Value of Sure Market For Wool
"NOTWITHSTANDING the inadequacy of the price for wool under present conditions, growers are fortunate to have a sure market…
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Dairy Farmer For A Day
LISMORE, Friday.--Commonwealth Prices Commissioner (Professor Copland) will visit this district at the week-end…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Storage Charges on Pool Wheat Mounting; Growers Want Relief
THE difficulties and high cost of storing wheat likely to be faced in Australia this year were referred to by Mr. E. Field, a growers' representative on the Australian Wheat Board, when speaking at last week's meeting of the Executive of the Farmers and Settlers' Association…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wheat Stubble Ploughed in Arrests Erosion in N.-West
MOST of the wheat in the north-west it produced on short fallow, but as land becomes infested with weed, inoculated with fungus diseases, and to an exte[?]t depleted of its subsoil moisture, it becomes necessary to give it a long fallow in order to exercise control over…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Finance and Wheat Stabilisation Plan to the Editor of "The Land."
Sir,—A growing number of farmers are of the opinion that no permanent solution of the problems facing the wheat industry is possible under our…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →1,100 Acres Only a Horse Paddock to Veteran of Vast Sheep Stations
TT'S a long way from Guyra to the sheep and cattle stations of Queensland, the Northern Territory cattle stations, and the sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Drop in Canadian Wheat Harvest; Huge Supplies In U.S.
THE final wheat estimate of the wheat crop harvested in Canada in 1941 indicates a total production of 299,401,000 bushels. This quantity…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Compulsory Hail Insurance For Wheat; State Proposal MORE F.S.A. Publicity Wanted
THE Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Dunn) is to be asked by the Executive of the Farmers and Settlers' Association to give consideration to the establishment of a scheme for compulsory hail insurance for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →F.S.A. and Prices of Meat & Wheat to the Editor of "The Land."
Sir,—I notice that the F.S.A. Executive dealt with various, matters of utmost importance to the primary producer. The price fluctuations at…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Our Readers' Hints on Saving Money, Time & LABOR Wheat Lifter Made Out of Old Pickling Machine
Here is a gadget I have for loading wheat off the ground on a dray or lorry. Now that labor is so scarce, and a great many farmers find…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Readers' Views Roberton Wheat Plan Not Policy of F.S.A., Says Nock to the Editor of "The Land."
Sir,—It is futile to argue with people whose enthusiasm makes them disregard the truth, and it is unfortunate that Mr. McIvor's…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Unity of Farmers on Empire Basis; Plans For Post-War
THE likelihood of another Empire Producers' Conference being held to deal with important postwar problems of marketing was mentioned at the meeting last week of the Executive of the Farmers and Settlers' Association…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Potato Crop Outlook
With the exception of New England, where storms were experienced, dry conditions continued during January throughout the main potato…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Doing Men's Work on the Farm
At, "Bald Blair," Guyra, the property of Col. H. F. White, 163 acres of canning beans are being grown for the Commonwealth Government…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Section for the Poultry Farmer Increased Local Consumption Would Help Egg Industry
INCREASED local consumption of eggs would greatly assist the poultry farmer and help to solve the problem of dealing with the export surplus. Limited supplies of mill offals,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Breeding Farm Stock & VETERINARY To answer your question, our veterinarian must know all the facts. Therefore, give full particulars of the malady when you write. Far Too Little Attention Is Paid to Shoeing
WHEN engaged recently in purchasing horses for military purposes I had a somewhat unique opportunity of making a critical examination of the feet of many hundreds of horses. An astonishing number of animals were seen with hoofs that were in no condition to stand hard and continuous work. Several reasons exist for this, some being due to a really defective state of the horn, while others are due to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Advertising Farming
Thousands of people still use our main roads and travel along our railways. Why not interest them in our fields and in the crops they pass?…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New England Farmers Help to Make the Army Full of Beans
FROM small beginnings in 1937, and little real development until two years ago, the production of canning beans has now become an important farm industry in New England. To-day about 3,000 acres are under this crop around Armidale, Glen Innes, and Guyra…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Drive to Expand Output of Vegetables Co-operation of Farmers Urged To Meef New War-Time Demands
TO supply both military and civil needs in Australia vegetable production must be greatly expanded The serious drought in many of the vegetable districts in New South Wales has aggravated the present short…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmer's Plight is Not His Fault; Readers Reply to 'Sammy Beeswing' To the Editor of "The Land." Some of our correspondents appear to believe that "Sammy Beeswing" a city middleman. That is not so. His address was inadvertently omitted from his letter published last week. It is Gollan, via Wellington, and we believe him to bo on the land
Sir,—Just an answer to Sammy Beeswing's letter alleging that it is the farmer's own fault for being so far behind. I don't quite agree with…
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