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

Farming & the land, 1927

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Beef Cattle Prospects

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 27 June 1927 · page 2

General opinion is that fat cattle be very scarce in New South Wales throughout the winter and early spring months. Big drafts of…

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Miscellaneous Wool Sales

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 27 June 1927 · page 1

Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd., report:—Special interest centred in the series of sales last week, inasmuch as a fair shoeing of early new clip was…

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Wagga Sheep Sale

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 28 June 1927 · page 4

The Associated Selling Agents report having held their usual sale of sheep in the Municipal yards on the 23rd inst., when there was a total…

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The Wool Clip

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 28 June 1927 · page 2

The following figures relating to the estimated shearing and wool production' for the year ended June 30, 1926, are taken from information supplied…

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Alleged Wheat Stealing Case Again Remanded

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 28 June 1927 · page 2

John Thomas Johnson, who was recently before the court on several charges in connection with alleged wheat stealing, appeared this…

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Pastoral a Valuable Introduced Grass Phalaris Bulbosa Again Proves Its Worth

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 28 June 1927 · page 3

The latest report of success with this grass comes from Mr. H. Wellerm, of Ben [?] who planted an area with [?] [?] July 1926, on old…

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World Wheat Conference of Pools "Success" Say Delegates

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 28 June 1927 · page 4

[?] Australian Awheat-growers shoould benefit from the recent international conference of wheat pool…

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Wheat Disappears Charges Against Carter Case at Forbes

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 28 June 1927 · page 6

There was a further development in the alleged wheat-stealing cases when John Thomas Johnson was again before the Court at Forbes…

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Farmers and Settlers Bellarwi Branch

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 28 June 1927 · page 7

A meeting of the Bellarwi Branch of the F. and S. was held at Bellarwi Hall on the 14th inst. Members present were Messrs E…

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Wool Reports

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 29 June 1927 · page 10

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, report:--We brought forward our final catalogue of 2752 bales for the present season on…

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100,000 Sheep In A Week

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 29 June 1927 · page 9

Pennings at the Homebush sheep and lamb sales last week totalled 100,600 head, and cattle offerings 7280 head. Winchcombe, Carson Ltd…

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He Knows All About Wheat

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 29 June 1927 · page 4

In Mr. D. Miller the residents of Daroobalgie have a practical farmer who studies the soil and the growing of cereals like ah astronomer studies…

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Old-time Wheat Interesting Discovery

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 29 June 1927 · page 9

During excavations that were being made in Mesopotamia there was found in a red and black jar in a Sumerian house a quantity of charred wheat…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 29 June 1927 · 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. BREEDING FOR WOOL…

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Sound Wool Market. Sales Close Strong

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 29 June 1927 · page 10

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report:--Events of the past two weeks in the Australian wool trade are worth remembering. In Victoria at the sales…

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Dairying. Feeding Dairy Cows. Suitable Rations for Cows in Milk

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 29 June 1927 · page 8

The dairy-farmer is limited in his selection of food for the dairy cow by its cost as well as by its suitability. The cow can deal with a large amount of food…

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Strong Demand for Wool. at Clearing Sales

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 30 June 1927 · page 2

The Secretary, Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. Co., under date 27th June, writes:— At our sale on the 22nd June we…

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Local and General Wheat 5500 Years Old. Found in Mesopotamia

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 30 June 1927 · page 3

Wheat of a type still cultivated was grown on the plains of Mesopotamia before the days of Abraham, according to a find reported in the…

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On the Land Pastoral (Special for “Free Press”). Sheep Surplus Meat Trade Problem

Cowra Free Press · Friday 1 July 1927 · page 8

How to profitably dispose of the surplus sheep in New South Wales is still the problem, and month after month this problem becomes more…

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Some Fat Sheep!

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 1 July 1927 · page 6

Mr. J. E. Larnach, of "The Bunga[?] Forbes, trucked ten head of fat sheep for the Sydney Sheep Show. The aggregate live weight of the animals…

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