Feeding and Breeding for Prosperity Growing Demand For Beef Minister's Tribute To Cattle Raisers
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 36
DESPITE isolation, climate and many other difficulties, the beef cattle industry in Australia has developed into one of our important rural undertakings. The continued and sustained progress made over the years…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Sheep Flocks Are Moving In Again Landholders Re-Establish in Silage as Drought Insurance
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 24
TAM WORTH, Monday.—Flocks of sheep which have grazed elsewhere during the drought of the north-west are returning to green pastures on Manilla, Gunnedah and Quirindi properties. The tragedy is that many landholders who lost their flocks in the drought, and more especially in the freeze that followed an earlier break, are unable…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →F.S.A. President Writers To N.Z. Prime Minister on Wheat Deal
The Land · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 2
GENERAL PRESIDENT of the Farmers and Settlers' Association of N.S.W. (Mr. Hugh S. Roberton), has forwarded the following letter to the Prime Minister of New Zealand (Mr. Peter Preiser), in connection with the sale of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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. Bone Chewing in Cattle Is a Sign of Mineral Deficiency; Improved Pastures, Licks As Remedy
The Land · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 18
BONE chewing is a symptom of Osteomalacia, which is known as Rickets or Stiffs by dairy farmers, whose cows are mostly affected by the trouble. Time was when the chewing of bones, bricks, wire or rubbish of all sorts was considered t& be due to a depraved habit induced by idleness. In a flush season, with grass in…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Scope For Reduction in Wool Levy, Says Murphy Big Fund Being Built Up
The Land · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 31
THIS week's conference of the Graziers' Association of N.S.W. decided to make a vigorous protest against the 5 per cent, contributory charge on wool under the post-war marketing scheme…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →No Simple Cure-all for More Serious Stock Diseases, Veterinarian Warns Big Problems Still For Scientists To Solve In this special article "The Land" Veterinarian, Major C. J. Sanderson, warns stock breeders that there are so far no simple cure-alls for some of the most serious diseases which afflict cattle. He points out that the world's leading veterinary scientists and research workers have some big problems still to solve and that it is foolish for stockowners to place an almost childlike faith in the efficiency of some drug or treatment merely on the advice of an individual. He stresses that such diseases as contagious abortion and mammitis of dairy cattle are world-wide in their incidence and the world's scientists have yet to find a cure for these diseases
The Land · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 8
PRACTICALLY no diseased condition in stock exists at the present time but that some individual claims to have a never failing remedy for it…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Appropriation of Wheat Pool Funds; Gunnedah F.S.A.'s Protest Too Many Race Broadcasts
The Land · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 12
WHILE there was some justification for the appropriation of Wheat Pool funds for rehabilitation of marginal area wheat farmers in 1338, when the home consumption price was 5/2 per bushel, and well above…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Large Scale Feeding Of Beef Cattle Seven Meals a Day Fat Forming Provender To Cater For Bovine Appetites
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 28
AL NORMAN, superintendent of the Swanston feedyard, 25 miles north-west of Sacramento, California (U.S.A.), is licking the labor problem, adapting feed rations to available supplies, persuading cattle to consume maximum quantities of fat-forming provender and keeping them out of deep mud during the rainy season…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Reduction In Wool Levy Anticipated Value of Australian Clip Likely To Exceed £90,000,000
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 7
MR. J. F. MURPHY, Chairman of the Australian Wool Realisation Committee and Director of J.O., told the Annual Conference of the N.S.W. Graziers' Association in Sydney this week that the contributory charge of 5 per cent, would probably be "very considerably" less next year…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shorthorns Spread In Migration Of British Cattle Breed Grows In Greatness In Canadian Stock Circles in Train of Human Travels
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 32
OF great interest to cattle breeder's of, Australia are matters, relating to the stock industry of other countries, of competitor nations on the world's marked, and of other British Dominions, the original source of supply of breeding stock being common to all, and breeds and bloodlines identical…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Progress of Post-War Wool Plan Reviewed Disposal of J.O. Surplus Stocks; Commission Chairman on the Future
The Land · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 7
INTERESTING facts relating to the post-war wool marketing plan were given by Mr. J. F. Murphy, Chairman of the Australian Wool Realisation Commission and a director of J.O., in an address to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Empire Should Talk As Economic Unit" Grazier Cites Wool Agreement As Example Of Collective Bargaining Preference And Meat Industry
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 3
THEORISTS were throwing away the substance for the shadow if they believed that there were markets for Australian meat other than to Great Britain, Mr. Gordon Munro (Bingara) told the Graziers' Conference in Sydney on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Show Judge Lectures Junior Farmers
The Land · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 19
Local Junior Farmers attending a lecture and demonstration on the champion Jersey cow at the recent Tenterfield Show. The champion was exhibited by Mr. A. P. Rock, "Strathern," Tenter field. Mr. A. J. Caswell, the dairy cattle judge, was the lecturer…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Star Letter of the Week Education for the Future Farmer To the Editor of "Tiie Land."
The Land · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 1
Sir,—Farming practice is becoming more and more a specialised science, yet many farmers use practically the same methods as their fathers and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →One Big Union of Farmers Not Favored By Graziers' Chief
The Land · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 1
ON the broad theory that a chain is as strong as its weakest link, the President of the Graziers' Association of NS.W. (Mr. P. A. Wright), opposed the formation of a Farmers' Union of Australia at this week's Graziers' Conference in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fruit Crops Hit By 2-Day Gale; Damage at Young
The Land · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 19
A TWO days' gale in the Young district has reduced the local prune crop to only 30 per cent of its normal 1000 tons. The same gale reduced the…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Successful Young Junior Farmer Raises Jerseys
The Land · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 22
SUCCESSFUL exhibitor in the Jersey cattle classes at Inverell Show last zveek was 17-year-old Iris Bradley of "Nardoo" Ashford…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Sidelights on Farming
The Land · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 21
Sealed Silos Grain on the farm Stifle Pests: is best stored in iron of concrete silos, iron tanks or tightly fitted bins…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →ON and Off the Farm Dutch Farmers Meet Royal Family On Tour
The Land · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 5
Hundreds of sheep farmers who met the Royal Train when the King and Queen and Princesses arrived at Graaf Reinet, on their South African'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Land "Nations may battle and the world rock wiht revolution, but the land will care for him who cares for it." Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Official Organ of the Farmers and Settlers' Association of New South Wales. Subscription Rates: One year in advance, 12/6; two years, In advance, 23/-; three years in advance, 34/-. Subscription to "The Land" includes the "Farm and Station Annual." Single Copy, "The Land," 3d.; single copy, "Farm and Station Annual," 2/-, Contributions are invited and will be paid for on publication. No responsibility can be accepted for the return of manuscript, but when stamp is enclosed every effort will be made to ensure return of unsuitable matter. Cheques, money orders, etc., should be made payable to The Land Newspaper Ltd. Address business communications to the Manager, and literary contributions to the Editor. "The Land," Box 1558, G.P.O., Sydney, New South Wales. Board of Directors: W. C. Cambridge (Chairman), Kan. H. S. Henley, M.L.C.; E. Field; H. K. Nock; and A. Heath. Managing Editor: Asst. Managing Editor: H. V. Budd, M.L.C. A. G. Hudson. Advertising Manager: E. W. Carter. 57-59 Regent Street, Sydney Telephones: M 6971 Telegrams: (3 lines) "The Land," Sydney. Friday, March 14, 1947. Pledges to Britain Made a Mockery
The Land · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 4
A NEW strike by the Sydney wharflaborers this week coincided with the carrying of a motion moved by the leader of the Country Party (Lt. Col. Bruxner) in the Legislative Assembly pledging this State's…
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