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

Farming & the land, 1915

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Hawkesbury Agricultural College. Winter School for Farmers

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 26 May 1915 · page 10

Arrangements have been made for the 1915 Winter School for farmers to commence at Hawkesbury Agricultural College on Tuesday, 22nd June, and to…

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Dairying. Rabbit-infested Land. Dairying on 100 Acres

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 26 May 1915 · page 10

How may the best use be made of land in southern districts that is becoming unproductive owing to infestation by rabbits?…

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Lads for Farm Work. Pitt Town Training Farm

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 26 May 1915 · page 3

The facilities offered at the Government Agricultural Training Farm, Pitt Town, near Windsor, for training youths for agricultural work, are neither so well…

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Pastoral. Pasture Grasses. a Farmers' Bulletin

Western Champion · Thursday 27 May 1915 · page 24

Over half the annual wealth of New-South Wales is produced by the pastoral industries of the State. By far the largest proportion of this is…

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On the Land Pastoral and Agricultural Notes

Western Champion · Thursday 27 May 1915 · page 24

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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Sowing Wheat in Spring. An Experiment

Western Champion · Thursday 27 May 1915 · page 24

The idea that wheat might grow in New South Wales if sown in the spring and harvested in autumn has been discussed on many occasions,…

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Growing Wheat. The Width of the Drills

Western Champion · Thursday 27 May 1915 · page 24

Some attention has been directed lately to the question whether the common practice in New South Wales of sowing wheat in drills seven to…

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Available Closer Settlepurchase Farms Cowra Land District

Western Champion · Thursday 27 May 1915 · page 8

North Logan Estate, seventeen farms, in areas ranging from 2 acres 2 roods to 5 acres 1 perch, parish of Billimari, county of Bathurst;…

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Homestead Farms. Condobolin Land District

Western Champion · Thursday 27 May 1915 · page 9

16,044 acres in thirteen blocks ranging from 931 acres to 2,192 acres, parishes of Murrumbogie and Murga, county of Cunningham; Trundle…

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Butter and Sugar

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 28 May 1915 · page 4

There is a serious shortage, locally of butter and sugar, and it looks as it the public will suffer for some time to come. The position is about the…

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Wool Market

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 28 May 1915 · page 4

The Pastoral Finance Association, Limited report having offered an attractive catalogue on Wednesday, 26th inst., and found the demand for…

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The Wool Market

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 28 May 1915 · page 12

Wi[?]chcombe, Carson Ltd. report that the market for free wools was very strorg at this week's opening auctions. Yorkshire, American,…

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Scarcity of Butter, Sugar and JVHeat

Forbes Times · Friday 28 May 1915 · page 4

Many country people find it hard to realise that there is practically a butter famine. For some weeks now supplies have been hard to obtain,…

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Bluestoning Wheat. a Practical Question

Forbes Times · Friday 28 May 1915 · page 2
Also in The Forbes Advocate

Suppose I start "bluestoning" wheat with 3 lb. bluestone to 20 gallons water; and have ton bags to treat, how many bags could I steep before it would get…

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Sowing Wheat in Spring. an Experiment

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 28 May 1915 · page 2
Also in Forbes Times

The idea that wheat might grow in New South Wales if sown in the spring, and harvested in autumn, has been discussed on many occasions,…

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Growing Wheat. the Width of the Drills

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 28 May 1915 · page 2

Some attention has been directed lately to, the question whether the common practice in New South Wales of sowing wheat in drills seven…

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Five Bags of Wheat Help the Belgians

Forbes Times · Friday 28 May 1915 · page 5

Mr. James Edwards puts a proposition before us which, if carried into effect, will make a very welcome addition to the local Belgian…

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Re-sowing the Wheat Paddock. Cannot It Be Prevented?

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 28 May 1915 · page 7

The writer is being continually asked the Reason for so much seed not "germinating,"or in other words, the crops coming up so thin or in…

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