Fixed Price Sought for Cattle
DEFLATION of the market for store and fleshy cattle had militated against effective local preparation for the stock evacuation…
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Capable Young Wheat Growers
WINNER of the Junior Farmer State championship for wheatgrowing was B.T. Bowyer, Urangeline, c.Kosis, Downside, was second…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wool in an Emergency
A PRELIMINARY warning in regard to storate of wool, in the event of an emergency, was issued this week by wool selling brokers in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Plan Described as 'Tragic Blunder'
"A tragic blunder" was how a well known wheat expert this week described the Govern-ment's wheat restriction plans…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Why Cripple N.S.W. Wheat Industry?
MR. G.W. WALKER writes: "In recent weeks large number of wheat growers have expressed the greatest concern about the future of their industry…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool Appraisals May Have to Be Spread
LABOR troubles may be accentuated during next wool season, as munition work had drawn many men from wool stores, Messrs. Pitt, Bon and Badgery…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tested System Gives Results Jetting for Blowfly Control Saves Labor, Time and Wool
JETTING, or the spraying of the crutch (usually) so as to "fill the wool" with a mixture poisonous to blowfly maggots can, if used systematically, be made to do away almost completely with hand-dressing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Putting Stubble Ground to Good Use Farmers Submit Plan to Feed Evacuated Stock
EXPRESSING the view that evacuation of selected stock from possible danger areas was a wise move, Warraderry branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association has informed the Pre-mier (Mr. McKell) that the wisdom of the scheme would be…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motors & Motoring Farm Tractor
THE question has been raised again as to what is the easiest and most reliable way of testing the sparking plugs when one, or more, is misfiring…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Early Crops Poor
EARLY planting of potatoes were adversely affected by dry weather which prevailed through out the greater part of the growing season…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Soil Erosion Threatens Rick Farming Lands of Riverina, Says Conservation Chief
SOIL erosion in Riverina district has increased alarmingly during the past few years, and if remedial measures to check it are not applied immediately, much of the most fertile country in the State will be destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Shearers' Huts To the Editor, "Farmer and Settler."
Sir,—How many shearers' cooks would welcome your suggestion, re the suspending of sauzed windows and doors to shearer' kitchens and dining rooms…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Junior Farmer's Success
A junior farmer George H. Ben[?]tt, of the Mu[?]wellbrook District Rural School has been awarded the Department of Education's 1942…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Produce
The [?]of butter and chese th[?] may be sold next month in the course of intrastate trade in New South Wales have been increased from 46 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Weat Crop Restriction Deputation to Minister
CANBERRA, Wednesday.— Wheatgrowers are still awaiting details of the restricted acreage plan for next season…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers Heavily Fined for Neglecting Land
LONDON, Thursday.--Fines ranging from £20 to £80 were imposed on three Dublin farmers yesterday for neglecting to till their lands…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Germany in Need of Farm Tractors
LONDON.--A remarkable article in the "Voelkischer Beobachter" sounds a warning against an overestimation of "great agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Germany in Need of Farm Tractors
LONDON.--A remarkable article in the "Voelkischer Beobachter" sounds a warning against an overestimation of "great agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers Heavily Fined for Neglecting Land
LONDON, Thursday.--Fines ranging from £20 to £80 were imposed on three Dublin farmers yesterday for neglecting to till their lands…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pay Crops Men Heroes On Evacuee Ship
ON arrival at an Australian port from Batavia, I take off my hat in admiration of members of the Malayan Command Royal Army Pay Corps who were among the motley collection of mortals reaching this…
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