Dairying Prospects Not So Bright
Last month Mr. H. Harrison, Dairy Officer, Coffs Harbour, reported that prospects. then indicated a most…
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Farming & the land, 1948
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Dairy Scientist To Give Addresses
SYDNEY, Thursday.--The prominent American dairy scientist, Dr. W. E. Petersen, will address showground picnic gatherings of dairy farmers at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Increase At Coff's-Orara Co-operative Factory
COFF'S HARBOUR.--In the report submitted to the annual meeting of shareholders of the Coff's Harbour-Qrara…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Instructive Visit To Experiment Farm
Many people visited the Grafton Experiment Farm during Jacaranda week. They were amply repaid. A wealth…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Single Farm Exhibit For Maclean Show
MACLEAN.--At a meeting of the Lower Clarence Agricultural Society, much discussion centred on a proposal by Mr. W. A,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Problems For Dairying Industry
BRISBANE, Wed.--Serious consideration should be given by the dairying industry in Queensland, to the treatment and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Farms For Soldier Settlement
SYDNEY; Thurs.--Dairy farms carrying from 37 to 45 cattle, which produced about 10,000 lb. of commercial butter a year were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Early Coastal Potato Crop
SYDNEY, Thurs.--Recent bad weather has seriously affected this year's early coastal crop of potatoes, and it is unlikely that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Weir To Irrigate School Farm
MACLEAN.--The Municipal Council has granted the District Rural School permission to build a weir at the school farm at the park. Ald. O'Mara said it was desired to irrigate the plot…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Special Classes Suggested For Junior Farmers
MACLEAN.--The quarterly meeting of the District Council of Junior Farmer Advisory Committees, at Maclean, decided it be a recommendation to the Show Societies on the river that special pavilion classes be set aside for Junior Farmers. Also that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Season's Wheat Crop Well Above Average
CANBERRA, Mon.--This season's wheat crop is expected to yield slightly less than 200,000,000 bushels, which, although not as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News in Brief Missing Butter Found
AUCKLAND, Tues. (A.A.P.).--One hundred cases Of butter, thought stolen before the Aorangi sailed from Auckland on October…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Raleigh P.P.U. Seeks 40-Hour Week For Dairying Industry
BELLINGEN.--Keen discussion took place at the quarterly meeting of the Raleigh District Council of the P.P.U. on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Crop Forecast
CANBERRA, Thurs.--The 1948-49 Australian wheat crop will yield 190 million bushels, according to a forecast by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Compensation For Destroyed T.B. Cattle
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Continued on Trove, page 7 →Move to Raise Age of Junior Farmers
THE present maximum age of 21 years for members of Junior Farmers' Clubs will be raised to 25 years if the opinion of the Grafton Advisory Council of the organisation finds general backing in the State…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Improved Practices In Dairy Industry
SYDNEY, Thursday.--A five-year plan for promotion of improved practices in the dairying industry in New South Wales will be launched shortly, the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) said to-day. He said the plan would cover shire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Stackers Earn, Big Money
BRISBANE, Sun.--In ten days two Cowra men have earned £357 stacking wheat at Jimbour Siding, on the Darling Downs…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Death Of Farm-Hand
SYDNEY, Sun.--Shot through the chest on Friday night, Herbert Baker (37), a farm-hand, of Richmond, died in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Red Mites Severely Damage Bean Crops
The common red spider--a small mite, the adults of which are just large enough to be seen without magnification--is causing…
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