Some Relief Afforded By Higher Values Wool Prices Sustained Crossbreeding Is Encouraged By Demand For Mutton Enhanced Rates For Fat Lambs
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 15
TN the face of a-severe drought in some parts of New South Wales, a little relief is afforded the grazier by the high wool prices which have been well sustained for certain grades during the current season. Returns on fine wools, which are most suited to the manufacture of civilian clothing, have attracted much of the publicity given to…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →ON and Off the Farm Rice Growing In The Solomons
The Land · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 5
On his way back to the Solomon Croup, where he will take up rice-growing on Guadalcanal, scene of so much heavy American fighting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Breeding Farm Stock Veterinary To answer your question our veterinarian must know all the facts. Therefore, give full particulars of the malady when you write. All inquiries should be addressed to "The Land" Newspaper, Box 1558, G.P.O., Sydney, and not to our veterinarian personally. Care and Experience Needed When In-Breeding of Animals Is Adopted
The Land · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 14
DIFFERENT opinions prevail regarding the affects of inbreeding, but the opponents of the practice are often among the rank and file of breeders. By in-breeding is meant the mating of animals that are closely related. As to the degree of relationship to which the term should apply, there is no definite understanding, and…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Farm Building and Construction The Mixing and Gauging of Mortars; Moisture Importance
The Land · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 9
IN all brick and block structures the correct mixing of mortars for bedding the bricks or blocks plays an important part. Mortars for plastering walls are also important and for those who contemplate doing…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sidelights on Farming Gardening With Sawdust
The Land · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 14
Gardeners in U.S.A. are giving much more attention to…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Advice On Repairs To Farm Tractor
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 11
METHOD is essential when dismantling and assembling any component of the farm tractor, Without it, mistakes are liable to be made, and mistakes are, at times, expensive. The following general advice is…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →New Measures, New Chemicals And Research Mean Big Savings To British Farmers
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 9
(By E. M. Ball, British smallholder, and agricultural feature writer.) DURING World War II. British veterinary services brought about many improvements, despite a diminished number of practitioners, because veterinary surgeons were taken into the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, and now in peace Britain's veterinary…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Spirit Of British Farming Exemplified in Wartime Triumphs Over Difficulties
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 17
SINCE Britain became an industrial country, her farmers have unwillingly had to take a place of secondary importance in her economy. They have had to fit themselves and their farms to trade conditions external to themselves, and this lias made their lot difficult and uncertain…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Strong Union Of Farmers Needed, Briton Declares
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 2
ONLY way to solve the problem of food production was by a world-wide scheme of planning, said the chairman of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Natural Methods Bring Back Health To Dead Farm
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 23
A STRONG challenge to the exponents of artificial manures has been issued by Sir Albert Howard, originator of the Labor method of composting. "I have delayed my reply to the…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Muddle Surrounds Promised Extensions To Hawkesbury Agricultural College Experiment Farm Proposal
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 23
ALTHOUGH a £60,000 extension scheme for Hawkesbury Agricultural College was prepared nearly a year ago and announced last July, people are asking "where are the extensions?" Opening the Agricultural Bureaux conference, the…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →South African Farmer Proves That Burning Off Is Not A Good Policy
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 4
DAMAGE caused to soil by burning off is stressed by Mr. J. Hunt Holley, Broad- moor farm, near Wartburg, South Africa. The main business at his farm is timber, but he goes in successfully for cattle and crops. In on Interview, published in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In South Australia. Crop Championship A Triumph For Tatiara District
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 21
THE 1946-47 crop championship has proved another triumph for the Tatlara district, which has produced seven…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Economic Pressure Causing Farmers To Be "Vocal"
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 6
PRESSURE of economic circumstances was forcing dairy farmers to become more vocal in agitating for conditions commensurate with the hard work and high costs in the industry, said the chairman of directors of the Producers'…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Soybean Crops Reported To Be Doing Well
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 24
ALTHOUGH che of the driest seasons for years has been experienced in some parts of the Northern Tablelands and North…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Bendigo Has Big Tomato Crop
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 24
MORE than a million cases of tomatoes are expected to be harvested within a radius of 50 miles of Bendigo (Vic.) this season. The…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Professor Attacks Dairy Judges And Breeders
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 8
PRINCIPAL of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, England (Prof. R. Boutflower), is in the news again. Introduced to a Suffolk farmers' meeting as "high priest of high yields-of-performance versus pedigree," he asked why…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dairy Quotas
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 7
THE Minister for Agriculture on the recommendation of the N.S.W. Dairy Products Board, has determined the following quotas to operate…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Jack Farmer Case
The St George Call · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 4
The ease of Jack Fanner, who was disqualified for The remainder or the season the third round ,,f competition was reopened for discussion at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ex-farmer Wins Find Ball Test
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 1
Winner of the Daily Telegraph Find-the-Ball Competition No. 5 is Mr Charles Kerslake, 123 Smith Street, Summer Hill. The prize of £181515 won by…
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