Redlands War Effort League Successful Appeal for Wheat
The monthly meeting of the above was held on Saturday night, January 4. In the absence of the president the chair was occupied by Mr. W…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farming & the land, 1941
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Use Wool Instead Of Cotton For The Army
The Commonwealth Government has been urged by the chairman of the Australian Wool Board (Sir Dalziel Kelly) to abandon its policy of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Review of District Crop Competitions Bobin Variety Not Recommended for Albury District Modern Farming Methods Responsible For Good Returns
Although Mr. A. C. Severin, of Brocklesby, won the Albury and R.A.S. Championship for growing crops in this district, with Bobin variety, this wheat, because of its poor baking qualities, was not…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Team Work in Agriculture the Start of Field Wheat Competitions
In the blackest days of the Great War in 1916, wheatgrowers responded eagerly to the efforts put forward by the Royal…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Rain Saves Fruit Crops at Lavington
LAVINGTON.—The long drought definitely broke last Thursday and Friday. The registration on Friday morning was 106 points and on…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Dairying Two Methods of Treating Milk Fever
Known almost the world over as "milk fever," this disease is in no way a fever, for it is not associated with any rise in body temperature. It may be defined as a general state of collapse brought about by a derangement of certain…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →When Planning a Poultry Farm
In selecting a site for a poultry farm it should be remembered that the most suitable aspects are north and cast, and there should be sufficient…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Returns From District Crops Will Be Little Over Half Normal
According to the December crop report prepared by the senior district agriculture instructor (Mr. G. Bartlett) the average wheat yield for the whole district would be about 8 1/2 bushels per acre—a little aver half the normal…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Wheat Industry Acreage to Be Sown
Satisfactory progress is bring made with the distribution by the Australian Wheat Board of the forms for the registration of wheat farms and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Waste Treatment Discovery Disclosed in Court LONDON, January 9
Joseph Ba[?]lly, a Belgian, was acquitted at the Leeds court on a charge of stealing eleven boles of wool entrusted to his company for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Cheerful Note Wheat Board Chairman’s Remark MELBOURNE, Sund[?]
The Australia Wheat B[?] chairman (Sir Clive McP[?]er[?] announced to-day that the ope[?]s of the board during the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Pot-pourri of Incidents Cr. J. E. Jelbart and His Sheep
Topsy turvey, heels over head over the kerb, with three or four more on lop of them! This was part of the experience many of my sheep were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pigs on the Wheat Farm a Profitable Sideline
Raising pigs no a sideline on the wheat farm offered a good return, but success depended upon the way the work was undertaken, pointed out a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Control of Skeleton Weed Experience at Wagga Experiment Farm
The control of skeleton weed on the farming areas of the Wagga district has been a major problem in recent years, but that it can be effectively…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Much Choice Butter Sydney
During the week ended January 10 01 per cent, of boxes of butter examined by the State butter grading staff was found to be of the choicest grade…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →20,000 Sheep in Albury Market
One of the biggest sales for some time was held in the Albury Municipal Saleyards on Monday when ,Younghusband Ltd. submitted 20,000 sheep under the hammer. The top picture shows some of the prospective buyers and employes of Younghusband Ltd., and, below, may be seen a number of the pens of the sheep offered for sale…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Industry Stabilization. Acreage to Be Sown
Satisfactory progress is being made with the distribution by the Australian Wheat Board of the forms for the registration of wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Shortage in Eire Dublin. January I[?]
Dr. Ryan. Minister for Agriculture, in a speech to-day said that Eire was faced with a shortage of wheat. She must devote a further 500,000 acres to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →D.F [?] for “Flying Farmer” Wellington (N.z.)
The D.P.C. has been awarded to Flight-Lt. Leonard Earle Clarke. Clarke is known as the “Flying Farmer” as on one occasion he flew solo…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newmarket Cattle Sale
At Newmarket yesterday 20[?] beat fat bullocks were yarded 200 hose heavier than last week. The quality was fairly good, and heavier bullocks…
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