Control of Bunt Ball Smut In Wheat
Several reports have been received concerning the appearance of ball smut in wheat states Mr. A. H. E. McDonald, Chief of the Division of…
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Farming & the land, 1946
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Sowing of Wheat Varieties Recommended for 1946
In listing the varieties of wheat which growers are recommended to sow in 1946, the Department of Agriculture directs particular attention to four new varieties which possess the characters of stem rust resistance…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cattle Trucks for Troops Men Refuse To Travel ADELAIDE
West Australian soldiers who are returning home for discharge, refused to travel from Port Pirie to Perth in converted cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Britain's Mechanised Farms Seven Tractors Every Square Mile
Although the United Kingdom now has seven tractors to every square mile of arable land, her farmers are asking for still more…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gurley Cattle
Bundy Pastoral Co., Gurley, secured 12 steers to £17/14, avg. £14/9/8 at Winchcombe Carson's sale last week…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Narrabri's First Wheat Crop Grown in 1879
With annual wheat yields in Narrated district of 300,000 bags, it is interesting to learn that the first wheat was sown here sixty-six years…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →How to Make Whitewash Many Uses on the Farm
Obtain, if possible, large pieces of fresh lump lime, place them in a very large bucket or other suitable container, and into this pour hot…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Settlement" of Ex-Servicemen No Help to Acquire Single Farm
The refusal of the Federal and State Governments to assist returned servicemen to settle on the land where it was proposed to bo buy a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →State Pastoral Conditions Good Rains Needed
Generally warm to hot weather was experienced throughout the greater part of December throughout the State. Rainfall…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maltese Share Farmer Killed Head Blown off by Shotgun SYDNEY
A Maltese share-farmer, Paul Grima, 46, was shot dead last night when a shotgun was discharged at almost point-blank…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bellata Wheat
The 1945-46 wheat season at Bellata, which proved a very satisfactory one, despite several adverse influences, has now been closed with a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Average Price of Wool
Many growers in Australia will be suprised, says Winchcombe Carson, to learn that the average appraised price for wool in the Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Crossing By Requested Tibbereena Settlers Dogs Cause More Sheep Losses
Members of the Tibbereena Agricultural Bureau nave approached the Railway Commissioners for permission to re-open an old level crossing at the 343-mile peg between Turrawan and Tibbereena…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Supplementary Feeding of Sheep
In view of the shortage of stock foods, the approach of autumn [?]amoing and the dry condition of natural pastures in the North-west and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Insecticide for Sheep Parasites Stock Inspector to Conduct Experiments
To determine the efficiency of a new insecticide, known as Gammexane, in the treatment of foot louse in sheep, the Stock…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Wheat Exports Sydney
Wheat to the value of £35,000,000 will be exported from Australia this year. The Combined Food Board…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Rising Sunflower a New Crop for Farmers Experiments in U.S A.
The sunflower, though we think of it as purely decorative—is the source of food for both man and beast. Sunflower seed has been planted for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →World Demand for Wheat. Stock Feed Supplies May Be Curtailed Co-operation of Growers Sought
Ever increasing pressure is being exerted on the Commonwealth by the Combined Food Board (an organisation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Stabilisation Plan Move for Improvements
Sir Earle Page said yesterday that he would move when the Federal Parliament met for the following alterations in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Plan Hope of Industry—Scully
After explaining fully his wheat stabilisation plan, at the sixth annual conference of the North and North Western Division of the…
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