Tobacco Crop Price Up
CANBERRA, Thursday.--The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture (Mr. Scully) announces approval by the Prices Commissioner…
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Heavy Cattle Mortality
There was heavy mortality in a [?]b of cattle recently trucked from [?]afton to Gloucester. Already 36 [?]ad have died out of the mob of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat Quota
"R.G.": (1) Every registered wheat-grower will receive n quota, notice telling him what quota, or part of a quota, he is entitled to. (2) Yes, if dissatisfied, he has…
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All oversea quotes are for Wednesday, February 24th, 1943, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney…
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THE Scully wheat plan was adversely criticised by speakers at the annual general meeting of the Victorian Wheat and Wool Growers'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Plan to Establish Compensation Fund For Diseased Cattle
A PROPOSAL to establish a cattle compensation fund was discussed at a recent joint meeting between representatives of the Farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stud Sheep Sales to Be Held in May
THOUGH there will be no sheep show held in Sydney this year, the annual sale of stud sheep is fixed to commence on Monday, May 31…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →High Prices for New England Wool
Outstanding prices have just been realised for the well-known WC/ LYNDHURST/NEW/ENGLAND clip, the property of Messrs. Coventry…
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COMPENSATION will be paid to framers for animals which were dipped or sprayed, and which die within three days of such treatment. The attention of stockowners, however, is drawn to the necessity of immediately reporting sickness or death associated with…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Payment For Wheat in No. 5 Pool: Action [?]
A farmer from Morrygoen, sign[?] himself "Hard Done Wheatgrow[?] has written to "The Land" suppo[?] ing the proposal to take legal act[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Control of Wheat Marketing to the Editor of "The Land"
Sir,—A few weeks ago the [?] Press gave some prominence [?] speech made by a Mr. Bourke [?] the A.W.U. Convention in w[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Payment on Only 31 Per Cent of Wheat in N.S.W.
SO far this season in New South Wales, only 31 per cent, of the wheat received has been paid for either at the 4/- a bushel or 2/- a bushel rate…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Star Letter of the Week Why Tinker With Wool Industry? to the Editor of "The Land."
Sir,—One can't help thinking that there is much more of politics than of common sense behind the proposal of the Commonwealth Government to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Growers Want Five Yera Post-war Wool Marketing Scheme U.K. To Be Asked For 15½d lb. Flat Rate
A PROPOSAL providing for an approach by Australian woolgrowers' organisations to the United Kingdom Government seeking its approval of a five-year plan to succeed the present wool purchase…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Land "Nations may battle and the world rock with revolution, but the land will care for him who cares for it." Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Official Organ of the Farmers and Settlers' Association of New South Wales. Subscription Rates One year, in advance, 12/6; two years. In advance, 23/-; three years, in advance, 34/-. Subscriptions to "The Land" includes the "Farm and Station Annual." Single copy, "The Land," 3d.; single copy, "Farm and Station Annual," 2/-. Contributions are invited and will be paid for on publication. No responsibility can be accepted for the return of manuscript, but when stamp is enclosed every effort will be made to ensure return of Unsuitable matter. Cheques, money orders, etc., should be made payable to The Land Newspaper Ltd. Address business communications to the Manager, and literary contributions to the Editor "The Land," Box 1558E, G.P.O., Sydney, New South Wales. Board of Directors: Hon. W. C. Cambridge, M.L.C., General Secretary, Farmers and Settlers' Association of N.S.W. (Chairman); Hon. H. S. Henley, M.L.C.; E. Field (Vice-President, Farmers and Settlers' Association); H. K. Nock; and A. Heath. Managing Editor: Associate Editor: H. V. Budd. A. G. Hudson. Advertising Manager: E. W. Carter. 57-59 Regent Street, Sydney. Telephones: M 6971. Telegrams: (3 lines). "The Land," Sydney. Friday, February 26, 1943. How to End the Food Price Scandals
Two matters requiring urgent Government action in Australia to-day are (1) the prevention of further inflation and (2) granting of adequate prices to the producers of foodstuffs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News Editorial Ausstralia'a Debt to the Women and Children of the Farms
NO one could read without being deeply moved the accounts being published in "The Land" of what the women and children of the farms did to help bring in the recent harvest. Here are examples of heroism, stamina and self-sacrifice on the home…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War-Time Price Plan for Farm Products Subsidy Payments on U. K. Basis Suggested Urgent Need for Action
AUSTRALIA should subsidise the cost of living so as to ensure a remunerative return for primary producers and thereby guarantee maximum war-time supplies of essential commodities…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trees and The Farmer An Object Lesson in Farm Re-afforestation at Hinton
MR. SAM PARISH, a prominent and progressive member of the farming community near Hinton, on the Hunter River, has furnished an object lesson to men on the land by carrying out a re-afforestation project entirely "off his own bat."…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Rice Crop Likely
Mr. W. Poggendorff, plant specialist, N.S.W. Department of Agriculture, who has returned to the city after an extensive tour of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wage Award an Harvest Labor; Farmers Bitter
NOW that the harvest has end in New South Wales farmers [?] complaining bitterly about the c[?] of labor which was available th[?]…
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