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

Farming & the land, 1907

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Market Reports. Wool Report

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 20 November 1907 · page 8

Hill, Clark and Co. report :-We brought forward a catalogue of 1600 bales, out of which 1554 bales were cleared…

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Wool [?]

Western Champion · Friday 22 November 1907 · page 12

We note the following local wool sales at Sydney d[?] the week:—JE over Gunningbla[?] 22 bales 2nd combe at 10¾ d, 11 [?]cloe at 10¼d,…

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Heavy Loss of Sheep

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 22 November 1907 · page 11

A HEAVY loss of sheep has been sustained by Mr. W. M. Giles, of Bowning, near Goulburn, during the ' week. It appears that about 2400…

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Commercial News. Lindley Walker and Cos Wheat Report

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 22 November 1907 · page 18

THE happenings of the past month have established a precedent almost unparallelled in the history of the wheat trade. About a fortnight ago…

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Dry Farming

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 22 November 1907 · page 5

The benefit of the dry farming system of ploughing the land some months before the wheat is sown and letting it lie idle to absorb all the rain…

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A Grenfell Farm

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 22 November 1907 · page 20

IANDRA ESTATE, Grenfell district, owned by Mr. Greene, is perhaps the largest wheat farm in the State of New South Wales. Over 700 farm…

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Parkes Dairy Company

Western Champion · Friday 22 November 1907 · page 13

The amount paid to suppliers by the Parkes Dairy Company for the month of October was £510, compared with £383 for the previous month…

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Dutch Belted Cattle

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 23 November 1907 · page 7

The picturesque Dutch Belted cow spreads very slowly from her home In the Netherlands. In Australia she is a stranger, but with no pronounced a run…

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A New Wheat. Remarkable Discovery

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 23 November 1907 · page 5
Also in The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette

A discovery that may ultimately revolutionise farming is announced by a group of Cambridge scientists. Very careful experiments have teen made…

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Crops at Bathurst, Farm

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 23 November 1907 · page 2

Speaking at a gathering of farmers at the [?] Experimental Farm on Thursday afternoon Mr. R. W. Peacock manager, said that work at the farm showed up. best…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles All Rights Reserved.] Dairy Notes

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 23 November 1907 · page 6

The yield [?] milk from different cows under the same conditions differs greatly, and that from the same cow varies widely from day to day. The…

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The Dairy, Successful Milkers Must Practice Kindness

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 23 November 1907 · page 7

Every milker thinks he knows how to milk (writes Mrs Annu Sorensen in the "Michigan Farmer") but if the cows could express their…

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Waterworks on the Farm

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 23 November 1907 · page 7

A new system of furnishing a house with its water supply, as shown in the accompanying illustration, [?]s thus described in a circular issued by the…

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Farm and Field. Green Manure for Potatoon

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 23 November 1907 · page 7

Potatoes should be pianted in soll which has been brought into a good tate of t[?]th. Above the tubers it hould be in a fine porous condition, so…

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Farmyard Manure

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 23 November 1907 · page 7

During the recent International Agricultural Congress in Europe, Professor Stoklosa read an interesting paper on farmyard manure. He gave a brief…

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The Dairy. Improving the Dairy Herd

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 23 November 1907 · page 3

After having the herd started, it is well to place at its head, if not a purebred dairy bull, at least one whose form and breeding have a predominating…

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Farm and Field. Water In Soil

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 23 November 1907 · page 3

Professor von Sellhorst in Gottingen has published in a German agricultural paper some interesting observations of the relative evaporation and drainage of…

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Sound Wheat Farming

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 27 November 1907 · page 4

A very excellent example of the value of sound cultivation on the wheat farm is furnished by the experience of Maranoa (Q) grower, who has once more…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 27 November 1907 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson, and Co., Ltd., report:- At our sale today we found the market firm for all good wools at the…

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