High Standards In Junior Farmer Show Displays
AN outstanding feature of the pavilion display at this year's Nowra show was the exhibit staged by members of Junior Farmer Clubs of the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Farming & the land, 1947
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Junior Farmers Stage Attractive Pavilion Display
AN attractive pavilion display was staged by members of Raymond Terrace Junior Farmer Club at the Maitland show…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Organiser Optimistic On Future Of Soybeans To The Editor, "Farmer and Settler"
Sir,—During the past l2-months Australian farmers in many districts have done their utmost to Assist in the drive to establish the soybean…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Farm Produce Excels At Karkatt J.F. Show
DESPITE an unfavorable season, the standard of quality in the vegetable and farm produce sections was excellent at the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Record Onion Crop
BY the Adoption of direct sowing methods and irrigation. a record drop of Crystal Grane onions was produced by Aid. F. C. Cunningham…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Why Backyarders Need More Than A Dozen Fowls To the Editor, "Farmer and Settler."
Sir,—J. H. Richards, Eastwood, writes a very interesting letter regarding "backyarders." What I want to know is, how many backyarders of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Dalgety's Wool Report
A full report has just come to hand by air mail from our London office (state Dalgety & Co. in their report) of the third series of London wool…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Why No "Baby" Wool?
Sir,—I have searched the shops for weeks to buy "baby" wool to knit for my much-needed addition to Australia's population, and have not been able to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trade and Finance Higher Profit, Steady Div. for Q.n. Pastoral
After charging £18,978 depreciation, Queensland National Pastoral Co., Ltd., earned £33,603 net profit for the year ended…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wheat Quotations Overseas and Sydney. Friday, March 7
All overseas quotes are for Thursday, March 6, 1947, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Books of the World and the Week Where Is Australia's Farmer Novelist?
IN English current literature, A. G. Street is recognised as the farmers novelist. He has written a long list of books extolling life on the land, and half of them have appeared in the guise of fiction. His post-war novel,"Holdfast," deals with English farming experience under war condition…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mustering Sheep
WE caught our horses and set off up the hill. The day was hot and the dogs seemed to be slow. The horses…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Menzies Hits Wheat Deal
The Australian Government had ignored the Wheat Board, as such, entirely in its recent wheat deal with the New…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Show cattle had to be healthy
England's Royal Show, to be resumed after seven years, would help to set a standard of disease-free cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Man Ordered Home
DAMES in distress, as one might say, socialites Mrs. Margaret Nancy Manning and Mrs. Valerie Fairfax, being friends, are…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →German Threat to Aust. Wool New Menace Of Ersatz Britain Will Have to Act
LONDON, Saturday.—What guarantee has the Australian Government received that Germany will not eventually be able to renew her attack on the Australian wool industry?…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Cockies can be meanly generous Story of a Little Farm
BELIEVE, with all the faith just short of scientific proof, that a special gene goes into the making…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mixed Farm
LIFE on a mixed farm is very interesting. When I lived on one we had 90 poddy lambs which we used to feed on the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Q.N. Pastoral Profit Higher
Net profit of Queensland National Pastoral Co. Ltd. for 1946 was £33,603, against £31,804 for the previous year…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Firm Market For Sheep & Lambs
There was a small yarding of sheep and lambs at Homebush today, but it was of good quality and consisted of 14,270 sheep,…
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