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

Farming & the land, 1911

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Commercial Wool Report

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 2

The A.M.L. & F. Co. report: The market continues unchanged since last week, business locally being limited to a few transactions…

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Cattle. the Study of Pedigree. Assisting the Breeder

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 10

Taking into consideration, the great increase in recent years in the ranks of breeders of pedigree stock, drawn from all classes of agriculturists, both…

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By Telegraph Sydney—Friday WHEAT 3s 1½d to 3s 2d

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 2

A scandalous state of affairs exists in the Aborigines Mission Camp on the Macquarie River, the blacks being herded together like cattle. The Board…

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Commercial Wool Report

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 2

WINCHCOMBE CARSON and Co. report on 9th instant: —Oar yesterday's catalogue, although largely of a clearing up…

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The Dairy. Art of Milking. Treatment of Cow

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 3

To perform the operation of milking successfully, several important things must be observed. It is highly important that it must be done quickly,…

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Poultry. Duck Breeding. [?]An Extensive Farm. Something About Crowding

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 3

It is usually considered necessary to allow one acre of land for every 100 birds. Any farmer who suggested concentrating 3,000 to the acre would (says…

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Wool

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 14 April 1911 · page 11

Sehute, Bell and Co., Ltd, report under date 10th April:—Last week's sales passed off very satisfactory, any good wools realising about 5 per cent higher than February rates,…

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Wheat Culture

Western Champion · Friday 14 April 1911 · page 14

Inspector Reynolds of the Department of Agriculture, will deliver a lecture on wheat culture in the Royal Hall on Friday, 21st inst, at 2 30 p.m…

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The Farmer. What Is a "Hogget"?

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 15 April 1911 · page 4

In reply to a question as to the age at which lambs should be called hoggets, a practical correspondent of the "Leader" says that it is not…

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Modern Farm Methods. a Practical Address

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1911 · page 3

If the farmer wants to understand and fully appreciate the chemical combinations set up in the soil he cultivates he requires to have a fair knowledge of…

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Feeding Farm Horses for Hard Work

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1911 · page 4

Everybody handling horse must necessarily become horsemen, but it does not follow that all will become experts in care and feeding…

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The Dairy. Causes of Poor Milk

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 19 April 1911 · page 3

The Swiss have come about as near reducing the dairy business to a science as any people on earth. It is said that they are very particular to preserve…

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Denmark's Dairy Cows. Two Breeds Favored

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 19 April 1911 · page 3

The million dairy cows of Denmark are confined almost exclusively in two breeds--the Danish Red, of New Zealand and the islands, and the Jyske, or…

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Price of Butter

Western Champion · Friday 21 April 1911 · page 21

A conference of co-operative batter factory. managers was held at the Queen's Hall, Pitt-street Sydney, on Wednesday of last week for the…

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Weighty Wheat

Western Champion · Friday 21 April 1911 · page 14

Mr R. Job, of Coobang, recently delivered' 859 bags (Chapman sacks) of wheat at the local railway station which torned the scale at 2763 bushels…

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Parkes Dairy Co

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 21 April 1911 · page 3

During the month of March the Parkes Dairy Co received 30,3061bs of cream at the factory for treatment, which produced 14,123lbs of butter,…

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Farm Notes

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 21 April 1911 · page 3

If we do not put our best intelligence into the farm we shall get very little satisfaction out of it, or financial returns either…

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Feeding Farm Horses for Hard Work

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 21 April 1911 · page 10

Everybody handling horses must necessarily become horsemen, but it does not follow that all will become experts in care and feeding…

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Modern Farm Methods. a Practical Address

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 21 April 1911 · page 9

If the farmer wants to understand and fully appreciate the chemical combinations set up in the soil he cultivates he requires to have a fair knowledge of…

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Crop-bound Fowls

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 22 April 1911 · page 5

When a fowl becomes crop-bound its breast bulges out, and if the hand is placed over the crop it will be found full and hard like a ball…

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