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Farming & the land, 1952

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Northern Pastoral Areas In Driest Spell For Years Water Shortage Causes Anxiety To Graziers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 4

CONDITIONS over the northern half of pastoral N.S.W. have become worse this month. New England districts and Tableland country as far down as Gloucester are having one of their worst dry spells for years, reports the Graziers' Federal Council…

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Veterinary Notes Three-Day Sickness In Cattle Has Taken More Virulent Form

The Land · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 24

THREE-DAY SICKNESS in cattle, otherwise known as ephemeral fever, is not a new complaint and has been known in this country for some years, but it has been though to have occurred more recently in a more virulent form than that of earlier outbreaks. Particulars have already [?]…

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McGIRR'S Move for C'wealth Subsidy on Milk Worries Dairymen

The Land · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 2

PREMIER McGIRR'S attempt to get a milk subsidy from the Federal Government was disturbing, general secretary of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council (Mr. L. C. Turton) said this week…

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Drought Hits Most [?] N.S.W. Fruit Crops [?]

The Land · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 16

THE drought had caused heavy losses in the summer fruit crop throughout New South Wales, except at Orange and on most of the Northern Tablelands, departmental…

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Farmers & Graziers' Co-op. Co. Ltd

The Land · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 28

The Farmers & Graziers Co-op. Co. Ltd. reports: Our top realisation of 110[?]d, at Albury, was secured for a…

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Drought Drastically Cuts N.s.w. Maize Crop

The Land · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 3

THE drought in northern N.S.W. had disastrously limited the State's maize crop acreage, and the potential harvest. Maize specialist of the…

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Fruit Crop Fall Predicted in M.i.a., Bathurst

The Land · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 7

FRUIT CROPS next season in the M.I.A. and at the Bathurst Experiment Farm are officially expected to show a big fall on previous figures…

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ON and Off the Farm T[?]ctor Airlift

The Land · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 5

THE British Food Corporation has just completed a big airlift of tractors to its Northern…

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His Best Crop

The Land · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 10

TWO big Sequoia potatoes[?] the larger one weighs 3lb.-grown by Mr, V. Ptolemy, o[?] Aldaville near Kempsey,…

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What's New in Farm Research N.Z. Inquiry

The Land · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 10

DR. G. L. BRIDGER, head of the Department of Chemical and Mining Engineering, Iowa…

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Light Potato Crop Yields

The Land · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 8

Only light yields are expected from mid- season potato crops at Dorrigo, Comboyne and Robertson,…

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Horses and Crop Paddocks

The Land · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 23

"R.K.": (1) How long should elapse before horses are turned into freshly stripped wheat and oat…

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Review of the Week's Markets Dairy Produce (Sussex Street Wholesale Markets

The Land · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 25

The State Marketing Bureau ports: — BUTTER: Local production remained at the previous low level, but some…

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Rain saves crop

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 8

RECENT rain arrived in time to save substantial crops of broom millet in the mid-Richmond area. These crops had…

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Pig Raising Farmers Sold More Porkers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 17

A SURVEY of the pig industry in the Lismore area showed that farmers concentrated more on the production of porkers than baconors during 1951. This is attributed to the fodder supply…

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One day for dairy stock

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 17

PATERSON A. and H. Association's 1052 show will include one day only for the dairy cattle and the show…

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Must Break Stranglehold of Sydney To the Editor, "Farmer and Settler."

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 3

Sir: The lending article in "The Farmer and Settler" of January 4, on the disadvantages of decentralisation does not put…

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Junior Farmers Pioneer in youth work mourned

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 13

MILLIONS of American young people are mourning the death of Mr. Oscar H. Benson, Gettysburg, Pennsylvanla, to whom greatest credit is due for pioneering the work and organisation of…

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Tobacco crops doing well

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 4

MOST tobacco crops in the growing areas are in good condition, reports the Tenterfield agronomist (Mr…

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N.s.w. Studmaster Impressed by N.z. Farming Methods

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 10

NEW ZEALAND farming and sheep raising methods have impressed well known Australian Merino studmaster, Mr. W. W. Ingrey, Yorraglen, Grenfell, who is visiting the Dominion. He said New Zealand lamb…

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