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

Farming & the land, 1928

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Wagga Cattle Market

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 1

The Wagga Associated Selling Agents report having held the usual fortnightly sale of cattle in the Municipal Saleyards on the 12inst., when…

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Wheat Pool Close on January 31

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 6

It has been decided by the Board of Management of the Wheatgrowers Pooling and Marketing Company Ltd that the present season's pool will…

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On the Land Pastoral to Combat Drought the Rail Factor

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 1

Grasing interests particularly should be pleased over the fact that the Government has referred to the public Works Committee a proposal to…

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Wool Report Rising Values. Very Keen Bidding

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report under date January 13, 1928:— Our Sydney wool catalogue on Thursday comprised 563 large lots…

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Farmers and the Tariff (To the Editor, "Advocate")

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 5

Dear Sir,—Will you kindly grant me space to reply to Mr. Percy R. Meggy, whose letter, "The Farmers' and the Tariff," appeared in your issue of 13th…

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The Golden Fleece Big Prices at Auctions Record Price Comeback Fleece The Secretary Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. Co. reports:—

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 5

At our sale on the 11th inst. we offered our most attractive catalogue to date, consisting of 8,374 bales, representative of a wide area of the…

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Under Crop Over 8000 Acres

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 6

All going well, the value, of the maize crop to Gundagai next year should be over £100,000. "There's a mine of wealth untold"…

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Wool Report

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 18 January 1928 · page 9

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited, report:- The outstanding feature of the sales which have been held during the past…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Forbes Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1928 · page 6

Under excited competition, in which all sections shared, the wool market ruled at quite the best point of the season to-day, and very full and…

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Pastoral Subterranean Clover. Proves Itself Under Adverse Conditions

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 18 January 1928 · page 8

Subterranean clover has proved itself adaptable to the vagaries of the seasons on portions of the South-western Slopes during the past twelve months. While…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 18 January 1928 · 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. DAIRYING…

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Higher Wool Market Demand Decidedly Strong

The Forbes Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1928 · page 3
Also in Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder

With a rise in wool values and prices fur sheep and lambs on more satisfactory levels than were experienced in 1927, the pastoral industry…

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Wheat Growing Frost Injury Often Confused with Disease

The Forbes Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1928 · page 9

Cases are continually coming under the notice of the Government Biologist where damage done to wheat plants by the incidence of late frosts is being…

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Sanitary Farming

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 18 January 1928 · page 3

A very sensible suggestion made by Mr. Henry Richmond, of Lytham, in a Manchester paper, deserves the widest possible publicity (says Land and Water). It is that…

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Wool Sales

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 19 January 1928 · page 2

Goldsbrough,. Mort and Co., Ltd., wired yesterday:— We offered on Tuesday 5315 bales of good selection and few super…

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Federal Pastoral Award. Holiday Pay Question

Western Champion · Thursday 19 January 1928 · page 19

Under the Federal pastoral award, station hands are entitled to a fortnight's holiday on full pay, for every completed year of service with an…

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Local Sheep

Cowra Free Press · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 3

Bidding was weaker at the Homebush sheep and lamb auctions last Monday. Supplies totalled 28,000 head. Prime wethers and prime lambs…

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Pastoral Award Holiday Pay

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 9

Under the Federal pastoral award station hands are entitled to a fortnight's holiday on full pay for every completed year of service with an…

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Local Wool

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 4

Japanese buyers completed keenly for Mr. John Cattle's wool clip from West Wyalong offered at Winchombe Carson's Sydney sale last Thursday…

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