Junior Farmer Leadership Competition
A JUNIOR FARMER from New Zealand will be the only overseas competitor in ihe J.F.C. Leadership…
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ON and Off the Farm Tree Tomatoes In Perpetuity
Mr Gilbert Pritchard, curator of the Portland Botanical Gardens in Victoria, in January of last year grafted a tomato…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →N.s.w. Certified Potato Seed Crops Down; Acute Potato Shortage Likely
THE reduced acreage under crop in N.S.W. for certified potato seed would almost certainly cause an acute shortage of certified seed for next planting, Mr. A. C. Orman said…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Our Poultry Section Expert's View on Brooding and Fattening Farm Turkeys
AN ARTICLE in last issue gave the expert views of Mr. G. W. Smith, poultry officer, Department of Agriculture, on the selection of breeding stock and incubation of eggs where turkey-raising is a branch of diversified farming…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Farmers In Oft-Flooded Hunter Valley Need Aid
UNLESS Hunter Valley farmers, whose farms had been flooded many times in the past 18 months, got substantial assistance, many more of them would have to walk off their properties…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Big World Rice Crop Increase
The world may produce much more rice in the 1950-51 season than in the previous season, according to the Food and…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Sidelights on Farming Secrets of Watering Lawns
When watering of lawns becomes necessary it is essential that it be done…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Dairy Industry Doings Conditions Vary Considerably in Coastal Dairying Districts
WEATHER, pastoral and production conditions varied considerably in New South Wales dairying districts during January, according to reports of dairy offi cers of the Department of Agriculture…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Fat Lamb Raising Trials on M.i.a. Experiment Farms
RESULTS Of the first year's fat lamb raising trials at Leeton and Yanco Experiment Farms have been made available by Mr. J. M. Coleman, special fat lamb officer of the Department of Agriculture…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Low Offal Prices Hit Farmers
AUSTRALIAN wheatgrowers were suffering losses because of the low offal (bran and pollard) prices in…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Junior Farmers North Coast Members' Saw Much Of Interest On Queensland Tour
TRAVELLING by bus, 29 boy members of the Far North Coast district Junior Farmers' Clubs recently made a tour of Southern Queensland. The party Inspected several rural…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Small Crop Likely
IT was anticipated that the potato crop on the New England would be short in acreage and light in yield, stated the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Queensland Dairymen Seek Immediate Price Increase
BRISBANE: While the Commonwealth and State Governments haggled over who should pay dairymen a just price for their product men in the industry were transferring to more profitable industries such as wool, meat, sugar, and grain…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Farming Now Recognised As Highly Scientific Industry Out Of Date Methods Must Go, Says N.Z. Commissioner
AGRICULTURE was no longer a "hit and miss industry" to be learnt by trial and error, but was a highly scientific industry and occupation, said the High Commissioner for New Zealand in Australia (Mr. L. W. Alderton) at the Central Coast Divisional…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Inverell Corn Crops
AREA sown to corn was small, as December and carly January conditions were not satisinctory, and the Inverell district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers Wary About Linseed
FARMERS were rather wary of linseed, following the heavy losses last year due to diseases, said…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Forty-Eight Farms For Ex-Servicemen
ELEVEN country properties have been acquired by the State Government for settlement of ex-Servicemen. These properties should provide 48 farms…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →More Farms For Demonstrations
UNDER the Commonwealth Dairy Industry Efficiency Grant a further six farms have been selected on which to establish demonstrations…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Price Experts To Arrive Soon Incentives In Long-Term Food Contracts To Be Discussed Dairy Products As First Subjects
RECENT statements that two senior officials of the British Ministry of Food would arrive in Australia about the end of February for discussions on the determination of reasonable prices at each price review under the long term contracts for sale of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Poor Corn Crops
NEW ENGLAND corn crops are making poor growth and crops are very backwrad, reports the Armidale agronomist (Mr…
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