Old Chinese Farmers Going Home
BRISBANE, Tuesday: Chinese farmers who had practically monopolised banana, pineapple and papaw production in Far…
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Farming & the land, 1947
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Farming in China
Four out of five Chinese are farmers. The average farm consists of about 3½ acres. The average size of the fields is one-half acre. On this…
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OTTAWA, Wednesday (AAP).—The Canadian Government is reported to have decided to import butter from New Zealand, probably in the shortest…
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OTTAWA, Wednesday: The Canadian Government, it is reported, has decided to import butter from New Zealand,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Letters To The Editor (Letters to the Editor should be limited to 350 words). the Butter Price Agitation
Sir.—Mr. Condon suggests in his letter that the move for direct action is only a minority movement and is surprised that the Central Executive…
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The Dairying Industry Award was made on June 25, 1943, by the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For the Man on the Land Is Experimental Farm In Right Locality?
If I were to suggest that the Wollongbar Experimental Farm was in the wrong place, and that the district was too good for such an experiment, I would be clearly guilty of talking nonsense. But my plea is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Butter, Production on Clarence
GRAFTON, Thursday. — Butter manufacture on the Clarence River is far below normal and factory managers consider the production…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Weather Conditions Limiting District Butter Production
Although conditions throughout the dairying sections of Kyogle cannot be described as drought stricken they are such as to limit butter production to just about 50 per cent, of what it was in January, 1946…
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Pictured above is the latest butter churn, invented in Switzerland on the Kolloid chemical principle and known as 02 process. This new…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ON and Off the Farm Feeding Hints For The Small Poultry Keeper
The feeding question for the farmer who keeps a small flock of birds for home use is not the same as in the case of a commercial egg producer, as household scraps and cracked or shrivelled or otherwise unsaleable wheat may also come into the picture…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dairy Industry Award: Amended Rates
The Dairying Industry Award, made on June 25, 1943, by the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, under powers…
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LONDON, Friday (AAP). — Britain has granted a pressing Canadian request for 6000 lbs. of Australian and/or New…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fairbridge farm Boys
THESE Boys of the Fairbridge Farm Preparation School in I Britain are studying a map of Canada before their departure for the Farm School on Vancouver Island. This method of preparing suitable children of poor families for emigration…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmer Hurt
William Sullivan, married, a farmer of Zara, yesterday suffered a fractured right collarbone and abrasions to the back when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Basic Wage Rise Wil Increase Dairying Costs £1 Million Yearly
BRISBANE, Friday: The increase of 7/ a week in the basic wage would increase the cost of production of butter by 3/4d per lb. commercial butter, equal to £l million per year, Mr C. Jamieson, State President of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dutch Farmer's Sons for Australia
Some 50 farmer's sons will emmigrate from Holland to Australia next May or June. It is to be hoped thai they will be the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Apple Crop
BRISBANE, Sunday: A nearrecord apple crop was expected from the granite belt this season, the senior adviser of Horticulture…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: unless the Commonwealth Government agreed to a subsidy returning milk producers 1/8 a gallon, milk…
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This huge truckload of lucerne hay passed through Lismore on its way to Bangalow. It was purchased by Mr. A. T. Rankin from Mr. Trench, of Tabulam, for feeding to his dairy herd at Bangalow. The load consisted of 144 bales, weighing over four tons, and the driver had to make several detours because the vehicle could not pass under some…
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