Parramatta Show Cattle Were Good A.I.S. Best Group
PARRAMATTA A. and I. Society's eighth annual show last Friday and Saturday attracted the biggest total of…
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Future of Wool Briskness of Demand International Aspect
ABSENCE of International tension has accentuated the briskness of competition for wool, Owners whose clips are now being offered and who sold at this…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Entries for Dairy Farm Championship Will Close in April
ENTRIES for the 1939 Coastal Dairy Farm Championship, organised by "The Fanner and Settler," will close on 28th April. District judging, by senior dairy instructors, will begin early in May, and it is expected that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wyong District's Primary Wealth High Standard Splendid Showing of Jersey Cattle
WYONG district's varied and valuable primary resources were revealed by splendid displays at the annual show last Friday and Saturday. Entries exceeded the 1938 total. Fruit, vegetables, and farm produce, featured especially in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Toxaemia and Fluke Two Serious Ailments of Sheep Should be Controlled
TWO serious mortalities In sheep wore reported by Mr. K. V. Burne, district stock Inspector at Narrandera, On investigation it was found that ono of those…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Use of Fodder Trees Queenslander Urges Intense Cultivation in Pastoral Areas Experiments with Mulga
THE secretary of the Queensland Selectors Association (Mr. G. E, Humphreys) strongly advocates an intensive cultivation of fodder trees in pastoral areas where (hey are not growing at present, and the regeneration of existing growth…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Turn Wheat Into Pork Make Fair Profits in Lean Times
WHY are farmers selling wheat for l/ll a bushel when they could secure 4/- for it in the form of pork? Pigs, like turkeys, are very suitable for rearing on the wheat farm. There is a splendid market for them, and one…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Merino Embargo Air. H. Sims's View Opposition to Sheep-Breeder's President
THE president of the Sheepbreeders' Association of New South Wales, Mr. E. I. Body, In. reviewing the wool position recently, expressed certain opinions…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wool Exhibit in Sydney. Big Display Planned. Royal Easter Show
While time will not permit of the staging at the Royal Easter Show this year of a wool industry exhibit on the lavish scale originally suggested by the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool for Carpets Australian Product to be Tested in England
MR. G. O. TOMKONSON, governing director of Tomkinson's Ltd., of Kiderminister, England said in Sydney this week that it had always in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wheat Trade China and India are Factors in the Better Outlook
REVIEWING the international wheat situation, Mr. Roland Wilson, B.Com., D.Phil., Ph.D., Commonwealth ,statistician, welcomes the movement in the flour trade with North China, and anticipates that demand from that quarter may…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →New Eureka Wheat Story Behind Important Rust Proof Variety is Told
MUCH interest [?] behind the story of the development of Eureka wheat by Mr. S. L. Macindoe, of the New England Experiment Farm. Two to three thousand bushels of Eureka will bo released to north-western farmers this autumn…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Biggest Wool Display Yet Planned for Sydney Royal Show This Year's Exhibit Preliminary to 1940
AUSTRALIA'S most comprehensive wool display is planned for the 1940 Sydney show. It will be worthy of tho position of New South Wales as the world's greatest wool-producing State. For show next month there will be a modified wool display…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool in The United States Growing Resistance to Use of Substitutes Noted by Dr. Clunies Ross
GROWING resistance to the use of wool substitutes was noted by Australia's representatives on the international wool Secretarist Dr…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Co., Ltd
The Farmers and Graziers Co-operative Co., Ltd., reports on the 16th inst.: We submitted at our sale on Tuesday. 14th inst., a catalogue of 9575 bales, the selection…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Local Farmers Don't Know their Onions
THE tremendous shortage of onions in New South Wales at the present time draws attention to possibilities that some at least…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →South Coast Has Best Maize Crops
RAIN was received during January in many coastal maize district and on the northern tableland, but the position was only temporarily relived as adverse…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Self-Employed and Farmers
IN Australia it is estimated that about 350,000 small farmers, small shopkeepers, etc., would be eligible for voluntary insurance if a scheme for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Grass Would Mean More Settlers Agrostologist Says Country Could Carry More Stock Per Acre Too Much Land Spoils Farming
GRASSLAND improvement results showed very clearly and definitely that New South Wales could carry a very much heavier rural population than it did to-day, declared Mr. A. W. S. Moodic, senior assistant agrostologist, in an address to Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Efficient Plant a Farm Necessity Nowadays
ONCE morn the harvest Just past has demonstrated that the properly equipped farmer is the one who gains the greatest yield per Here, Now is the…
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