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

Farming & the land, 1927

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Western Australia Will Soon Be the Premier Wheat - Producing State in the Commonwealth

Cowra Free Press · Friday 21 January 1927 · page 4

Thus the Western Australia ”Sunday Times” :— The Federal Minister for Works (Mr. W. C. Hill) stated at…

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Notes and Comments Weekly Review of Topics of Local and General Interest. Merino Wool

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 21 January 1927 · page 5

Recently the cables made reference to a statement by a Mr. S. B. Hollings in an address to the Bradford Textile Society, in which he referred…

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£2,000,000 Benefit for Dairy Parsers

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 21 January 1927 · page 14

Dairy farmers in the last twelve months have, benefitted to the oxtont of at least £2,0,00,000. as a result of the efforts of the Bruce-Page…

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Sacked Himself ! Claim by Farm Hand Against Farmer Fails. Defendant Says Complainant Was the Fourth Ryan to Walk Away This Year. Row Over the Tucker. Which Defendant Says He Has Himself When Working with the Men

Cowra Free Press · Friday 21 January 1927 · page 3

A charge against E. S. Twigg on Tuesday (before Mr. Scobie, R.M.) was that he failed to pay £2/12/ to James Ryan…

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District Sheep

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 25 January 1927 · page 1

Lambs and hoggets realised recent figures at Homebush last Thursday, but sheen were generally cheaper. Supplies were heavy, totalling 42,000…

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Notes and Comments Weekly Review of Topics of Local and General Interest. "Better Farming" Train

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 25 January 1927 · page 4

Having had "The Great White Train," we are now to be inflicted with!a "Better Farming Train," which is intended to put "ginger" into the…

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Lyndhurst Farmer’s Death

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 25 January 1927 · page 1

A rather sudden death occurred at Lyndhurst on Thursday morning, 13th instant, when a farmer named Henry E. Suddell, aged 59 years, collapsed…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 26 January 1927 · page 6

Should any fanner desire information relevant to his work on the land not referred to in these Notes at the time, a query addressed to the Under Secretary of Agriculture, Sydney, will be answered by letter as quickly as possible. When points of general interest are raised, the reply will, as far as practicable, be…

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Pastoral. Marketing of Fat Lambs. Loss of Weight While in Trucks

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 26 January 1927 · page 6

One of the factors most necessary to successful fat lamb raising is close proximity to the rail and to market, so that the lambs may reach the market still…

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Dairying. Low Production Costs. The Basis of Successful Dairying

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 26 January 1927 · page 6

Success in dairying is almost entirely dependent on production costs, and this factor (says a writer in the Farmers' Advocate, South Africa) is mostly…

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Seed Wheat

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 27 January 1927 · page 5

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Wool. Spirited Demand

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 27 January 1927 · page 2

The Secretary. Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Co., writes: The eleventh round of sales in the | Sydney market concluded on the 19th…

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"And the Pass Word was Wheat."

Western Champion · Thursday 27 January 1927 · page 19

Jack Moses had a day out in the Sydney Botanical Gardens the other week-end. He was doing his usual stunt round the sacred spot where…

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Crop Growing Competitions, 1926. Western District—Parkes Centre. Parkes, Forbes, Trundle, Tullamore, Bogan Gate, Peak Hill, Coradgery

Western Champion · Thursday 27 January 1927 · page 12

When crop growing competitions were introduced, the necessity of giving full details of the methods as practised by the move successful…

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Farmers' Experiments. Further Batch of Results

Western Champion · Thursday 27 January 1927 · page 17

Below we give a further batch of results from experiments conducted under the direction of Mr. Bartlett:- Pure seed wheat and variety trials…

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Crop Judging Competition

Western Champion · Thursday 27 January 1927 · page 11

The crop judging competition of the pure seed variety trial plots, held in connection with the Nelungaloo Agricultural Bureau, and judged by 18 of…

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Pastoral Our Wool Reply to Critics

Cowra Free Press · Friday 28 January 1927 · page 3

Mr. Hollings, Bradford Wool Correspondent of many papers throughout the Empire, remarked in a Bradford address that the Australian wool clip…

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Wool

Cowra Free Press · Friday 28 January 1927 · page 10

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., Ldt., Sydney, report under date January 20, as follows:— Series No. 5, comprising 100,000…

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Wagga Sheep Sale

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 28 January 1927 · page 5

The Associated Selling Agents of Wagga Wagga, held their usual fortnightly sale of sheep on the 20th inst., when there was a yarding of 1985 fats…

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Wheat Grading

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 28 January 1927 · page 4

H. RATCLIFF wishes to announce that he will travel Wyalong and surrounding districts with an up-to-date Wheat Grader and Dry pickilin Plant…

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