State Dairy Farm Competitions
The Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A., said that a series of dairy farm competitions, culminating in a…
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Rural Bank Junior Farmer Competition
"Dowan Hill," Wiangaree, Winner of Four-Year Scholarship This 18-year-old girl of "Dowan Hill." Wiangarce, near Kyogle, was recently…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmyard Manure on Lawns Should be Used with Discretion
This manure should be used with discretion where lawns are concerned, warns the Division of Plant Industry of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Disposal of Crop Residues in Relation to Soil Organic Matter Content
The wasteful farming practice of burning cereal stubble and maize stover should be condemned, except where necessary to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →40-Hour Week Award For Dairy Industry
The Australian Workers' Union met in Brisbane last week to discuss the basis of a new award for the dairying industry, which will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Water Filled Tyres for Farm Vehicles
A British tyre company reports considerable success in the experiments which it has been conducting with water filled rear…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Delivery and grading standards for this year's peach crop Accepted by meeting with expressions of congratulations
On Friday night last at the annual meeting of the Leeton Co-operative Cannery, the chairman of directors, Mr. A. G. Enticknap, M.L.A., read out the specifications that the management had recommended and the board of directors that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Survey
Schute Bell Badgery Lumby, Ltd, write us: The present high price of wool is mainly attribute able to the fact that the demand…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tullibigeal Wheat Trials Results
Wheat variety trials conducted by Mr. S. J. Harley, of "Wattle Park," Tuillibigeal, contained a number of new varieties, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Church Built with Wheat
There's more than care way to build a church. Take the little wheat belt centre of Corrigin. The Anglicans decided to erect…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Japan Buying 550 Stud Sheep From Australia
TOKYO, Tuesday (A.A.P.-Reuter): Japan has purchased 550 Corriedale stud rams and ewes valued at £20,000stg.,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →30,000 Bags of Wheat Unprotected
With 30,000 bags of wheat lying in the paddocks of the Illabo district at the mercy of the elements became no silo accomodation is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crossbred Wool Lower at Sydney Auctions
SYDNEY, Wednesday—Crossbreds, particularly when broad in fibre, were 5 per cent, lower at yesterday's wool sales…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Maintenance of Hay Mowers on the Farm on the Farm
Care and maintenance of hay mowers on the farm is discussed by the Division of. Plant and Industry of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cattle From Bethungra
Cattle offerings at Homebush on Thursday were 3,187. Prime lines made firm figures, but other classes were easier. Sheep and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Malignant Oedema in Sheep
Malignant oedema is an acute, infectious disease caused by a wound becoming infected with a germ of the gas gangrene group…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shearers Claim £7/18 Per 100 Sheep
THE A.W.U. is seeking a minimum rate for shearers of £7/10 per 100 sheep. Present rate is about £3/10 a 100. Pastoralists say a good shearer can shear about 120 flock sheep a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Parkes Special Sheep Sale Ewes Bring £4/10/10
Goldsbrough Mort and Co. Ltd report having conducted a most successful store sheep sale at Parkes week…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man and Boy Escape When Fruit Lorry Hits Sheep
Six tons of plums, nectarines, and peaches, the battered corpses of 28 sheep, and a wrecked motor lorry, littered the road at…
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