ON and Off the Farm Big Business in Fat Lamb Raising
Brothers S. T. and C. H. Hawkins, who rank among the largest fat lamb raisers in Australia, rear and market 8,000 sucker lambs a year. Of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farming & the land, 1950
7,889 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 250
Junior Farmers' 550 Miles Tour
Thirty-five Richmond River Junior Farmers will leave Lismore on January 22 on a six-day educational tour of the N.S.W. and Queensland border…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Promise To Recommend Purchase of Heavy Farm Machinery
A HIGH Federal Government official this week promised to recommend the importation of heavy tractors, farming and fodder-making machinery, to whatever extent dollars were available for this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →December 21 Frost Hits Maize Crops
A FROST on December 21 had damaged maize crops in the Guyra and Ben Lomond districts, but the crop area…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →North-western Crop Wins Linseed Contest From 37 Enteries
MESSRS. L. F. AND L. J. COSH, of Pallamallawa, won the first R.A.S. linseed crop competition with an estimated 22 bushel crop. J. Ross, of Flnley. was second with…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Smaller Hay Crops Cut This Season
FARMERS in Wagga and south-western slopes districts have harvested smaller areas for hay this…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bean Seed Crop Area Extended
Up to last season certified bean seed crops were grown on the South Coast. But the Biological branch of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sale of Farm Plant and Tax
"W.B.S.": If I sell farm plant that I have had for ten years, have I to pay income tax on the proceeds? Answer: In respect of the plant…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Share-farming Agreement Prices
We arc advised by W. C. Penfold Ltd., 88 Pitt, St., Sydney, that the price or share-farming (wheat) agreements is now 8d. each (7/6 a dozen), plus l½d…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Still Kick In Pioneer Farmer
MR. T. C. DAVIES, pioneer of the Colin roobie district and a member of many years' standing[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Pictures from CITY and FARM
Graceful Flamingoes at Taronga Park Zoo. They are part of a new shipment from South America. A harvester stripping up to 13 bags an acre off irrigated wheat; at Mr. C. McDonald's farm. Lowan. Finley…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Junior Farmer's Winning Essay On Nation's Food Production
THE WOrld to-day is tottering on the edge of a great precipice. Below are stretched the yawning jaws of starvation. Everyone is faced with impending disaster (Boyd Orr, rccent U.N.O. World Organiser of…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Breeding Farm-stock-veterinary To answer your question our veterinarian must know all the facts. Therefore, give all particulars of the malady when you write. all inquiries should be addressed to "The Land" Newspaiier, Box 1558, G.P.O., Sydney, and not to our veterinarian personally. If We Wamt Tp Survive We Must Change Our Methods
AN article on soil fertility which apppeared in "The Land" on December 16 stated that our soil erosion problem is far more serious than we care to admit and in a letter to the "Daily Telegraph" in July, 1947, Michael Sawtell drew attention to what is happening in the North West…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Father-son Farming Pact Keep Young Folk on Land in U.s.a
MANY farmers' sons who want to make a career in agriculture find the problem of getting started almost impossible to solve. Consequently, many of them. leave the farm to work in the city. How to make…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Irrigation Rice Crops
RICE crops in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area are reported by the special agronomist (Mr. Curtels) to "be coming along very nicely."…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →U.S. Government Clamps Brake On Production Of Bigger Crops
SNOWED under by farm surpluses which it is forced to acquire under price support legislation at an expenditure soaring rapidly into the billions, the United States Government is now trying to jam down the brake on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bulk Handling For Fifty Years Farmers Of North Dakota Make Own Bins For All Grains No Bags From Paddock to Silo
YOUR front page article in your issue of December 9 regarding an impending shortage of jute bags for future Australian wheat crops prompts me to write on the bulk handling of wheat and other grains, as it is done where I live in the State of North Dakota (U.S.A.)…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Hand Milkers Operate On Champions Of Great Carnation Farm Enterprise
CARNATION Farms, Tolt, Washington (U.S.A.): Carnation Ormsby Madcap Payne produced 41,943-lb. of milk in one year, testing at 3,3 per cent, fat content, sufficient for approximately 1740-lb. of butter. This champion milk…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairy Herd Needs Good Supply Of Clean Water
NORMAL milk contains about 87 per cent. of water so that, unless a cow has access to a plentiful supply of clean, fresh and palatable water,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Berry Dairymen Not Satisfied With Reception By Milk Board Member
A DEPUTATION from the Berry brunch of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council claims it received short shrift from the consumers' representative on the Board (Mr. H. L. Denford). There were two members of the deputation—…
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