A Big Outlay for a Small Crop
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1922 · page 1
In a recent speech to his constituents at Bendige, the Prime Minister stated that he was very disappointed at the result of the Government efforts to increase the flow of Immigration. The Commonwealth, had spent £250,000 in overhead expenses in developing the immigration scheme but in nine…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Beelbangera Soldiers' Farm Colony Success of the Settlement
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1922 · page 13
The Red Cross and War Chest farm colony, which was established some time ago on the irrigation area at Beelbangers, for the benefit of tubercular…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Agriculture in America. Limitation of Crops
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1922 · page 7
At an agricultural conference at Weshington (U.S.A.) last week resolution were embodying recommendations for removing the tariff…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Irrigation Farms Position in Victoria Blocks Available
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1922 · page 7
Owing to the fact that there is now a decreasing number of application from qualified returned soldiers for lands on the irrigation areas with the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dairying and Pig—rearing Industries Teat Troubles Care and Treatment Many Causes
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1922 · page 9
There is so more Important 'matter tn the dairy— farmer in connection with the everyday work among hie herd than the careful attention to the condition…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Shorthorn or Ayrshire Grafton Experiment Farm Herd
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1922 · page 8
At a meeting of the Clarence district council of the Farmer and Settlers' Association at the Grafton last week it was decided to a ask that Shorthorn…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farm Craft Cleaning Skins for Mats Method of Tanning
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1922 · page 14
Campsle asks me to describe a simple method for tanning, cleaning and preparing a skin for a sheepskin mat. Answers.— A good cleaner for sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Caught in a Chaffcutter. Farmer's Painful Injury
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1922 · page 4
While a well-known farmer of the Walla Walla (N.S.W.) district, Mr. Gottlieb H. Klemke, was feeding a chafcutter at his farm on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Grain Crops and Pastures Deep Tillage a Good Land Cleaner Heavier Crops
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1922 · page 10
Opinions among farmers differ considerably with regard to the belt depth to plough, although, of course, it is generally understood that all soils…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Farm Hen Selecting Chickens Layers and Non-layers
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1922 · page 9
Chickens when hatched in inspectors have crooked tees. A pullet with one or two toes twisted— something on both feet— may prove a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Winter Fodders Experiment in the West Good Farming Methods
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1922 · page 10
One of the greatest problems that the wheat-farmer has to solve, is the selection of a suitable rotation of crops to maintain a supply of humus in the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Farm Tractors Burning Off Stubble Sharp Deduction in Price A Man fined at Forbes
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1922 · page 10
A message from Detroit to the agricultural conference in Washington (U.S.A.) last week, stated that Mr. Henry Ford, the well-known A share-farmer named Waiter Kupkee was fined $10 and costs at the Forbes (N.S.W.)police court last week for having set fire to an area of stubble…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Horse Shoeing Hints for the Farmer the Farm Smithy
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1922 · page 6
No, one desires to rob the honest blaksmith of his trade, but in the wide spaces of Australia It Is not always possible for the farmer or settler to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Farmers' Excursions Further Concessions Desired
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1922 · page 6
Commmu[?]ting upon the decision of the N.S.W excursion trains from the country to Sydney in February as…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Season Reports Crops Conditions and Prospects
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1922 · page 10
Farmers in the Parkes (N.S.W.) district fear a recurrence of the nice plagues that caused so much damage in the wheat [?] a few years ago This season, however, the nice are…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Paper Mulching the Pineapple Crop Increasing the Yield
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1922 · page 11
Reference was made in the Farmer and settler" some time ago to the advantages of the use of mulching paper in the pineapple plantation. At the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Farmers Activhthes and Products a Million Farms Attitude of Six Premiers a Progress Report
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1922 · page 6
Referring to the progress of the million farms campaign, Sir Joseph Carruthers said that great progress had been made. The fundamental idea put…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rats in the Country a Serious Menace Fruit Crop Destroyed
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1922 · page 11
Reports have been received of the rapid increase in the number of rats, particularly in the western districts of New South Wales. It was thought for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Help the Farmer
The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 3 February 1922 · page 3
President Harding, at the opening of the National Agriculture Conference, recommended extension of the farmers' co-operative marketing organisations,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stock, Farm & Station Hobartville Hereford Stud
The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 3 February 1922 · page 14
At Richmond I inspected Mr. Percy Reynold's Hereford stud stock, Hobartville. I saw some very high-class cattle. This old estate, to…
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