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

Farming & the land, 1934

1,573 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 29 of 79

Increased Pay For Pastoral Workers

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 4 May 1934 · page 9

New rates of pay showing increases in most cases are provided in the new basic wage for the pastoral industry, announced zy the Full…

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Price of Wheat

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 4 May 1934 · page 1

Wheat was quoted locally on Thurs day afternoon at 1/lO[?]d. in bags and in silos…

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Wheat Sowing Now in Operation YARRABANDAI

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 4 May 1934 · page 6

Most farmers are now busy sowing their wheat crops. It is not considered that the grasshoppers will do much harm from now on…

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WHEAT-GROWING Recent Developments in Disease Control

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 4 May 1934 · page 3

During recent years methods have been evolved which have to a very large extent eliminated the uncertainty which formerly existed in regard…

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WOOL. The Outlook. Good Basis of Prices

Western Champion · Friday 4 May 1934 · page 12

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report: Those with specially nervous feelings regarding the trend of wool prices are likely to prove incorrect in their…

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Wheat Commission Sitting at Cargelligo Extension of Moratorium

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 4 May 1934 · page 5

A plea for an extension of the moratorium to farmers, or some guarantee that mortgagees would not foreclose on farm properies was made…

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Control of Worm Infestation in Sheep Importance of Good Feed

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 4 May 1934 · page 9

Adequate nutrition is an important factor in the control of internal parasites in stock, and in the course of a recent survey of work in the…

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EXPERIMENTS In Wool Production Astounding Results Pasture Deficiencies Counteracted

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 4 May 1934 · page 8

It is quite a common occurrence to meet graziers in various parts of the State who frequently and most emphatically say that…

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Wheat Commission Sittings Commenced at Parkes Burden of Interest Charges

Western Champion · Friday 4 May 1934 · page 14

The burden of interest charges was one of the principal, banes of the wheatgrower mentioned before the Wheat Com missioft, which commenced its sittings in Parkes yesterday morning... Professor S. McMahon Wadham, Professor of Agriculture…

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Prudes Steady At London Wool Sales (By Wire) Sdyney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 4 May 1934 · page 1

A cable from London states:—At the London wool sales on Wednes day, 7113 bales were offered, includins 909 bales from New South Wales…

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STOCK 7 Land Page Parkes Stock Sale Heavy Cattle Yarding Prices Trending Downward

Western Champion · Friday 4 May 1934 · page 4

It was a glorious day on Tuesaay when the usual fortnightly stock sales opened at the municipal yards. A good crowd was in attendance…

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Record Dairy Sale. Cows to £17

Western Champion · Friday 4 May 1934 · page 8

Messrs. Hanlon and &. Co, report having conducted a most successful clearing sale of dairy herd on a/c. Mr. T. R. Ditchfield, of "Green Vale,"…

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Book-keeping for Farmers Five Reasons for the Practice

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 4 May 1934 · page 9

Book-keeping is not a practice that is taken to very kindly by most farmers, but some permanent record of purchases and sales, profits and…

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For Farms Training Plan

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 4 May 1934 · page 3

To teach boys the elementary requirements of farm work—how to milk, how to ride a horse, and how to chop wood—is the obective of a…

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Bogan Gate Farming Activities Bogan Gate, Wed

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 4 May 1934 · page 6

The grasshoppers are still making their presence felt and farmers are reluctant to sow wheat. A number of farmers have started…

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Wool Report

Cowra Free Press · Monday 7 May 1934 · page 3
Also in The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. Ltd. report:— To a certain extent the state of uncertainty which has existed to the…

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Wool and Stock. Fur Skin Reports

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 7 May 1934 · page 4

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. Ltd., report:— Rabbitskins: The supply was about equal to last week, the total offerings…

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Quandialla the Right Spirit. Farmers and Settlers and Agricultural Bureau Share the Meeting

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 7 May 1934 · page 2

The Quandialla district has agreed that both the above organisations are unnecessary in a farming area, and that both can meet on the same…

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Farmers' Debts

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 7 May 1934 · page 3

At a largely attended meeting of representatives of the Wheatgrowers' Union at Parkes, embracing delegates from Tullamore, Trundle…

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