Don't Use Cloths for Dairy Utensils
Cloths should never be used for washing dairy utensils-—a clean scrubbing brush should be employed, the brush being, allowed to dry in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1942
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PASTORAL "Facial Eczema" in Sheep a Photosensitive Condition Related to Feed
Facial eczema so called (it is not actually an eczema and it occurs on parts of the body other than the face) is one of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Appraisements
The Country Producers' Selling Company, Ltd., report on 22nd inst: As our appraisement No. 68 is not being finalised until the 27th January…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Milk and Butter Notes Price Warning
The Commonwealth Prices Commissioner, Professor D. R. Copland, commenting on the increase in the price of milk allowed by the New…
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Canberra Wednesday.—The Minister for Commerce, Mr. Scully, stated Iast night that wool is to be stored in a chain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cat Foster Mother to Two Cattle Pups
The "Manning River Times" states: A house cat at Main Arm, Mullim-bimby, is the foster mother to two cattle pups. She is feeding the pups…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Milk and Cream To Be Taken To Roadside Order to Dairy Farmers
The Chairman of the Milk Board (Mr. R. H. Nesbitt) who is acting also as Chairman of the Dairy Produce Petrol Rationing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fly Strike Tests Interesting Results Scientific Work on Big Problem of Wool Industry Review of Noondoo Experiments
Plain-breeched sheep are not immune from crutch strike, and it is claimed by pastoralists and others that in severe fly waves…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AGRICULTURAL Erosion Control on Coastal Farms Problem of Soil Protection and Fertility Maintenance
Although the average annual rainfall (up to 60 or 70 inches or more in places, with daily registrations reaching sometimes as high as ten…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rotation Crop
Experiments with various crops in this district have clearly demonstrated that river and other loams cropped for several years with maize…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Feeding of Dairy Cows
Rations for dairy cows must not only be "balanced" (contain the elements of nutrition in desirable proportions), but they must be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Butter and Cheese Price Increase Sought Chamber of Commerce to Make Representations
Following, a letter from the Central Hunter River District Council of the Primary Producers' Union, which was read to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Desperate Plight of the Farmes E. Maitland Council Sympathetic
Because they fully appreciaed the extreme difficulties under which the men on the land labouring to-day East [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Markets. Sheep and Cattle. Sydney Sales
Messrs Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd. report that 63,573 sheep and lambs were penned yesterday. The yarding was mostly medium to plain quality,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Evacuation of Dairy and Beef Cattle
GRAFTON Friday.— Under Government direction, police and public bodies are preparing plans for the evacuation of dairy herds…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WOOL Average Prices Labor and Rabbits
Until a wool season is finalised at is impossible for the Central Wool Committee to compile statistics showing the amount of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →15 Years Ago (From issues of the "Argus" dated January 25, 27 and 29, 1937) Butter Factory Output
During last month the Singleton Central Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd. manufactured 105 tons of butter and consigned 159,674 gallons of milk to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Control of Wartime Wool Sales Full Story of Arrangements With Britain and the United States Importance of Increased Clearances
Purchase by the Government of the United Kingdom of the Australian wool clips for the period of the war and for one full year thereafter was a step taken as a means of prosecuting the war. Purpose of the Government of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AGRICULTURAL The Agricultural Holdings Act a Means to Better Farming
The Agricultural Holdings Act, 1941, hag now passed through all stages in Parliament and will be proclaimed in the near future. The need…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Importance of Cooling Milk and Cream Points of Interest to the Dairyman
No dairy is complete unless it has provision for cooling and aerating milk and cream. If such provision were made in every clean,…
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