CROPS 'Spring' Conditions In Many S.W. Areas
Wagga district fallows will be in good condition for sowing during the next two months. Early sown oat crops have germinated well and should provide excellent feed soon…
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Cannery Ready For Big Crop
MELBOURNE.— At Shepparton, in the Goulburn Valley, the Commonwealth's…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Farm Design's Effect on Disease Control
The design of a farm can have a real effect on helping to control or prevent certain major disease problems associated with both rearing and commercial egg production…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Nation Wide Effort In Dairy Industry
A recent statement on the A.B.C. that about 40 per cent, of dairy farmers do not own their farms as cause for alarm at a time when we are told we must populate over 3,000,000 square miles or perish…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DAIRYING Record Payments By Milk Board Last Year
New record levels were reached in the quantities of milk which the N.S.W. Milk Board was able to accept from producers during the year ended June 30, 1954. This is disclosed in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Radar" In Contour Farming
A Victorian farmer has invented a gadget for laying out contour lines…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Spray Unit Fills Gap In Farm Equipment
A revolutionary new spray unit, which was demonstrated at the Sydney Royal Show, is likely to become one of the most effective aids for the man on the land in his important task of growing the world's food…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →British Poultry Farmer Has Problems Too
Though the demand for eggs in the United Kingdom is growing, the British poultryman — like his Australian counterpart — has plenty of problems ahead of him. This is made clear in…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →The Farmers' A.B.C. Service
The Country Hour, 2FC and Regionals, 12 noon-1.15 p.m. Mondays to Fridays. The Land and Its People, 2BL and Regionals, 8.15-8.45 p.m. Fridays…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Poor Dried Fruit Crop
MELBOURNE.— The dried fruit crop in the mid-Murray area this season is not a very…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Junior Farmer News by Corncob 4-H Visitor Urges Longer Stays With Farm Families
International Farm Youth Exchange visitors were not interested m seeing the usual tourist attractions but wanted to live with farm families and find out what they did in their daily lives, said Dorothy Dean, a 4-H…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Farmlets At Menai
Five Crown land farmlets at Menai, near Sutherland, will be open for application early…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Market Garden Big Returns In Early Spring [rr Tomato Crops
Of the so-called "early crops" grown for marketing in the Spring, tomatoes are perhaps the most popular and certainly the most remunerative. Beans would be the nearest rival…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Curious Case Of The Captured Cattle
Cattle supposedly safe behind the bars of Holroyd Municipal pound, mysteriously disappeared…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soviet farmers invited to US
AN American newspaper, the Des Moines Register, last February "invited" the USSR to send a delegation to Iowa to study American…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Joe Baile's Voice of the Countryside a Ray of Light on Farm Export
THE export outlook for butter is more favorable than for other dairy products, but this depends mainly upon Russia continuing as an important buyer." This is what an official summary…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Butter Payments
LISMORE.— An additional payment of [?]d. per lb. for commercial butter was announced…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →SHEEP Sydney sheep show Flock Testing Display
A display covering aspects of flock testing is being arranged for this year's sheep show and sales at the Sydney Showground by the School of Wool Technology of the N.S.W. University of Technology…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Increase In Butter Output
Butter production in New South Wales in January was 42 percent, higher than in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sheep Dogs And Show Champions
ABOVE: A pat for Australian Champion Trial Sheep Dog, Keyneton Afton, from his master, Mr. Allan Miller, of Woodend, Victoria. The Border Collie scored 192 points at the National Open Sheep Dog Trial Championship at Canberra last Friday and Saturday to retain by one point the championship he won in 1954. RIGHT: The Governor-General, Sir William Slim, watches the final of the National Open Sheep Dog Trial Championship at Manuka Oval on Saturday. He is pictured here with the Trial Association's president,…
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