Sheep Dogs Anahdale Strain in Good Demand
THE Marsden strain of red kelpie sheep-working dogs, of standard type, have been bred on Anahdale station, Blayney, for the past 30 years…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farming & the land, 1941
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Surplus Wheat Now 33,000,000 Bushels
CANBERRA, Wednesday. -- Export sales of 10,000,000 bushels in the last month have reduced the unsold wheat in the No. 2 Pool to only 33,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Normal Acreage for Coming Season's Wheat Growers May Now Prepare for Seeding Stabilisation will Not Seriously Upset Farmers' Plans
PENDING the examination of the applications and the determination of the basic acreage for each registered wheat farm under the Wheat Industry Stabilisation Plan, wheatgrowers would be quite safe in preparing for towing on a normal acreage based…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wants Refund Wool Council and Blowfly Cure
SOUTH African Wool Council has called on Mr. J. J. M. Smith, Edenvale, Graaf-Reinet district, to refund £2500 paid to him as a first…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →American Wool Needs The Clip and the Rain
Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report :— An American authority estimates that 801b. of greasy wool…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wyong Dairy Farm
AN attractive dairy farm at Wyong, comprising about 670-acres freehold, will be submitted for auction at the Royal Exchange, Sydney, on January 29. The…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Dairy Farmers Want Organiser. Kiama
A conference of 300 South Coast dairy farmers adopted a resolution urging the appointment of a professional man to represent milk suppliers' interests in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More Lucerne Needed. Value in Wheat Country. Drought Standby
Never was the value of lucerne so effectively demonstrated as in the period of drought from which New South Wales is now emerging. As…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Contests R.A.S. Plans for Next Series
WHEAT varieties to be judged in the 1941 field wheat competitions conducted by the Royal Agricultural Society will be restricted to those…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Man on the Land. Reports and Hints. Salt in Sheep Feed
Although many graziers have condemned the practice, Mr. G. Kirkby, of the Success Pastoral Company, of Moree, has been convinced that the use of salt in sheep feed…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Commercial. Wool Report. American Needs—the Clip and the Rain
"Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:—An American authority estimates that 80 lb. of greasy wool is needed to equip a soldier on the scale of equipment…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Less Than 5 P.C. Drop. Season's Wool Clip. Shearing Completed
Figures taken from hundreds of representative shearing sheds in New South Wales and Victoria indicate that the season's wool clip…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Wool Market Opportunity of Americas Japan Competing with Cut Prices
ACCORDING to the assistant general secretary of the Graziers' Association (Mr. S. Ick-Hewins), the two Americas…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat Trials in Drought Three Varieties Harvested after Record Low Condobolin Rainfall
WITH a rainfall of only seven inches in nine months the wheat experiments conducted at Condobolin Experiment Farm in 1939-40 experienced drought conditions at their worst and results are interesting. Yields, naturally, were low, but…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Feeding Wheat Grain Must Be Supplemented with Other Materials Providing a Balanced Ration
SOME farmers feed their fowls on wheat alone, giving the grain both morning and evening. When one feeds wheat solely, either as whole, soaked, boiled or gristed grain, the ration in known as "wide" and will make the birds fat, writes Mr. G. D…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farm Engineering Producer Gas Units "Satisfactory on Most Tractors"
The cheaper cost of operation and the possible limitations, because of war conditions, on the use of kerosene as a motive fuel have made the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fur Farming
FOR many years the "Farmer and Settler" has been suggesting to those in control of Government how it is possible to improve…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmers Not Mere Traders Wealth Creators of the Nation
THE fact that farmers and live stock breeders are wealth creators and not mere traders in the products of others [?] bringing new men, wealth and valuation…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Heartening Statement by Minister for Commerce ASSURED Immediate Future of Dairy Industry Wider Demand
PROSPECTS for dairy produce in the pott-war period appeared to be such as to ensure a continuance of stability…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"A Real Picture" Soldier-Farmer Praises Hunter River District
FARMER and wheatgrower from the parched Bogan Gate district of the past year, Major S. J. Walker, D.S.O…
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