Star Letter of the Week Call For Substantial Rise In Butter Price to the Editor of "The Land."
Sir,—I think it is high time some protest was made against the price which the dairy farmer is paid for his long…
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Good Rams Still Cheap Compared With Wool Values Goulburn Prices Not Outstanding Merryville Topped Market
FURTHER proof that good rams are still a cheap proposition was given at Farmers and Graziers' annual sale of stud and flock Merino rams at Goulburn on Monday. Generally vendors were satisfied with prices, but the market was not up to expectations,…
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MORE than 200 farmers decided at a meeting at Maitland to send a delegation to State Ministers demanding urgent relief for the flood-ravaged Lower Hunter Valley…
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TOOWOOMBA, Thursday.— Many farmers, graziers and dairymen are sowing supplementary feed crops to top off…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →Sidelights on Farming Some Facts About 2, 4-D
According to the United States Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Good Crop of Sub-clover Seed Anticipated
WITH 1890 acres of sub-clover seed crops in the Wagga district, and 727 acres round Tumbarumba and Wolseley Park, seed production in N.S.W. this year should be one of the highest on record…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Land "Nations may battle and the world rock with revolution, but the land will care for him who cares for it." Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Official Organ of the Farmers and Settlers' Association of New South Wales. Subscription Rates: One year in advance, £1; two years in advance, £1/18/-; three years in advance, £2/16/6. Subscription to "The Land" includes the "Farm and Station Annual." Single copy "The Land," 6d.; Single copy "Farm and Station Annual," 2/-. Contributions are invited and will be paid for on publication. No responsibility can be accepted for the return of manuscript, but when stamp is enclosed every effort will be made to ensure return of unsuitable matter. Cheques, money orders, etc., should be made payable to The Land Newspaper Ltd. Address business communications to the Manager, and literary contributions to the Editor, "The Land," Box 1558, G.P.O., Sydney, New South Wales. Board of Directors: W. C. Cambridge (Chairman), Hon. H. S. Henley, M.L.C., H. K. Nock, A. Heath, and H. V. Budd, M.L.C. Managing Editor: Asst. Managing Editor: H. V. BUDD, M.L.C. A. G. HUDSON Advertising Manager: E. W. Carter 57-59 Regent Street, Sydney. Telephones: M 6971, MA 9680, MA 3336. Telegrams: (5 lines) "The Land," Sydney. Riverina Representative: J. P. McMenamin, 164 Edward St., Wagga. Telephone: Wagga 3872. Friday, February 16, 1951. Australia on Semi-War Footing
BACK from the conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers in London and from other important consultations overseas, the Prime Minister. (Mr. Menzies)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More Money for Crop, Stock Research Urged
GREATER Government assistance for research work should be given to assist primary production, Professor J. R. McMillan said at Walcha on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Green Bug Damages Bean, Tomato Crops
The green vegetable bug had caused serious damage to bean and tomato crops in the Forbes district, district agronomist…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ON and Off the Farm Their Own Pavilion
Junior farmers from the Shoalhaven area are fortunate in having a pavilion to themselves for the display of exhibits…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gundagai Potato and Pea Crops
Gundagai potato crops yielded up to eight tons an acre, district agronomist (Mr. F. J. Nicholson) reported…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Farm Is Credit To Work Of Late Owner
MAYFIELD. Kangaloon Road. Howral, is a highly improved farm of 385 acres, a tribute to 13 years…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Five Dairy Breeds Of Splendid Quality At Nowra Show Shoalhaven's Jubilee Fixture Attracted Large Entries
NOWRA, "the capital of the Shoalhavon," staged a highly successful show last Friday and Saturday. It was the diamond jubilee show of the Shoalhaven Agricultural and Horticultural Association and it was given special significance to mark the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Producers Should Have Control Of Dairy Industry Rehabilitation Is An Urgent Problem For Australia
INDISPUTABLE evidence of the decline in the dairying industry is so abundant that the point need not bo labored here. In these perilous days, however, that decline is of vital concern to tho whole community for no man can say just how urgent the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Super. Shortage May Limit Victorian Crop
BECAUSE of the bag shortage and last year's rall strike, superphosphate deliveries to farmers are badly behind…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Growing World Sets Big Tasks For Farmers Supplies Govern Peace Or War
SINCE 1939, world population had increased by 150,000,000 people. Means to food those people must be found if we were to live in peace and not in war, said Mr. Roy Blake, commercial secretary to the Canadian High Commissioner in Australia,…
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EXCELLENT corn crops are to seen in the Gundagai district and it is estimated that 3000-acres of corn is under cultivation…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Milk Price Move Dairymen Want Winter Rise
The secretary of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council, Mr. L. C. Turton, said yesterday that the council had asked the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Berserk Bull Attacks, Kills Farmer
MANILDRA, Thursday.— A bull fatally gored Sidney Alan Gosper, 61, a Red Hill farmer, this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairyman's tax appeal test case
A tax appeal by a Riverstone share dairy farmer was described today as a test case likely to affect 70,000 or 80,000…
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