Farmyard Manure for Superphosphate Shortage
"Dairy farmers would be well advised to make the best use of farmyard manure now that restrictions have been placed on the use of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1942
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Dairying Selecting Good Sire
The main requirements which a dairy sire should possess may be enumerated as follows. 1.—He should have a strong…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm Home Control of Silverfish
A poison bait which has been found effective in controlling silverfish may be prepared with the following substances…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm Machinery Purchases
Many farmers seem on occasion to develop a machinery-purchasing complex. Caught at such periods, the ultra smart salesman finds no…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Bull Banks" Departmental Suggestion to Dairying Industry
THE formation of "bull banks" is suggested by Mr. C. G. P. Grant, Herd Master of the Department of Agriculture, as a means of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmer's Corner er Notes From The Department Of Agriculture Wire and Nails Supplies for Fruitgrowers
FRUITGROWERS generally have been concerned for some months at the shortage of nails and strapping wire for fruit cases, and the Hon…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Farmer's Corner Notes From The Department Of Agriculture Lucerne Sowing Do Wot Stint Seed
It is not wise to run the risk of a thin crop of lucerne through a little parsimony in seeding or by using poor quality seed. It is all…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Council Debate on Electricity Extension and Farmers Contribution
THE disinclination of certain Pitt Town Bottoms farmers to pay a contribution towards an electricity power extension…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Glossodia Deluge Registrations in Feet! Farmers Suffer
OUR Glossodia correspondent writes:—There are great arguments as to how much rain actually fell on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm Home Mound and Bulldog Ants Method of Eradication
The common mound or meat ant frequently causes annoyance by forming its nest in or near gravel paths, on tennis courts and on other…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairying. Milk Fever Method of Treatment
With a more complete understanding of the real nature of so-called "milk fever" (it is not actually a fever, for it is not associated with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farming Equipment Shortage
Drawing attention in Parliament on 12th inst. to a shortage of dusting apparatus as a result of the expansion of vegetable growing in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Council Helps Farmers
At the conclusion of "question time" at the Richmond Council meeting last week, the Mayor (Ald. J. W. Smith) drew attention to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Welding Hints Smithing on the Farm
A knowledge of blacksmithing is of value to every farmer. In the current article of a series on this subject in the "Agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fit Gas Producer to Farm Vehicles
The Liquid Fuel Control Board has advised the Department of Agriculture that the petrol position is such that primary…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Citrus Crop Departmental Review
IN the official review of citrus crop conditions issued by the Department of Agriculture last week appears the following…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farms and Call-up Exemption to Key Men
The Federal Minister for Labor, Mr. Ward, said on Saturday that the Government had decided that essential men…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Good Work Dairyfarmers' Executive Report to Members
THE good fortune of members of the Hawkesbury Milk Producers' Association in having such an alert and vigorous…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm Labor War, Agricultural Committees Minister's Announcement
WAR Agricultural Committees are to be set up immediately by the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. W. F. Dunn) in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Citrusgrowers Warned Move to Fix Price on Full Crop Windsor and Kurrajong Protests
AN announcement that the Prices Commissioner proposed to Imeet representatives of the industry at Canberra on September at for the purpose of fixing- prices for the whole citrus crop, was made at meetings of growers at Windsor and…
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