Junior Farmers' Clubs Illawara District Council. Quarterly Meeting
This meeting was held at Berry on Friday last, the President (Mr. G. E. Chittick) in the chair, and the following delegates were also…
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Farming & the land, 1941
221 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 10 of 12
Straw Pulp Cattle Fodder New British Process Trebles Feeding Value
One million tons of straw can be given the feeding value of 500,000 tons of cereals by a new pulping process which is the latest 'contribution of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairying Farmyard Manure Need for More Effective Utilisation
Observations on coastal farms indicate that, an alarming process of fertility transference is occurring in many cases due to the system of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rain Will Save Potato Crop
Farmers in the Maitland district are delighted with the rain which fell this week. They say that, providing the winds, which have been…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farm Trucks Impressed for Military Service
Mr. T. W. D'Aran presided at the last meeting of the Tomki branch of the Primary Producers' Union when a letter was read from the Acting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Essay Competition H.A.C. Scholarship. Junior Farmer Competition
At the invitation of the State Council of the Junior Farmer Club movement, the Commissioners of the Rural Bank have agreed to sponsor…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Junior Farmers' Meetings Move to Interest Members. Competition Talks
The recent rains have considerably brightened seasonal prospects on the South Coast and progress on project work may now be assured,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cocoa -- £11,000,000 British Government's Huge Purchases of Wool
The British Government has spent round about £171,000,000 on cotton from Egypt and on cocoa and wool from the British Empire since war…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Farm Home Milk For Health a Taste That Country People Should Cultivate
It was sheer nonsense to say that country folk "could not drink milk," said Miss Joan Woodhill, Chief Dietitian of the Royal Prince Alfred…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dairy History Parliamentary Committee's Suggestion
The report of the Parliamentary Sub-committee of the Primary Producers' Union, of which the President, the General Secretary, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gerringong Junior Farmers' Club Monthly Meeting
The ordinary meeting of the Gerringong District Junior Farmers' Club was held on Tuesday night last, the President (Mr. G. E. C…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Old-time Sailing Ships Give Britain Wartime Cattle Fodder
Seeds accidentally taken to England last century in the holds of American sailing ships have given. Britain's farmers a valuable war-time cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Junior Farmers' Clubs
Mr. A. Chalmers, supervisor of the Junior Farmers' Club movement of the South Coast and Tablelands, engaged this week on the third survey in three…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Junior Farmers Dance
There was a very large attendance at the euchre party and dance held in the Gerringong School of Arts on Friday night last by the Junior…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Control of Dairying Cr. Cook's Proposals
Referring to the meeting of the Country Milk Suppliers' Association, a report of which appears elsewhere in this issue, Cr. Stanis Cook, of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farm Labour Shortage
Apart altogether from the general shrinkage of rural labour because of enlistment and munitions work, two major problems shortly will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Milk Price Reduced Dairy Farmers Astounded
Speaking to our representative this week, Mr. J. McPhail, president of the Country Milk Suppliers' Association, said it appears as if…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairying Conditions Mr. Fowles' Views
Mr. H. T. Fowles, M.L.A., writes to us as follows:— "I have been elected by the Government Caucus to the Special…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Science and Farming
In his new book "Science in Industry", Professor A. M. Low, has much to say on the very big part which science plays in every…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Albion Park -- SHELLHARBOUR P.P.U. Farmers' Problems Discussed Eggs, Milk, Petrol and Barbed Wire
When Mr. H. Fowles, M.L.A., by invitation, was present on Thursday night of last week at the meeting of last week at the meeting of the Albion Park-Shellharbour branch of the P.P.U., he was greeted by the largest attendance ever known at a P.P.U. meeting, and incidentally the largest meeting of…
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