Our Fruit Crops Report for Month
The following report on the fruit crops of the State for March has been issued by the Department of Agriculture:…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1930
2,282 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 35 of 115
Last Season's Wheat 12-Bushel Average Govt. Statistician's Figures Sydney
Figures prepared by the Government Statistician show that for the year ended June last year, 4,000,000 acres sown with wheat yielded 42,275,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Power Farming Display of Up-to-date Machinery
The frend of modern agriculture is exemplified by the fine display, at the showrooms of the International Harvester Company of Australia Pty. Ltd.,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Poor Farmer
Under the spreading bankruptcy, The farmer's homestead stands; It's lord a mournful man is he As be ploughs his mortgaged lands…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged Conspiracy. Tomingley Farmer Before Court. £180 Alleged To Have Been Obtained From Rural Industries Branch
Charged with having conspired to defraud His Majesty the King through the Rural Industries Branch of the Department of Agriculture, of £189…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"God Help Our Country" If Labor Leader Lang Regains Power. MR. T. M. Scott's Warning to Narromine Farmers
"In conclusion, gentlemen, all I can say is, 'God help our country if Labor Leader Lang is returned to power at the coming State elections." In those remarkably true words Mr. T. M. Scott, of Burroway Station, concluded a sound address to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dubbo Farmers Favor Construction of the Burrendong Dam. Evidence Given Before the Public Works Committee D[?] 1927. (Continued from last Issue)
Charles Henry Slemson, retired grazier, Dubbo, sworn and examined: Mr. Mahony: Do you own any property at present?—Yea; my landed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stud Sheep Export
A year ago the annual conference of the Graziers Association refused on a fairly close vote to ask for an embargo on the export of stud sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cattle Tick Eradication Campaign
As an outcome of a suggestion put forward by the previous federal Government a conference took plate on Monday morning last in the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Helping Wool Industry
EVERY resident of Cobar should be interested in the efforts now being made throughout Australia to popularise the woollen industry and express pleasure that thews efforts are meeting with success. "The Age" has lent aid through its columns advancing the slogan of "Use More Wool,"…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Stronger Wool Market
Winchombe, Carson Ltd., report:—Approximately 75 per cent. of the wool available for sale in Australia this season has now been sold…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Man on the Land Pastoral, Agricultural, Dairying, Poultry Mullein or Shepherd's Blanket Its Identification and Control
Mulein (Verbascum thapsus), or Shepherd's Blanket, is a stout, erect, densely-white, woolly biennial plant. The stem is unbranched, or with one…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →PASTORAL Lucerne as Pasture Its Value in Western Districts
Recent results at Trangic and Cowra Experiment Farms further emphasise the value of lucerne as pasture in western district. The results of three…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →42,000,000 BUSHELS State's Wheat Field
The figures prepared by the Government Statistician show that for the year ended June last 4,090,000 acres were sown with wheat, which yielded…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Superphosphate How It Benefits the Wheat Plant
Some interesting observations were made last season by an instructor of the Department of Agriculture during the judging of the crop-growing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Appeal to Wheat-growers Formation of Local Committees
It is interesting to note that, in furtherance of the Commonwealth-wide appeal for an increase in the area sown to wheat during the coming season, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Those Sneers It's "Help Us" Now Farm Wins
"Of the thousands who are walking the streets of Sydney to-day in search of work," declared the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Thorby)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Our Fruit Crops Report for Month
The following report on the fruit crops of the State for March has been issued by the Department of Agriculture:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stud Sheep Export
A year ago the annual conference of the Graziers' Association refused on a fairly close vote to ask for an embargo on the export of stud sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ages of Sheep
A CORRESPONDENT has made some inquiries about the determination of ages, which is a most important matter in the breeding of…
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