Coastal Dairying Areas Need Rain
With the exception of the ClarenceNambucca area on the North Coast, most of the coastal dairying districts are experiencing dry to droughty…
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Fire On Farm
A fire, thought to be due to a tractor backfire on Mr. James Dunn's farm at Book Book, near Wagga, destroyed more than 500 acres of grass…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Master Farmer Field Day Next Week
PRINCIPAL prizes won in the Coast and Tableland Zone of the Master Farmer Competition will be presented at a monster…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm Hand and Milk Run
"Inquirer": We have a man employed by us as a farm hand, who milks a number of cows each morning and afternoon, but each morning, in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cannot Convert S.P. Holdings Into Homestead Farms
THE Department has on many occasions considered suggestions that provision be made for the conversion of Settlement Purchase…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm Finance By Rural Bank; Arrears of Interest Show Increase Effect of Adverse Prices Reflected in Report
IN its annual report for the year ended June 30, 1939, the Rural Bank of New South Wales states that during the year advances numbering 1205 and totalling £905,861 were made from the Rural Bank Department…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Breeding Farm Stock & VETERINARY Correct Time for Service of Mares
IN many districts the percentage of foals to mares served is very small, and much of this is due to preventible…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farmer Co-ops. Strong in U.S.
THE extent of farmers' co-operative organisations throughout the United States is revealed in statistics just published by the U.S. Farm Credit…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A Section for the Poultry Farmer Some Sound Hints on Starting a Poultry Farm By an Expert
TO those who may contemplate taking up poultry farming not only as a sideline but as a commercial proposition, a close study of details will prove helpful. It must be realised that the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Poultry Farmers Association of N.s.w
At the meeting of the Executive Council of this Association held recently all members strongly commented on the present price of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheat Destroyed
DUBBO, Thursday.--Fire which started on the property of D. O'Leary at Elong destroyed 2000 bags of wheat. The outbreak is believed to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheat Market
Buyers continued to hold off in the Sydney wheat market yesterday. A quiet atmosphere prevailed generally, according to the Australian Wheat Board…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Delayed Wheat Harvest. Rust Affects Yields. Many Splendid Crops
The harvest in New South Wales will be completed later than usual this season. Cool weather has delayed ripening in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations
All overseas, quotes are for Thursday, January 4, 1940, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than, in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →W.A. Wheat Estimate. Perth
The wheat harvest is expected to be 1,000,000 bushels more than the Government Statisticians' early December estimate of 37,774,000 bushels…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Oversea Wheat Options. Chicago, Jan. 4
Chicago options closed:—May, 105? cents per bushel (down 1? cents); July, 102¾ cents (down 1? cents); September, 102? cents (down l? cents)…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Planning to Trick Wheat Men Melbourne
HAVING let the wheat farmers down at every turn, the Federal Government is quietly evolving a scheme for the restriction of production as the simplest way of shelving a problem that threatens to engulf it…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →35 p.c. Rise In New Bradford Wool Prices
LONDON, Friday.--New issue prices for wooltops at Bradford will operate on March 1 at about 35 per cent. above present issue prices…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Heavy Receipts of Wool. How Production Has Increased. Foreign Price Prospects
Appraisements will be resumed in Sydney on Monday, and proceed continuously until March 14. During that period 528,000 bales are to be submitted…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farmer Sues a Bear
VID FILIPOVITS, a Jugoslavian farmer, had lived contentedly on his small farm, near the town called Szaski Most…
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