Wheat Shortage Affects Pig Raisers And Poultry Farmers
Owing to an acute shortage of feed wheat for the past month or six week, farmers were sending in pigs to the…
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Farming & the land, 1949
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£100M. From Wheat Harvest
CANBERRA, Wed.—Australia's cheque for the 1948-49 wheat harvest will amount to over £100 million, the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged Cattle Illegally Impounded
In a letter to last meeting of Kempsey Municipal Council Silas E. Gill stated that the Council's impounding officer had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wants Increase Price of Butter
Murwillumbah Primary Producers' Union has decided to suggest that Central Executive of the Union seek immediately…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Price Guarantee Till 1957 Wanted
The Queensland Dairymen's Organisation President, Mr. C. H. Jamieson, told a meeting of West Moreton dairymen…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Evaporated Milk Plants Shut Down Factories Revert to Butter Production
A combination of the highest stocks of evaporated milk in history and a declining butter market are reported to be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dorrigo Dairy Company the Monthly Report
During the month of December. 1948, the quantity of butter manufactured at the Dorrigo Dairy Coy. was 106 tons 15 cwts 2 qrs. being…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmers and Small Holders All Purpose Tractor
The Public Health and Municipal Engineering Congress and Exhibition was recently held at Olympia, London. At the Exhibition were many interesting exhibits, including this "Gunsmith" tractor that can be used for hoeing,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmers Lose Staunch Friend
SYDNEY, Thurs.—Farmers throughout Australia have lost a staunch friend with the death of Mrs. Jean Consance Johnstone…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Production Standard On Single Unit Farms
LISMORE, Sun.—The R.S.L. executive will be requested to appeal to the Prime Minister to intercede with the Ministry of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Production For Six Months
SYDNEY, Mon.—Butter production in New South Wales for the six months ended December 31, 1948, was only 15 tons below…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rotation of Garden Crops
In theory, the objects of rotating crops are: (1) To conserve the plant food materials in the soil. (2) To…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ample Supplies Of Feed Wheat
The dilemma in which local poultry breeders found themselves last week, owing to inability to obtain supplies of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U.K. Farming Expansion
DURING the next four years, £450 million sterling will be invested in Britain's farms. This is the figure given in the Government's interim report on Britain's share in the European Economic Co-operation Plan…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →English Farmers on Bellinger
BELLINGEN.—S.S. "Eriden," whose trying three-months' passage from England was the cause of considerable comment in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Good Advice on Sound Dairying
Cows must be milked at least twice, a day. With once-a-day milking, production was less than half that from two…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Organisations For Pig Farmers
SYDNEY, Thurs—A decision to set up an organisation which could speak for all pig farmers in Australia was applauded by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Single Unit Farms For Soldiers
LISMORE, Thurs.—The Possipolity of resuming single unit farms. for soldier settlement was forecast by the Minister for Lands…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Britain Wants Lower Wheat Prices
WASHINGTON, Fri. (A.A.P.)—Britain yesterday served notice on the World Wheat Conference that it expects a substantial…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →City Taking Farm Labour Supply
SYDNEY, Friday.—Blaming the "drift to the city" for the shortages of farm labourer the general manager of the Producers' Co-operative Distributing Society (Mr. E. F. Voysey) said that dairy farmers had been unable to take full advantage of the good…
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