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

Farming & the land, 1915

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Pure-bred Dairy Cattle

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 14 April 1915 · page 4

At the annual meeting of the United Pure-bred Dairy Cattle Breeders' Association of New South Wales held at the Show Ground, Mr. J. T. Cole…

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Boom in Butter

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 14 April 1915 · page 3

The total entries in the section was 380, which exceeds the Society's previous best record. The butter classes were responsible for the increase, there…

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Butter Fat Test

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 14 April 1915 · page 4

In the competition for cow giving biggest aggregate of butter fat over the three days Darkie was the winner with 7.273 lb., which has only been…

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Best Box of Butter

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 14 April 1915 · page 4

The successful competitor was the Alstonvile Co-operative Refrigerating Company, with 94 points, the Ullahulla Butter Company, Ltd., second with…

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Milk and Butter Tests

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 14 April 1915 · page 4

Butter test competitions, for which three prizes, £12, £8, and £4 respectively, were offered for the three cows (any breed) giving the bust butter fat…

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Sheep a Small Item

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 14 April 1915 · page 6

In former years provision was made in the schedule of prizes for fat merino sheep, but they have been dropped out and only British breeds and crossbreds…

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The Wool Market

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 14 April 1915 · page 2

The Australian Merchantile Land & Finance Co. Ltd. report that the past week, so far as actual transactions are concerned, has been…

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Cattle. Champions. Champion Cuernsey Cow

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 14 April 1915 · page 4

Kinross Bros.' Morton Margaret 2nd (imp.), bred by Rev. E. G. Orlebar, Royster, England by Morton Signet, dam Merton Margaret…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 14 April 1915 · page 10

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. G. Ashford, M. L. A., Minister of Agriculture, N.S.W., and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 205…

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Wool Sales—probable Postponement. No Ships Available

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 14 April 1915 · page 2

It has of late become very clear that there is a dearth of freight steamers in all the Australian seaports. This may lead to the postponement of wool…

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Wool Sales -- Probable Postponement. No Ships Available

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 14 April 1915 · page 6

It has of late become very clear that there is a dearth of freight steamers in all the Australian seaports. This may lead to the…

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The Butter Trade

Western Champion · Thursday 15 April 1915 · page 12

The state of the butter trade further occupied the attention of the State Attorney-General, on Saturday as Minister administering the…

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The Cattle King

Western Champion · Thursday 15 April 1915 · page 30

Mr. Sydney Kidnman, the cattle king of Australia, owns more live stock than are the possessions of any other man in the world. His…

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Wheat Competition

Western Champion · Thursday 15 April 1915 · page 20

At a meeting of members of the Geradgery Branch of the Agricultural Bureau on Saturday, March 13th, the following conditions were adopted in…

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Wool Market

Western Champion · Thursday 15 April 1915 · page 22

Owing to the scarcity of shipping space, and the consequent inability of buyers to ship heavy purchases of wool brokers have been reluctantly…

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Seed Wheat & Fodder

Western Champion · Thursday 15 April 1915 · page 11

Mr Ashford, Minister for Lands and Agriculture, stated that up to Friday 5321 applications had been received from necessitous farmers for…

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On the Land Pastoral and Agricultural Notes

Western Champion · Thursday 15 April 1915 · page 7

These Notes are issued very week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. G. Ashford, M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. Should any farmer desire information relevant to his work on the land,…

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Rairying. the Butter Industry. Its Present Position

Western Champion · Thursday 15 April 1915 · page 7

Notwithstanding that the war has so distinctly enhanced prices as to allay in part the anxiety of a year ago about the fate of second quality…

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Agricultural. Liming Wheat Land. Last Season's Experiments

Western Champion · Thursday 15 April 1915 · page 7

A year ago some prominence was given in these "Notes" to the conclusions derived from an experiment in the liming of wheat land, which was…

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Wool Sales. Probable Postponement. No Ships Available

Western Champion · Thursday 15 April 1915 · page 22

It has of late become very clear that there is a dearth of freight steamers in all the Australian seaports. This may lead to the postponement…

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