Vacancies for Junior Farmer Tour
CORAKI, Sunday.—Arrangements are nearing completion for the Junior Farmers' educational tour of southern…
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Farming & the land, 1946
1,378 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 3 of 69
"Servicemen Not Helped to Buy Single Farms"
SYDNEY, Sunday.—The refusal of the Federal and State Governments to assist returned servicemen to settle on the land where it…
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A suggestion that in any soldier settlement scheme men with adequate qualifications, who desired to deal direct with landowners, should be encouraged to do so, was made in the Legislative Assembly by Mr. J. T. Reid, M.L.A. Mr. Reid said that some of the successful…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Value of Electricity on Farms In the United States
Ten and a half years ago the U.S. Rural Electrification Administration came into being, based on an extremely simple idea. The use of electric power had spread throughout the United States. but had not penetrated greatly into rural areas. Its development…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Rise in Casino Butter Output
CASINO, Tuesday. — Casino Coop. Dairy Society Ltd. during December manufactured 597,007 lbs. of butter, for which suppliers,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tick Fever Kills Main Arm Cattle
Some of the recent deaths on a farm at Main Arm, Mullumbimby, had been definitely established as being due to tick…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boy's Leg Broken at Cattle Sale
MULLTJMBIMBY, Tuesday. — Robert Love, 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Love, of Myocum, had his leg broken above the ankle when…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Subsidy for Dairy Farmers
CANBERRA, Tuesday. — Milk producers in the Sydney Milk Board Production Zone will receive a Government subsidy of 3d…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Closing of U.s. Naval Base at New Farm
BRISBANE, Tuesday: With the close of the American naval base at New Farm, Brisbane, about 275 officers and men left the…
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Casino Co-op Dairy Society Ltd during December manufactured 597,007lb of butter, for which suppliers, numbering 777, were paid…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ministers Agree on Wheat Plan
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Agreement in the principle of the Federal Government's proposed wheat stabilisation scheme was expressed by State Ministers for Agriculture to-day after a two-day conference with the Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully)…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday—The panel of adjudicators appointed to select a progressive N.S.W. farmer for a tour of rural districts of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Eagle Farm Be Brisbane's Main Airport
CANBERRA, Thursday: Eagle Farm aerodrome, regarded by civil authorities as one of the best in Australia, is to become…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Pineapple Crop in Queensland
BRISBANE, Thursday: The pineapple crop in Queensland is expected to reach 670,000 cases, constituting the third highest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reduction of Dairying Costs by Increased Production
Only realisation by dairymen of the inefficiency of low average production in their herds, and a determined attempt to apply the principles of sound feeding, breeding, culling, and disease control to raise the average production of their herds, will place the dairying industry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Desperately Needed for Clarence Farmers
GRAFTON, Friday.—A Director of the Grafton Co-operative Dairy Company Limited today decided to request the P.D.S. to urge the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Phones for U.s. Farms
According to present plans for extending and improving farm telephone service, a million more families in rural areas of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Progressive Farmer Competition
Mr. J. M. Trevor, acting divisional returning officer for the Progressive Farmer Competition in the Richmond-Tweed Division,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Organic Farming Idea Is Worthy of Research
The plea which I made recently in the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales for a vigorous and open-minded research into the value of organic farming was not inspired by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dairy Industry Stabilised by Export Prices
A certain amount of stability in the dairying industry for some time to come has been assured by the fixing of the price for the…
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