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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1946

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Farm Building and Construction How to Assess Painting Costs Information on Interior and Exterior Paint Work How to Do the Job Yourself

The Land · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 16

OUR building expert in this article gives some further hints on the measuring up of the interior of a house for painting purposes and an indication of the paint materials required for a brick house. Next week…

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Sidelights On Farming Novel and Interesting Facts Blowfiles Don't Strike By Chance

The Land · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 19

Blowfly strike in sheep does not occur by chance, nor is it related,…

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All-elegtric Home for Share-farmer

The Land · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 32

A feature of Mr, J. C. Melntosh's model dairy farm at Bexhill, near Lismore. is the modern cottage provided by Mr. Mclntosh for use by his share farmer, Mr. Neil McAnally The cottage, shown in the picture, at the rear of the dairy yards, has all electrial fittings, including…

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Farm for Sale Central West £5,000

The Land · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 26

1,116 Acres Freehold—650 cleared for plough (230 acres yielded 2,400 bags this season), Owner usually farms 300 acres, runs 800 sheep comfortably…

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On & Off the farm

The Land · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 5

Just Goes To Show—President of the Royal Agricultural Society (Mr. Colin Sinclair), in announcing the launching of this year's…

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Record U.S. Tobacco Crop

The Land · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 3

The U.S.A. has had a record 1945 tobacco crop of two billion pounds, and consumption of tobacco haw reached the highest level in history…

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Farming Problems; Correspondents Give Their Views Advice From "Back Seat Drivers"!

The Land · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 10

THE farmer has from time immemorial been the universal butt for criticism of alleged inefficient management of his farm…

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Fruit Pulping Economics of Farm Housekeeping Without Sugar

The Land · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 22

MOST housewives have found that the hardest pari of reduced sugar rationing is the fact that it came just when summer fruits were…

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World Decline In Dairy Output

The Land · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 7

Not only in Australia has the output of dairy products fallen. During the third quarter of 1945 dairy products in most of the world's…

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Maize Crops Promising

The Land · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 12

December conditions for maize crops were generally satisfactory, and in the main producing districts the crop is looking well, reports Mr. W…

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Our inquiry Department Farm Machinery

The Land · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 24

The name and address of the subscriber must accompany every inquiry (not necessarily for publication). Inquiries lacking name and address will not be answered. A stamped,…

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Our Poultry Suction Birds Have Ample Room on Big Seven Hills Poultry Farm Lay-out Designed as Disease Check

The Land · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 25

FREE range for poultry, says Mr. P. Kraus, of "Lynwood Park," Seven Hills, makes for health and stamina, which is notable not only in the birds themselves, but also in their progeny. The runs on thin farm are so large that they may he described as small paddocks. About twenty acres…

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Success With Soy Bean Crop

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 18

As proof of a successful experiment in the growing to soy beans Mr. H. Watson, East Maitland, Produced a bush laden with beans…

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Grows Like A Small Shrub Praise For Bokhara Clover Agrostologist Comments On Farmer's Claim

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 9

RECENT eulogy in the "Fanner and Settler" for lucerne, then described as "the king of fodders," has brought from Mr. R. M. Perry, Tarana, a letter in which he enthusiastically sets out the merits of Bokhara…

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Demand Made For Full Scale Investigation Compost And Plant Health Organic Farming Has Yet To Be Disproved

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 11

AN article by Dr. Hallsworth, of the School of Agriculture, Sydney University, published in the Australian Journal of Science, attempts to discredit the advocates of organic farming…

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Record Tobacco Crop Grown In United States

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 20

WITH a record 1045 tobacco crop, expected to exceed two billion lb. United States growers maketers and exporters are fairly certain of…

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Crops Only Fair

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 20

POTATO crops in Camden district have only been fair, says the district agricultural instructor (Mr. H.A.W. Woodward)…

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Seed Treatment To Increase Crop Yields

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 20

AUSTRALIA must face up to its growing responsibility tu a food producing nation, and play its full part in helping to feed the…

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Free Advice Service For British Farmers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 20

FIFTEEN hundred specialists are to be enrolled Into a new service which will put free advice on all manner of agricultural…

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No Crop Unless Suitable Labor Is Available

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 19

UNLESS satisfactory labor is avaliable, Mr. H. A. Warburton Rankia Springs, will not sow any crop this season…

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