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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 28, 1912
Page
7
Advertising wisdom urges shopkeepers to act now and be seen. Do not wait for customers to find you. Advertise where thousands will see it, in bright up to date copy full of news and appeal.
The Cowra and Coolabah Government Farms tests show disc and mouldboard ploughs perform similarly if ploughing is properly timed. Early results suggest mouldboard may handle weed rows before planting, while wheat yields rise with limited rainfall across Wywlong and Jindera plots, reaching up to 28 bushels per acre. The report notes irrigation influence and diverse rainfall patterns on yields, with overall Commonwealth production for 1910-11 described as substantial.
A colonial agricultural bulletin explains how pollution taints domestic water during droughts and flood. It promotes boiling but favors a modern method using chloride of lime to sterilize water for drinking, detailing preparation, dilution, storage, and safety notes.
On Government Farms a dry spell heavy grazing led managers to conserve silage for ewes. Wagga and Cowra farms used silage plus barley and trefoil feed, with hay, molasses, and water. Lambs marked by May 26 show high survival. ration costs per ewe remained very low.
The readable fragment lists agricultural outputs and values including wheat, bay, grapes, and other products. It references North climate production and various regional figures with inconsistent OCR clarity, mentioning specific sums and rankings among items.
A fragment notes a Sydney wholesale druggist quote for catatonun AC labeled for Albany bottles, well corked and sealed, with a price in shillings and indicating the method as very expensive.
A table lists stations and the number of sheep to be shorn, with Wingades at 120,000 and Burrawang, Goonos Goonoe, Buttabone, and many others ranging from 9,000 to 120,000. Locations include Warren, Coonamble, Narromine, Gilgandra, Condobolin, and Parkes, among others, detailing shorn capacities for a large-scale shearing period.
A long list of auction lot entries across many NSW towns including Condadulin May Valley Condobolin Guniedas Quambong Armathon and Coonabarabran. The record shows varied parcels with owners, measurements and bid figures ranging from thousands to over two hundred thousand pounds.
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