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

Farming & the land, 1927

1,475 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 14 of 74

Latest Markets a Sound Wool Outlook

Cowra Free Press · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 4

English and American Position. Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. report under date February 24th. :— It is doubtful if at any period in…

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Credit Where It Is Due Farmers Find Some Good Even in Lang. Allows 1917 Wheat Case to Proceed Where Nation-alists Refused

Cowra Free Press · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 3

In reply to Mr. Martin Tully at yesterday’s F.S.A. meeting Mr. H. S. Henley said the 1917 Wheat Pool case had been listed, and they were…

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Wheat Pooling Dunn Says Must Come (By Wire) Sydney

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 1

Mr. Dunn, Minister, for Agriculture has expressed the opinion that the time must come when the wheat growers will be forced by…

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Fallow and Crop Local Competition Entries Closing

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 1

We give a reminder that entries close this week for the fallow and crop compoition which is being conducted by the West Wyalong Show…

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Better Farming a Train of Knowledge

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 4

The Department of Agriculture has issued a booklet describing the objects and the contents of the Better Farming Train which will tour the…

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Stick to Politics Farmers Active

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 6

The annua] meeting of the Illabo Farmers and Settlers' Association was largely attended. Mr. C. Talbot, the president, made an appeal to…

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Mr. Buttenshaw, M.L.A. Addresses Farmers and Settlers. Many Matters Covered

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 12

At the conclusion of the business of the District Council of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, the chairman, Mr. A. Q. Minter, called upon…

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Good Outlook for Farmers

Cowra Free Press · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 1

A very favorable pastoral and agricultural outlook throughout the district is reported by Stock Inspector Smith, to the Young P.P. Board. Good…

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Rabbit Infested Country Farmer Faced with Formidable Task. to Be Summoned for Non- Destruction. Frogmore Wants a “Just” Inspector

Cowra Free Press · Friday 4 March 1927 · page 7

Faced with a case in which a farmer had a formidable task in clearing up a stretch of bad country from rabbits “awful Country” the…

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District Conference Agricultural Bureaux Diseases of Sheep (By Mr. Belschner, District Veterinary Officer, Orange)

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 7 March 1927 · page 4

Grenfell being the centre of a progressive sheep and wheat district, I have taken as my subject to-night the consideration of some of the more…

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Bulk Wheat Season's Operations

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 8 March 1927 · page 3

The Govenment grain elevators for the current season now closing have received 12,715,000 bushels of wheat, as against 9,136,000 b[?]sheln…

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Waratah a Popular Variety of Wheat

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 8 March 1927 · page 2

The increasing popularity of Waratah wheat is remarkable, comments the Chief Inspector of Agriculture in a recent crop growing competition…

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Hid in Crop Left Leg Severed Baby Girl's Game

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 8 March 1927 · page 2

A baby girl at King's Creek near Toowoomba hid in a crop of millet, and had her left leg severed by the knife of a reaping machine…

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Fire at Koorawatha Woman Charged with Setting a Crop Alight

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 8 March 1927 · page 3

This morning, before His Honor, Judge Armstrong, Mrs. Mary Ann Preston was charged with setting fire to a crop the property of Arthur…

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Inland Dairying. An Aspect that Many Farmers Overlook

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 9 March 1927 · page 6

To obtain maximum returns from a dairy cow it is essential that she have access to supplies of green and succulent fodder, especially during the early…

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Junior Farmers' Clubs. a Valuable Means of Rural Education

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 9 March 1927 · page 6

Those interested in agricultural education and progress will have noted with interest references in the press to preliminary meetings of the Council of the…

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Dairying. Calf Rearing. Avoid Checks in Growth

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 9 March 1927 · page 6

The rearing of the calves is one of the most important activities on a dairy-farm, for to a great extent it is on success in this that the standard of the herd in a few…

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Agricultural and 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. Agricultural. Nearly Three Tons More. Increasing the Feed Per Acre by Top-dressing

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 9 March 1927 · page 6

Interesting results are reported by the manager of the Yanco Experiment Farm from experiments in the top-dressing of pasture with superphosphate…

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Compulsory Wheat Pool

Western Champion · Thursday 10 March 1927 · page 13

By a majority of 897 the wheat-growers who took the trouble of vote in the wheat pool ballot turned down the proposal for the establishment of a…

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Agricultural Bureau Conference. Grading of Wheat

Western Champion · Thursday 10 March 1927 · page 4

The following is the text of Mr. David Kelly's paper, submitted at the Western District Conference this week, on the question, "Will the…

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