Release Of Army Men For Farms; An Explanation
CANBERRA, Wednesday. — The statement by the Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully) that farmers whose applications for release of…
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Strange Case—Dairyman Before Court
A pecullar case, and one that strikingly illustrated the sharp difference that exists between laws for the producer and the industrialist, was…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →To Increase The Number of Small Farm-Owners INTERESTING U.S. EXPERIMENT
EXPERIMENTS in farm tenancy and ownership of the family-size farm in the United States will be furthered by a bequest of 21,000 acres of the Arkansas plantation which belonged to the late Frank G. Low…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Keen On Junior Farmer Movement
The Advisory Committee of the Gerringong District Junior Farmers Club, which includes Mr. G. K Chittick president; Mr. George T. Cullen,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Future of Irrigation Farming Sound Education Needed; Special College Suggested
"MY contention is, and always has been, that agriculture by irrigation is as much a profession as dentistry, chemistry, or medicine. Men in these professions qualify by education, and that is what successful irrigationists must do."…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Trees and The Farmer Fodder Trees of the West; Native Species That Can Easily Be Propagated From Seed by a Special Correspondent
THERE will be many who will say on reading this article: "Now, if you can tell what on earth is meant by such-and-such a tree, I should be deeply grateful." That, of course, is the tragedy. Some of the trees mentioned have disappeared so cleanly from certain districts that remembrance of their hind comes only as a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Economic Position of the Farmer
Sir,—Mr. A. W. Fadden, M.P., in a recent letter to "The Land" says:—"We have not realised sufficiently that the prosperity of each primary…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Breeding Farm Stock Veterinary Strangles in Horses; To Check Disease Spread
STRANGLES is an acute contagious fever of horses which is shown by an inflammation of the nasal passages and the throat, and the most common symptom of which is an abscess formation in the submaxillary lymphatic glands. The usual variety is confined to abscess formation between the branches of the lower jaw, but an irregular form of the disease exists commonly known as Bastard Strangles, in which…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Outlook Areas Need Rain; Outlook Far From Bright Good Crops in New England
EXCEPT in the New England area, the outlook in the main potato crop districts is one of the blackest for years, due to an entire absence of rain since Christmas. Mr. A. C. Oman, deputy chairman…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Farmers Hampered By Shortages And Restrictions
FARMERS in Queensland have had applications for tyre and tube renewals refused and were trying to carry on, with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Control Of Blight In Autumn Sown Potato Crops
AUTUMN-sown potato crops on the coast, now being planted, will be very [?]able to blight if the season is wet, because of the large number of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Poultry Farmers Are Set Big Task Goal Set for Eggs Is Record
MORE than 100: million dozen eggs—the highest goal yet attempted—would be required in the 1944-45 season,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Excellent Display By Junior Farmers
PRINCIPAL attraction of the Pavilion entries at the Kangaroo Valley show was in the excellent display staged by members of local and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Germans Take Wire From Dutch Farms
CABLED news from London reports that, According to a proclamations by the German Army of occupation, published in the Northerlands Press,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Good Output From Krambach Farm
EXCELLENT dairy farm production is revealed in a note from Mr. A. A. Keliner, Tipperary, Krambach, who, in four months, supplied the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Some Points For Minister To Consider To the Editor "Farmer and Settler."
Sir: The Minister for Land (Mr. Tully). In his address at the Armidale wool conference, advocated closer settlement, assistant to the closer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Surrey Church Centre of Ancient Farms
LAND that has been cultivated for a thousand years yielded the corn, the fruit, the vegetables and flowers that decorated the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →"Dairymen Face Hopeless Task"—Casino Claim
ANOTHER protest was added to the chorus voicing the growing difficulties of dairy farmers at a meeting of Casino Co-op. Dairy Society when the chairman (Mr. W. Sullivan) wild that returns did not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motors & Motoring Farm Tractor
SOME tractor drivers are rather haphazard in the way in which they choose their plugs. They hear some fellow tractor driver say that the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farm Mechanisation Scheme Interests W.A.
DEPARTMENTAL representatives of the West Australian Government have approached the Commonwealth Agricultural Council for particulars of the farm mechanisation scheme which has been in operation for…
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