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

Farming & the land, 1926

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Crossbred Lamps. on Mixed Farms

Western Champion · Thursday 4 February 1926 · page 6

Now that farmers in the wheat belt are considering cropping and general farming operations for the ensuing year, a question of vital…

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District Sheep

Cowra Free Press · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 6

Buyers were in good attendance at the Homebush sales last Thursday. Heavy supplies gave a check to bidding. Offerings totalled 34,000 sheep…

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Mysterious Sheep Morality

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 11

Mr. George Cooley, the Woodstock sportsman, has suffered a very severe loss in a simple manner. He had a number of sheep running in a paddock…

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Wool Report

Cowra Free Press · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 3

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. report under date, 28th January : The 15th series of sales was…

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Wool Report

Cowra Free Press · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 6

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. Ltd. report under date, January 28th, as follows : Series No. 15 has now been brought…

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Brisbane Wool Sales

Cowra Free Press · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 4
Also in The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. received the following wire from their Brisbane office:—“Average to good selection of wool available at opening…

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First Wool Auction

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 2

An Adeliade correspondent states that about 25 years ago, in one of the newspapers, appeared a copy of the account sales of the sale of wool from…

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Monument to Wheat Pioneers

Cowra Free Press · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 6

Recently the exact spot was located where Alan Cunningham grew the first plot of wheat in N.S.W. It is located in the Sydney Botanical Gardens…

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Latest Markets the Wool Position

Cowra Free Press · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report: — France has been a good bidder for the better class wiols at recent Sydney sales. But her activity generally does…

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Wheat Growing Competitions The Past Season in Review

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 7

Considering the principles they are lesigned to inculcate and the rapid development of the movement in recent years, the benefit of crop…

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Wool From Trees a Much Discussed New Fibre

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 12
Also in The Forbes Advocate

The statement that the Snia-Viscosa of Turin, which is said to be the largest company in Italy and second largest producer of artificial silk in…

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Interesting Parkes Case Stealing Railway Wheat. Porters Before the Court

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 14

A good deal of interest was again evinced in a couple of railway cases at the Parkes Police Court on Wednesday last, when Ernest Edward…

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Wheat Up 1d World's Market Firming (By Wire) Sydney

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 1

The increasing firmness of the world's wheat markets is reflected locally, buyers having advanced prices one penny, on a basis of 6/3,…

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What of Sniafil ? Scientists Say Won’t Supplant Wool. Past Failures

Cowra Free Press · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 3

With a blare of trumpets, an artificial textile sniafil, has been boosted as a probable supplanter of natural sheep-grown wool…

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Experiment Farms Instructors Answer As Well

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 5 February 1926 · page 7

The policy of the Department of Agriculture in regard to the establishment of experiment farms, judging by the reply which has been…

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Wool

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 9 February 1926 · page 4
Also in The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette, The Forbes Advocate

The Secretary, Farmers and Graziers’ Co-op, Co. writes : Of late the wool market has suffered quite a unexpected setback. In…

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