Tractors on the Farm Operation of Clutch and Gears
WHENEVER the farm tractor is started up it should be allowed to idle or tick-over at slowly as it will. The chief reason for warming up the engine parts…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farming & the land, 1931
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The Junior Farmers' Page the Man Who Never Grew Up Juniors' Letters to Benby
BENBY wants his young friends to write and tell him about themselves—about their ambitions, hopes, work, and play—whether on the farm, at school, or in holiday hours in the paddock, on the river, or at the seaside. Benby will publish any letters that he considers are worth printing. Don't b[?] write whenever you have anything to say, and you will give Benby pleasure…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fooling the Farmer. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—Mr. Scullin's "Grow more wheat" campaign and his dismal failure to honour his promise of 4/ per bushel is a damning indictment of his Government. The wheat has…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Former Politician. Killed on a Farm. PERTH
Mr. H. E. Hickmott, 78, a former member of the Legislative Assembly, was killed when he fell from a rabbit poison cart on his farm, about nine miles east of Brookton, and broke his…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Money to Help Farmers Dunn's Admission Parkes
A frank admission that there was no money in the Treasury to provide any measure of relief for necessitous farmers was made by the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Masked Man Farmhouse Robbery Threat to Women Yass
"If you sing out or move I'll blow your head off" said a masked man, armed with a sawn-off shot gun, to Mrs. Keys at the home of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Poignant Farmers' Plight Caucus Gives Way
So poignant was the picture of the desperate plight of farmers throughout the State painted by the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Dunn) at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Good Weather for Season's Crop Anxiety Dispelled in All States Hunt's Statement, Melbourne
The Commonwealth Meteorologist, Mr. Hunt, in a statement dealing with the pastoral and agricultural industries in Australia for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farmers' Education
The Department of Agriculture has arranged for the following lectures during the ensuing week, under the auspices of the Agricultural Bureau unless otherwise…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Dairying on the Manning
JONES ISLAND.--The butter output is about 40 per cent, "below a good-season average, owing to the effect of dry conditions. The…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A Real Rabbit Farm
A 2000-acre paddock "somewhere in the Upper Hunter" can surely claim something like a record in rabbit-carrying capacity. A field officer of the Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Cleaning Up Dairying Paddocks Too Much Fallen Timber On North Coast
Reference was made yesterday by the State Agrostologist, Mr. J. N. Whittet, to the large quantity of fallen timber lying in many of the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Help For Farmer
THE farmer learns patience from the .unhurried seasons, and Government hopes deferred. And that patience is at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Smith's" Talks with Cleary in the Mountains Rationed by Lang, He Will Still Be at His Desk His Duty to the State, and Will "Carry On" Lang Appointed C. J. Goode Before Rail Inquiry Ended Contracts for Wool Cartage
DID you know that Premier Lang appointed as his personal nominee for transport Monopoly organisation, a man whose acts as a railway officer have yet…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sheep's Teeth Filled With Gold!
LITHGOW, Saturday.--There is a much disillusioned slaughterman in this town. In the course of his daily murders…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hope For the Backbone of Nation's Wealth Wool and Wheat Industries Must Be Freed From Staggering Burdens Queensland Gives Lead; New South Wales Should Force Banks Here to Follow and Give Relief Interest and Rents K.O. the Sheep Men
RELIEF at last for the wool-grower; the sunshine breaking through the clouds, a chance for him to get back on his feet and thereby help re-establish Australia's financial position. QUEENSLAND has given the lead!…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Treasury Is Empty Says Dunn "80 p.c. of Wheat Men Are Bankrupt"
PARKES, Saturday.--"The only hope for farmers is to make a new appeal to the Loan Council for permission to raise a local loan to help…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Money in Treasury Wheat Men's Five Points 80 P.C. Nearing Bankruptcy, Dunn Is Told Parkes
A frank admission that there is no money in the Treasury to provide any measure of, relief for wheat farmers was made by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Guarantee. Poultry Farmers Alarmed
WYONG, Saturday.—At a meeting of 50 poultry farmers, held at the Warnervale Hall, the following motion was carried unanimously:—This meeting of poultry farmers,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Produce. the Butter Market
Unfortunately very dry weather continues on the far Northern Rivers and output is rapidly shrinking. In other areas supplies are being fairly well maintained. The…
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