Farmers Show Interest In New Welding Aid
Mounting and driving a welding generator has been made easy by an Orange firm which has simplified the fitting of a welder to a tractor…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Farming & the land, 1955
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Farmers Hostile Over Hygiene Allegations
LISMORE: Objection has been taken by members of the Tomki branch of the P.P.U. to repeated remarks by dairy officers attached to the Department of Agriculture that dairy farmers on the Far North Coast are using unhygienic methods on their farms…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →People and Paragraphs Link With Farmers
IN appointing a Liaison Officer at their experimental station at Chiswick, near Armidale, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Only 3 Days Left To Enter F. and S. Dairy Contest
The Farmer and Settler Dairy Farm Competition for 1955 closes on Monday, May 16. Entries should be made without delay to the regional supervisor or district dairy officer…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →School For Turkey Farmers
Every aspect of turkey raising will be covered at a short-term school for turkey…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →535,000 Farms In Britain
There are, in Great Britain, some 535,000 farms, covering about 48,000,000 acres of land…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Demands For Farm Education Difficult To Meet
The N.S.W. Premier, Mr. Cahill, when presenting diplomas at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College's diploma day on Wednesday, said that the enrolment at the College this year was the same as the record…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DAIRYING No Threat Of Milk Rationing, Says Sedgwick
There was no fear of milk rationing this year, said the N.S.W. Milk Board producers' representative, Mr. F. J. Sedgwick, addressing the South Sydney Rotary Club on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Grasshoppers Damage Crops
ADELAIDE. — Widespread damage is being done by grasshoppers in the Cowell district on…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Information and Help Conducted by uncle wiseman Building Farm Sheds
A Blacktown reader asks for a method of setting out a farm shed so that the corners will be exactly 90 degrees. He also asks Uncle Wiseman to recommend a book on simple farm carpentry. To ensure that you…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →CROPS New U.S. Herbicide For War On Serrated Tussock
BATHURST.— Supplies of the latest American grass-killing experimental herbicide have been obtained by the Department of Agriculture and will be used this autumn against Serrated Tussock…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Farmers not there
MAY Day this year was certainly an inspiring sight. But there was something lacking, and that was the absence of any float or banner…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sheep To 5/- dearer At Homebush, Cattle To £3 Higher
Lambs and grown sheep were to 5/ dearer at Homebush yesterday, where keen competition ruled for a reduced yarding. Values for cattle also were dearer and advanced by £1 to £2, and to £3 in places. The yarding of sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →DAIRYING Production Costs Probe On Butter
The Dairy Industry Investigation Committee met in Sydney last week to investigate the production costs in the butter and cheese industries, and after hearing evidence, to report to the Federal Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Plucked Wool
Cashmere wool is the soft winter underfleece of a small semi-wild goat that ranges from the Caspian…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →CROPS Japan Showing More Interest In Aust. Wheat
Japan is displaying greater interest in Australian wheat, Mr. J. P. Cass, president of the Farmers and Settlers' Association and a N.S.W. member of the Wheat Board, said this week…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →World Wool Production
The world's wool production for the current 1954-55 season has been estimated at about…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Ravensworth's Famous Wool Quality
Wool of the highest quality is produced by Merinos at Ravensworth Merino stud,…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Bluefongue Kills Sheep In S. Africa
Bluetongue disease has struck leading sheep districts of the South African Karoo,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Gov.-Gen. To Open Sydney Sheep Show
The Governor General of Australia, Sir William Slim, will officially open the…
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