World Sugar Crop
World sugar output for 1951-52 is estimated at 35,897,000 tons. This is 784,000 tons more…
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What's New in Farm Research Sulphate of Ammonia
UNDER most conditions through the world, rice responds to nitrogen fertilisers more than to any other kind…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Passionfruit Crop Damaged By Pest
The leaf hopper (Scolybaba Australis) has been causing much damage to passionfruit crops along…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Govt. Policy, Not the Farmers, Blamed for Food Fall
FAILURE of food production must be borne by those responsible for national policy, not the farmers. Professor S. D…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Soldier May Lose His Farm
Soldier settlers were warned this week by the Acting Minister for Lands (Mr. Hawkins) that firm…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Dairymen Make 6/3 a Day
MILK Zone Dairymen's Council general secretary, Mr. L. C. Turton, said this week that though in October,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Grazing given place in rice crop rotation
A SIX-YEAR rotation is generally followed by Messrs. Brian Farley and Ray Sellwood on Coolabah, Farm 504, Yenda, where they grow rico as a partnership…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Tractor replaces seven horses on Danish farms
SUCCESSFUL enterprise of seven Danish small-holders in clubbing together to mechanise their farms—84 acres in all—is causing widespread interest in agricultural circles…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Junior Farmers Rural Bank Support
ONCE again this year the Bank of New South Wales has given evidence of its interest in and practical support of the…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Green crops for cover
VICTORIAN Department of Agriculture horticulturists advise orchardists to make preparations now for sowing…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →"Rabbit farms" attacked
WHILE there was a ready market for rabbit skins and carcases, properties would never be free of the pests, Mr. F. K…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ducks destroy rice crops
DESTRUCTION of rice crops by wild duck has become a subject of concern to almost every grower throughout the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →And now he tells Sir Arthur Fadden he will no longer be a farmer
OUR real problem is labor and the 40-hour week, with all its repercussions. According to the headlines, the Federal Treasurer (Sir Arthur Fadden) says "talk of a slump is fantastic." Probably Sir Arthur…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Irrigated crops doing well
WHERE irrigation is practical Mudgee corn crops are forward and well grown, reports the agronomist (Mr. Filan)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Near record cherry crop
AN almost record cherry crop has just been harvested in the Orange district, according to the fruit officer…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Air Force gets big slice off a leading farm
PORTION of one of the best and most productive dairy farms in the Hawkesbury Valley has been resumed by the Commonwealth Government for R.A.A.F. purposes and the possibility of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairy Quotas
FOLLOWING daily quotas will operate during February: Butter 88.64 per cent., cheese 79.31 per cent. The quotas are the proportion of butter and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farmers' classes at Dookie College
SUCCESS achieved by the special short courses for farmers conducted by the Victorian Department of Agriculture at Dookie Agricultural College during the past year or two, has encouraged the Department to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Treating blight in farm animals
DURING summer, flies are likely to prove troublesome and some blight in farm animals must be expected. In a leaflet on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At Sydney Galleries At Farmer's Gallery
THE annual school child-art exhibition shows how in the very early years, a child, quite free from experience and influences, forms a mental…
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