The "F. & S." Scheme To Help Wheat Growers Commended by Business Men and Political Leaders (Continued from Page One)
The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 2
The manager of one of the largest wheat exporting firms in Australia was the next interviewed. He also, requested that his name should not be mentioned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Modern Brooding How the Poultry Farmer Can Construct a Portable Battery Chicks Benefit by Direct Sunlight
The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 8
An excellent description of a portable battery brooder, suitable for use on the average poultry farm is provided by Mr. G. McRae Robertson, poultry expert, of the Tasmanian Department of Apiculture. BATTERY brooding (Mr. Robertson…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Newcastle" Disease Victorian Poultry Farmers Want Embargo Lifted
The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 8
Following upon the outbreak of "Newcastle" disease in Victoria, restrictions were placed on the movement of eggs and poultry in that State. These restrictions…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tractors on the Farm Driving and Other Hints
The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 9
FOR the first time in my life I had a bad skid two or three weeks ago when driving a farm tractor along a road. The surface was very greasy and, as I…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motors and Motoring Tractor School Instruction for Farmers at Low Fees
The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 9
LECTURES and practical demonstrations in the care, adjustment, repair and driving of many makes of tractors will be given at the eighth tractor school…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farm Notes & News
The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 7
OWING to lack of entries, the lucerne competitions arranged at Condobolin and Bogan Gate have been abandoned, and no lucerne competitions will be held…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →What's new in Dairying
The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 8
DAIRY farmers are becoming very dissatisfied with the work of the Milk Board, and its fallings are being strongly criticised. This week the "Farmer and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Clamour for Reform Hard Pressed Farmers Unitedly Demand Government Action Aspersions on Storekeepers Refuted
The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 3
MEETINGS of farmers in country districts show that they are strongly. In favor of the reform proposals of the Producers' Advisory Council. The first…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Endowment Tax Are Moneys Paid to a Share Farmer Taxable?
The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 11
"Taxpayer" asks whether an employer has to furnish a return under the Family Endowment Tax Act in respect of moneys paid each month to a share farmer…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →£5,000,000 for Farmers Federal Government and Bank Discuss Relief Plan Interview with Mr. Theodore
The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 2
THE Commonwealth Treasurer (Mr. E. G. Theodore), after serious consideration of the scheme outlined by Uncle Wiseman for the relief of wheat growers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chaotic Milk Trade Minister for Health Refuses to Sign Price Declaration Dairymen Up in Arms
The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 3
THE action of the Minister for Health (Mr. McGirr), in refusing to sign the proclamation for the gazettal of the Milk Board's new prices for milk sold…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Second-grade Rice Foreign Seed from Weed-Infested Crops
The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 10
A large quantity of second-grade rice has been received by the N.S.W. Rice Marketing Board from settlers on the Murrumbidgee irrigation area, upon which…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Junior Farmers' Page Club Activities Advisory Committees that Help the Juniors
The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 11
A CAPABLE and sympathetic committee of practical farmers is devoting much thought and effort in assisting the members of the Lavington Junior Farmers'…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Dairying at Bega
The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 11
YOUNG AUSTRALIAN (Begg).—My father has a dairy farm of 230-acres. and has two dairy herds. The cows are all Jerseys and at the land consists, mostly of flats the cows…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Farmers' Plight
Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 4
A statement was made by Mr. Cambridge, Secretary of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, relating to, firstly, the decision of the country storekeepers to refuse further credit to the farmers, and, secondly, to the declaration of the Rural Industries Branch that this section of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Loans to Farmers. South African Legislation. CAPETOWN, Feb. 5
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 14
The Minister for Finance (Mr. N. C. Havenga) to-day introduced a bill to provide loans to the limit of £ 1000 to farmers on movable or "immovable property, to pay off pressing…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Farmers' Plight. Series of Resolutions. GRENFELL
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 14
At a largely attended meeting of farmers, the following resolutions were agreed to:- "That this meeting enters an emphatic protest against the unemployment tax being…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Help the Farmer. to the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 6
Sir—I note in your to-days issue that Mr. Parker Maloney is reported to have informed the Mayor of Albury that "In his travels he had discovered that no other country had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Starving Farmers Plight No Credit Children Are Barefooted Griffith
The Sun · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 6
The more the conditions of wheat farmers in the country between Griffith and Hillston are investigated, the more appalling becomes the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rates Gut 50 P.c. for Dubbo Farmers
Daily Pictorial · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 3
DUBBO, Friday.--Realising the hopeless position facing, district farmers, the Dubbo P.P. Board has reduced rates 50 per cent…
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