A Revolution in the Handling of Wheat
A REVOLUTION has taken place in the handling of the wheat harvest in New South Wales this season. Receival of bagged wheat from this harvest, other than premium grade, amounted to…
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Rains Not Enough To Boost Stock Sales Cattle Benefitted
WELCOME rains this week over a wide area of the parched north and mid-week were not sufficient to assure an early return to normal pastoral conditions, and could not be expected to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Year's Wool Sales Confirm Soundness of Old Year's Bas[?] by "The Land" Wool Trade Correspodent
OPENING wool auctions this week in Sydney and Adelaide generally confirmed the soundness of the basis reached a[?] the closing sales of the old year, but there was an undercurrent of tension…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dept. lags badly in breeding new wheat varieties
WHEAT farmers in N.S.W. to-day are not receiving the service they can rightly expect from the Department of Agriculture. This is underlined by the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Only 29½ Mil. of 41 Mil. Bus. Wheat Harvest Delivered to Board
ONLY 29,500,000 bushels of wheat from an expected N.S.W. harvest of 41,000,000 bushels had been delivered to the Australian Wheat Board by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →1952 Should Be A More Stable Year For The Wool Trade Cause For Confidence
A SOUND year is predicted for the wool industry by Winchcombe' Carson Ltd. in their current report. They see a better balance between supply and demand with little likelihood of extremes either way…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →F.S.A Gen. Secretary's Letter Assoc. and Wheat Scheme; Comment on P.m.'s Reply
DEAR MEMBERS.—In September last, the Farmers and Settlers' Association asked that the strong protest of the F.S.A. general council at the Commonwealth Government's failure to honor its undertakings regarding wheat should be…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Fishing on the Farm
"THE LAND'S" Star Letter this week advocates the stocking of waterways in Australia by Government agencies. This picture shows an American boy [?]ishing in a farm pond built and stocked through…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drought Relief For Farmers
The Rural Bank will give financial help at one and a half per cent[?] interest to dairy farmers as a means…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Production Drive on the Farm Front
FIGURES issued this week disclosing a substantial adverse t[?]ade balance in the first five months of the current financial year have focussed attention on the need for an all-out production…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Review of the Week's Markets Dairy Prodduce Sussex Street Wholesale Markets
The State Marketing Bureau reports: BUTTER[?] Production showed a slight improvement, but heavy falls…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Record Peach Crop Expected by Our Special Representative
WELL-KNOWN stud Merino breeder, Mr. Arthur R. Pratley, Wunna[?] Park, Kelso, near Bathurst, is now picking what he expects will be a record…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON and Off the Farm Helicopter Help To Farmers
Helicopters, the rotary-wing aircraft that can fly slowely, hover motionless and manoeuvre in a small…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →What's New in Farm Research Velvet Beans
VELVET Beans have developed from an ornamental porch vine to a valuable crop, of which…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Curlewis Farmers' Co-op. Has Good Year
THE Curlewis Farmers' Co-operative Society Ltd. had had another profitable trading year, but rising costs had cut profits. Chairman of the Society (Mr. Claude Hathway)…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →More Duties on Farm Plant Hit Food Drive
ENCOURAGEMENT to produce more food, not victimisation by the imposition of unnecessary duties, should be given Australian primary producers, F.S.A general…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Boys on Farms Scheme
"Farmer": The address you require is the Secretary, Boys on Farms Scheme, 164a William St., Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Bulk Handling On Farm Urged
Delegates to the F.S.A. zone conference at Inverell in March would be shown over a bulk handling…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Smaller M.I.A Citrus crop
IT is expected by the Leeton fruit officer (Sir. Skepper) that the M.I.A. citrus crop this season will be less than…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Agronomist Slates Farmers Who Don't Conserve Fodder Supplies Inhuman Treatment Of Stock "Because Of A Gamble"
THOSE farmers who do not conserve fodder for dry seasons are warmly criticised by the Goulburn agronomist (Mr. Dargin). "The wet and otherwise excellent conditions of the…
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