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Farming & the land, 1938

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Pastures a Revelation Phalaris like Wheat on Mr. Phillip Wright's Hernani Station Five Thousand Acres for Closer Settlement

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 12

AMAZING results in pasture improvement have been obtained at Mr. Phillip Wright's Hernanl station, which is run in conjunction with Wallamumbi…

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The 1937-8 Wheat Harvest Increased Acreage Aided by Better Yield and Firm Prices Puts Industry on Sound Footing

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 18

THE final estimate of the area sown to wheat for the 1937-38 season is 13,748,000-acres, and from this 161,781,000-bush. were…

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The Growth of the Great Wool Industry Remarkable Evolution of The Merino, and the Men Responsible for It

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 4

ALL that can be attempted here is a brief synopsis of the history of the great sheep and wool industry. The full story-of its growth and development over the past 150 years is still waiting to be written. When it is, it will make a volume that will cover, in part, the whole history of a nation, for the rise of Australia to nationhood is inseparably bound up with the rise of its sheep and wool industry to world eminence…

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Merinos of Yesterday Spanish Shepherds Preserved a Heritage that is the Foundation of Our Great Wool Industry Flock Management in a Forgotten Era

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 12

IT is impossible to reflect on the 150th anniversary of settlement in Australia without acknowledging our debt to the…

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Silage History First Stack was Built on Menangle Farm

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 16

IN 1881, Mr. P. F. Quirk, formerly manager of Berry experiment farm, assumed management of his father's farm at Menangle, and, though only a boy at…

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Farm for Sale

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 5

A FREEHOLD property of 121-acres is offered for sale by a well known North Coast dairy farmer. The farm is situated at the head of navigation on…

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A Dairyman's Note-book "Nice" Replies

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 5

FINALITY might be reached on certain matters undertaken by the Primary Producers' Union when politicians "willed." Mr. A. C. Pratt, president of…

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First Dairy at Ultimo Gregory Blaxland One of Earliest to Exploit the Milking Cow

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 12

IN 1795, the progeny of two bulls and four cows that had strayed from Sydney in 1788 were discovered near Camden, in the locality that has ever since been known as "The Cowpastures." The mob, on discovery, numbered about sixty head, and three years later had increased to 170…

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The Rise of the Co-operative Society Farmers in Control of Their Own Industry

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 12

To-day 95 per cent, of the dairy produce manufactured in New South Wales it controlled by co-operative societies and 80 per cent…

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Better Pastures Can Double Dairy Output

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 4

"I KNOW land on the South Coast that has not had a handful of manure put on it since the scrub was fallen and burnt 100 years ago, and the owners to-day are saying that the land does not produce as well as it used to. We all know that, and…

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Fifteen Decades of Dairying New South Wales Began a Great Australian Primary Industry

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 12

DAIRYING was one of the first primary industries founded in New South Wales, as Governor Phillip desired to provide a milk supply for the infant colony. The First Fleet brought two bulls and nine cows, of the Cape breed, from the Cape of Good Hope. From that small beginning in 1788, dairying has become one of the major sources…

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Fat Lambs in New England Enormous Possibilities Forecast of Annual Output of 100,000 for Export Pasture Improvement; Crop Growing

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 13

IN fat lamb raising, the New England Tablelands may become to N.S.W. what the Canterbury Plains are to New Zealand. In an address at Guyra, Mr. D. M. Shand, secretary of the New England Fat Lamb Breeders' Association,…

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Tractors on the Farm. Engine Efficiency—The Autovac—Connecting Rod Play-Negotiating Fords

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 15

THE farm tractor is most efficient after the engine has been run-in; that is when all the contacting surfaces have had their minute iregularities smoothed out…

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Works on a Farm

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 4

Dear "Worker,"—I have been taking "The Worker" for some months, and would like to join the Page. I am 18 years old, and work on my father's…

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Potato Crop Prospects. Recent Improvement

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 11

According to a review of potato crop conditions in the main producing districts of the State, issued by the Stats Marketing Bureau yesterday, although prospects are not…

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Country News. Farmer's Home Destroyed. Ballina

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 11

Mr. Colin B. King. a dairy farmer of Tregcagle with his wife and family returned from a fishing expedition early on Saturday morning to find their home and its contents had…

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Produce. Dairy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 15

Demand for cheese was very active yesterday. Sales are back to their pre-Christmas level, and a further increase is expected. Arrivals are still lingering at the year's peak…

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Heavy Rain Inland. Crops Benefit. North-western Falls

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 14

The feature of New South Wales weather since the week-end has been the activity of an extensive rainproducing disturbance, which cleared…

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Phillip's Landing Re-enacted Picturesque Scene in Farm Cove a Toast To George III. As Time Slips Back

The Sun · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 2

The re-enactment at Farm Cove of the landing of Captain Arthur Phillip was a picturesque feature of to-day's celebrations. Phillip, when he came ashore from the Supply, did not face the brooding forest where unknown dangers lurked, but a colorful amphitheatre of expectant faces from…

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Gaieties and Still More Gaieties at the Farm Cove "Landing"

The Sun · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 13

The frocking worn by the women in the Vice-Regal Party at the Landing Pageant at Farm Cove this morning was in marked contrast to the brilliant red and royal blue uniforms worn by the officers of the "Supply." Navy blue and black predominated and were most…

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