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

Farming & the land, 1925

1,292 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 9 of 65

The Wheat Boom Riverina Harvest Tractor Beats the Horse

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 10 February 1925 · page 4

Wagga.—The boom in the wheat markets has aroused great interest in the Wagga district, and conjecture is ri[?]e as to possible increases in prices…

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Cost of the Loaf America Feels Pinch Abnormal Wheat Prices

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 10 February 1925 · page 3

New York.—For the first time since the war the United States, itself one of the world's great granaries, is beginning to feel the pinch of the high…

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48/4 for Wethers High Price for Moree Sheep (By Wire) Monday Evening

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 10 February 1925 · page 2

A draft of 800 wethers from Mr. Cameron, of Moree, at Homebush to-day sold at 48/4, and averaged 45/8. A line from H. Bornes, Gulgar,…

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Note to Growlers By a Farm Hand

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 10 February 1925 · page 1

A migrant farm hand, V. G. Beck, writes from Inverell an interesting "note to growlers" in reply to a letter that appeared recently in the…

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Crop Growing Competitions Extension of the Movement in New South Wales

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 10 February 1925 · page 2

The districts in which crop growing competitions have been judged this summer by officers of the New South Wales Department of Agriculture…

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Ten Bags From “Lost” Crop

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 10 February 1925 · page 1

To cut nearly 10 bags of wheat to the acre from a crop of thistles through which scarcely any wheat was visible, was the extraordinary…

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Wool Sales

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 11 February 1925 · page 4

Wincheombe, Carson Ltd. wired us on Monday : -- Competition was again restricted at Sydney wool sales today. Japanese…

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I Wool Reports

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 11 February 1925 · page 7

New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Company Limited report: -- Attention during the past week has been focussed on the series of sales…

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Agricultural Anu Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. These Notes are issued every week, by direction of the Honorable the Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. Dairying. Economical Feeding of Dairy Cattle. The Principles Involved

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 11 February 1925 · page 6

The food of the dairy cow is almost legion in its variety. At one time almost confined to grass and hay, the cow has now a choice of cereal meals,…

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Cheap Sheep

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 10

The cheapest place to buy good sheep at the present time is Goulburn. This claim is made by Messrs. W. H. Wheatley, the well-known…

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Overseas Wheat Market

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 11

The overseas market for wheat is inactive, and local business is necessarily slack. Quotations of growers' lots, have receded 2d. to 63, ex…

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Eugowra Our Wheat

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 3

The wheat is still coming in and en the whole the sample has been T.a.q. Approximately 50,000 bags are stacked at the local yards, and…

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Yesterday's Wool Sales

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 11

At the wool sales yesterday the prices showed a further decline, of from 5 to 7 per cent. A Melbourne advice states that it has been decided…

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1916-17 Wheat Claim

Cowra Free Press · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 8

In a recent issue of the official “Gazette,” for justice Kessell, Under Secretary for Justice, was named as nominal defendant on behalf of…

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Wool Report Fine Wools Firm. Other Classes Cheaper

Cowra Free Press · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 8

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report under date 10th February, as follows: Demand was again restricted at our Sydney wool sales last Monday…

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Forbes Court Matters Tuesday, February 10. (Before Mr. G. S. Shepherd, P.m.) Wool Stealing Charge. Matter of Identification

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 3

There was only one case before the Forbes Court on Tuesday, that of William Michael Smith, who was remanded during the week on a…

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Dairying to Clean Dairy Utensils

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 6

It is simply amazing, comments E O. Challis in the Journal of the South African Department of Agriculture, how many people wash dairy utensils…

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Water for Cowra Experiment Farm

Cowra Free Press · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 6

Mr. E. S. Twigg writes:— Messrs. W. A. O’Neil and L. McInnes are Impossible. At a meeting of the Cowra branch of the F. and S…

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Wheat Market

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 17 February 1925 · page 2

A somewhat, bettor tone operated at the local wheat market yesterday, but business was quiet. Prices ranged from 66 to 67, ex trucks, or…

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Wool Sales the Fall in Wool

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 17 February 1925 · page 1

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report:— The wool market has unquestionably not maintained the reputation for buoyancy it established earlier in the…

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