Judging Took Full Week At The Great Palermo Cattle show
Judging took a week at Palermo Show, the greatest livestock exhibition in Argentina, which has just concluded. The aristocrats of…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Farming & the land, 1955
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Wool Growers Are Not Informed of Users' Needs
Failure of manufacturers to tell wool growers their precise requirements was criticised at the first International Wool Textile Research Conference which opened in Sydney this week…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Vealer Production For Dairy Farms?
Investigation of the possibility of producing more beef-type vealers on N.S.W. dairy farms is expected to begin shortly. The object will be to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Week-end Magazine The Falkiners—Record Breaking Breeders Of Merino Sheep
For 80 years members of the Falkiner family, of Boonoke and Haddon Rig, have been very prominent in Australian sheep breeding—in fact ever since the original F. S. Falkiner sold his business in Ararat to join a partnership which bought North Boonoke from the Peppins…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Wool Textile Research Conference: Scientist's Warning On Man-made Fibers
The rate at which technical development was taking place in the man-made fibre industries was little short of alarming to those who served the older textile industries, a leading British wool research scientist said on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Off The Ground" System BEst For Tomato Crops
A lot of work is involved in growing tomatoes off the ground, but farmers who practise this system of culture are well repaid for their extra effort…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Farmers Protest Protest On Wyong Airstrip Plan
A scheme to fly early beans and other vegetables from frost-free Berkeley Vale and Tumbi Umbi in the Wyong district to interstate markets, to catch higher prices, is one of the reasons advanced by Wyong's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Radical Change Wanted In Farm Management
MELBOURNE.—A radical change in farm management was needed to cope with the problems of primary industry, the South Australian Director of Agriculture, Dr. A. R. Callaghan, told the conference of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Egg Board's Analysis Of Farm Pack System
The bulk of farm packers are doing "a pretty fair job," according to the New South Wales Egg Board. Recently the…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →DAIRYING Maitland Winner In F. & S. Dairy Contest
Results of the Maitland district judging of The Farmer and Settler Dairy Farm Competition are now available. Judging was carried out by the senior district dairy officer at Maitland, Mr. E. G. MacLaren…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →£3000,000 Spent On H.A.C. Dairy Factory
No less than £300,000 had been spent on the erection of a dairy produce factory at Hawkesbury Agricultural College, the N.S.W. Acting Minister for Agriculture,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Australian Dairying 40 Years Behind British"
In his final speech in Sydney this week Professor Robert Boutflour told a gathering of between 200 and 300 people—probably the best cross-section of the dairying industry ever assembled in Sydney—that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Local Husbandry Prize To 21-Year-Old Farmer
A 21-year old farmer won first place in the sheep husbandry section of the local Merino Ewe competition organised by the Harden-Murrumburrah Show Society…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Junior Farmer News by Corncob "English Girls Make Better Wives"—J.F
"English girls make much better farmers' wives than Australian girls. They are much more interested in the farm and are more knowledgeable." Arthur Martin. 21…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →CROPS Griffith Cereals Making Progress
Most cereals in the Griffith district are making excellent progress under ideal conditions. However, there are a number of crops which are too far advanced, said the agronomist, Mr. Wallin…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →News From England Trends Towards Grass Cuts U.K. Crops Area
A year ago the Ministry of Agriculture's June returns showed a decrease of 429,000 acres in the crop area for England and Wales and the acreage of temporary and permanent grass had increased by about the same…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Atoms On The Farm
One exhibit in the recent A toms for Peace display in London was devoted…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Fine Weather Favors State's Potato Crops
Weather generally has been favorable for potato crops throughout the State, the principal vegetable agronomist, Mr. Orman, said recently…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Sheep And Cattle At Wagga
POLWARTH EWE Championship lino up at Wagga Show last week. Mr. K. A. R. Edyvean took the championship and Mr. Bryan Bowyer the reserve. BELOW: B. W. A. McGeoch and Sons won the champion and reserve champion Corriedale rams, unhoused section…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Manning River Farmersw Protest On Butter Prices
TAREE.—A meeting of Manning River dairy farmers in Taree this week decided that they should, without political prejudice, vote into Parliament "men who would look…
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