7 Months' Wool Cheque Up 66 p.c
Woof sold in the Commonwealth for the seven months to January 31 realised £76,632,029, compared with £46,074,474 for the same period last season…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Farming & the land, 1948
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Atomic Farming May Mean Better Crops And Stock
MATERIALS to be used in the new atomic science of agriculture were described before the first conference on radioactive atoms in farm research, held…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dutch Dairy Farming Is Intensive
DAIRY farming is intensive in Holland. On 2,334,148 hectares (5,767,890 acres) of cultivated land, 2,817,314 head of cattle arc carried, including 1,566,281 dairy cows Annual milk production in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →F.a.q. for Wheat Fixed at 60½ Lb
THE f.a.q. standard of New South Wales wheat for this season has been fixed at 60½ lb. to the bushel. For the three…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Merino Sheep Made Grand Display at Boorowa Show by Our Special Representative
OUTSTANDING exhibits of Merino sheep marked Boorowa's 59th Annual Show last week. The high quality of the sheep, which were representing leading Southern studs, presented a long and difficult task…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Home Price Wheat Policy; How Growers Have Subsidised The Community
THE 1938 legislation provides that when wheat is under 5/2 a bushel, bagged basis, ports, a flour tax shall be collected to subsidise wheatgrowers…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wool Prices Up 53 P.C. Sales, £76m In 7 Months
The average price a lb of wool sold in Australia in the seven months ended January 31 at /37 was 53 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This Is What Farmers Had to Contend with This Harvest
Harvesting this season under difficult conditions on Messrs. E. A. Capps and Sons' Big Camp property at Cowra. This crop stood five feet high before being flattened by storms It was estimated to yield 36 bushels to the acre. Every second-tooth was removed from the comb of the machine and a seven-inch roller placed underneath. The boggy ground caused the need for two tractors on a power-driven header…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Provisional Tax Burden on Farmers; Averaging System Is Wanted
A PROPOSAL that the five years' average system, now used to determine the tax rate, should also form the basis of the provisional tax of primary producers' income, was put to the Commissioner of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Manager for Bathurst Experiment Farm
Mr. F. F. Filan, agronomist of the plant industry section of the Department of Agriculture, has been [?] pointed manager of the Bathurst…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →ON and Off the Farm Belgium's Agricultural Recovery a Miracle
Just back from a visit to her native Belgium, Mrs. W. Stuart-Reid, of Turramurra, told "The Land" that agriculture is keeping the Belgians…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers May Be Next
TWO men have been fined in Sydney this week for working in their own factories on a Saturday afternoon. Fancy, in these days of desperate shortages, anyone…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Travelling Farm Repair Service
A firm of enterprising ex-servicemen in the Dungog district has established a travelling farm machinery repair unit…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Presentation to Progressive Farmer
Mr. W. H. Bruce, winner of the Specialist Section of the Progressive Farmer Competition, has been presented by Castle Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ex-soldiers As Agric. Students 1st Year Agric. Diploma Course at Wagga Experiment Farm by Our Special Representative
BECAUSE of the shortage of bury Agricultural College, whom are former servicemen, of the College course at Wagga…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tullakool Rice Farms
FOR the 14 rice farms on Tullakool, 92 of the 208 applicants were admitted to the ballot, with the following as the successful ones:…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Englishman Asks for Farm Work
G. R. Graham, Yeo Sigs., P/jx 141747, P.O.,'s Mess, H.M.S, Mercury, nr. Petersfield, Hunts., England, has forwarded to "The Land" the following letter: "On…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Sidelights on Farming
Devastation An Egyptian loFollows cust (or grasshopper) plague Grasshopper described in the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Breeding Farm Stock Veterinary Incidence of Cancer In Animals; Many Types of Benign Tumour
PROBABLY owing to the claim made recently by Mr. Braund to be able to cure cancer in human beings, a great many inquiries have been made to me asking if animals are afflicted with cancer. To this question there can be only one reply and that in the affirmative…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The Week's Markets Reviewed Dairy Produce Sussex St. Markets (Wholesale Market)
The State Marketing Bureau reports: BUTTER: Production, which has been at a high level, is now showing a decline in the coastal areas. Surpluses are being…
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