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Newspaper
Bunbury Herald
Location
Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 22, 1918
Page
2
The article advises on prenatal cow nutrition to ensure thrifty calves, argues for keeping calves with mothers for about 48 hours post birth, and stresses colostrum benefits. It covers scours prevention and treatment, dangers of indigestion, and notes on milk quality versus feeding, including cottoncake and watery grass effects.
Professor Wood of Cambridge University argues that milk composition depends on milking time, feeding, cow age, interval between milkings, season, and weather. He warns inconsistent milking schedules reduce fat content and can push morning milk below 3 percent butterfat while afternoon milk rises above 4 percent, affecting overall dairy quality.
A letter praises horses over motors, urges boys to groom well and not to lash halters about. It notes new grooming tools and argues sturdy horses remain valuable for work and transport despite motor cars and trucks. The author cites Walt Mason and laments myths about horse decline.
Advice from Mr. Peters at the North Dakota Experiment Station on pig rearing urges exercise for six to seven day old piglets and starting creep feeding at about five weeks old. A thin mix of wheat milk and skim milk is recommended, avoid souring, water if milk unavailable, and feeding tankage until three months. Also notes early feeding with whole wheat or rye. The piece includes a rural joke about germs and a ditch workers exchange about needing a million dollars to extend a pick handle and a tip on burning straw to maintain a dust bin's sanitation.
Syracuse Herald reports East Aurora resident J P Jordan and Gould Manufacturing’s Gail Hamilton demonstrate using twilight sleep to keep 50 hens productive through dark winters. A 50-watt lamp extended daylight yields about 70 percent efficiency, with a high record of 42 eggs from fifty hens, costing about one dollar monthly for electricity.
Practical guidance on housing, feed, and management to keep laying flocks productive in cold months. Emphasizes dry clean quarters, proper mixing of corn with wheat and oats, use of by products and milk in diet, and selecting pullets for early laying. Warns against overfeeding corn and stressing housing over feed quality.
The UC bulletin describes Sudan grass as an annual closely related to sorghums with no underground root stocks like Johnson grass. It yields two to three hay cuts, eight tons per acre under favorable conditions, and tolerates a wide soil range though prefers rich, well drained sandy loam. Seed can be sown in frost-free warm soil. first cut after 78–90 days, then 45 and 50 days for subsequent cuts. It is palatable to stock but not superior to lucerne, can produce a seed crop in 95–100 days with 600–1,000 pounds per acre, and may pose prussic acid risk under certain conditions.
Inventions improving arch support for boot and scraper with pressed steel. mentions Edward H Cureton of Richmond Indiana and linkage to American Beeding Machine Co Springfield Ohio patent 1 188 068. Also describes a candying egg box with hinged top allowing eggs to be left on the cover for removal, credited to Thomas McLaughlin of Baginaw Michigan.
The document describes a Hog Oiler with a wooden roller and tank system for oil distribution, referencing U.S. patent 1,204,172 and an Arch. G. Smith design from Mapleton. It also notes improvements on a harrow with springs scrapers and a rocker bar bearing a notched end to adjust tension, attributed to Charles S.
Fragmentary notice claims a Slurp Auburn New York item related to Tuten national Harvester and patent numbers with references to hem stitching cross stitch embroidery and a pair of tweezers. Further readable details are sparse and no clear event or outcome emerges from the fragment.
Resolutions submitted to the Farmers and Settlers Association urge Parliament to adopt a vigorous road construction policy or raise annual road grants, especially for new districts. The note stresses that rail lines need permanent feeder roads to avoid wasting wood and to keep settlers from abandoning farms, arguing for a £200,000 yearly (over a decade) road program similar to Victoria’s.
The article outlines two weevils Calandra oryzae and Calandra granaria found on wheat in Australia. It details wing differences, flight ability, and a shared life cycle of egg, larva, pupa, and adult. Under favorable warmth and moisture the cycle runs about 20 days, potentially repeating six to seven times per season.
In a foggy tale Felix finds a shilling and tries to keep it but returns it after a shopkeeper deems it bad. He confesses to Uncle Ralph, learns the aunt may have passed it to Mrs Parsons, and ferries a new shilling for a bike to the station. A milk bucket kangaroo caps the adventure as Jimmy befriends the creature, illustrating the milk of human kindness and its power to forge friendships and goodwill.
A reminiscence about Jinway the farmer’s boy on a distant farm in a scrubby landscape. He narrates in a quaint style with playful exclamations as he recalls his morning milking scene and a curious journey from London to observe birds and animals in a bushy setting.
A Christmas meditation urging focus on children as a beacon amid war and despair. The speaker praises the child as the center of national thought, arguing a little one’s innocence offers renewal, trust, and the pathway to a better world beyond guns and sinking submarines.
Archbishop Duhig, in a Kabane Courier Lent pastoral, laments selfishness in Australia limiting families. He condemns entering marriage to avoid duties, opposing divine will, and the unborn’s rights, decrying attempts to regulate family size and urging moral responsibility for the nation and church.
Mrs Tinkle and Mian Dimple gossip in a crowded room about couples eloping and broken engagements and a baby’s first tooth, mixing joyous rumors with scandalous hints as they react to each item with humor and surprise.
The text mentions extending vase power by adding Castile soap slices and placing vases outside to improve frying. It advises using tissue paper soaked in vinegar to cover jam jars. It also notes a predicted U S steel ship production of 2,500,000 tons this year.
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