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Farming & the land, 1936

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Many Wins Berry Farm Bulls Coastal Shows

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 4

Berry training farm's team of A.I.S. cattle has been very successful at South Coast shows this season. At the Wollongong show last…

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Crops on Stubble Need for a Good Supply of Nitrogen to Maintain Payable Yields

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 3

The falling off in yields of cereal crops sown on stubble land during the past few years has stimulated experimentation with special mixtures of artificial fertilisers for use on stubble sown crops, As a result a mixture of equal parts of sulphate…

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Potato Prospects Crop Conditions Very Favorable in Most Areas

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 3

FROM reports supplied by field officers of the Department of Agr[?], a review of tableland potato crop indicates very pleasing pros[?] in most…

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Kilbirnie Cows Berry Training Farm's Purchases Expected in Time for Royal Show

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 5

Six A.I.S. cows bought recently for Berry training farm from Macfarlane Br[?] "Ki[?] Radford (Q.), passed all tests for health and will…

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Dairy Board P.P.U. Official says Promises Not Kept

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 5

REFERENCE to the failure of the Commonwealth Government, when effecting the reorganisation of the Dairy Produces Export Board, to provide the…

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Dairy Doings

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 5

NEED for seeing that costs were kept down to lowest possible level so that producers would get the best returns from their dairy produce—particularly…

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College Boar Sold to Farmer in New Guinea

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 6

A BERKSHIRE boar, Hawkesbury Pilot, was shipped weekend for Mr. Carl Jacobson, Lae, New Guinea. The boar was bred at Hawkesbury…

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For the "Royal" Team of Berkshires Selected at Glen Innes Farm

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 6

MR. A. F. GRAY, senior piggery instructor in New South Wales, visited the New England Experiment Farm at Glen innes recently to sel[?] a team of…

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"CREEPS" Successful on The Rivers Stud Farm

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 6

CREEPS for pigs have proved successful at Mr. W. J. McSweeney's stud farm, the Rivers, Can[?] whers there are about 100 purebred…

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"Buying British Helps the Empire" To the Editor "Farmer and Settler"

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 11

ON behalf of the Australian Industries Pro[?] Lc[?] may I offer congratulations on your article of the 16th January under the above heading…

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Farmers Interested Developing Australian Trade in Pork and Bacon Competition Received with Approval

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 11

Farmer are taking great interest in the competition organised by the "Farmer and Settler" in conjunction with the N.S.W. Department of…

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Gractors on the Farm Removing Pneumatic Tyres

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 12

THE pneumatic tyres fitted to farm tractors are of large section, and a little difficuity is often experienced in removing them, say, for mending…

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LETTERS. Farm. Hill. Bemboka

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 43

Dear Gumblossom,—Now that Christmas is over I thought I would write to you again. We had a very enjoyable Christmas here. The weather was cold…

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Pea-growing at Oberon. An Important Crop. Results of Recent Competition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 9

Pea-growing in the Oberon district has become an important industry. Several thousand acres of crop bring a large sum of money into the area each year, and give employment…

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Farmers Protest South Maitland Drainage Scheme Complaint

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 5

MAITLAND, Wednesday.--Residents of the Lower Hunter district are opposing the proposal to drain the farm lands in South Maitland by means of…

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Saved by Singlet Farmer Clung to Boat for 22 Hours

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 9

PERTH, Wednesday.--Rescued from the sea at Busselton yesterday, after having clung to his overturned boat for 22 hours, Christian Olsen, a dairy…

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Koitaki Rubber Crop

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 12

Output of dry rubber from Koitaki Co.'s plantation for January was 37,973lb…

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Sheep and Cattle Cheaper Larger Supplies Available

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 February 1936 · page 5

Buyers were not keen for supplies at Flemington saleyards yesterday, and sheep and cattle were cheaper. The penning of 31,032 sheep and [?]ambs,…

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Australasian Butter

The Land · Friday 7 February 1936 · page 10

[?] propared by the Imperial [?] [?] Committee. London, [?] that arrivals of better from Australia and New Zealand [?] November [?] 555,[?] as…

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Cattle Branding

The Land · Friday 7 February 1936 · page 18

MAITLAND P.P. Board has recommended to the Government that in any amendment of the branding act of cattle the first brand should be put on the shoulder, and that…

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