Rabbit Farms As Meat Sources
Sir.—The rabbit is undoubtedly a curse in Australia, but total extermination is out of the question, but I suggest that the breeding of rabbits in closely confined areas would go…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Farming & the land, 1946
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Farm Water Supplies Bill
Serious defects in the Farm Water Supplies Bill now before Parliament have been pointed out by those interested in the measure…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIDELIGHTS on FARMING Straw Mulch Fights Wind Erosion
Although no actual measurements have been made, where the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Plough Early For Soy Bean Crop
BEST time to sow soy beans in tableland districts is in the early spring, somewhat later than early maize, when the ground is warm. In hotter and drier western districts, sowing in spring or early summer is desirable to avoid flowering…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Prospects Good For Rice Crops
NATURAL pastures in Griffith district responded remarkably to recent rains and growth was rapid, according to the agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Dressed Birds From Farm To Consumers
"YOUR chicken dinner — straight from the farm to you"—is the basis of a new system of marketing…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Notes from Victoria New Plan For Dairy Subsidy Is Suggested
A SUBSIDY of 1/- per lb. for butterfat and 6d. per gallon whole milk, to be paid on the whole of production in drought…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Peanut Crop Confounds Wyong Wiseacres
IN a paddock at Mardl about two miles from Wyong there is a crop of peanuts that is a flourishing contradiction to…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Lucerne Is Ideal Dairy Feed
LUCERNE, because of its drought resistance, high protein content, and palatability, and usefulness for grazing, green…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Noble Line in Valley Farm Stud
HEAD sire in Valley Farm Jersey stud, the property of Mr. P. V. Payne, Upper Lansdowne, is the well bred…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mounting Criticism Of Farm Water Bill
CRITICISM is mounting agninst the N.S.W. Government's Farm Water Supples Bill recently introduced to Parliament by the Minister for Conservation (Mr. Dunn)…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Skim Milk As Salvation Of Dairy Industry
SKLM milk should be turned into a milk product and marketed in such places an India, the Netherlands East Indies and China, instend of being poured down the drain as pig food, said the secretary of the Lismore branch of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →a Dairyman's Notebook
Lon. Hines, Yiddaville, Barmedman, has sold his A.I.S. herd sire, Grantville Venture by Bwanien Dominant, ex Bwanles Blossom 53rd) to Mr. C. Geilling…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Junior Farmer Travels Long Distance To Show
JUNIOR Farmer, Ken Smith, travelled from Nemingha, near Tamworth, to enter exhibits of grasses, wheat, onions and…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Simplified Buttermaking On The Farm
BUTTERMAKING on the farm is greatly simplified when the rotary steel churn, manufactured by Malleys, Ltd., Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Queensland Weekly Letter Havoc To Farms In North Queensland
IN extent and damage North Queensland's latest flood and cyclone was the worst in half a century…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →On The Land Promising Rice Crop Never Looked Better
The promise of a substantial rice crop in Australia ts much better than it was some months ago, although it is known that it cannot…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Valuers Dissatisfied
WOOL valuers employed by wool brokers are so dissatisfied with their salaries that most of them have applied…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dalgety's Wool Report
From the Australian woolgrowers' point of view, states Dalgety & Co., it is particularly interesting to learn from recent Press…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Quotations. Overseas and Sydney. Friday, March 15
All overseas quotes are for Thursday, March 14, 1946, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney are…
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