

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 1 February 1907 · page 10

MESSRS. Baker and Spence, Peak Hill, report:—During the week we were instrumental in placing the following lines of sheep :—1100 wethers, Mr. T…

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Wheat Report

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 1 February 1907 · page 3

A RECORD wheat crop is reported from Wangaratta (Vic). A farmer named Matthew Byrne secured 1000 bags (say 4000 bushels) off 100 acres, an…

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Prolific Wheat

Western Champion · Friday 1 February 1907 · page 13

Mr E Woods, of Oaklands, Brolgan, had a very good measure of success with several lots of wheat sown by him last season. From 2 bags of…

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Local Wheat Yield

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 1 February 1907 · page 11

FROM certain enquiries we have instituted, we find that the crops at or near Parkes, this year, average between fourteen and fifteen bushels per acre…

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The Wheat Standard

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 1 February 1907 · page 3

THE grain section of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce met last Thursday and determined the f[?] standard of wheat for this season. After…

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