Winter School for Farmers at Hawkesbury Agricultural College
It is proposed to hold the usual Winter Schools at Hawkesbury Agricultural College, Richmond, this year, from the 2nd to 12th July…
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Wheat Problem' and Farmers' Meeting
The Junee branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association Invited Mr. Nock, M.H.R., to Junee to express his views on wheat and other current…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trucks for Wheat
The State Superintendent or the Australian Wheat Board has advised: that now the coal strike has ended arrangements would be made to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cost of Wool Production (To the Editor "The Daily Advertiser")
Sir,—The report that the Federal Government will not grant the request of the Victorian Graziers' Association for a tariff board inquiry into the cost…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Jew as a Farmer Settlement Proposed in Western Australia
It is generally recognised that on of the most serious problems which Australia will shortly have to face is that of its declining birthrate and the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farmer Soldiers in Camp and Overseas Safeguarding of Interests
The Minister for Lands (Mr. Sinclair), in the course of an interview this week, referred to the work being carried out by voluntary groups in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Why Wheat Restriction?
The argument that Australian wheat production should be restricted is based on very shortsighted calculations and quite ignores the fact that the world now needs as much wheat as it ever did, if not more. The chief reason why restriction has been suggested is the present difficulty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Leeton District Stock-Owners' Donations to Swell War Funds Special Auction Day for Gifts of Sheep, Cattle and Other Stock
ENTHUSIASTIC support is anticipated for a proposal which has been put forward by a local stock-owner for the purpose of raising funds for the Willimbong Shire Patriotic and War Fund. It has been suggested that every district stock-owner should make a donation of a sheep, or…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat Production Problems Transport Difficulties
The Assistant [?] Commerce, Senator McBird told at meeting of farmers at Jubliee that wheat was the Federal Governments great…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Most Popular Wheat Bencubbin’s Rise
Features of the wheat census for 1939-40 are the rise of Bencubbin and the adherence of farmers to departmental recommendations…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Wheat Restriction (The Editor, "The Daily Advertiser")
Sir,—I notice reports in your columns to the effect that Senator M'Bride and my colleague, the Hon. H. Nock, are advocating a restriction…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →For the Man on the Land Margarine Production Move to Limit Manufacture and Marketing Would Be Welcome to Dairy Farmers
Referring to the statement made by the Minister for Agriculture (Major Reid) that legislation was being considered in all States for the limitation of the production and marketing of margarine, Mr. A. R. Martin, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tenderness in Wool Effects of Feeding Promising Research Work
By breeding and improved nutrition it is hoped to reduce substantially the tenderness and break in fleeces of sheep grazed in the drier areas of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Situation Speeches by Senator McBRIDE and Nock at Temora
The Assistant Minister for [?] (Senior McBride) and Mr Suck, M.H.R., addressed a public meeting on the Temora School of Arts on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australian Wool Board Development Department Progress and Plans in Connection with Campaign
Information has Just been received from the International Wool Secretariat indicating that special plans are in hand with the object of increasing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lice Infestation in Sheep Strict Control Being Exercised (A. L. Rose, B.V.Sc. Southern District Veterinary Officer)
Several years ago the Department made a definite drive towards cleaning up the situation in the district in regard to sheep lice infestation…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farmer Soldiers Protection of Interests
The Minister for Lands, Mr. Sinclair, said that excellent work was being done by voluntary groups in the country to protect the interests of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Production, Not Price Advice to Dairymen Inefficiency Condemned
Many of the problems confronting the dairying industry could be solved by the dairy farmers themselves, said Mr. F. Wigan, Supervisor of Dairy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hand Over Top of Gun Barrel When Cartridge Exploded Farm Manager Loses Fingers at Murrami
GRASPING a loaded double-barrelled shot-gun by the muzzle, and using it as a support whilst climbing through a fence on a property at Murrami last Friday, Ernest Ferguson Stephens blew a hole in his hand through which, he later told Leeton police, he could "see daylight."…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Building Up Fertility in the Farm Garden
A flower and vegetable patch, however small, should be a feature of every farm home. Most soils can be made to produce successful gardens,…
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