Methods of Removing Horns from Cattle Queensland Expert's Views Dehorning Makes Stock More Docile and Means Less Damage to Beef Treatment of Calves Is Best
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 6
A CONSIDERATION of the merits or demerits of dehorning beef and dairy cattle and the most suitable methods of performing the operation have been made the subject of an investigation at the Animal Health Station, Oonoonba, in the course of the past two years. Horns were evolved as an offensive weapon and they are frequently used as such,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →National Rural Conference. When Catholic Farmers Met the First Time
The Catholic Press · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 15
The Second National Convention of the National Catholic Rural Movement will held at Xavier College, Melbourne, from January 31 to February 2…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Wheaten Silage Made at Fairbridge Farm School
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 7
ABOUT [?] Junior Farmers attended a field day at Fairbridge Farm School, Molong, recently. Farm trainees were making wheaten allage. An that method…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Big Wages Bill Permanent Station and Farm Hands
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 2
THE wages bill for 40,484 permanent station and farm employees in New South Wales during 1989-40 was more than [?]400,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Will Help North Coast Bureau and Farmers
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 2
AN offer to assist in organising [?] agricultural conference to consider what could be done to increase…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Build up Humus in Orchards Care will Bring Increase in Crop Returns
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 11
THE importance of humus content in the improvement of orchard soils cannot be over stressed. It is imperative to build up, or at least maintain as…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Light Barley Crop Seasonal Conditions Take Toll
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 11
THIS year's barley crop is definitely light owing to seasonal. conditions, but although the crop is short of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Rice Crops
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 11
THERE has been a highly satisfactory germination of the rice crop on the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, where 25,227-acres have been planted (Yanco…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Barellan Poultry Farmers Seek Better Service on Railways
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 4
EGG and poultry suppliers in Barellen district have petitioned the Railway Department for an improved service in goods traffic to Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Holiday Fun on the Farm Parents Can Encourage Interest in Land Matters
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 12
WE hear people on all sides bemoaning the "drift to the cities." A thousand causes are cited, but perhaps the most potent cause is admitted to be the "city inclination" induced in so many country boys and girls…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →British Farmers Give Loyal Support to Government
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 8
BRITISH farmers are loyally supporting the government by producing as much food of all kinds as they possibly can, even although they are not always…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Care Pays Protection of Farm Machinery
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 4
WHEN both sowing and harvesting machinery was temporarily out of commission, It was timely to remind wheatgrowers of the wisdom of taking…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Good Crop Poll Shorthorn Calves at Netherby
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 6
MR. J. T. SCRYMGEOUR, Netherby Poll Shorthorn stud, Warwick (Q.), reports the arrival of another crop of calves, some by Red Victor (Imp. U.S.A.)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MOTORS and Motoring Tractors on the Farm
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 7
WHENEVER a part of the tractor is dismantled the opportunity should be to inspect any and all parts made visible…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Arab Farmers Digger Describes their Methods
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 10
IN Palestine the Arab farmer still uses the single-bladed wooden plough, drawn by either a camel or an ox, and farming is still conducted…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Farmers and the War Royal Show to Feature Rural Effort
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 10
NOT alone will the primory producing sections of the Royal Empire show feature the part men on tho land are playing in swelling the country's material…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →English Farms Sell Well
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 5
IT is astonishing how land values are being maintained throughout the rural districts of England, despite war and the unsatisfactory incomes made by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rain Came Too Late Farm Output Down as Result of Drought
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 10
ALTHOUGH recent rain relieved the position in the eastern halt of New South Wales, the change was too late…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Unique Map The Butterfly and the Farmer
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 6
ANY Australian who knows tho ways "of butterflies, moths, and flying insects is asked to help complete the most remarkable world map ever made…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wans Fill First Farm Jobs
The Sun · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 3
Because male labor is not available, 10 members of the Wans organisation are at present picking peas in…
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