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

Farming & the land, 1917

1,527 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 12 of 77

Conveesions Into Homestead Farms

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 8

The holder of any C.P. (including a new resident[?] Homestead Selection, Homestead Grant, Conditional Purchase Lease…

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The Farmer. Loss of Phosphates From Soil

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 7

Important investigations are being made in the United States for the purpose of determining the extent to which the loss of phosph[?]…

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To Farmers and Others

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 2

Be economical Save yonr tallow and kitchen fat, and get 8/- per kerosene tin full at the Cowra Soap Works, Brisbane Street. Don't forget to tell your friends,…

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Poultry. Planning a Poultry Farm. Systematic Arrangement Necessary

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 3

The average poultry farm has been a thing of small beginnings, usually jumbled together without any definite plan or objective beyond keeping as…

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Dairying. Cream of Inferior Quality. How to Avoid It

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 3

"Regardless of trouble," says the Dairy Expert in commending to the dairy farmers of New South Wales the following points in the care and…

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Wool Sales

Forbes Times · Tuesday 13 February 1917 · page 2

Winchcombo Carson, Ltd., report by wire yesterday:—Prices for our third wool appraisement catalogue of 5395 bales were made available to-day…

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The Wheat Minimum

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Tuesday 13 February 1917 · page 2

WITH the patriotic object of encouraging the cultivation of wheat, which is pretty certain to be sorely needed by the Mother…

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Wheat Crops. a Marsden Experiment. Bomen on Top

Forbes Times · Tuesday 13 February 1917 · page 2

Wheat experiment plots were sown by the Department of Agriculture on the farm of Mr. William Cruickshank, Eurowie, Marsden. The crops were…

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The Wheat Pool

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 13 February 1917 · page 2

Returns supplied on Saturday by the Australian Wheat Board show that up till Monday, 12,750,000 bags of wheat from the 1916-17 harvest…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association. Wheat Matters Discussed. Some Important Resolutions

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 13 February 1917 · page 3

A meeting of the members of Forbes Farmers and Settlers' Association was held on Saturday afternoon. Mr W. R. Gunning (president) occupied…

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Again the Wheat Question

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Tuesday 13 February 1917 · page 3

MR. E. HERBORN, EDEN VALLEY, TRUN DLE, writes:— Dear Sir,—Australia is now, on the basis of 1915-16 crop, the sixth largest…

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Commercial News. Wool Reports

Forbes Times · Tuesday 13 February 1917 · page 2

John Bridge and Co., Ltd., report under date 10th February, 1917:- Wool.—The appraisement is now progressing steadily with every promise of…

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Farms for Soldiers

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 13 February 1917 · page 2

Members of the Closer Settlement Board have inspected several holdings in Forbes district, which have been offered to the Government…

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A Good Crop of Spuds

Forbes Times · Tuesday 13 February 1917 · page 2

Messrs. Irvine Bros., of Lowry, Toogong, are the lucky possessors of a crop of potatoes that would gladden the eye of our farmers (says the Orange…

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Farmers & Settlers' Association. Monthly Meeting

Forbes Times · Tuesday 13 February 1917 · page 2

The first meeting of the local branch of the F. and S. Association since the harvesting season began took place in the Shire Chambers on Saturday…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for Man on the Land. No. 301. Agricultural. Varieties of Wheat

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 14 February 1917 · page 10

The Department's Recommendations for the Ensuing Season. The annual conference of officers of the Department of Agriculture…

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The Wheat Question. Cowra Farmers Again Mov[?]

Cowra Free Press · Wednesday 14 February 1917 · page 2

Encouraged no doubt by the favorable reception of his proposes in regard to the above question throughout the Commonwealth, Mr. E. S Twigg proposed at…

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Marquis Wheat. Testimony by Mr. Press

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 14 February 1917 · page 8

In a note on some of his wheat growing experiments at Hiawatha, on the Snowy River, at Jindabyne, Sir Joseph Carrothers writes to the Daily…

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Appraising the Wool. Bradford Expert Appointed

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 14 February 1917 · page 5

John Bridge and Co., Ltd., realising that the conditions under which the value of wool is being arrived at by the appraisement scheme are so…

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Sterling Threshers for Farmers

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 14 February 1917 · page 3

Owing to the continued bad weather for stripping operations, we would advise you to save your wheat by raking and then…

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