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Farming & the land, 1935

11,044 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 250

Season's Record Price New England Clip Sets New Figure at Sydney Wool Sales Previous Week's Levels Hold

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 6

Five bales of greasy Merino fleece, branded AN/Ohlo/New England, from Walcha, brought the record price for this season at the Sydney wool sales…

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Fighting Farmers' Pests Agricultural Department Needs More Money to Cope with its Great Work Country Party Members Can Help

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 1

PRIMARY producers never dare relax in their vigilance against the many enemies that beset them. Of recent years, as the science of…

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Coastal Potatoes Crops Yield Well and Prices Good

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 6

GOOD yields have been the rule for potato crops in the main coastal areas, particularly around the Hunter and Hawkesbury areas. Throughout…

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A Wonderful Farm

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 15

VERLE CARR (Budge Budgee).—Not so very far from the town of Mudgee, is my father's farm—and it is a wonderful farm. There are big fields of wheat which have now…

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Junior Farmers' Page Club Activities and Juniors' Projects Buys Young Farmers in the Armidale and Glen Innes Districts

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 15

IN his recent inspection of the Dangarsleigh centres in the Armidale district and at Furracabad. Glen Innes, and Linwood in the Glen Innes district, Mr…

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Potato Area Reduced New South Wales Tuber Crop Feels the Effect of Erratic Season

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 10

In practically every potato-growing district of New South Wales the area under crop this season is [?] than that of last, the causes being a…

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Maize Crops Condition Now Good, Says Market Bureau

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 10

FROM the Tweed River to the Hunter Valley the general average condition of mutes crops is particularly good, states the N.S.W. Marketing Bureau's…

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The Shadow Over Wheatgrowing "Public Enemy No. 1" Riverina Farmers Alive to the Menace of Noxious Weeds Skeleton Weed and St. John's Wort

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 10

"Slowly spreading their tenacious tentacles over the heart of the country, blighting hopes wherever they obtain a grip, the dread skeleton weed and the equally dread St. John's wort now threaten ruin to a large area of one of the richest districts off Australia—the fertile Riverina. The…

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The Grown-up Daughter Training for a Happy arid Useful Life on the Farm Problem of the Home Girl

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 16

INQUIRIES have come frequently tram country mothers of growing and grown-up daughters, seeking advice In the training of their to be happy…

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Farmer Gaoled Refuses to Hand Over Produce to Official Receiver

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 2

SOME time ago a co-operative company was formed in the north-west of the State and farmers were invited to subscribe to it. The company did not fulfil…

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Farmers Organising To Prepare a Case for Tribunal that will Investigate Complaints

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 2

ABOUT 200 farmers, representative of the south-western area, met at Rankin's Springs recently, to arrange for the preliminary organisation for the…

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The Armidale School To the Editor, "Farmer and Settler."

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 3

YOU Will Do pleased to near of the excellent results of the Armidale Boys' School in the recent public examinations. When these results are…

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Appraisement Value To the Editor, "Farmer and Settler."

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 3

I NOTICE in your issue of 10th January, 1030, a letter from H. L. MoLaurin, of Mummulgum, dealing with his appraisement application…

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Farm Notes and NEWS

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 3

AT the annual meeting of the old Bon[?] branch of the Primary Producers' Union, the following Officers were elected:—President, Mr. H. Armstrong;…

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Good Blocks Dairying Lands to be Sold on South Coast

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 3

MESSRS. Stewart and Morton and T. B. Brown (auctioneers in conjunction) will offer several choice properties for sale at Raftery's Hotel, Albion Park,…

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New Legislation Farmers' Debts and Soldier Settlers

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 3

Legislation enabling a farmer to make a settlement with his creditors for an amount mutually agreed upon, was foreshadowed at Wednesday's State…

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Davies Scheme Support from Hawkesbury Dairymen

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 4

A LARGE meeting os Hawkesbury dairymen at Windsor have support to the Davies' milk scheme, under which city dairies will be abolished and…

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Largest Dairy Queenslanders Interested in Coraki Venture

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 4

A PARTY of five Queenslanders made a visit to Mr. E. O. Yonger's mammoth dairy at East Coraki (Rlahmond River) recently, and were amazed at the…

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More Dairying Sugar Growers in Queensland Turn to Cows

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 7

REALISING that they can no longer depend upon any progress in the sugar industry. new settlers in the district north of Townsville (Q.), are…

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MAMMITIS Bringing Cows Back to Profit To the Editor. "Farmer and Settler."

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 4

WITH reference to some comments on mammitis appearing in the "Farmer and Settler" of 10th January, I would like to say that the contents are slightly…

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