Bega Budget in Bega, New South Wales

Farmers Convert Tumut Stock To Maize Paddocks Farm Report

In the Tumut district farmers convert stock to maize fields. A Dubbo incident saw P Moloney burn off when a tree limb fell and broke his deck. A Bathurst buyer paid £1000 for four months grass on 5000 acres for a starving mob of sheep. Milk vendors press 8d per quart for Avid with talk of rising to a bob. A raid on a Clarence River flying fox camp cleared out survivors. In Orange a motor cycle collision with a car killed Thomas Pascos. An apple tree at Dalgely, planted 74 years ago, now measures 8 ft diameter, 25 ft circumference, and yielded 800 chosen apples last season.