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

Farming & the land, 1924

1,338 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 33 of 67

Wire Netting For Necessitous Farmers Now Available (By Wire) Sydney

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 25 July 1924 · page 4

Federal funds, for the purchase of wire netting, to necessitous settlers, is now available. Applications are to be made to…

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Wheat Matters The Voluntary Pool

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 29 July 1924 · page 1

Mr E. A. Buttenshaw, M.L.A. (Chairman of the Voluntary Wheat Pool) has been in the district for the week: end…

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Haystack Alight Farmer's Narrow Escape (By Wire) Monday Evening

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 29 July 1924 · page 4

Edward Crosby, aged 41, of Toowoomba, climbed to the top of a stack of hay in his shed at night, leaving a lamp on the floor…

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Labor’s Boast Assisting the Farmer. How They Did It

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 29 July 1924 · page 4

Mr. Hugh Main, M.L.A., forwards us the following: Captain Dunn, M.L.A., and other Labor members are constantly…

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Condobolin Demonstration Farm. Modern Methods Extending Wheat Belt

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 30 July 1924 · page 8

The Condobolin Experiment Farm on the western fringe of the wheat belt, has done much to demonstrate the possibilities of wheatgrowing in…

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Pastoral. Fat Lamb Raising. What Departmental Experiments have Proved

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 30 July 1924 · page 6

For a number of years the Department of Agriculture has been demonstrating at different experiment farms in the wheat belt what a profitable…

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French Wool Activity Costs and Profits

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 30 July 1924 · page 8

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd report: Inquiry for wool privately in Sydney has been brighter for the past two or three weeks than for some…

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For Clean Sheep. The Advantage of Co-operative Dipping

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 30 July 1924 · page 6

With the shearing season at hand, attention may be drawn to the value of dipping sheep within a reasonable time off shears. Though the operation can…

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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 Minister of Agriculture, and are based largely on the experience of the Department. Agricultural a Wheat-growing Objective. Increasing the Yield Per Acre

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 30 July 1924 · page 6

That the district wheat yield might be doubled by the employment of improved farm methods was the recently expressed opinion of a well-known…

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To Reduce Operating Costs. More Points About Farm Planning

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 30 July 1924 · page 6

The lay-out of a farm, as pointed out in these notes last week, has a very definite relation to the cost of production. A number of factors must be…

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Wheat Varieties and Seed Selection. [?]H. Bartlett, Senior Agricultural Instructor.)

Western Champion · Thursday 31 July 1924 · page 22

The popular varieties of wheat [?] frequently being superseded by [?]se of more recent introduction, [?] of the many factors contributing…

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Crop Report

Western Champion · Thursday 31 July 1924 · page 16

In his crop report for July Mr. H. Bartlett, Senior Instructor in Agriculture writes as follows:— For five weeks ending July 21st the weather…

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Labour's Boast. Assisting the Farmer—how They Did It

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 31 July 1924 · page 2

CAPTAIN DUNN, M.L.A., and other Labour members are constantly boasting how they assisted the farmer when in power, and how they would again…

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Except the Farmer

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 31 July 1924 · page 3

Samuel Vauclain, of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, says prosperity is here. It is Nearly everybody is prosperous. Except the farmer. His…

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Local Cattle

Cowra Free Press · Friday 1 August 1924 · page 1

Supplies were most limited at the Homebush cattle auctions last Monday. Only 25,000 head were forward. Prime light beef made late figures,…

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World's Wheat Situation

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 1 August 1924 · page 15

Lindley Walker, Co-op. Wheat Company write on 28th July:—We have received several cables during the week reading as follows:…

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Lake Cargelligo Things in General; "Wool Away"; the Flu Epidemic; the Australian Game; Rugby: Vital Statistics

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 1 August 1924 · page 14

For the last few mornings nature has veiled the countryside in a snowy sheen—not actual snow, of course, but nevertheless a close relation—…

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Labor's Boast Assisting the Farmer How They Did It

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 1 August 1924 · page 14

Captain Dunn, M.L.A., and other Labor members are constantly boasting how they assisted the farmer when in power, and how they would…

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Political Districts’ Advice to Farmers’ Conference

Cowra Free Press · Friday 1 August 1924 · page 3

Politicians in the Country Party and Progressive Party yearn to know how the “organisations” view the agreements, pacts, and conditions…

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Sheep at Homebush

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 5 August 1924 · page 1

Short supplies Kept competition up to the mark at the Homebush sheep and lamb auctions last Thursday. Only 22,000 head were forward. Firm…

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