Master Farmer Field Day at Yanco
PRINCIPAL prizes won in the inland zone of the Master Farmer Competition will be presented at a monster field day on…
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Mudgee-Coonabarabran Crops Yielded Well
In his report for January on crop conditions in the Mudgee-Coonabarabran area. Mr. G. Nicholson, senior agricultural instructor, stated that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farming's Best War Bets
FIRST official advice to Australian primary producers concerning the forms of production on which they should concentrate during the war was given by the Minister for Commerce (Senator McLeay) at the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A Section for the Poultry Farmer Wyandotte Family Includes Many Good & Useful Varieties By an Expert
THE Wyandotte young bird show, recently held, provided a very attractive sight with the benching of many of the Wyandotte breeds. The Wyandotte is described in the Standard, as a bird of curves, and this is a very apt description…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Rain Wanted in Main Potato Crop Area
Potato crops in all main crop districts are badly in need of rain, reports the Department of Agriculture, On the southern and central table…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Easter Conference of Junior Farmers
THE annual conference of Junior Farmers' Club advisory committees and district councils will be held in the conference room of the Rural Bank, Sydney,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Maize Crops Badly Need Rain
JANUARY was a bad month for maize crops throughout New South Wales, owing to dry, extremely hot, and windy conditions, reports the Department of Agriculture. Coming after two months of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Farm Scrap Iron Wanted
IT was stated this week by Mr. Thorby, M.P., that arrangements had been wade with the N.S.W. Railway authorities to take delivery, free of cost, of all scrap iron and metal delivered to country stations by farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Leaving The Land To Enlist; Serious Problem on N.Z. Farms
AT a meeting of the Franklin sub-provincial executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, it was stated that hopes of increasing production were dwindling because of the large number of enlistments of farmers and farmhands…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Chairman of Dairy Board Not To Retire
Although Mr. T. Flood Plunkett, M.L.A., of Queensland, announced at a recent meeting of the Australian Dairy Produce Board that the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Horse Only Sure Cure for Farming in Aust., Says Clydesdale President
"THE horse is the only sure cure for agriculture in Australia—the sooner that fact is realised the better for all concerned," said the president of the New South Wales branch of the Commonwealth Clydesdale Horse Society (Mr. E. B. Comans) discussing the part the horse could take in making for the success of agriculture in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Dairying Industry. Increased Output Raises Revenue. Effect of War Contracts
Dairying, like the other Australian primary industries, which have a large exportable surplus production, has been radically affected by the changed marketing conditions…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Poultry Farms in Danger
Thousands of fowls yesterday were in danger of being roasted alive in bushfires at Padstow Park, near Bankstown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sheep Parisites. Loophole for Stockowners
The Chief Veterinary Surgeon of New South Wales, Mr. Max Henry, commenting on recent prosecutions regarding lice and tick infested sheep, said that various points had…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Goulburn Store Sheep Sale. Goulburn
The New Zealand Loan Co. submitted 13,000 store sheep for sale. Buyers were present from Wagga. Cootamundra, Stockinbingal, Forbes, Temora, and Henty. There was practically a com…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wheat Market. Good Export Sale Announced
A satisfactory development was reported in the Sydney wheat market yesterday, when the sale was announced of a fairly substantial cargo of wheat for flour for export. The…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Skeleton Weed. Heavy Seeding in Wheat Country
This has been a very favourable season for the growth of skeleton week, by far the worst weed with which wheat farmers have to contend, thousands of acres of arable country…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →On the Land Increased Wool Turnover. High Appraisement Figures. Drought's Influence on Scouring
Turnover of wool in Sydney to date this season totals 960,291 bales, an increase of 143,907 bales compared with the corresponding period of last sell…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Apples and Pears. Marketing of Crop. No Charge to Be Made
In spite of demands by sections of apple and pear growers in various States for a revi[?]ion of the Federal Government's compulsory acquisition scheme, the Ministry will…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Root Crops and Fat Lambs Better Than Improved Pastures
Whilst the production of fat lambs is increasing considerably in the southern tablelands district it would appear that quite an appreciable loss, both in numbers and in…
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