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

Farming & the land, 1926

1,383 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 8 of 70

Price of Wheat

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 9 February 1926 · page 1

The quote for wheat at the local Flour Mill on Monday evening was 5/5½ and 5/7½…

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Moderate Wool Values General Conservative Optimism

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 9 February 1926 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: On recent basis of values, wool sales are proceeding satisfactorily. Queensland and New South Wales clips…

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Wool Sales. Good Values Realised. Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 9 February 1926 · page 2

At the wool sales in Sydney yesterday 10,743 bales were disposed of. There was keen competition, and the values were on a par with the last…

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Moderate Wool Values General Conservative Optimism Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. write

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 9 February 1926 · page 2

On recent basis of values, wool sales are proceeding satisfactorily. Queensland and New South Wales clips latterly catalogued have been chiefly…

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Drop of 4/ In Wheat Freights (By Wire) Sydney, Monday Night

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 9 February 1926 · page 1

Wheat freights fell again during the week end. A consignment at 32/5 was announced which represents a drop or…

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The Crop Growing Contests Extracts from the Judges' Reports

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 9 February 1926 · page 8

A review of the wheat growing competitions, illustrating the value of hitterday methods in an adverse season, appeared in these notes last week, the…

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'Bidgee River Low Corn Crops Standing Well

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 9 February 1926 · page 3

The Murrambidgee River has not beem lower for years, (says the Gundigai "Times"), and you can walk across it in places. January was a dry month…

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Tumut Tobacco Crops Best for Years

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 9 February 1926 · page 3

The Government tobacco expert (Mr C. J. Treganna) considers that the Tumut tobacco crops are the best that have been grown for the past ten…

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Wool

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 10 February 1926 · page 10

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

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 10 February 1926 · page 8

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. PASTORAL…

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Dairying. Bacteria in the Dairy. How Milk May be Contaminated

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 10 February 1926 · page 8

Milk is a very suitable food for bacteria, and furnishes an excellent medium for their growth and development. It contains all the necessary nutritive…

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Agricultural. the Basis of Prosperity. Botany in Relationship to Farming

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 10 February 1926 · page 8

"It has been said by some that New South Wales is climbing to prosperity on the sheep's back; others think that it is climbing there on the cow's back. In…

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Pastoral. Sheep Blowflies. Their Range and Longevity

Western Champion · Thursday 11 February 1926 · page 4

The importance of carcase destruction as ope of the means of controlling the sheep blowfly has long been emphasised by the Department of…

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Wool Market

Western Champion · Thursday 11 February 1926 · page 16

Australian, Mercantile, Land and Finance Company, Ltd., report under date, 5th February:—No sales have been held in Sydney this week owing…

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Wool Market

Western Champion · Thursday 11 February 1926 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report un der date 4th February: Interest during the past week has been centred…

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A Wheat Wizard

Western Champion · Thursday 11 February 1926 · page 13

A. E. Perkins, the special representative of the "Daily Guardian" and "Smith's Weekly," who paid this district a visit last week has the…

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Trundle Farmers Make History

Western Champion · Thursday 11 February 1926 · page 11

Had Frank and George Berry, of "Woodview," Trundle (N.S.W.), listened to the F. N. Yarwoods and all the other pessimists and Dismal…

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Pastoral Wool From Trees. a Much-discussed New Fibre

Cowra Free Press · Friday 12 February 1926 · page 6

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

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Wheat

Cowra Free Press · Friday 12 February 1926 · page 10

It is rather disappointing to discover from the official returns that for 1925,26 the area sown for wheat was the smallest cropped in N.S.W…

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Gilgandra Wheat

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 12 February 1926 · page 3

This year the wheat received at Gilgandra railway station and flour mill is only one quarter of the quantity received last year. To date 104,…

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