Bold Challenge To Dairy Farmers
MILK Zone Dairymen's Council general secretary (Mr. L. C. Turton) said yesterday that the approach of the N.S.W. Milk Board chairman (Mr. J. A. Ferguson) to increased milk production…
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Share Market, Commerce and Finance Wool cheque up, price steady
Average price of greasy wool a lb. for the six months ended December 31 was 79.38d compared with 79.42d for the 1951 corresponding half year…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Letters to Editor Wheat and the Nation Union's Advice To Growers Deplored
Sir,—The advice given by the executive of the Wheatgrowers' Union of N.S.W. not to grow more wheat ("Herald,"…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Only One Popular Wheat of Good Baking Quality should Grain Be Graded?
ONLY one of the six loading wheat varieties grown in Australia was of satisfactory baking quality, said the principal research agronomist (Dr. Macindoe) in a recent ABC broadcast. Dr. MacIndoe said that of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Many Complaints On Classing of Our Wool Clip Is Teaching To Blame?
SUCH wide complaints were heard about the way the Australian wool clip was prepared for sale that it must be asked whether woolclassers were being given the right type of instruction. A man with considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Page for the Man on the Land Wool funds "to fight synthetics"
The Wool industry should use accumulated wool funds to meet the growing threat of synthetic fibres, Mr. T. V. Carter said yesterday. Woolgrowers could…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →What's New in Farm Research Red Clover
SO many coastal dairy farmers, graziers and crop producers of the Tablelands have yet to…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Farm Horses On Parade
SHOW WINNERS.—Winning farm horses parade at last week's Albion Park Show. They are headed by Mr. L. R. Sanderson's winning pair. The mare (extreme-right) won the Musgrave Memorial Gold Cup for the best draught female. (Other Show pictures, P. 8; Report, P. 13.)…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →Big Drop in U.S. Farm Population
Persons living on farms in the United States in 1910 numbered 32,077,000. In 1952, the American…
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TO complete the mechanisation of their wheat operations many farmers could with advantage adopt a bulk harvesting and storage system. Such methods are not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmes Cold Have Built Own Silo System For 2d. Bushel
N.S.W. wheatgrowers today would have owned a silo system which could have handled the State's harvest if they had agreed to a levy of twopence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rain Aids Maize Crops
GOOD rain fell towards the end of December in most maizegrowing districts,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Demonstration Farms
Sir,—I see that Sir Arthur Fadden is still spoonfeeding some dairymen, having made more than…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →ON and Off the Farm Busy Bureau
Three divisional conferences and a field day will be held by the Agricultural Bureau of New South…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Master Farmer Families"
Five farmers, their wives and families, who were adjudged "master farming families," have been each…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Record Grain Crop
Canada's wheat crop has been placed at a record 688,000,000 bushels by the Dominion bureau of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Glen Innes Crops
Wheat crops, in the Glen Innes district were of "variable quality this seasop, the district agronomist, Mr. F…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Junior Farmers Leave for America
MISS FELICITY GOWING, a 22-year-old Junior Farmer from Kempsey, left Australia on Wednesday for a five-and-a-half months' tour of the U.S.A…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Next Gosford Citrus Crop May Be Medium
GOSFORD citrus growers would have a medium crop next season, the district fruit officer (Mr. K. D. McGillivray) reported last week…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →New Farm" Implement
A new type of disc harrow, mounted on pneumatic- tyred wheels, has been patented by the…
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