Economically Practicable Gassing Weevils in Wheat
The promising results recently reported in connection with the gassing of weevil-infested wheat stacks in SA with carbon dioxide gas, after…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1918
1,648 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 69 of 83
Lille District captured Great French Wool Centre
Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. write:—Lille, northern France, is reported to have been taken by the British troops. Apart from other motives, the capture…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tullamore Crops
Farmers around Tullamore are having a bad time owing to the vagaries of the season (writes a correspondent). Stock have been turned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Homestead Farms, Crown Leases, Suburban Holdings
Where the holdings were confirmed before January 1, 1918, application for appraisement may be made on or before December 31 next; but in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crop Failures Country Between Dubbo & Tamworth. What Mr. Ashford Saw
Mr. Ashford, Minister for Lands, who has just returned from a tour of the Dubbo, Gilgandra, Dunedoo, Tam worth, and Gunnedah districts, stated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Growing Grass with Wheat?
Something like the discovery that two telegraph messages at once may be sent over the same wire, which startled the scientific world a good many years ago, is the announcement…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Dooley, M.L.A. And The Great Wheat Question. (To the Editor)
Sir,—As one of Mr. Dooley's audience at Cowra on 18th inst., I was repeatedly reminded by that gentleman of the " greatness " of the many…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Cowra Free Press Use Soft Words and Hard Arguments Saturday, Oct 26th, 1918 Local and General. TO Farmers and Others!
Be economical! Save your tallow and kitchen fat, and get 10/- per kerosene tin full at the Cowra Soap Works, Brisbane Street Don't forget to tell your friends'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Britain's Wheat Crop
Wheat production in the British Isles is normally about sixty million bushels a year. With superhuman exertion the crop last year was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Packs
In this issue John Bridge and Company, Eimited, make their acknowledgments and thanks to those growers who have already given their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Report
The A.ALL. & F. Co. Ltd., reprot:—The first series of appraisements in which some 100,000 bales were included, concluded last week, and prior to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Next Wool Appraisements
Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd report:—This week wool appraisements are being held in Brisbane. Offerings resume in Sydney next Monday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Story of Wheat
AT the beginning of the written history, some three thousand years ago, wheat cul-ture occupied an important place in the affairs of men…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Local and General. Bribaree Shorn Sheep
Buyers had no lack of opportunities to secure sheep at Homebush last Thursday. 38,000 head were forwarded. Prices for all classes ruled much…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the Railway. Shifting the Wheat. Building the Silo
There is a fair amount of work progressing at Forbes railway station. Wheat lumpers and other workers are nard at it bagging the wheat in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drought Menace. Bad Outlook in Country. North and West Pessimistic. Sheep Dying in New England
Each day's prolongation of the dry spells adds to the darkening prospects of anything like a fair average season in the west. That the drought is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Dairying Industry
By common consent, which is confirmed by our daily experiences, the public associate our name, and connect us with everything appertaining…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Crops Too Late
Taken generally the crops throughout the west are months behind. Where they have reached any height they lack body and have already turn…
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