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

Farming & the land, 1907

775 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 36 of 39

Market Reports. Wool Report

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

Harrison, Jones and Devlin, Ltd, submitted at auction on Wednesday a catalogue of 4073 bales which comprised some very attractive wools with a rather…

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Wool Sales

Western Champion · Friday 29 November 1907 · page 15

Messrs Winchcombe Carson and Co, on the 21st found the market, fair for all good wools at best rates. Their sales included:— McMaster Bros…

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Dutch Belted Cattle

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 30 November 1907 · page 3

The picturesque Dutch Belted cow spreads very slowly from her home in the Netherlands. In Australia she is a stranger, but with so pronounced a run…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles [?] [All Rights-reserved.] Early Pullets

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 30 November 1907 · page 6

All poultry raisers should make every effort to raise a few early pullets —that is, pullets to produce early eggs next year just at the time when [?]…

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The Dairy. Testing Cream at the Factory

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 30 November 1907 · page 7

In a p[?]per read by Professor Foster at a recent meeting of the Dairymen's Association at Michigan, he said:—Testing cream is generally understood…

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Clean Root Crops

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 30 November 1907 · page 7

Successful growers of root crops must keep their weeds down. It is hopeless to expect extermination. Wherever a crop fails weeds are luxuriant, and the rains…

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Farm and Field. Nitrogen Fixing Baeterin

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 30 November 1907 · page 7

Scientific men are still plodding away at their investigations into tlic mysterious processes which under[?] the operations of germ life, and how far their…

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Waterworks on the Farm

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 30 November 1907 · page 3

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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The Dairy. Successful Milkers Must Practice Kindness

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 30 November 1907 · page 3

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

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Farmyard Manure

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 30 November 1907 · page 3

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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Farm and Field. Green Manure for Potatoes

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 30 November 1907 · page 3

Potatoes should be planted in soil which has been brought into a good state of tilth. Above the tubers it should be in a fine porous condition, so…

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Wheat Report

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 6 December 1907 · page 19

MESSES. HARRISON, JONES & DEVLIN report:—The wheat market has assumed if very quiet tone, and buyers prefer to wait developments before…

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Commercial. WOOL

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 6 December 1907 · page 7

Schute, Bell and Co., wool and produce brokers, Sydney, report under date 3rd December:—Fairly satisfactory clearances were effected at…

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Wool Sales

Western Champion · Friday 6 December 1907 · page 13

The Co-operative Company offered 2,700 bales, for good wools the market was about an a par with late rates, medium are ½d lower and inferior lines…

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Cowra Experimental Farm. Result of Wheat Experiments

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 6 December 1907 · page 2

We ("Free Press") are indebted to the courtesy of Mr. Geo. L Sutton, Government Wheat Experimentalist, and manager of local…

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A Sheep Counting Machine

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 6 December 1907 · page 5

EVERY man who has anything to do with the handling of sheep knows what a very tedious task mustering is, and how slow is the work of counting…

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Successful Wool Growing

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 6 December 1907 · page 17

At the last Wentworth Show, Mr. George Jeffrey, of the firm of Bagot, Shakes and Lewis, Ltd., Adelaide, delivered an address on wool-growing…

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Wheat-growing in Manchuria. The Theatre of the Late War

Western Champion · Friday 6 December 1907 · page 7

A REPORT has recently been addressed to the Premier by Mr. J. B. Suttor, Commercial Agent for New South Wales in the East, in which some very…

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Jersey Butter Tests

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

I have before me (says a writer in the "Mark Lane Express") the records of some American Jersey tests under the auspices of the American Jersey Cattle…

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Ophthalmia In Sheep

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

Mr. R. W. Peacock, manager of the Bathurst Experiment Farm, New South Wales, reports in the November number of the "Agricultural Gazette" of…

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