The Home Vegetable Garden How Long Do Crops Take to Grow?
Not only do vegetable seeds vary greatly in the time taken to germinate, but the plants vary in the time they occupy in maturing a crop…
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Farming & the land, 1942
1,683 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 16 of 85
No General Evacuation of Dairy Cattle
SYDNEY Wednesday. — “No general evacuation of producing stock front the dairying districts in the coastal belt of New South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Starving Cattle A Menace
SINGLETON Wednesday. — Straying cattle are proving a menace to car drivers in the brown-out, said the Mayor, Aid…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War’s Effect on the Land Mixed Farming Desired
“The present war position has intensified the desirability of the change over from one-crop farming to diversided farming, or…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm Labor and Military Call-up Hardship Inflicted on Old People
Reference was made to the man-power problem on the farms at the annual meeting of the Tamworth District Council of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep and Cattle. Yesterday's Market
Messrs Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd. report a penning of 49,405 sheep and lambs yesterday, a very large proportion being medium and plain…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool Report
The Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Co., Ltd., reports on the 9th inst: We submitted our appraisement catalogue No. 72…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Insurance Rationing in America
The War Damage Commission has arranged to insure wool against sheep's-back to store war damage at a cost of 6d per £100 value…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →White Bread to Be Abolished in England Difficulty of Importing Wheat
The British Minister for Food (Lord Woolton), announcing in the House of Lords on Wednesday the abolition of white bread from April…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairying. Most Common Cause of Second-grade Cream. Inefficient Washing of Utensils
Of the various causes of secondgrade and "border-line" cream there is none so common as the contamination resulting from inefficient washing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Purchase of Farm Machinery
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 1 →DAIRYING Most Common Cause Of Second-Grade Cream Inefficient Washing of Utensils
Of the various causes of second-grade and "border-line" cream there is none so common as the contamination resulting from inefficient…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Goats, Ducks, and Pigs. a Farmyard Atmosphere
There was an atmosphere of an Agriculture College, without the frills, at the Kearsley Shire Council on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sheep Brighter at Homebush
Winchcombe Carson, Ltd,. report — 43,601 sheep benned. The market was a shade brighter at the opening Ewes to 2½d,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tabulam Cattle Sale on March 20
A sale of good quality cattle mimbering [?] head will be conducted by Farrewll, Craike and Co at mencing at 1 p.m. The lot [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Junior Farmers' Notes
During the week members have been very busy endeavoring to raise funds for this club's subscription to the Red Cross Appeal to be held at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maize Crop Conditions
The long spell of dry weather experienced throughout the maize growing areas was relieved on the North Coast and on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →“Grow More” Drive British Farmers Urged
LONDON March 17.—Declaring that the life of every Child in Britain next winter would depend very largely on the dairy…
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