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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Feb 16, 1950
Page
3
The Horticultural Instructor Mr W Rennick provides control methods for grasshoppers feeding on apple leaves. Suggestions include cultivating vacant blocks and roadsides, using poison bait with arsenite of soda or Paris Green, and foliage spray with arsenate as lead powder. Cautions warn the bait is dangerous to stock and animals.
A reader disputes the latest Federal Government move to pay higher butter manufacturing costs, arguing most dairies gain little due to seasonal shutdowns. Another letter seeks advice on eradicating bracken fern, asking readers for the best mowing time or methods.
Mr. F. W. Hales, agent for Borthwick and Son, reports three months of consignments to the company works at Albany. Six thousand five hundred fat lambs sold at a top of 65 shillings per head on the place and 5,000 ewes and wethers boners and export with a top of 38 shillings on the place. Borthwick's seek more sellers and state Albany works are now operating year round.
The article chronicles Amos Jaeward and Howard in Australia discovering subterranean clover, its spread to Africa Europe and the U.S., and the transformative impact on South Australia’s fertility. It notes seed sales from 1903 to 1906 and rapid yields by 1908, with Howard offering free seed packets worldwide to encourage growth.
The Department of Agriculture mobile unit screened Fabrics of the Future Quality Milk Production and No Hand Stripping for Yarnup and North Bridgetown Farmers Union branches on February 6 and 7. About 40 farmers with wives and children attended, with lively discussion after the shows. On Tuesday 15 members and families watched the open air screening at Kiroo Gully school, the first outdoor presentation, noted for clearer voices. Mr Bastyan answered questions as L. G. Faulkiner and others expressed thanks to Bastyan and Mr Wood for bringing the unit to the branches.
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