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

Farming & the land, 1927

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Wool Report

Cowra Free Press · Friday 28 January 1927 · page 9

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. Ltd. report under date January 27, 1926 : At the sales in Brisbane during this week a very firm market, with…

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Record Wheat Yield

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 28 January 1927 · page 6

Probably a record yield in a pure seed wheat trial in New South Wales is 54 bushels, or 18 bags, to the acre, from a three-acre plot on the farm…

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Brisbane Wool Sales

Cowra Free Press · Friday 28 January 1927 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. report:— We received the following wire from our Brisbane office:—“Compared with ’a8t Brisbane sales prices for fine…

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WOOL Spirited Demand

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 28 January 1927 · page 1

The Secretary Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. Co. write:— The eleventh round of sales in the Sydney market, concluded on the…

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Wheat Growing Farmers’ Estimates of Cost of Production. (From the Agricultural Bureau “Record”)

Cowra Free Press · Friday 28 January 1927 · page 10

“What should a farmer receive per bushel for wheat to return him fair interest for money invested and a fair wage for his work ?”…

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Wheat. Current Season Estimates Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 28 January 1927 · page 6

A preliminary estimate of the wheat harvest in N.S.W. for the current season is given at 18,741,000 bags, equivalent to 50,223,000 bushels of…

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Wheat Pooling Compulsion Opposed "Pass Enabling Act"

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 28 January 1927 · page 10

The ballot paper and circular in connection with the ballot of wheatgrowers as to whether they are in favor of a compulsory pool in…

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Record Wheat Yield 54 Bags from Three Acres

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 28 January 1927 · page 14

Probably a re[?] a pure [?] wheat trial in New South Wales is 54 bushels, or 18 bags, per [?] is 54 bushels, or, 18 bags, p[?]…

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Golden Wheat Big Harvest in N.S.W (By Wire) Sydney

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 28 January 1927 · page 1

A preliminary estimate of the wheat harvest in New South Wales for the current season is given as 16,711,000 bags, equivalent to 50,223,…

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Tin Trunk for Bank Alleged Theft at Quandialla Farm Hand Committed

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 28 January 1927 · page 10

Frederick Alfonso Anderson, a farm hand in the Quandialla. district, was committed for trial at Grenfell Court on a charge of stealing £51…

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The Farming Train Mixing lectures and Pleasure

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 28 January 1927 · page 14

At the last meeting of the executinve of the Farmors and Settlers' Association members were divided on the question whether the Better…

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Pastoral Notes Our Wool Reply to Critics

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

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

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Ungarie Sheep

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 1 February 1927 · page 8

Sheep made full late figures, but lambs were about 1/ cheaper at Homebush last Thursday. Offerings totalled 32,000 head. James Porter, Ungarie,…

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Pastoral Soil Productivity Practices Conducive to its Increase

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 1 February 1927 · page 7

According to the Bureau of Soils of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the United States will have to depend for its production of wheat, maize, and…

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Wool Prospects Brighter. Business Generally Improved

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 1 February 1927 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: All indications point to continued buoyancy in wool values. In Great Britain turnover in the mills is…

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Agricultural Seed Wheat Maintaining the Standard of Purity

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 1 February 1927 · page 4

Largely as a result of, the numerous crop competitions, more attention is now being paid to the quality of seed wheat. It is advisable to only sow…

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Pastoral. Sheep Transport by Motor. An Interesting Queensland Experiment

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 2 February 1927 · page 6

Details of an interesting experiment in the transport of sheep appear in the Queensland Agricultural Journal. The journal describes how Mr. W. A. Russell…

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Wool Spirited Demand

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 2 February 1927 · page 2

The Secretary, Farmers and Graziers Co-operative Co. writes:--The eleventh round of sales in the 19th inst. Buyers will operate in…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. These are issued every week by direction of the Honorable the Minister of Agriculture and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. Better Seed, Bigger Crops. The Trend of Western Wheat-growing Practice

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 2 February 1927 · page 6

The system of pure seed-wheat supply established in the western district in 1924 (by which the product of departmentally-selected seed is made available…

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Short Story. Professor's Dilemma. [?] FARMER, in "Harmsworth." I.

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 2 February 1927 · page 3

[?] Hummelstein's lecture on the [?]m of Protoplasm" had been but interesting. He had put for[?] new theory…

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