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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Sep 22, 1949
Page
3
Local correspondent challenges the stance of Just A Farmer, praising his farming lines while urging scientific methods and conservation. The writer supports practical measures, antiquated rules, and calls for an Agricultural Scientist to guide district farming. The letter ends with a self authored sign off Just Another Farmer.
Colesbrough Mort & Go reported their usual September 15 market with 302 cattle yarded and 287 sold, 168 sheep sold and 326 pigs with 126 yarded and sold. Sheep values remained firm under keen local competition. sheep were shorn and forward prices noted for wethers and hoggets.
At Manjimup last week Goldsbrough Mort & Co. sold 260 pigs to bacon buyers as quality varied well. Baconers gained about 0 to 1s per lb with store prices up to 20. Quotations listed for bacon heavy and medium weights, west weights, and porkers. Cattle yarded total 302 with brisk local support from Brunswick and Dardanup and prices easing slightly. Steers to 19 10, steer stores to 8 1/7, cows to 20 16, yearling stock to 9 7/6 in backward condition.
Members of the Yornup Farmers meet to set four points for the dates of monthly meetings to sustain attendance. The Bridgetown Branch notes poor turnout, discusses routine matters, and a letter from the Main Ponds Board on land rearmament for straightening the Bridgetown Manjimup Road. The board will fill potholes, and members hope for better attendance at the next meeting.
Jim Warner of Mullaluyup led a pig sale where two Tamworth cross pigs sold for 250 per head, reportedly a South West market record and possibly a state country record. Seventy six pigs were sold, with heavy weight baconets rising to 212 to 240s, medium weights 180 to 20a, and light weights 1fh to TVi.
The Secretary of Agriculture warns bumper crops of wheat cotton and maize may create major storage problems in the United States with large carryovers from last year. Food sits in sheds rather than reach people as production climbs to a record high.
The 1877 introduction of subterranean clover to Australia is noted, with first cultivation in Victoria. Elder, Smith's Review also states that Paspolum came from South Africa in the 1870s via Baron von Mueller.
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