Wagga Traders Unfair, Say District Dairymen
WAGGA.—Dairy farmers at a meeting last Thursday decided to protest to the Wagga Chamber of Commerce against the importation of butter from Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farming & the land, 1955
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F. and S. Dairy Contest: Final Judging Begins
Judging party of the Farmer and Settler dairy competition finals will leave Sydney on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Q'ld Summer Hay Crops Profitable
On Queensland dairy farms, hay reserves are needed almost every year to maintain-production during the Spring and early Summer months…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →CROPS Mintweed's Threat To North-Western N.S. W. Livestock
Probably the most serious weed in the North West of New South Wales is mintweed or, to give it its botanical name, Salvia reflexa. The plant is…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Caution To Farmers On Entero-Toxaemia
Entero-toxaemia has been more prevalent in certain districts this Winter than for some years. The disease attacks…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Big Improvement In Dairying In Recent Years
In the long run the level of dairy production, whether for home or export markets, depends upon the dairy farmer himself. The recently…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Proper Wate Supply—Good Dairy Produce
Quality of milk and cream is influenced a good deal by the dairy water supply. For washing milking machines and utensils…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Battle Against Fruit Crop Pests Was Won In 30 Years
At the seventh Australian Canning Convention in Sydney last week, speakers recalled some of the most serious difficulties of the industry in earlier days—pests and diseases of fruit trees…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Modern Farming Pays Off: Blayney Pasture Contest
One of the most highly improved properties in New South Wales was the scene of a well-attended Field Day last week…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →RADIO Boutflour For Dairy Talks
Professor Robertt Bourtflour, Principal of the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester, England, will be heard soon in a number of broadcasts on dairying problems…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →New Q'land Govt. Dairy Service
BRISBANE.—The Queensland Government has established a Central Dairy…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Butter Getting Toc[?]ar to Buy
A H[?]WIFE tells us that she enquired at three North Perth shops about butter sales. All three claim that since the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairy Produce Rise in Prices
Mr. Jeff Bate (speaking in the House of Representatives) :— The questions that I shall direct to the Minister for Commerce…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Farm Life Hardship
SCOTTS HEAD (N.S.W.): As has been raised recently in the daily press, it is true that the small farmer's wife suffers great hardships…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →High Price for Butter English Market Recovers
In the House of Representatives last week Mr. Jeff Bate asked the Minister for Commerce rind Agriculture, Mr. McEwen:…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dairy Coy's Annual Meeting Debates Bonus Proposal Directors Re-elected Unopposed
At the annual meeting of Nepean Dairy and Refrigerating Society Ltd., held at the C.W.A. Hall on Friday evening, the chief item of discussion was the Board's recommendation that supplier members be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cattle Improve Pastures
Cattle have played an important part in the build-up of fertility in the improved pastures…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →S. African Sheep
The Langkloof, one of the premier fruit producing areas in South Africa, where wheat is planted on…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →CROPS Aust. Wheat Sale Slow In September
Wheat sales for the first half off September were "disquietingly small," the manager of the Westralian Farmers Co-Operative Ltd., Mr. Braine, said this week. "European importers,…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Warrah's 20,000 Sheep
Owing to the Winter drought of 1954, a very poor lambing season caused an acute shortage of rams at the Warrah Border Leicester Stud at Quirindi, managed by Mr…
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