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

Farming & the land, 1940

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Timely Advice To Primary Producers Seek New Crops

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 7

That the primary producer today would face his difficulties and would overcome them, just as the primary producer of 30 years ago…

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Country Conditions Farm & Weather Notes Quandialla, Wed

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 7

The year 1939 was the best year since 1936 as regards rainfall registered in this district. Only 16 points were received in January, but on February 26…

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Novel Wheat "Crop"

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 4

Nature has worked with a lavish hand in the wheat belt during the past year, but even Ripley would doubt that wheat would grow in…

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Wool Prices for Girral Wool

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 1

At the wool appraisements in Sydney recently the Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. Co. secured the following prices on account of Mrs. M. M…

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Wool Report

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 3
Also in The West Wyalong Advocate

The Farmers and Graziers Co-operative Co. Ltd. reports on the tenth instant: Our Appraisement Catalogue No. 10 comprising 12,638 bales was…

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Wool Report

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 3

Shute Bell Badgery Lumby Ltd. report under date 11th January : In conformity with a recent promise, the Central Wool Committee has…

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Wool Appraisements

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 3

Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd. report under date of 12th January, 1940:-- Appraisements were resumed in Sydney on Monday and the work is…

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Wool Reports

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 4

The Farmers and Graziers' Co—operative Co. Ltd., reports under date 10th inst.:—Our appraisement catalogue No…

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Rust in Wheat Crops. Ford Resistant: Dundee Susceptible

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 3

Heavy rains last November in several sections of the wheat belt stimulated extensive development of stem rust in crops already sappy sand…

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Wheat Grading. Jordan and Grieve

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 4

WHEAT GRADERS, Grenfell wish to notify their clients and the farmers generally that they will commence grading in this and…

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Record Claimed 750,000 Sheep Sold in Nine Months

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 4

Sale of approximately 750,000 sheep from March 1 to December 1, 1939, through the agency of V. J. Byrnes, Manilla, is claimed as a record for…

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What Does a Wheat Silo Cost? Major Reid Tells

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 5

What does it cost to erect a wheat silo? Many farmers have ashed this question from time to time…

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Huge Wheat Deal Contract with Britain Will Buy Half Our Surplus "Great News For Growers" Says Premier

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 2

The British Government has agreed to buy from the Australia Wheat Board 56,000,000 bushels of this season's wheat and…

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Electricity Wanted by District Farmers Shire Council Agrees

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 1

Three more applications for permission to have their properties connected with the Burrenjuck water supply have been received by Bland…

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Linseed Grown in the West Farmer Would Like to See It Irrigated

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 4

Linseed has been grown successfully in the West by Mr. A. H.Robards, of "Plain View," Nevertire. "I grew two plots of linseed here…

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Irrigation Farming. Valuable Free Booklet

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 3

Irrigation practice in New South Wales, up to the present, has been confined to the well-known Murrumbidgee Irrigation Areas and to…

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Producer Gas Forbes Grazier Was Advocate Supplies on Farms

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1940 · page 3

Almost ten years ago attention was directed by the late Mr. Paul ducer gas units in Franco. He pointed out that in the paddocks…

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Wheat Grading

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 1

M. J. LAMONT wishes to notify fanners that wheat graders will travel the Ungarie district and that one of the latest graders has been…

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Overseas Wheat Position. Lindley Walker Wheat Company's Special Wheat Report

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 6

Our cable reviewing international wheat markets this week reads:— "F.O.B. value No. 1 Manitoba 35/9 per quarter; No. 2 Manitoba ex…

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