Sand Drift Cover Crop Cure Solving the Mallee's Problem
A practice which may assist in solving the problem of sand drift owing to wind, action in the north-west Mallee (Victoria) is referred to by Mr. H. L…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1938
1,285 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 65
The Farm Home The Garden Compost Heap a Source of Valuable Manure
The garden compost heap is a cheap means of converting garden arid household vegetable refuse into valuable fertilising material. Materials such as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Silage for the Farm An Ancient Process Clarence Started in 1898 Warregah Island Cane Tops
The first attempt in the conservation of fodder in the form of silage, of which there is record in Australia, was successfully carried out in 1880,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Butter Pay
A payment of 10 34d a lb. for choicest butter supplied during December was agreed to at a meeting of the North Coast Butter Factories' Association in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fodder Conservation Principles And Practice Clarence River Junior Farmers Prize Essay Competition. (No. 5)
Following is the fifth instalment of the essay written by Frank Clark, a member of the Grafton Junior Farmers' Club, which won first prize in the essay…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fires Menace Vic. Farms Volunteers Save Town. Melbourne
Three farmhouses were menaced by bush fires in sweltering weather at Warrandyte this afternoon, but were saved by volunteers when the flames…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairy Cows Eat Sudan Grass and Die
Mr. W. A. Coulston, dairyman, of Glencroft, about five miles from Wodonga (Victoria), who has a large farm on the Kiewa River, lost 15 of his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cheaper Tickets Big Crowd at Warwick Farm. Sydney
A huge crowd flocked to Warwick Farm racecourse to-day, when the first meeting under the cheaper admission prices was held at the course…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SUSPENDED Jockeys Finch And Glover Warwick Farm Incidents. Sydney
After inquiring into the cause of the crowding of a number of horses in the Nursery Handicap for colts and geldings at the Warwick Farm races…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Poison Symptoms Dairy Herd Of 35 Cows Ate Sudan Grass
As a herd of 35 cows belonging to Mr. F. Jamieson, of Gundagai, was being driven, on Christmas Day, through a paddock of Sudan grass,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Prize Essay Fodder Conservation Principles And Practice Clarence River Junior Farmers (No. 7.)
Following is the seventh instalment of the essay written by Frank Clark, aged 14 years, a member of the Grafton Junior Farmers Club, which won first…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stock Mortality On Clarence River Farm Cause Not Yet Known
Stock are dying on a property in the Clarence River district from a cause which will not be determined until official investigations have been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter Gradings 91.3 Per Cent. Choicest. Sydney
The State butter grading staff of the Department of Agriculture examined at Sydney and Newcastle during, the week ended December 31, 13,950 boxes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A.I.S. Cow Heavy Butter Yield. Sydney
The Australian Illawarra Shorthorn cow, Plashett Pearlie the Seventh, owned by the Plashett Pastoral Co., Ltd., Jerry's Plains, via Singleton,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drastic Cuts Japan Reduces Imports Wool by 50 Per Cent. Tokio
Facing the second year of war and the need for a continued supply of munitions, a further drastic cut in imports is necessary, and for this reason,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers Hit By Training Area Plan Strong Protest in Kent Land to Be Bought by Government. London, December 18
The news that the British War Office is buying 16,000 acres of land in East Kent for a vast new army training area has caused…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →DAIRYING Deterioration In Cream Quality Cause Often Obscure
The cause of deterioration in cream quality is often baffling. First suspicions naturally rest on the more or less common causes, such as dirty utensils,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Prize Essay Fodder Conservation Principles And Practice Clarence River Junior Farmers (No. 8.)
Following is the eighth instalment of the essay written by Frank Clark, aged 14 years, a member of the Grafton Junior Farmers Club, which won first…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Butter Quality
The State butter grading staff of the Department of Agriculture examined at Sydney and Newcastle during the week ended 31/12/37, 13,950 boxes of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prize Essay Fodder Conservation Principles And Practice Clarence River Junior Farmers (No. 9.)
Following is the ninth instalment of the essay written by Frank Clark, aged 14 years, a member of the Grafton Junior Farmers Club, which won first…
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