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

Farming & the land, 1907

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Farm and Dairy. Original Article [All Rights Reserved. Dairy Utensils

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 7 December 1907 · page 6

Now that summer dairying will very shortly begin, the present is a proper time to thoroughly overhaul the whole the dairy utensils, fittings, and…

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Farmers' Troubles. Rabbits and Fire

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

Uncertain seasons are bad enough, but combined with other calamities in the way of those devastators, rabbits and fire, farmers would soon find their labours…

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Washing Dairy Utensils

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

In America lime water is largely used instead of soda for washing dairy uten[?]ils. Prof. Farrington says:—The creameries, which years ago…

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The Dairy Bull

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

The selection of a dairy bull is a difficult matter. For the dairy herd one must have a bull that can produce milkers, if he is to really improve the…

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The Dairy. Operating the Home Separator

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

The points of importance in the proper order in successfully operating a horse separator are as follow:—First.—The speed of the separator…

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Concrete on the Farm. Mixing the Concrete

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

To the uninitiated the word concrete implies a heap of road metal mixed with sand and time or cement. Visions of men wheeling barrows of this…

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Farmyard Manure and Fertility

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

During the recent European International Agricultural Congress, Professor Stokl[?] read an interesting paper on the subject of Farm Manure and…

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Farm and Field. A[?]thrax Bacillus

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

Some curious facts have been observed, says "Medical Notes and Querieg," in the varying powers of resistance to the anthrax bacillus, among…

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The Dairy. Testing Cream at the Factory

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 7 December 1907 · page 3

In a paper 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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Farm and Field. Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 7 December 1907 · page 3

Scientific men are still plodding away at their investigations into the mysterious processes which underlie the operations of germ life, and how far their…

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Crops In the Murrumburrah District

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 7 December 1907 · page 2

As the time for harvesting approaches, something like a fairly [?] of crop [?] in this district can be made. The [?] which prevailed in…

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Cowra Experimental Farm Result of Wheat Experiments

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 11 December 1907 · page 4

We are indebted to the courtesy of Mr Geo. L. Sutton, Government Wheat Experimentalist, and manager of the Cowra Experimental Farm,…

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Market Reports. Sydney Wool Sales

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 11 December 1907 · page 2

Winchombe, Carson and Co., Ltd, report The London November sales, which opened on the 26th of last month, have developed a decline…

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Western Wheat Crops

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 13 December 1907 · page 4

A HERALD reporter, who has visited Dubbo, Wellington, Orange, Molong, Parkes and Forbes districts, says that, taken all through, the wheat country…

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Trucking Sheep

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 13 December 1907 · page 3

IN the Assembly, the Treasurer, in reply to Mr. Lynchy, said that a consignor trucking sheep to Sydney from country districts had to send three…

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Mortality in Sheep

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 13 December 1907 · page 9

MR. R. G. DULHUNTY, Stock Inspector, writes to the DISPATCH:—I feel quite sure that the deaths in sheep round Dubbo lately were not caused by…

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The Wheat Market

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 13 December 1907 · page 8

MESSRS HARRISON, JONES AND DEVLIN report:—The market has assumed a much easier tone, due to several causes —first, the lower ruling prices in…

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The Wool Market

Western Champion · Friday 13 December 1907 · page 23

On Wednesday the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Co, wired as follows:—At our wool sales yesterday the market was very irregular. Good…

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A Busy Corner. Sydney's Wool Stores

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 13 December 1907 · page 7

One of the busiest corners in Sydney at the present time is where the main portion of the Wool Stores are situated at Pyrmont. At this period of the…

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Parkes Dairy Co

Western Champion · Friday 13 December 1907 · page 13

Owing to the continued dry weather and the depletion of the pastures by the depredations of the grasshopper plague, there has been a considerable…

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