29 Jun 1917
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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 29, 1917
Page
1
An excerpt explains that milk production remains partly mysterious as the cow converts blood elements into milk during lactation. The process is linked to maternal love and brain signals, with calf birth triggering milk flow and consistent, gentle milking enhancing yield. It urges farmers to manage cows with kindness and build strong dairy herds through careful stock inventories and record keeping.
Increased apiary yields come from better management and securing a good strain. Use breeding queens from a known honey gathering strain. Each beekeeper should tailor a system to their environment and avoid one size fits all approaches.
An extensive sale notice from Melbourne lists groceries farm supplies clothing sewing machines oils paints and hardware including maize oil wool lime cement roofing iron bicycles pottery and manures. It notes agent connections with Australian Chemical and Explosive Co and New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co and includes prices in Melbourne.
Woman's World urges daily calisthenics to improve grace of movement and posture. It describes exercises such as dumbbell routines and the expander, plus a homeMade elastic exercise aid. It favors moderate, steady practice and light flexible dress for women, recommending short knickers with a tunic and blouse for ease of motion.
A verbose 19th century guide on home laundry by hand. It emphasizes soaking white fabrics overnight with borax, soaking colored prints in salt water and vinegar, and rinsing, starching, and drying techniques. It advises handling collars cuffs and lace carefully, ironing and blueing, with practical notes on soap jelly and bran water. The piece ends with a moral about personal effort shaping happiness and prosperity.
Notes on poultry feeding stressing crushed oats bran and milk in diet to promote growth and resilience. Warns against overfeeding concentrated foods, emphasizes gradual milk and water adjustments, and advises careful rationing to avoid digestive upset in foals and young stock.
A garbled OCR fragment shows a policeman confronting a suspect during a tense moment. The text hints at a confrontation near a kirk and mentions “I kenow” and missing details. Names, places, and exact actions are unreadable, leaving only a hint of a police encounter and a surprising haul.
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