Defects in Dairy Utensils Value of Knowledge of Soldering
No farmer has to use tinware of various descriptions to the same extent as the dairyman, and an elementary knowledge of the use of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farming & the land, 1947
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Special Sheep Sale
The special conjunctional sheep sale of Messrs Dalgety's and Younghusband's takes place on Monday, April 28, 1947, not April 20 as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Estimation of Sheep Blowfly Numbers
Attempts to estimate the density of sheep blowfly populations are described in Bulletin 195, just issued by the Council for Scientific and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Country Party's Wheat Scheme
The Australian Country Party (N.S.W.) at its conference in Sydney on Thursday approved a wheat price stabilisation scheme to replace the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Move To Make Butter Increase Retrospective
The Primary Producers' Union, at its annual meeting, decided to ask that the increased payment for butter be made retrospective to November, 1915…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Butter Price Statement By Commerce Minister
"The statement that dairy farmers are receiving 4d a lb. less for butter than the Government receives is untrue…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The British Wool Trade
Winchcombe Carson Ltd report that during 1946, the United Kingdom imported 1,584,190 bales of wool or only 54 p.c. of the 1938 total and 5…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Polled Shorthorns Among Best Beef Cattle at Show
SYDNEY, Monday: Interstate and international visitors to the beef cattle judging of the R.A.S. Show to-day were amazed at the advancement in the quality of the Polled Shorthorn and Polled Hereford…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coat of Arms for Farmers' Union
The Rural Bank has just received from the National Farmers' Union of Great Britain a coloured reproduction of the Union's newly granted…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Leeton Farm House Destroyed by Fire
The home of Mr. W. J. McCauley, of Farm 155, Leeton, was completely destroyed by fire on Saturday. The house, of weatherboard and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drought Aid for Cereal Farmers
The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) said yesterday that drought relief would be paid to cereal growers as soon as possible…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Destroys Leeton Farmhouse
LEETON, Monday: The home of Mr. W. J. McCauley, of Farm 155, Leeton, was completely destroyed by fire on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cattle Sales
There was a restricted market for polled shorthorns at the R.A.S. cattle sales to-day, and many lots were passed in, breeders refusing to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Federal Member In Parliament Wool
MR. FULLER, in the House: Will the Minister for Post-war Reconstruction indicate the directions in which wool research is proceeding, what…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmers Can Save Britain Millions
Developments in home agriculture can save Britain £140,000,000 within the next three years. This is the conclusion reached in a far-reaching…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →17 Farms in Danger From Iceland Volcano
REYKJAVIK, Tuesday: Mount Hekla erupted with new force yesterday. Boiling lava streams, from 12 to due to layers of volcanic rock several inches thick. An ash blanket is settling over the grazing areas and killing all vegetation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Crop Sowing Hold-up in Riverina
FARMERS throughout most of Riverina are unable to take advantage of the recent rains because they cannot…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Junior Farmer Selected to Tour New Zealand
SYDNEY, Tuesday. One month's tour of New Zealand, with all expenses paid by the Australian Broadcasting Commission, was the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Report
The Farmers and Graziers' Co-Operative Grain Insurance and Agency Company Limited, 28th March 1947: We submitted a catalogue of…
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