11 Jun 1902
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Newspaper
Bowral Free Press
Location
Bowral, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 11, 1902
Page
1
On the farm boys battle in verse with a chess like scene. The mock campaign unfolds as a drawn game nears, while supper hour promises cheer and players await a final move. The hardy draughts players on the farm outshine ties with golf and tennis in this playful wartime mood.
A Sydney Stock and Station Journal letter from J Pottle senr. suggests using entire carcasses and viscera as feed for cattle and sheep during famished conditions. Proposes grinding bones, boiling with soda, adding pancreas and stomach, then mixing with chaff to boost feed value.
An article discusses whether to plough in straw after harvest or burn it, noting burning wastes nitrogen and humus but may improve soils temporarily. It explains heat aids decomposition and ash alkalinity, similar to lime, with burning sometimes beneficial on dark soils but risky on light, nitrogen-poor soils.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions tea with bread and fire and lists scattered words and names. It lacks coherent context, dates, places, or identifiable events to anchor a clear news item. The readable entities are fragmentary and do not form a complete summary.
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