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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1940

6,932 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 250

The Man on the Land. Reports and Hints. Guernsey Butter-Fat Record Broken

The Catholic Press · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 26

A victory, for the Yarraview Guernsey Stud, Victoria, has been achieved by the imported Rose Gem of Maple Lodge in breaking the mature 273 days' milk and…

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Wheat Prices. Terms of Sale to Britain. Official Announcement. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 9

Half of the 56,000,000 bushels of wheat that Australia has sold to Britain was sold on a basis of 3/ll[?] a bushel f.o.b. for bagged wheat, and 3/8[?] f.o.b…

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Pigs and the Men Who Breed Them Change Sought Buying Small Lots of Wheat

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 13

AN arrangement excluding small consumers of wheat from procuring their requirements from local receiving agents of the Australian…

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Above Level of Mere Bargain The Imperial Wool Contract Annual Review of Prices

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 2

GRAZIERS are still very concerned about the lack of any clear provision in the Imperial Wool Contract for automatic revision of…

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Easing Off in Over Production Accompanies Increasing War Needs for Wheat in European Importing Countries

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 10

CROP figures from wheatgrowing countries indicate an easing-off in over-production, especially when taken in conjunction with the increased needs of countries at war. In the United States the 1939 crop exceeded consumption…

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Britain and Japan Close Deals for Our Wheat Eighty Million Bushels Sold So Far U. K. Boys Bulk on Generous Terms

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 11

AUSTRALIA has sold to Britain 63,000,000-bushels of wheat (a portion in the form of flour) and to Japan 7,500,000-bushels. The average price for 28,000,000-bushels of the British contract is 3/11[?] f.o.b. for bagged and 3/8[?] f.o.b. for bulk…

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The Eton Crop

The Catholic Press · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 40

Wife: "Now that I have had my hair bobbed, I don't think I look so much like an old lady." Husband: "No. Now you look like an…

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Tourist Business Catering for Lucrative Trade To the Editor, "Farmer and Settler"

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 2

Sir,—I have read with interest your article regarding the tourist business. I have just spent a fortnight between Yamba and Tweed Heads visiting and…

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Fertile Land Good Prospects for Root Crops

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 2

SOILS of the Ebor-Guy Fawkes district were very fertile and capable of greater agricultural development, said Mr. A…

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For 100 Birds Standard Shed Recommended to South Australian Farmers

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 15

A DESCRIPTION of the standard shed for 100 birds recommended by the S.A. Department of Agriculture is given by Mr. A. A. McArdle, manager of Parafield Poultry Erperiment Station, in the South Australian Journal of Agriculture…

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Bongalong Ram Bought for Wagga Experiment Farm

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 9

MR. F. W. ROSE, Bongalong Dorset Horn stud, Muttama, has sold a ram to Wagga Experiment Farm at a high figure. This is the first purchase made on…

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Getting Best From Farm Importance of Proper Rotation

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 10

THE first need nowadays is for the land user to get a mixed farming complex. On an average property in the west…

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Minister Impresses Farmers

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 11

ONCE Major A. D. Reid, M.L.A., Minister for Agriculture, was a rather quiet member of the Burrangong Shire Council, Young. In between meetings he ran his sheep and wheat property at Crowther…

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Farmers and Graziers

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 5

MR. SAM MATCHETT, sheep auctioneer for the Farmers and Graziers, was born and educated in Sydney. His stock experience began…

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Drastic Cure Alternate Cropping of Fruit Trees Four-fifths of Blossom Must Go

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 11

METHODS have been devised whereby growers can avoid losses caused by fruit trees cropping heavily to the detriment of…

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A Science Proper Feeding of Dairy Cows

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 12

FEEDING of live stock had become a science and most dairy farmers were realising the value of feeding according…

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Poultry Farming Don't Crowd the Young Stock. a Common Cause of Trouble

The Broadcaster · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 4

Despite departmental advice regarding the ill-effects of running large numbers of young stock together, writes the Poultry Expert of the Department of…

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The Catholic Man on the Land Leguminous Crops As Soil Improvers. Conditions Governing Nitrogen-building Ability

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 38

In any scheme of cropping designed to maintain the fertility of the land, the group of plants known as legumes (of whic the hest known are lucerne…

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Green Manure Crop

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 4

Eight weeks' growth of Poona cowpeas on Mr. H. T. Eastment's dairy farm at Woodburn, lower Richmond River. A greater area of this legume than ever before has…

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Irregular Fruit Cropping. Deciduous Orchards. Control by Thinning

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 January 1940 · page 4

Research by departmental officers has resulted in the evolution of a system to restore alternately cropping deciduous fruit trees to regular production…

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