Post-J.O. Wool-Selling Plan Debate But Graziers Still Await A.W.G.C;s Report
The Land · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 2
The Graziers' Conference this week accepted the principle of a wool-marketing scheme based on sale by auction with a minimum floor price, with majority producer representation and a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Industry —DOINGS—Zone Committee Presses FOR Milk Price Action
The Land · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 18
THE executive committee off the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council held an urgent meeting in Sydney on' March 7 to try to speed up the official announcement Of the the new wholesale mailk 'Autumn-Winter…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Socialism Threat Farmers Will Fight F.S.A. Chief At Zone Conference
The Land · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 1
WAGGA, Thurs.—Revolt and cessation of agricultural production would result from any attempt to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sidelights on Farming
The Land · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 19
"Blooming" West Virginian investigators place Potatoes great importance upon the care of…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Farm Building and Construction Tools Necessary For Building Work on Farm
The Land · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 17
THIS article deals with the description and use of tools necessary for construction work. Your expert use of such fools will foe of great assistance to you in many tasks as well as…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →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. Some Diseases In Pigs, How These Occur, and Treatment
The Land · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 23
PIGS suffering from suppurative otitis, a disease caused by an accumulation of pus in the middle ear, show peculiar and characteristic symptoms. The disease is fairly common, and was investigated by Dr. H. R. Leddon, B.V.Sc., of the Glenfield Research Station…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Army Worms Menace Crops
The Land · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 19
POULTRY green feed crops, and plots of millet and sorghum have been badly damaged by attacks of army worms in the…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The Week's Markets Reviewed Dairy Produce Sussex Street Wholesale Market
The Land · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 32
The State Marketing Bureau, reports: BUTTER: Production again showed a slight increase and is higher than in the corresponding period of last year…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Give Us the Tools, Say Farmers and We Will Feed 10 Million; Graziers' Reply to Pollard
The Land · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 36
THE statement made recently by the Minister for Commerce and Agriculture (Mr. Pollard) that Australia was not capable of feeding 10,000,000 people was untrue and unstatesmanlike, Mn R. J. Doolin…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →ON and Off the Farm One-Man Farm Exhibit One-Man Show
The Land · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 5
Mr, Alex Noble, "Fern Hill," Glen innes, with a collection of 102 district varieties of grasses and vine products, had a remarkable one-man…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers' Farms On "Carabost" Estate
The Land · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 8
Applications are being invited from ex-servicemen for 11 farms on Cara bost Estate, situated near Humid railway station, between Tumbarumba…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Hybrid Maize Crops Are. Giving Excellent Yields
The Land · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 26
EARLY maize crops of hybrid varieties are giving excellent yields in the Clarence district, reports Mr. W. H. Darragh, district agronomist. He states that an early maturing…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Crop Dusting From The Air
The Land · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 14
During 1948 East-West Airlines planes aerially dusted more than 4,855 acres of linseed, 929 acres of barley, 115 acres of wheat, 110 acres of rye…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Proud Of His Crop
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 1
One hundred bushels of maize per acre from 60-acres, at 10/3 per bushel, certainly warrants a smile from the grower, Mr. Cecil Doust, Lower Ulmarra, Clarence River. The seed was D828, popular hybrid, grown and hybridised by Mr. Don…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Another Idea For, Drenching Horses To Hie Editor, "Farmer and Settler.'
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 10
Sir,—I cannot agree too strongly with Mr, P. V. Casey, Muswellbrook. on the inadvisability of drenching horses through the nostril. ("F and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Crops Air Dusted
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 11
DURING the 1948 season more than 6,000-acres of cereal crops were air Ousted in a scheme pioneered by East-West Airlines. Under the guidance of Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Small Crops Due To Neglect In Preparing Land
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 16
LACK of proper preparation for ceral crops keeps yields on the Murrumbidgee [?]Area Low, according in the Leeton…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Pendulous Crop Most Common In Hot, Dry Areas
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 17
PENDULOUS crop in turkeys occurs mostly in hot, dry areas and may result in serious economic lowes. Sufferers drink large quantities of…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Weeds Killed Crops And Grasses Unharmed
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 6
TO spray a crop or pasture and then, in a few days, sec goods wither and rot away, leaving ecorcesls and greasses unharmed, may appear…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fewer Potatoes Planted In Main Crop Districts
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 12
A DECREASE in potato plantings in all main crop districts, with the exception of Batlow and Tumbarumba, where a stight increase has been made,…
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