MOTORS and Motoring the Farm Tractor
A NOISE which is in the nature of a slap may be heard emanating from the engine. This is known as piston-slap. Pistons are usually made from an…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farming & the land, 1942
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Farmers Want Wyangala Water
A PROPOSAL for diversion of water from Wyangala dam to the Wollondilly River to Telleve the water shortage in Sydney is. strongly opposed by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Opportunity that Should Be Seized Experts Advise Sowing of Fodder Crops where Rain Has Fallen
SUBSTANTIAL rainfalls on the North Coast, in the north-west, and extending to the Central Tablelands recently, have heartened farmers, and will alleviate the serious plight in which many were placed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →U.S. Methods With Meat in Army Camps To The Editor, "Farmer and Settler"
Sir,—In a letter Just received from my representative in Chicago I am advised that the National Live stock and Meat Board in its intense "Eat More Meat"…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One Male Worker for Each Farm
HARDSHIPS, caused by call-ups for military training, were discussed at last meeting of Mullumbimby branch of the P.P.U. The opinion of Mr. H. L…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Diviner Locates Good Water Supply on South Coast Farm
WATER shortage was becoming a prob[?] lorn for Mr. Howard James, Kurra-wong Dunmore, but the success of an amateur water diviner has resulted in an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Benby Club Prize Letter Farmer's Friend or Ibis
EVELYN HOWLING (Paddy's Flat vin Tabulami Since the recent rains small flocks of [?] have arrived in the district. They at ridg about all day on their great long legs…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Collective Farming in Russia. How It Operates
Many Australians have heard that collective farming exists in the Soviet Union, but few have anything but the foggiest notion of what this means…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Plight of Dairying Industry
"Never has the plight of the dairying industry in New South Wales been comparable with the present threat of extinction facing some of the herds in…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The Catholic Man on the Land Parched Dairy Lands. Feed and Water Scarce
The dairying country along practically the whole cost from the Tweed to the Victorian border is suffering severely from lack of both feed and water…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Boys' Farm to Be Cultivated
The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Dunn) announced today that it had been decided to use the Yanco Boys' Farm to grow…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Boys' Farm to Be Cultivated
The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Dunn) announced today that it had been decided to use the Yanco Boys' Farm to grow…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Market
THERE is still a good demand for wheat for the local produce trade. The market for wheat for export flour remains very quiet…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mixes Mixed Farming with Wheat Breeding Experiments
MR. C. H. BEESON, of "Leyburn," Gunnedah, is well known for his collaboration with Dr. W. L. Waterhouse, of Sydney University, in wheat experiments aiming at producing disease-resisting varieties with short, strong straw and Unproved grain quality and yield…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Aust. Wheat Crop of 164 Million Bus
ACCORDING to the estimates made by official authorities in the various States, the production of wheat in Australia for the season…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Decline In Butter Output Continues
A HEAVY decline in the output of butter in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland, the main producing States, for the five months ended…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Rock Fern and Sheep Losses
"Rock Fern": Cheilanthsos Tenuifolia (rock fern) may cause sudden death, but more often is responsible for a form of staggers in sheep. There is no treatment…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Keeping Steel Wool 94
I always find that my piece of steel wool would start to rust after a couple of days' use, and would crumble up and be useless. To…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations
All overseas quotes are for Wednesday, February 11, 1942, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Details of Wheat Plan Yet
IT was learned from Canberra this week that no new developments had occurred in connection with the plan foreshadowed by the Minister…
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