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

Farming & the land, 1920

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Crops Damaged Heavy Rain and Wind. No Danger of Floods

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 10 December 1920 · page 6

The elements have played a dirty trick on the tiller of the soil. When all seemed well and secure us far as the 1920-21 harvest in…

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AGRICULTURAL. jpure seed means sure seed Facilities for Testing of Fered to the Farmer

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 10 December 1920 · page 8

In the pleasant fastness of the Syd ney Botanic Gardens, its approaches labelled 'No admittance' as protection from the idly inquisitive, is a…

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Farmers & Settlers' Assn. Yalgogrin North Branch

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 10 December 1920 · page 1

At. a meeting of 'tlu; Yalgogrln North branch of! Hie above held at Yalgogrin on Saturday, December 4, 1 lie following motions were passed…

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U.s Farmers' Strike Serious Position of Banks

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 10 December 1920 · page 2

Xew York.—A message from Bismark (North Dakota) states that 24 banks have closed to date. The State Bank Examiner has declared that…

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Crops Down Disastrous Rainfall Ungarie Suffers

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 10 December 1920 · page 4

The expectations of many district.farmers to harvest a record crop this year will unfortunately not be realised. The steady soaking rains of the…

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Crops Damaged Throughout the Country

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 10 December 1920 · page 4

Reports from in the country show that heavy rain has fallen over a large wheat area, arid grave fears are entertained that a large amount of…

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Teaching the Farmers

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 10 December 1920 · page 4

The Legislative Council Agricultural Committee obtained in evidence from the Superintendant of Technical Education information to the effect that…

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No. 502. Pastoral Sheep in the North. Precautions Necessary for Their Maintenance

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 11 December 1920 · page 3

The Department of Agriculture has for a number of years conducted experiments at its farms on the North Coast with the object of determining…

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Agricultural & Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 11 December 1920 · page 3

These Notes are issued every week, under the Minister of Agriculture, and are based [?]ly on the experience of the Department…

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Record Price. For Australian Greasy Wool. 46½d per lb

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 11 December 1920 · page 2

Mr. E. J. Memman's well-known clip branded EJM/Ravensworth, Yass, N.S.W., was offered at auction on Tuesday last by Harrison, Jones and…

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The Cowra Free Press Use Soft Words and Hard Arguments Saturday, Dec. 11th, 1920 Local and General [?] Farmers and Others I

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 11 December 1920 · page 2

Be economicall Save your tallow and kitchen fat, and got 10/- per kerosene tin full at the Cowra Soap Works, Brisbanestreet. Don't forget to tell your friends…

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Overseas Wheat Position

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 13 December 1920 · page 2

A CABLE last week to Messrs. Lindley Walker Co-op. Wheat Co. Ltd. read as follows: Argentine surplus now estimated…

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CORRESPONDENCE We wish it to be distinctly understood that we do not in any way identify ourselves with the opinions expressed by our correspondents. the Farmers' Union (To the Editor of the Grenfell Record)

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 13 December 1920 · page 2

DEAR SIR,—I don't know how Mr. Simpson's letters strike you, but they make me tired. Take, for instance, his long treatise…

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The Weather—and Crops

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 13 December 1920 · page 2

FROM enquiries made on Saturday we were informed that the ultimate damage to the grain crop depends upon the kind of…

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District Sheep at Homebush

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 14 December 1920 · page 4

Sheep buyers were eager to secure their needs at Homebush last Thursday. In consequence, though supplieswere heavy, recent values were fully…

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A Locked Station Local Flour Mill's Requirements Wheat Board's Proposals Opposed by Wheatgrowers

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 14 December 1920 · page 1

The Wheat Board having announced its intention to declare Wyalong Central a locked station unless sufficient whent was delivered to the…

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The Crops Last Week's Effects

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 14 December 1920 · page 2

The first alarm over, it is found that the damage to Forbes districts crops caused by last week's unusual weather conditions, is considerably…

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Grenfell's Crops

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 14 December 1920 · page 1

Grenfell—A crop on Mill's Bald Hills station has been cutting over 50 bushels. The [?]nd had not been fallowed or manured. Another crop…

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Financing Farmers Scope of Assistance Scheme Co-operative Credit Societies

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 14 December 1920 · page 8

Thus the "Daily Telegraph":—"The rural landholder has for many years had dangled before him politicians' promises of a land or…

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The Wheat Question

Cowra Free Press · Wednesday 15 December 1920 · page 2

At a thoroughly representative public meeting of wheat growers to consider proposals put forward by the Australian Farmer's Federal…

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