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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Mar 30, 1950
Page
3
The Bridgetown Zone Council of the Farmers' Union presses CSIRO to extend tests of myxomatosis as a substitute for fumigants. Trials will run two to three months in Northern Victoria at a site with clustered warrens to observe extermination, reduction, or failure, guiding further action.
Local Field Officer Mr. Bastian urges farmers to apply immediately for Grade Herd Recording and Strain 19 inoculation at the Bridgetown office. The notice seeks herd calving data for sterility figures and plans vaccine logistics for Strain 19.
Elder Smith & Co Limited held their monthly market at Brook on Wednesday April 5 with 159 pigs offered and 155 sold. Quotations show heavy baconers around £11 to £18, store pigs £4 4d to £5 11d, weaners about 10s 6d.
North Bridgetown Branch farmers participate in pasture improvement plots, sharing results via field days. Demo plots include lucerne sowing, six year rotation of oats and pasture, manganese trace element, oat and barley green feed trials, and establishment of Perennial Rye Grass, Phalaris Tuberosa, and Kikuyu. Yornup Farmers Union may join with similar plots to be decided.
Guy Thompson, chairman of the Road Board, declared the seat of A F Dove vacant under the Road Districts Act after Dove missed three consecutive meetings without notice. An extraordinary election will be needed. no election can be held with the April 15 ordinary vote.
North Bridgetown union backs amending Clause 7 to allow farm employees over 18 to join. The Butterfat Sub‑section plans a push for higher butterfat prices and asks the Federal Government for an early costed price rise. Delegates report on wool meat and butterfat. Bunbury to host Australia Dairy ration meeting in July. Kangaroo vermin may be declared, permits discussable where farmers face menace. Expenses for delegates, fruit inspectors, and land‑fund fundraising are outlined. a £1000 annual salary target requires 200 members paying £5 each. A sympathy telegram for fire victims is received. delegates adjourn after supper.
At the latest meeting the Manjimup Road Board agreed to supply bushfire brigades with one spray and four rakes per ten registered members. A loan would be floated to finance the purchase of this equipment.
School Corner recaps the March 2 1960 Bird Club meeting with nest finds feathers and certificates and a Bush Walk tale of Kathleen and George packing food visiting a town buying lemonade and returning to a nest with a baby bird Jacko the Kookaburra rhyme ends the page.
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