Dairy Farmers To Get Increased Payment On Export
DAIRY farmers will receive additional payments, extimated at £639,000, on dairy products exported from July 1, 1946…
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Finance Steady Tone in First U.k. Wool Sales
LONDON, Friday. -- The first wool sales of 1947 opened at Liverpool yesterday and a steady tone was maintained under keen competition from home buyers…
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LONDON, Friday. -- The first wool sales of 1947 opened at Liverpool yesterday and a steady tone was maintained under keen competition from home buyers…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Poll Shorthorn Was Born In 80's Nature Gave Cattle Horns As Afterthought Scientists Assert
IN his notable book, "Red, While and Roan," Alvin Sanders states that scientists who have made a study of prehistoric bovine creation confidently assert that the primordial herds of cattle were polled; that horns came later…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trade, Finance, Produce, and Overseas Markets Higher Duties on Wool in U.s. Unlikely
NEW YORK, Thursday (A.A.P.).--The change to Republican control of Congress is not likely to result in higher tariffs un…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Land "Nations may battle and the world, rock with revolution, but the land will care for him who cares for it." Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Official Organ of the Famers and Settlers' Association of New South Wales. Subscription Rates: One year in advance, 12/6; two years, in advance, 23/-; three years in edvance 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), Hon. 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: (8 lines) "The Land" Sydney. Friday, January 10, 1947 Producers and the Meat "Strike"
THE statement issued by Mr. Wright on behalf of the producers explaining where they stand in the present situation in which retail butchers have closed their shops rather than pay the prices asked by wholesalers, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nth. Coast Dairy Districts Still Dry; Other Areas Benefit
REPORTS received by the Dept. of Agriculture from dairying instructors show that ruins in December were of great value in many…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stud Dairy Stock from United Kingdom
The Premrer (Mr. McKell) in a statement issued this week, gave particulars of stud dairy stock, purchased in Britain by the N.S.W. overseas…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Payments Up for Export Dairy Products
DAIRY farmers, stated the Minister fat Commerce and Agriculture (Mr. Pollard) recently, would receive additional payments estimated at £693,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Amended Wage Rates of Dairy Workers Pay £4/16/- Now Becomes £5/4/
THE recent basic wage finding of the Federal Arbitration Court affects the dairying industry and immediately, states the general secretary of the P.P.U., Mr. L. J. Johnstone…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Leeton's Record Apricot Crop; Big Programme Ahead
Leeton's record apricot crop has been successfully harvested and canned under ideal conditions, no rain having fallen to interfere with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm Building and Construction The Use of Tools for Concrete Block-Making and Laying In this series of articles on concrete block making and Laying, of which this at the fifth and final, our Building Consultant has endeavoured to give sufficient information to enable the amateur to undertake the simple constructive work of building structure. He has, however, emphasised the desirability of having the services of a competent builder, at any rate in a supervising or advisory capacity
WHEN "dead-men" are used at the corners, as was explained in a previous article, there is very little use for the level or the plumb rule…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Splendid Results With Veg. Crops; Amazing Yields
RESULTS obtained by Mr. Jack Ellis, of Stanbridge, Leeton, are indicative of the high productive capacity of M.I.A. farms — under…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Share-farming on Thirds
"C.C.": The usual provisions regarding wheat share-farming on the "thirds" are: Where the owner provides everything but labor one-third goes to the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Problems of Irrigation Farming Urgent Need for School to Train Instructors
THERE is an urgent need for the establishment in N.S.W. of a Government Agricultural College specialising in irrigation farming. While the present State Government in proposing to embark on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ON and Off the Farm a Digger In Blighty
Named after the boat which brought him back to Australia after serving in World War I, "Mamari," Blighty Soldiers' Settlement,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Breeding Farm Stock Veterinary To [?] your qustion our verterinaian must know all the facts. Therefore, give ful particulars of the [?] when [?] All [?] should be addressed is "The Land" [?] G.P.O., Sydeny, and set is our veteria[?] personally. Distemper Not Fatal, But Following Diseases Often Kill Infected Dogs
DISTEMPER is the greatest scourge of our canine population, not only accounting for a large rmmber of deaths of dogs anuaily, but rendering many more useless for work. The tendency in some books on the subject to indicate several different varieties of the disease and deal with them as such, is quite wrong, for actually all…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Junior Farmer Speakers on Tour
THE Crookwell team, winners of the recent radio speaking contest for junior farmcra, will, on January 10, commonce the four of the North Coast…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →New Rust Resistant Wheats Proven on M.I.A. Amazing Yields of Gabo at Leeton Farm
AMAZING yields were gained from irrigated wheat and oats at beet on Experiment Farm, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Practical Wartime Aid to M.I.A. Vegetable Growing Part Played by Leeton Exp. Farm
FARMERS on the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area declare that success of the big wartime drive for vegetable production on the Area was, in a large measure, due to the work carried out at the Leeton Experiment Farm…
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