Wheat Pooling Possibilities Growers Can Do Much with Their Product
RUSSIA'S purchase of two million bushels of Australian wheat for her Eastern possessions, bought doubtlessly because it is cheaper to…
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Oversea Wheat Position Lindley Walker's Special Report SYDNEY, Jan. 31
Our cable this week, reviewing International wheat markets, reads:— "Westralian January shipment 23/9 per quarter. Steady—Vladivo-…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Quality Is Better Higher Returns for N.S.W. Some Promising Varieties
FOLLOWING recent improvements in the quality of N.S.W. wheat, which is already winning better prices (weight for weight)…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newer and Better Varieties A Factor in Record North-West Wheat Harvest This Season
TO the use of newer and better varieties of wheat and to high-class farming the record estimated yield of 20.4-bushels per acre in the north-west is attributed by Mr. J. A. O'Reilly, progressive district agricultural instructor…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Use For Wheat Surplus Combat Malnutrition Sir Earle Page Discusses Our Policy at World Parley
THAT there are good reasons for Australia's nutritional policy, put forward by Mr. F. L. McDougall, economic adviser to the Commonwealth Government, is shown by figures quoted by the Minister for Commerce (Sir Earle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool for Royal Show Elaborate Exhibit To Be Staged Next Easter by Sheepbreeders' Association
AN elaborate wool exhibit, indicating to the Australian public the achievements of the sheep industry and demonstrating that manufacturing technique is now sufficiently advanced to market fine woollen materials equal to, if not better than, any…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Catholic Man on the Land the Wool Industry. Methods of Reducing Cost of Production
To maintain the wool industry on a sound footing, with the capacity to compete successfully with the manufacturers of artificial fibres, it is obvious that…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Strong Demand and Pleasing Prices in Big Market Turn-over is Hopeful Sign for Sheep Industry, and Indicates Brighter Future
ONE of the most encouraging happenings of recent times so far as stud masters and wool growers are concerned was the result of the annual ram sales held at Orange last week by Messrs. MacNeilly, Crampton, and Martin Pty., Ltd…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wool Is Still in the News. Mid-Season Fashion Collections. From Betty Wilson, by Air Mail. Paris, Jan. 11
MOLYNEUX turns to Australia and plunges heavily on wool; linking up a silver lame cocktail suit (day length, like most of the Molyneux…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Wisdom on the Farm
The wise farmer makes provision for the future by storing fodder. This picture shows the operation of baling clover hay on the property of Mr. J. Noel Barrett, Yera, Edgerol…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm News in Brief
THIS year's Farrer Scholarship, tenable in the agriculture diploma course at Hawkesbury Agricultural College, has been awarded to Peter Alexander…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Crop Increased Sevenfold Pollination of Cherry Trees Profitable
A DECIDED improvement in the productivity of cherries has been seen in the past two seasons in orchards where the results of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Efficient Plant a Farm Necessity Nowadays
ONCE more the harvest just past has demonstrated that the properly equipped farmer is the one who gains the greatest yield per acre. Now is the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Collins' Farmers' Diary
CONSIDERING its importance, it is amazing the small proportion of farmers who know actually what it costs them to produce a pound of butter, a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Value of Oats Crop Rotation the Best Varieties
OWING to their value in providing grazing for stock, particularly lambing owes, on the wheat farm during winter, oats are being sown more…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farmer's Cure Soil Erosion Problem South African Scheme
FOR combatting soil erosion, wire netting is advocated by a South African farmer. To explain his scheme he takes as an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tractors on the Farm Importance of Efficiency in Braking System
THERE is always a chance that the tractor driver takes efficiency of the braking system for granted, and so does not pay it the attention…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →REFUGEES Interest in Poultry Farming
SEVERAL refugees from Europe have been making inquiries about poultry farming in New South Wales, and it is expected that some of them…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Valuable Prize Junior Farmer's Win Agricultural Scholarship
CLIFFORD EMERY, a junior farmer, of Gerringong, won first prize in the essay competition conducted by the Rural Bank in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Items of Interest Gathered this Week Catalogue Minds (To the Editor, "Farmer and Settler.")
Perhaps one of the most crippling defects of the average Australian is, in the words of Major Douglas, "The catalogue mind"—the delusion that labelling…
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