Sheep Burnt Heavy Losses from Fires in Queensland
Disastrous bushfires occurred in southern Queensland this week, 5000 sheep having been burnt to death on station properties in the Goondiwindi…
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"Gloom Chasers" at Kempsey Dairy Leaders Predict More Economical Production and a Bright Future Great Britain Wants More of Our Butter
Some time age the "Farmer and Settles" suggested that the best means of inducing dairy farmers to adopt better, more efficient, and more economical methods, was for dairy factory directorates to give a lead. The directors and manager of the Maclcay Co-op. Dairy Co., took the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cattle Tick The Pest May Spread to Other States
There is grave danger of cattle tick spreading to southern New Sooth Wales and extending to Victoria and South Australia, states the N.S.W…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Footrot in Wheat Encouraged by the Damage Caused by the Feeding-off of the Crop New Discoveries by the Biologists
It has been ascertained by the blological branch of the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture that feeding-off the wheat crops weakens the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wagga Gladys Gives 944-lb. Butter-fat in 365 Days' Test
The Hawkesbury College Jersey, Wagga Giadys, gave the remarkably high yield of 944,29-Ib, of butter-fat in a 365 days' test, completed in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Is there Slavery on Our Dairy Farms? Foolish Propaganda Efficient Methods will Remove the Stigma of "Serfdom" Factory Managers Are Not to Blame
SENSATIONAL statements concerning sweating and slavery in the dairy industry have been made lately by members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →New Milk Prices l/l n Gallon to be Paid to Dairy Farmers
Prices to be [?] by the Milk Board within the next few days will probably mean the instead of dairy farmers receiving 6d. a gallon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butter and Egg Prices Higher Rises Operate To-day Vic. Potatoes Are Cheaper
New-laid hen and duck eggs will be advanced 2d a dozen, and butter [?]d a 1b. in Sussex Street to-day. Other grades of eggs…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →On the Land the Wool Trade. Finer Wools Easier. General Competition
The finer wools, which for years Australia has been exhorted to grow in bulkier quantities, showed an easing in value at this week's Sydney sales, prices for them often being 5…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →British Tariff and the Meat Trade Meat Export Trade Give Us Preference or We Can only Produce What We Can Consume Pastoral Industry in Dire Straits
At no time in the history of the meat export trade of Australia have the stockowners been in such dire straits as they are in at present, and unless something is done, the meat industry of Australia must almost reach vanishing point…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dust in the Dairy Yard a Source of Cream Contamination
Dust and mud due to neglect to give proper attention to the surface of the dairy yard are not only a nuisance, but a menace to cream quality on account…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tractors on the Farm the Correct Method of Soldering
IF a hole should be knocked, say, in the fuel or oil tank, it can be repaired quite easily with the soldering iron. incidentally, it may be mentioned that…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dairy Factory Reports CRAR
The Crara Co-operative, Dairy Society, Ltd., [?] 65½-tons of butter during January. This was a [?] for the society, [?] the previous highest production by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mechanised Farms Australia Must Choose Between a Lower Living Standard and Reduced Production Costs Thb Only Way to Fight the Depression
Australians, who are interested in producing wheat under "broad acre" farming methods, states Mr. J. Leith Gillespie, B. Ag. So., are prone to regard the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm Notes £ News
WHAT is thought to be a record for the Southern Hemisphere was established last month when the steamer "Dallington Court" was loaded at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Self-supporting "Farmers Should Produce all Their Home Requirements"
Make your farms as nearly self-supporting as possible: endeavor to produce on the farm all that is required by your households…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cane Growing Crop Competition on the Clarence River
Some excellent yields—up to 80-tons an acre—were obtained in the sugarcane crowing crop competition on the Clarence River (N.S.W.) district this…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Hay for the East Champion Grower's Crop for Shanghai
MR. GEORGE GRAY, of Wee Waa (N.S.W.), who last year won the championship of the north-west, and the year before was grand champion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Club Activities Excellent Crops of Vegetables Despite Lack of Rain
GREAT perseverance on the port of members of Ben Venue and Martin's Gully clubs has been needed during this, one of the severest summers for many…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Junior Farmers' Page 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 [?] on the river, or at the seaside, Benby will publish and pay for any letters that he considers are worth printing. Don't hesitate; write whenever you have anything to nay, and you will give Benby pleasure…
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