Farmers Entitled to Fair Price, Says Mayor
Addressing a mass meeting of wheatgrowers at Parkes, the Mayor (Ald. W. Clark) said he was a strong advocate for trades unionism,…
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The Week's Markets Reviewed Dairy Produce Sussex Street Prices. (Wholesale Market)
The State Marketing Bureau reports:—BUTTER: Production continued to show improvement. Values arc steady, sales being made at 169/4 per cwt., including 2/6 per…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Breeding Farm-stock-veterinary Flies Are The Cause of Many Horse Ills
FLIES are the carriers of many diseases in horses, and although the sheep fly is the pest most frequently thought of in connection with stock, the horse fly can, and does do a vast amount of damage to horses. Although many horse owners are…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Two Examples of Good Bean Culture Fine Results From Irrigation & Also Dry Farming Technique
TWO outstanding examples of well-conducted and successful bean crop enterprises have recently come under the notice of "The Land." One is a nine acre irrigated crop at Ourimbah, in the Gosford district,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Farm Mechanisation; Co-op. Plan Expanding
FARM mechanisation in N.S.W. is expanding at a rapid rate, thanks largely to the efforts of War Agricultural Committees, dairy…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Red Spider in Bean Crops
DURING the past few weeks the red spider mite has appeared in a number of stringless bean crops with unfortunate…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Farmers Praise Success Of Work On Their Behalf
RELEASE of tyres, following representations by the "Farmer and Settler" on his behalf to Rubber Control. has enabled Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Safflower Important as Wartime Crop
EXPERIMENTS for more than 15 years have been conducted in the United States in growing safflower as a source of a drying all for paints. The war has accelerated these experiments…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →No Need To Cut Rice Crop, M.L.A. Declares
THERE was no need to restrict rice growing in New South Wales just because of lack of water in the Durin[?] Drun, said Mr. J. A. Lawson…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tractors on the Farm
CONTINUING the article on micrometers, we consider graduations this week. On the barrel are division reading…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Pea Vine Silage For Dairy Cows
LAST year authorities expressed concern at the tendency for dairy farmers to grow green peas for quick [?]ing, but a case recently brought…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Plea for National Control of "Money Mechanism" To the Editor, "Farmer and Settler”
Sir: Paul Einels, the noted English writer on economics, says:—”It may seem difficult to understand why ruan kind willingly put up for so long with…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Stubble Mulch Farming
IMPORTANCE of working the soil between crops is stressed by the Deputy Chief of the N.S.W. Division of riant Industry…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Crop Sowing In Full Swing In Tamworth District
SINCE the January rain, tractors have been busy in Tamworth district preparing ground and sowing graxing crops, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Girl Workers Harvest Big Crop Of Broom Millet
MEMBERS of Bowraville W.A.S.P.S. have accomplished outstanding work in the successful handling of a large crop of broom…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Crop May Suffer
UNLESS they could get more fertil[?]iser, the citrus crop next season would be greatly reduced. a deputation of Gosford citrus growers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers Worried by Smaller Yields "One Common Answer" Soil Fertility Declines, But Useful Manure is Still Wasted
FARMYARD manure to the value of some £3,250,000 is voided by the cattle of coastal New South Wales every year, but only a very small proportion of it goes to restore some of the fertility of which the land has been depleted…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairymen Will Give Mr. Curtin Facts on Zoning
THERE is a 'nigger in the woodpile, who seems very anxious to get behind the Government, and have the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council abolished, but we know who he is. I have yet to learn that the proposed abolition of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Surplus Jeeps May Be Sold to Farmers
CANBERRA, Friday.--Jeeps may be purchased by rural producers in Australia if any are available on the market here after the war…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Children Killed on Farm
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.--A neighbor told the Magistrate's Court at Nelson that he had heard Alan Stuart…
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