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

Farming & the land, 1927

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Alleged Cattle Stealing Two Men Committed for Trial Sensational Evidence

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 15

Two men, Sylvanius and Thomas Ernest Stanford, were before Mr. C. A. Arnold, at the Forbes Court of Petty Sessions, on Tuesday, charged…

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Struck Dead While Chatting' with Friend Ulmarra Farmer

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 4

During, a thunderstorm at Lower Ulmarray lightning killed Bennet William Blanch (43), dairy farmer, as he was leaning against a post at…

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Engine Sparks Farmers Claim £60,000 Bush Fire Damage

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 2

Acting for landowners in the district who have suffered in bush fires Messrs. Broderick and Hunter, solicitors, of Forbes, have made claims…

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Nine Bag Average a Splendid Crop

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 2

Messrs Thompson and Patten, of "Baroona," Yalgogrin North, stripped 4,500 bags of wheat from 500 acres, thus securing an average of…

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Riverslea Estate Converted From a Rabbit Breeding to a Sheep Raising Estate. Now One of the Best Properties in the District. a Lesson in Perseverance and the Judicious Expenditure of £.s.d

Cowra Free Press · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 7

Great credit is due to the energetic Mr. S. R. Coward, of Riverslea Estate, for that gentleman’s determination in eradacting “bunny” and…

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Prolific Wheat

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 3

Last year a farmer out Marsden way purchased a 3-bushel bag of Beua seed wheat from Cowra Experiment Farm. He sowed it on a 6¾ acre plot…

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Weelong Wool

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 1

Good prices were obtained for wool from Mr. G. Thompson's "Weelong" Station at Pitt, Son and Badgery's sale last week. Five bales of Super [?]…

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Current Topics 20,000 Sheep

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 2

At the Orange Corporation Yards on Tuesday next, 18th inst., Messrs. McNeilly, Crampton & Martin, Ltd., will offer 20,000 head heep, including…

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Wheat Shortage In New Zealand

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 1

The estimated wheat yield this senson is insufficient for the needs of the Dominion. Fifty thousand acres more should have been sown. One Dunedin…

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Wheat Pool The Coming Referendum

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 7

The Government lias the matter of taking a ballot of wheat-growers as to the constitution of the compulsory pool next season well in hand…

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Rates Too High on Farm Lands

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 3

A letter from Mr. C. K. Rose and others read at last night’s meeting of the Municipal Council, asked that their properties outside the residential…

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Sheep on the Wheat Farm

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 12 January 1927 · page 7

One of the most important developments of wheat-growing in New South Wales during the past few years has been the recognition by many of the most…

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Strong Wool Market

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 12 January 1927 · page 9

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report:--Spirited competition characterised our opening New Year Sydney wool sale last Tuesday. We sold at auction 95…

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Pastoral. Sowing of Grasses. Different Methods of Seeding Pastures

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 12 January 1927 · page 7

The increasing interest that is being taken by farmers in the different phases of pasture improvement, and the approach of autumn (the season best suited…

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Wheat Harvest 51,000,000 BUSHELS

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 12 January 1927 · page 4

The Government Statistician has issued a report in connection with the wheat harvest. From the figures to hand, he estimates that the wheat…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 12 January 1927 · page 7

These Notes are issued every week, by direction of the Honorable the Minister Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. DAIRYING…

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Sheep on the Wheat Farm

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 13 January 1927 · page 8

One of the most important developments of wheat-growing in New South Wales during the past few years has been the recognition by many of the…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Western Champion · Thursday 13 January 1927 · page 11

Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., wired us yesterday as follows: Competition was very brisk and general at our Sydney wool sales on Tuesday…

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Wool Sales. Values Maintained

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 13 January 1927 · page 3

The Secretary, Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Co., under date 10th January, writes: Auction sales were resumed after…

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Wheat Pool. the Coming Referendum

Western Champion · Thursday 13 January 1927 · page 5

The Government has the matter of taking a ballot of wheat growers as to the constitution of the compulsory pool for next season well in hand…

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