Stolen Sheep's Tongues Costly
"YOU should have had better sense than jeopardise your job for six tins of tongues," said Mr R. Soiling, S.M., in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1945
52 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 1 of 3
World's Largest Dairy Farm
India has the world's largest dairy, a military farm established several years ago to supply milk, butter and cream…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm Water Storage To Defy Droughts
THE building of earthen dams for water storage and irrigation was not beyond the means of many farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Huge Tomato Crop at Cowra
The recent rains have set the seal of success on Cowra's huge tomato crop—estimated to be 30 to 40 per cent greater…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Farmers' War Effort
FIGURES recently released by the British Ministry of Agriculture snow that the total area of grain crops in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Insurance Scheme Milked Dry by American Farmers
AN AMERICAN scheme by which farmers, from 1939 to 1943, were able to insure their crops against "all risks" has been cancelled by the U.S. Government because of the heavy losses involved, due to farmers using their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm Mechanisation Here to Stay Says State Official
IN THE EARLY STAGES of the N.S.W. Farm Mechanisation Scheme there was a tendency to regard it as purely a wartime measure, devised to help the State meet its food commitments, declared the Scheme's Executive Officer,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Not Success All-risk Crop Insurance American Experience
From 1939 to 1943 wheat farmers in the United States were able to insure their crops against "all risks." By paying a preminium they could…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Value Of Silage a 'Farmer-proof' Commodity
In a recent statement on the value of silage in the fodder conservation programme, Dr. A. R. Callaghan, Principal of Roseworthy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →College Dairy Herd Maintains High Production
IN spite of the worst seasonal conditions on record, the Hawkesbury Agricultural College's stud Jersey herd…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mechanisation Played Big Part on Soviet Farms
WHEN Germany attacked Russia in 1941, Soviet agriculture was the most highly mechanised in the world. Soviet farmers have made an enormous contribution to military and economic victory over Hitler, says Laptev, a Soviet…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wayside Pulpit (Contributed by the Hawkesbury District Ministers' Fraternal.) a Message for Farmers and Others
Jesus said— "See and keep clear of covetousness in every shape and form, for a man's life is not part of his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairymen Vindicated Independent Inquiry Result Milk Price Fixed Below Cost
THE report of the firm of accountants employed by the "Sydney Morning Herald" to conduct an independent investigation into Inner Zone milk prices fixed by the Prices Commissioner indicates that these are below the suppliers' cost of production…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Post- War Farming Professor Expresses Views Reconstruction Needed
SOME measure of agriculture reconstruction was an urgent necessity, no matter what happened to world trade after the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Farmer's Part
The present Australian tour of the United Kingdom Farmers' representatives is an outcome of the Hot Springs (United States of America)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairymen Restive Over Milk Price
Dairy farmers are again becoming restive at the continued failure of the Federal Government to grant them arbitration…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Poultry Farmers Form New Branch in Schofields Area Delegates to Conference
REALISING the need for organisation in their own interests, poultry farmers in the Schofields area have formed a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rebates to Dairymen
The Milk Zone Dairymen's Council draws suppliers' attention to the fact that a rebate of £1/5/- per ton on oaten and wheaten hay or chaff…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Milk Price Dairymen Seek Interview with Prime Minister
A recent advice from the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council reads a follows:— The executive of the Milk Zone…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →River Producers in Milk Zone Ruling by Board Chairman Meets Dairymen at St. Albans
AT a large and representative meeting at St. Albans on Saturday afternoon of dairymen from the Wiseman's Ferry-Macdonald area, convened by the Milk Board to discuss with visiting numbers of that body the possibilities of forwarding whole milk…
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