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

Farming & the land, 1917

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FARMERS' & Settlers' Association. Annual Meeting of the Cowra Branoh

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 10 March 1917 · page 2

This took place on Saturday 1 last. Present: Messrs. J. R. McDonald (chair), J. Keys, E. S. Twigg, J. K. Wright, J. Mees, E. J. Bourke, A…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister or Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 305. Agricultural. the Prevention of Bunt. Experiments with Various Fungicides

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 10 March 1917 · page 3

For some years past the Department has been carrying out experiments with various chemicals for the prevention of bunt in wheat, and an account of the…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 13 March 1917 · page 4
Also in Forbes Times

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: —Wool appraisement sales were resumed in Sydney last Monday and will be continued until 22nd inst…

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Goulburn Sheep Sale. 31,484 Sheep sold for £38,410/15/8 Cash

Forbes Times · Tuesday 13 March 1917 · page 4

W. H. Wheatley report having yarded 35,000 sheep on the 22nd February to a very large and representative attendance of buyers from Riverina,…

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Commercial News. Goulburn Stud Sheep Sales

Forbes Times · Tuesday 13 March 1917 · page 4

W. H. Wheatley report having held their 12th annual stud sales on Tuesday, 27th February, when 1425 were yarded and sold at an average of £2/16/5 per…

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F.A.Q. Wheat Standard. Sydney

Forbes Times · Tuesday 13 March 1917 · page 2

The Chamber of Commerce yesterday fixed the E.A.Q. standard for this season's wheat at fifty-six and three-quarter lbs. Last season's standard…

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Wheat Farmers Want Money

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 14 March 1917 · page 2

Sir John Forrest, Commonwealth Treasurer, has arranged to confer with Mr. Denison Miller, governor of the Commonwealth Bank, to…

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Wheat Guarantee. 4s Approved by Government

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

The State Government has approved the recommendation of the Inter-State Wheat Conference that farmers be guaranteed 4s per…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

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

These Notes are Issued every,week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 305…

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F.A.Q. Standard. This Season's Wheat. Drop from 61lb. to 56¾lb

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

The Chamber of Commerce on Monday fixed the f.a.q. standard for this season's wheat at 56¾lb. Last season's standard was 61lb…

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Conversions Into Homestead Farms

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 14 March 1917 · page 4

The holder of any G.P. (including a non-residential [?] Homestead Selection, Homestead Grant, Conditional Purchase Lease…

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Dairying. the Care of Cream. While on the Road

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

Farmers who live close to the butter factories do not suffer, as a rule, by having their cream reduced in quality while it is. on the road, but it is a very…

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To Farmers and Others!

Cowra Free Press · Wednesday 14 March 1917 · page 2

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

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On the Land Pastoral and Agricultural Notes

Western Champion · Thursday 15 March 1917 · page 24

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. C. Graham e,M.L.A., Minister of Africulture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. Should any farmer desire information relevant to his work on the land…

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Losses in Sheep

Forbes Times · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 4

Stock owners should be most careful in depasturing their sheep in stubble puddocks, there being more than the usual quantity of grain left in the…

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Choosing Seed Wheat. It Importance to the Crop. (From the Department of Agriculture)

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 7

Among the preparations for the sowing of wheat, there is hardly any to which greater importance should be attached than the choice of the…

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Farmer's Wheat

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 17 March 1917 · page 2

Mr. Waddell has been informed by letter dated 6th March, from the Under Secretary of Agriculture, that the Minister was placing before the Government…

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More Expeditious Payments for Wheat and Wool

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 17 March 1917 · page 2

Mr. Waddell has been informed by the Under Secretary for Agriculture that the matter of more expeditions payment for wool should be referred…

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Patriotic Wheat

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 17 March 1917 · page 4

A meeting of farmers of the Hiawatha district was held on the 11th inst to re-open the matter of wheat promised to the Returned…

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