Farm and Country Mirror News Items from "Land" Writers Dams Low at Yenda
"Dauntless," Yenda: Cockies are beginning to burn stubble here now; some are still burning mallee. The clams are very low; we will have to get…
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More Farms Closer Settlement Policy Mr. Perry Wants Action (The Editor, "The Land.")
Sir,—The policy of the Country party and Farmers and Settlers' Association is closer settlement. This is one of the leading planks in their…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →CORNSACKS Should Farmers Import Them
The cornsacks business is generally regarded as uncertain and risky. That is why it has not been made a subject of co-operative enterprise. But at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Canada's Crop Record Yield Estimated
Canada's wheat crop in 1928 of 500,613,000 bushels given in a revised estimate recently issued by the Canadian Government Bureau of Statistics…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farms Devastated by Floods Enormous Damage. Lower North Coast Laid Waste. Five Lives Lost; Stock and Property Destroyed
Five lives were lost, and enormous damage done to stock, buildings, and farms when disastrous floods swept lower North Coast-districts last week-end and early this week, following on torrential rain over the watersheds of the Bellinger, Nambucca, Macleay, Hastings and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Cheaper Power Farming Interesting Parkes Invention
Considerable advantages are claimed by the inventor, Mr. Dalmore Reddie, of Parlces, for a vaporiser attachment for tractors, trucks, and motor cars,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Horse Racing Pentheus Again Chance for Greensil Seven at the Farm
TWO divisions in the Maiden Han [?] and five other races will [?] a chance to find winners at Warwick farm to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jockeys' Mounts for Warwick Farm
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Continued on Trove, page 2 →Produce. Dairy
City dairy produce houses reported bright trade in cheese yesterday. Most of the usual consignments were forward, [?] some housLS were short, and were drawing on cold…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Railway Concessions. for North Coast Farmers
The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Thorby) referred yesterday to the serious position which has arisen in parts of the North Coast through the floods Many dairy farmers, he…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Junior Farmers Boys and Girls Join Albury
A meeting of boys and girls of the Jindera district was held yesterday afternoon. It was decided to form a branch of the Junior Farmers' Club…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"Splendid Order" Warwick Farm Track
Any fears that this week's heavy rain would cause the Warwick Farm racecourse to be in bad condition for to-morrow's meeting, were removed…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Gallops for the Farm Lord Eudorus Does Fast "Five" Honan's Special Mission
CANDIDATES for Warwick Farm to-morrow have had to be prepared under difficulties. Owing to the heavy rain, it has been impossible…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Country News and Personal Notes Ruinous 'Roos Settlers Losing Valuable Crops
BINNAWAY, Thursday. -- So great are the inroads of kangaroos in the Purlewaugh district that settlers are faced with heavy losses and possible…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Good News for Land-hungry Men Seventeen Farms Available Near Boggabri
The Curracabah Estate, recently purchased by the Minister for Lands, Mr. Ball, has been subdivided into seventeen farms, which will become…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Steady Wheat Trade
The local wheat market was steady yesterday. Growers' bagged lots were firm at 48½ a bushel, ex trucks Sydney, equal to 41½ in the country. Silo parcels were offering at 49…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Wheat Loadings and Stackings
For the week ended February 9 the quantity of wheat despatched from country stations was 275,566 bags, making a total of 7,433,364 bags for the season, as compared with 2,012,645…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Disorganised Deliveries of Butter Flood Effects
Owing to the floods on the Maclesy, Manning and Hastings River districts, and to the heavy coastal rain generally, deliveries of butter to the Sydney market were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Breadstuffs. Wheat Steady But Quiet
The wheat market was steady yesterday. with buyers pausing following the activity displayed throughout the week. Ever since the market touched 4/ for bulk wheat in the…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Wheat Pool Another Ballot Suggested
Evidence to suggest a desire on the part of some wheatgrowers for another, ballot on the question of a compulsory wheat pool was forthcoming at the last meeting of the…
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