Flour and Wheat Prices Dearest Since 1928
Wheat prices continue to soar upwards; indeed, a wonderful new year gift to the farmers of Australia. Likewise the flour market has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mid North Coast · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1937
979 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 49
Providence Gives a Christmas Box. Magnificent Rains Over the Macleay. Pastures and Crops Respond and Milk Flow Rises
No more welcome Christmas box could be presented to a community than that vouchsafed the Macleay, in common with other coastal centres, by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australian Butter Publicity Director's Plain Speaking
Some time ago the Premier of Queensland (Mr. W. Forgan Smith) upon his return from a visit to Britain, was reported as…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ephemeral Fever New Disease in Cattle
An unaccountable outbreak of ephemeral fever, or "three day" sickness of cattle, a stock illness new to Australia, is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Free Agricultural Training. At Government Experiment Farms
A recent departmental announcement draws attention to the fact that a splendid opportunity exists at certain of the Government Experiment…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The FARMER & His Markets Agricultural Notes the Home Garden. Maintenance of Fertility
A complete fertiliser is one supplying nitrogen, phosphorus and potash in forms readily available to plants. A generally applicable…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Leaf-eating Ladybird Beetle. Protection of Crops
The leaf-eating ladybird beetle (Epilachna 28-punctala) is mainly a pest of potatoes, but it attacks tomatoes and melons, pumpkins, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rumination -- Review -- Reminiscence. an Optimism That Trusts to Luck -- Farmers Must Conserve Fodder -- Why the "Man in the Street" Is Competent to Comment, and to Criticise -- the Question Discussed in Its Varied Phases -- Does Experience Teach Lessons From Which Profit Is Derived
I would commend to the thoughtful consideration of my country readers the following extract from the current weekly notes issued by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fears of Cattle Disease. May Reach Coastal Dairy Herds
Alarm at the rapid spread of three day sickness among cattle in Queensland is fell by officials of the New South Wales Agriculture…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Ayrshire Cow's Record. High Milk and Butter Fat Yield
Ayrshire Park Ivy, owned by Mr. C. E. Anderson, of Boambee, has set a new milk and butter-fat producing record for senior three-years-old cows…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairying in the West
During the last few years interest in dairying in the central west of New South Wales has shown a marked increase, states Mr. A. L. Astbury,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Butter Prices. Market in London. Reported Firm. Melbourne
Assisted by a firm market, with a good undertone, favourable supplies of Australian and New Zealand butter were well cleared to-day,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Three Day." New Disease in Cattle. Prevalent in Queensland. Epidemic Would Be Costly
An unaccountable outbreak of ephemeral fever, or "three day" sickness of cattle, a stock disease new to Australia, is beginning to infect…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →When Washing Dairy Utensils
Boiling water is absolutely necessary in dairy work to ensure cleanliness, and there should be no sparing of it. It is well, however, not to start…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fundamentals in Profitable Dairying. "Breed, Feed and Weed."
The three fundamentals that make for profitable dairying are better herds, better pastures, and better feeding methods, points out a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Poultry-farming Reminders for January
Avoid crowding the young stock, either by placing more in the houses than they will properly accommodate, or by filing to capacity the large…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Butter Pay
The Macleay River Dairying Company, Ltd., has fixed payment for December butter at 101/2d per lb., with cheese at 1/1 per lb. of butter fat…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ephemeral Fever. New Disease in Cattle. Symptoms and Treatment
Though little can be done, as yet, to control the rather unusual disease known as ephemeral fever, or three-day sickness, which is now causing…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →U.s.a. Experiments Drought Problem May Vanish. Farming of To-morrow
Is it possible that in the not far distant future droughts may lose their terrors for the farmer and the fertility of the soil…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The FARMER & His Markets
These Notes are issued every week, by direction of the Honourable the Minister for Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. Should any farmer desire information relevant to his work on the land not referred to in these Notes at the…
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