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

Farming & the land, 1912

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Barhurst Experimental Farm. Last Year's Achievements

Forbes Times · Saturday 13 January 1912 · page 3

Although threshing operations have not yet been completed at the Bathurst Experiment Farm, the figures so far available (says the "National Advocate") indicate…

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The Farmer. a Rule for Feeding Cows

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 13 January 1912 · page 3

Each cow should receive as much roughage, as she will eat up clean, and a portion of this should preferably be of a succulent nature, like…

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The Dairy. Treatment of Pigs. Most Suitable Food

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 13 January 1912 · page 10

In a paper read before the Railton Branch Board of Agriculture, Tasmania, Mr John Donovan gave some useful hints on pig breeding and…

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The Wheat Market

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1912 · page 2

Private cables to Sydney state that the London and Liverpool wheat market closed quietly on Saturday. The Sydney market began this weeks…

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Shearing Wet Sheep. Melbourne

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1912 · page 2

A shearer at Warrnambool, who was paid off because he refused to shear wet sheep, has been awarded £ 5 damages by the local court…

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No. 36. Rust in Wheat

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 17 January 1912 · page 6

Reports from the State Experiment Farms throughout the State relative to the liability of the different kinds or wheat to rust are interesting. The…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 17 January 1912 · page 6

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Trefle, Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. The Department can solve many problems concerning the land and production which would be impracticable to the individual producer…

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Quality of Federation Wheat. Is It Deteriorating?

Forbes Times · Wednesday 17 January 1912 · page 1

Mr. G. L. Sutton, West Australian Wheat Commissioner, writes us (Cowra "Free Press") as follows in regard to the much vexed…

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Wyalong Farmers and Settlers. MR. A. Kelly Brought to Book. Refusal to Ask for Dissolution

Forbes Times · Wednesday 17 January 1912 · page 4

At the meeting last week of the Wyalong branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, portion of the business transacted was in…

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On the Land. Pastoral and Agicultural at Notes

Western Champion · Friday 19 January 1912 · page 21

These Notes will be issued every week, under the direction of the Honorrya Minister for Agriculture (Hon. J. L. Trefle), and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. Should any farmer desire information relevant to his work on the land, not…

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Agricultural & Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land Agriculture. Scientific Cultivation and Drought

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 19 January 1912 · page 4

"The greatest evils of brought are due to ignorant treatment of the soil." The farmer who has been practising a haphazard system of soil…

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Dairying. Lice on Cows

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 19 January 1912 · page 4

Lice on cows seem to be troublesome in many of the dairying districts, judging from the number of inquiries received by the Department…

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The Wheat Crop

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 5

THE Government Statistician has just made available his estimate of the wheat crop. Although the crop is less by 4,500,000 bushels than last year, it…

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The Revolt in China. Its Bearing on the Wool and Wheat Industry of Australia

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 5

Events so startling, and following in such rapid succession, in China, almost invariably heralding victory to the Rebel arms, so fiercely opposed to the…

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A Wheat Carting Accident

Forbes Times · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 6

A report from Young states that a very serious accident happened to Michael Crowe, of Spring Park Crowe was seated on a waggon…

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The Markets. Sydney Wool Sales

Forbes Times · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 4

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., telegraph the opening sales in the second series of wool auctions at Sydney took place on Monday, when they submitted a representative…

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Local and General. Collecting Wheat Samples

Forbes Times · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 4

A report from Parkes states that Mr. M. H. Reynolds, of the Cowra Exe[?]mental Farm, visited that town this week for the purpose of…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Forbes Times · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 8
Also in Cowra Free Press

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Trefle, Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. The Department, can solve many problems concerning the land and production which would be impracticable to the individual producer…

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Poultry. Great Poultry Farm. Industry in America. Mammoth Undertaking

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 10

The following report of an American poultry farm may be of Interest. It is from the pen of Mr Randolph Meech, an English poultry breeder and writer…

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