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Farming & the land, 1949

7,152 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 250

Breeding To Retain Best Strains Of Dairy Stock

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 3

IT is generally acknowledged by the old master breeders on the Island of Jersey that if an animal has five generations of the right kind of inheritance behind it, it will breed the right kind of stock…

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Large Scale Farming Project Peak Downs Scheme Worth Watching

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 1

AUSTRALIA'S greatest farming operation — the sorghum growing-pig raising project at Peak Downs (Q.)—Is now in full…

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Tobacco Crop

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 20

VICTORIAN tobacco crops have not made normal growth, probably because of the general low level of temperatures prevailing during the…

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Junior Farmers On Inspection Tour

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 2

A PARTY of 28 Junior Farmers from the Control West is on a 13 days' tour embracing the Hunter Valley, Gosford, Woy Woy, Sydney,…

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End Tariff Protection To Get More Netting (To the Editor, "Farmer and Settler.")

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 4

Sir: Recent release information concerning the inadequate quantities of rabbit-proof wirenetting being manufactured, and the extreme…

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To increase Farmers' Efficiency Spending Federal Grant State Plans Cover Wide Field

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 7

WHEN the Joint Dairy Industry Advisory Committee completed. die survey cost of dairy production, the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) announced that the Federal Government would allocate £250,000 per annum for…

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Dairy Cows Need Adequate Supply Of Drinking Water

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 6

THE dairy cow needs more water than any other farm animal. The actual quantity consumed will depend upon the foodstuffs…

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Dairy Supervisers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 6

AN examination for qualification as a Dairy supervisor under the Victorian Milk and Dairy Supervision Act 1928, will he held in Melbourne…

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Dry Weather Retards Banana Crops

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 16

DRY weather during the pant few months has held up maximum banana production on the Far North Coast…

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Good Table Poultry Prospects Co-operative Plant In U.S.A. Impresses N.S.W. Farmer Hatching To Meet Market

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 17

IN Australia, table poultry rearing was beginning to shape up into a fairly promising branch of the industry prior to the war, but feed rationing and labor conditions dealt it a serious blow. Now, with the general dissatisfaction with egg returns, and the greater availability of feed, there is ample evidence of a swing to table poultry production…

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Big Expansion Planned For Britain's Farms

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 18

DURING the next four years, £450,000,000 sterling will be invested in Britain's farms. This is the figure given in the…

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Farm Tour Is Attracting Wide Interest

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 19

(From Oar Special Correspondent.) ADELAIDE.—Considerable interest was being displayed in "The Chronicle" tour of the…

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Dairy Whip Ban

The Sun · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 7

Special stopwork meeting of the Milk Carters' Union on February 3 will reconsider the union's ban on the…

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Wool Estimate Increased

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 6

Estimate of the Australian wool clip for the 1948-49 season has been advanced to 3,220,000 bales…

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U.k-canada Wheat Pact

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 9

OTTAWA, Fri. (A.A.P.). -- The Canadian Government has announced that the 1949-50. wheat price under the four-years'…

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Canadian Wheat Sale to U.k

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 3

OTTAWA, Jan. 21 (A.A.P.).— The 1949-50 wheat price under the four-year Britain-Canada. contract will be two dollars (12/6…

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Frederick Henry McCahon Cullen Head of the Wheat Board

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 11

As chairman of the newly-constituted Wheat Board he will have jurisdiction, more or less, over the financial destinies of more than 60,000 wheat- farmers…

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Infra-red frost killer guards crops

The World's News · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 11

INFRA-RED LAMPS, popular for indoor sun-tanning, are now being used in America to protect orchards and vegetable crops…

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Smiths Financial Review G. B. Jackson Farmer's Ords. at a Discount

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 9

If you could buy a share for 30 per cent. discount on its admitted net assets in a strong, well-established company capable of earning 42.7 per cent, on your money wouldn't you be satisfied?…

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Gardening Notes by "Legume" Rotate Crops for Results

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 3

Crop rotation has been applied on farm and garden for centuries, but not everyone realises to the full its immense importance. NOR is every tiller of the soil…

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