To Work Up a Dairy Herd
To work up a dairy herd, writes the Headmaster of the Department of Agriculture, the best method is to breed from the average herd, using a highly-bred bull…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Farming & the land, 1921
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Increasing Dairy Qualities
To increase the milking properties of a herd is certainly a very important work. If by selection and improvement nine cows can be made to yield the milk which twelve…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Profitable Duck Farming Cheap Food Supply Essential
Way back in the times of cheap pollard and bran, when meat offal was plentiful and easily obtained, when the tallow skimmed from the boiling…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter Scotch
Three cupfuls of brown sugar, three fourths of a cupful of water, one tablespoonful of butter, a pinch of soda, flavour with vanilla…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Land. Pastoral. Foot-rot in Sheep. How to Treat It
In order to obtain the best results from treatment of foot rot in sheep (writes a veterinary officer of the Stock Branch of the Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wheat Grower and Officialism
It is quite conceivable that the official help attended by the Wheat Boards may have tided growers over a tight time. But the question now is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Primary Producers' Union. What Will the Season's Wheat Nett! Scrip to Be Negotiable
The publicity officer, Mr. J. M. Scott, of the Primary Producers' Union under date 4th April, writes as follows:-- To-day the Federal Government…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gunbar Farmers and Settlers' Association. the Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the above Association was held at Gunbar on Saturday, April 9th. There were present: Messrs. J. Gibson (president)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Saving the Farmer Money
New South Wales has again led the Commonwealth. The first grain ship with the wheat shipped by bulk handling process has left Sydney. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Share-farming and Wheat Production
Few people realise that for several years past more than a quarter of the wheat in New South Wales has been grown under share-farming agreements…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Wheat Scrip
Reference was made by the Minister for Agriculture this week to statements which have been made regarding the proportion of wheat scrip transferred from farmers to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Damaged Wheat
Regarding the operations of the Australian Wheat Board, in connection with the 1916-17 wheat the official Labour organ comments: "The people of New South…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Wool Prices
The question of wool prices and the prospects of sale are causing much anxiety to small holders, who are suffering very severely from drought causes and the…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Foot-rot in Sheep
In order to obtain the best results from treatment of foot-rot in sheep (writes a veterinary officer of the stock branch of the Department of Agriculture), it must…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Riverina Wheat Prospects
Discussion amongst Riverina farmers early in the year indicated that there would this year he reduced sowings for wheat. The generous rains in the early…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Future Wheat Pools
Although the Premier of South Australia told a deputation in Adelaide that the New South Wales Government was decidedly in favour of the continuance of the…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Wheat Board to Meet
Following on the complaints in regard to the sale of Australian wheat at cheaper rates to Germany than for local consumption, significance is attached to a special…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Riverina's Increased Wheat Area
The Chief Inspector of Agriculture, Mr. A. H. E. M'Donald, who visited Riverina last week, stated that preparations of the land for wheat is proceeding actively and…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →What of the Wool ?
Owing to the prevailing low value of wool, Riverina pastoralists are in a quandary as to what they shall do in the future. Unless tho surplus wool now held…
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