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Farming & the land, 1939

8,508 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 250

The Universal Tally in Shearing To the Editor, "Farmer and Settler."

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 10

I read a letter on the universal tally in shearing, written by Mr. Selby Warren, of Trunkey Creek, and published in a recent issue of the "Farmer and Settler."…

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Tests Show Suitability of Soy Beans For Good Soils High Rainfall Areas Should Produce Prolific Crops

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 3

EXPERIMENTAL work by the Victorian Department of Agriculture has convinced Mr. Walter J. B. McDonald, senior plant investigation officer, that soya beans should thrive on the better toil types in the higher summer rainfall parts of…

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Farmers As Manufacturers Grower Control of I Prices Sought

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 7

FRUITGROWERS can't continue ti feed the nation choice produce while the harvest for themselves is nothing but bankruptcy. They must…

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Rain Needed In Dairying Districts Output Declining

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 4

GOOD rain was needed in coastal and island dairying districts, senior dairy instructors stated in their reports…

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Fairly Good Season for Cherry Men Small Crop But Higher Prices

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 7

WITH a moderate crop of good quality fruit, cherry growers at Young have enjoyed on the whole a better season than in recent years…

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Collins' Farmers' Diary

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 7

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…

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Want Water Summer Needs of Dairy Cows

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 5

MOST cows will drink at least 10-gal, of water daily. Higher producers will drink even more. Therefore, a regular and ample supply of…

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Land Values Fanner's Complaint of Assessment To the Editor, "The Farmer and Settler"

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 5

Sir,—Recently the municipal district of Jamberoo was visited by a representative of the Valuer General's Department for the purpose of again assessing…

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Farm Book-keeping

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 8

THE farmer who starts a system of bookkeeping with his capital in cash, and then buys a farm and stocks it, is n much position than the one…

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Farmers Search For Most Economic Cow

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 5

DAIRY farmers everywhere are looking for the most economic cow—the one that will give them the highest average income year after year. How can…

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A Dairyman's Note-book Riverview A.I.S.

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 4

MR. M. M. McBARON, of Riverview A.I.S. stud, Raleigh, sold fifteen head of cattle recently to Mr J. L. Thompson, Petition Island, Macleay River…

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Professional Men As Poultry Farmers

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 2

A Jewish accountant from Germany who arrived in Australia with his family as an independent migrant bought a poultry farm some six months ago. In…

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Migrants As Farm Hands

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 2

One of the young lads Who came out under the guidance of the AJWS and was trained at the New England Experiment Farm, Glen Innes for six months…

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Dairy Country Suffers. Output Reduced. Pastures Failing

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 5

Practically all the dairying districts of New South Wales are suffering from the dry spell, very little rain having fallen duilng the last month of the…

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Farm Hand Found Dead. West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 5

With gunshot wounds in the head, the body of Lloyd Ranson, 22, was found on his employer's property at Melville early this morning…

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Stock Sales at Flemington. Heavy Supply of Sheep. Cattle Prices Firm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 5

An exceptionally heavy yarding of sheep was responsible for a sharp drop in values for grown sheep at the Flemington stock sales yesterday. Prices…

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Purebred Cattle Imports

The Land · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 7

Among shipments of purebred cattle from Britain to Australia during the last fortnight are the heifers, Crocus Queen 3, first prizewinner at the…

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Good Cattle Scarce

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 5

Prices in the cattle market showed no quotable change from those operating at last Thursday's sale. Good trade cattle were scarce, and…

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International Wheat Control

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 4

The forthcoming meeting of the International Wheat Advisory Committee is expected to produce several schemes for solving the world wheat glut. Australia is not the only country whose farmers are suffering…

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Wheat Defies Drought

The Land · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 9

Despite drought conditions, Victorian wheat yields have been far bettor than was anticipated, due no doubt to improved varieties and…

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