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

Farming & the land, 1909

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Parkes Dairy Co

Western Champion · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 20

The annual meeting of shareholders in the Parkes Dairy Company Lfd. was held in the Council Chambers on Wednesday afternoon, Mr H. W…

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Agriculture, Etc. Valuable Farm Paint

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 7

Milk paint is a good preservative. It is an old mixture, not generally known. If properly prepared and applied, milk paint makes about the best and…

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Market Report. Wool Report

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 10 February 1909 · page 4

Dalgety and Company Ltd, report: A strong aud animated market has continued sines our last report, the fature of the sales being the free…

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Agriculture, Etc. Valuable Farm Paint

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Wednesday 10 February 1909 · page 3

Milk paint is a good preservative. It is an old mixture, not generally known. If properly prepared and applied, milk paint makes about the best and…

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Market Report. Wool Report

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 17 February 1909 · page 8

Hill Clarke and Co report:-- For our sale to-day we submitted a catalogue of 2176 bales, composed a most entirely of wools in the grease,…

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Farmers and Settlors Association

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 17 February 1909 · page 2

This Association also held its annual westing. The Sec[?]ys report revealed a satisfactory year's work, although not many meetings…

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Agriculture, Etc. Rotation Cropping

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Wednesday 17 February 1909 · page 3

Mr Peacock, manager of the Bathurst Experimental Farm, in New South Wales, is a stanch advocate of rotation cropping. This year he has obtained…

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Measuring Cattle. Live Weight Calculations

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 20 February 1909 · page 3

It often Happens that the only available method of ascertaining- the approximate weight of an animal is by calculating from measurements. Very few…

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A New Double-headed Wheat

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1909 · page 4

A SOUTH Australian paper reports that an engine-driver. Mr. J. J. O'Shea, at Eudunda, last year noticed amongst a wheat crop a plant bearing two heads on…

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Wool Report

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 24 February 1909 · page 4

Harrison, Jones& Devlin, Limited submitted at auction on Thursday a catalogue of 1065 bales compriced chiefly of wools from the late shearing…

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Market Report Wool Report

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 24 February 1909 · page 4

Dalgety and Co report :-- At the Wool sales held on February 15th we offered a catalogue of 5.238 bales, comprising a good…

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The Small Wool-grower

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 24 February 1909 · page 4

Some years ago the opinion was generally held by wool buyers that with the advance of closer settlement and the multiplication of the small…

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Wheat-growing in N.s.w. "A Gold Mine Yet to Be Explored

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Wednesday 24 February 1909 · page 1

"IN wheat-growing in New South Wales there's a gold mine." The speaker was the manager of a very big agricultural property in the Young district and…

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Wheat and Wool. Mr Sutton's Lecture

Western Champion · Friday 26 February 1909 · page 16

Mr G. L. Sutton of the Cowra E[?] paymental Farm, delive ed an int[?] esting lecture on "The bet ft method of wheat growing combination with…

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Wool And Wheat

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 4

Up to date this season has shown a marked increase in the quanity of wheat and wool sent to Sydney. In the case of the wheat, about 60 per…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Western Champion · Friday 5 March 1909 · page 13

The Co-operative Company wired on Wednesday as follows:— We offered 2300 bales, being the last weekly sale of the season. The turnover of the…

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Latest Telegrams. Wheat 4s 5d

Western Champion · Friday 5 March 1909 · page 13

Judge Higgins will probably deliver the arbitration award in the Barrier dispute on Saturday morning. The famous Star of the East mine…

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Queensland Crops

Western Champion · Friday 5 March 1909 · page 20

The Queensland wheat yield, it is stated, will be fully two bags per acre above any previous record — a remarkable experience in a season which…

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Modern Cattle Breeding. Points of Interest

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 6 March 1909 · page 7

The trouble and expense of rearing good and rearing bad heifers is about the same. This fact is pertinently referred to by an English breeder. If a…

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Wheat Variety Trials. [?]

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 10 March 1909 · page 2

The experiments made in the Temora district with the various breeds of wheat obtained from the Cowra Experimental Farm have…

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