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

Farming & the land, 1920

1,581 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 72 of 80

No. 500. Agricultural. Grading Our Wheat. The Proposed Standards

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 27 November 1920 · page 3

With the change from the handling of our wheat in sacks to handling in bulk, the necessity has arisen of introducing a proper method of grading it on…

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Pastoral for the Lamb Market. Department of Agriculture's Experiments to Determine Most Suitable Cross

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 27 November 1920 · page 3

Which is the most desirable cross for the lamb market? Experiments inaugurated by the Department of Agriculture to determine the correct answer to this…

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The Cowra Free Press Use Soft Words and Hard Arguments Saturday, Nov. 27th. 1920 Local and General To Farmers and Others!

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 27 November 1920 · page 2

Be economical! Save your tallow and kitchen fat, and get 12/6 per kerosene tin full at the Cowra Soap Works, Briabanestreet. Don't forget to tell your friends…

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Dairying. Indigestion in Calves. Points to Observe in Feeding

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 27 November 1920 · page 3

Owing to the artificial manner in which most calves in dairying districts are roared (writes a veterinary officer of the [?]tock Branch of the Department of…

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Mixed Farming Subdivision Sale

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 27 November 1920 · page 2

Full particulars of a subdivision sale of Eulandool and Kilaloolah Estates, Dubbo, will be found in our advt. columns. The Estates were…

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Silage Means Security. What a Coastal Farmer Did

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 27 November 1920 · page 3

"The best I have ever seen," commented a North Coast farmer, while examining a silage stack constructed on the clines set down in one of the free…

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Wheat

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 29 November 1920 · page 2

SEEING fully one half of the wheat-growers in N.S.W. are not members of of the P. and S. Association (primarily political) and the Primary Producers'…

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"Freak Wheat."

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 29 November 1920 · page 2

MR. WALTER S. CAMPBELL, (retired Director of Agriculture), writes on the "new cross of wheat " grown on Mr. John Murray's, of Weddin View…

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Long Journey For Sheep

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 29 November 1920 · page 2

WHEN the drought broke in June Cudgelo Estate, Cowra, purchased from Boxley station, situated the other side of Longreach (Queensland) 8000 mer…

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Local Wool

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 30 November 1920 · page 2

At the Co operative Wool and Pro duce Co.'s. sales some time ago, a con signment of wool from Mr W M King of "Summer, Hill," West Wyalong,…

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Sheep at the Yards

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 30 November 1920 · page 8

Buyers mustered in big numbers at last Thursday's Homebushe sheep sales. Metropolitan, suburban, moun tain and a few inland butchers, were…

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First Truck of Wheat

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 30 November 1920 · page 4

Mr. R. Armstrong, representing Lindley Walker Co operative Co. [?] despatched the first truck of this season's wheat loaded in the district…

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Wheat Handling of 1920/21 Crop Agreement with Agents Ministerial Statement

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 30 November 1920 · page 3

Mr Dunn, Minister for Agriculture last week made to Parliament the following statement concerning arrangements with regard to the 1920…

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Wool the Market Business World Marking Time

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 30 November 1920 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Ld report:—Competition ruled irregular and pri ces for good merino wools 10 per cent lower at last week's Brisbane wool…

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Wool Report

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 1 December 1920 · page 4

The Pastoral Finance Association Ltd. reports: Auctions have been suspended in Sydney this week owing to the absece…

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AGRICULTURAL & Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Minister of Agriculture and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 499. Agricultural. Pure Seed Means Sure Seed. Facilities for Testing Offered to the Farmer

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 1 December 1920 · page 2

In the pleasant fastnesses of the Sydney Botanic Gardens, its approaches labelled "No Admittance" as protection from the idly inquisitive, is a well-ordered…

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The New Season's Wheat. All Agents to be Allowed to Operate. But the Miller Must Get 45,000 Bags

Cowra Free Press · Wednesday 1 December 1920 · page 2

Mr. Robt. Thompson, secretary of the local branch of the F.S.A., is in receipt of a communication from the Secretary of the Wheat Board to the…

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The Last Fifty Years. What They Have. Discovered for the Farmer

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 1 December 1920 · page 2

Farming and pessimism are too often as closely associated as funerals and philosophy, but here, at last, is a comment on things agricultural that is…

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The Cowra Free Press Use Soft Words and Hard Arguments Wednesday, Dec. 1st, 1920 Local and General [?] Farmers and Others I

Cowra Free Press · Wednesday 1 December 1920 · page 2

Be economical I Save your tallow and kitchen fat, and got 12/6 per kerosene tin full at the Cowra Soap Works, Briabanestreet. Don't forgot to tell your friends…

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Wheat Crops. Handling the Harvest

Western Champion · Thursday 2 December 1920 · page 15

In the Legislative Assembly last Wednesday the Minister for Agriculture made some important statements: "The State Wheat Board has…

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