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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1931

10,465 stories in Sydney's papers · page 71 of 250

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…

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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…

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"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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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£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…

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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…

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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…

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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'…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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