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

Farming & the land, 1908

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Corner in Trucks. Gamble at Farmers' ExPENSE

Western Champion · Friday 8 May 1908 · page 5

The up-to-date business man, especially if ho is not overburdened with scruples, can generally find a way to make money out of other people's…

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The Dairy. the Age of Cattle

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 5

The method adopted in connection with the great International Show at Chicago for testing the age of cattle by their teeth was as follows:—…

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Future Wheat Supplies

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 3

The wheat-making population of the world—i.e., the white race or civilised humanity, as we understand it—amounted in 1870 to 370,000,000 people. In…

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Fertility of Dairy Farm

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 5

The question has been asked what elements of plant food are lost in dairy fanning where the entire milk is sold? At the New Jersey Agricultural…

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The Dairy. Automatic Milk Seller

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 7

In educational ana sanitary matters German authorities lead all others. A very commendable feature has been introduced in several schools in Berlin…

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Successful Dairying

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 7

"Success in dairying depends largely upon the proper raiding of the herd. There are two [?]st[?]s" (writes an American dairyman) that the dairy…

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Farm and Field. Testing Soils

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 7

The officials of the Bureau of Soils of the United States Department of Agriculture have, in the last few years, tried to improve and simplify the pot method…

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Farms on Liverpool Plains

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 9 May 1908 · page 10

AFTER reading the many press advertisements, the would be land buyer is often puzzled us to which location to select. Toy often as a result of adventitious…

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Wheat Experiments

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 13 May 1908 · page 4

At a meeting of the committee of the Condobolin P, and A. Society, held on Saturday last, the circular appearing in our last issue relating to farmers' experiments,…

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The Dairy. Australian Butter Abroad Preservatives Objected To

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Wednesday 13 May 1908 · page 3

In the latter part of last year it was brought under the notice of the Department of Trade and Customs that a consignment of Australian butter had…

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Wool Report

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 13 May 1908 · page 4

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. report:--For our sale to day we submitted a small catalogue of about 450 bales to a representative attendance of buyers, and disposed of…

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Wheat and Chaff

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 13 May 1908 · page 4

Harrison, Jones and Dev[?] report:--Wheat -- This market has undergone a change for the better, and prices have advanced at least 2d per bushel during the…

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The Wyalong Advocate. Wednesday, May 13, 1908 Rating the Farmer for the Townsman

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 13 May 1908 · page 2

The motive power th[?] seems to be the dominant force behind the `mark [?]me[?] movement, is plainly an unmanly anxiety to leave some avenue…

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A Good Farm Whitewash

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Wednesday 13 May 1908 · page 3

A carelessly-made whitewash will last only for a little while. It will pay to get the wash right in the first application otherwise the effects are soon lost, and…

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Farm and Field. Farmyard Manures

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Wednesday 13 May 1908 · page 3

There is no fertiliser that can be more profitably used on the farm than farmyard manure (writes an American agricultural paper). The solid and liquid…

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Winter School for Farmers. Hawkesbury Agricultural College

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 13 May 1908 · page 4

In consequence of the success of the Winter School for Farmers daring the last two years, and the requests already made for a repetition thereof,…

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The Dairy. Australian Butter Abroad. Preservatives Objected To

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 16 May 1908 · page 7

In the latter part of last year it was brought under the notice of the Department of Trade and Customs that a consignment of Australian butter had…

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Farm and Field. Farmyard Manures

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 16 May 1908 · page 7

There is no fertiliser that can ne more profitably used on the farm than farmyard manure (writes an American agricultural paper). The solid and liquid…

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A Good Farm Whitewash

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 16 May 1908 · page 7

A carelessly-made whitewash will last only for a little while. It will pay to get the wash right in the first application, otherwise the effects ore soon lost, and…

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Farm Gate Fastener

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 16 May 1908 · page 6

The device shown in the accompanying illustrations (which are reproduced from the "Prairio Farmer") for fastening a gate through a wire fence is too…

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