Rainmaking May Grow Crops in Deserts
NEW YORK, Thurs. (A.A.P.): Desert lands in New Mexico and Arizona mar ultimately be converted into rich…
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Out From Scotland New Arrivals Success on Leeton Farm
Mr. John Maxwell, of Ayrshire, Scotland, who arrived in Australia last June and took over an orchard…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Science on the Farm
The man on the land is sometimes referred to as having a bucolic mind, out it's surprising how some have such a grip on the knowledge of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mice and Rats How to Control. on the Farm
Mica and rats cause great loss of' foodstuffs and other materials stored on farms, points out E. H. Zeck, Entomologist of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Care and Maintenance of Hay Mowers On The Farm
Care and maintenance of hay mowers on the farm is discussed in some detail by the Division of Plant Industry of the Department…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Linseed Crops to be Sown in Junee District This Year
SIX FARMERS IN THE JUNEE DISTRICT HAVE INDICATED THAT THEY INTEND TO EXPERIMENT DURING 1950 BY SOWING CROPS OF LINSEED. During this week…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool, Clothes Prices
PRETORIA, Friday: The South African Wool Board chairman (Mr. J. H. Mollman), to-day predicted reasonably high…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Urges End of Butter Rationing
SYDNEY, Friday. The abolition of butter rationing was urged to-day by the general manager of the Producers Co-Operative…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavier Wheat Receivals at Whitton
LEETON, Friday: Whltton wheat agents advise that 57,000 bags of wheat were received at Whlttton for the season Just…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Complaint From Farmer of Rabbit "Plague" at Agricultural School
The southwestern portion of the Wagga Agricultural College was so heavily infested with rabbits " that it resembled plague proportions, and nothing appeared to have been done to control them."…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Control of Smut Diseases in Wheat Crops
Both flag smut and loose smut are generally considered to be minor diseases, but the former was not always so. For both, precautions must be taken to guard against loss…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat for Spain
MADRID, Sunday (A.A.P.): Agreement has been reached here for Australia to supply Spain with 60,000 tons of wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Says Rabbits in 1948-49 Consumed as Much as 40,000,000 Sheep
CANBERRA, Sunday: Rabbits in Australia in 1948-49 probably consumed, the nutritive requirement of about 40-million sheep—about 43 per cent of present sheep population. This assumption was made in a paper presented to the Summer School of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Junee Farmers to Experiment with Linseed
JUNEE, Sunday: As a result of the visit to Junee this week of the manager of the Australian Linseed Company, some farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Report
The Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Grain Insurance Agency Co. Ltd. reports:—We submitted a catalogue of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wheat to Spain
The Australian Wheat Board has sold 60,000 tons of this season's wheat to Spain, a board spokesman said. The sale has been made outs dethe…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Urges End Of Butter Rationing
The abolition of butter rationing was urged by the general manager of the Producers' Co-Operative Distributing Society (Mr. E. F…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tullibigeal Wheat Trials' Results
Wheat variety trials conducted by Mr. S. J. Harley, of "Wattle Park," Tullibigeal, contained a number of new…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →No Decision Made Yet On Butter
Cabinet has not yet discussed the lifting of butter rationing and ending the ban on the sale of sweet creem, Canberra messages state…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Federal Policy on Wool
Mr McEwen, the Minister for Commerce and Agriculture, said recently that the Federal Government would not…
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