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Newspaper
Bundaberg Mail
Location
Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jan 24, 1925
Page
13
The Minnesota Experiment Station reports cows fed a better balanced ration increased production from 4063 to 6375 pounds per year. The text argues against starvation rations and urges selling low producers and feeding the remaining cows generously to raise overall dairy profits.
Farmers seek guidance on cows withholding milk during machine milking. The reply emphasizes easing milk flow before attaching gear, rubbing udders for priming, and patience. Additional notes cover horse roundup plans, dairy utensil sterilizing, and broad farming practices and soil amendments.
Practical tips for dairy farming include clipping hair on cows to ease washing and using open soil for potato beds. Advice covers tilth, corn fodder, mangold sowing methods, ridge vs flat sowing, and moisture management, with historical notes on livestock and crop patterns.
The article advises deep ploughing to break weed roots and recommends immediate lime application once carbonate lime is used, at a rate of 30 cw. to 20 cwt per acre. This guidance emphasizes prompt soil treatment following cultivation to maximize weed destruction and soil nutrition.
An American surgeon aboard the steamer Mirretin speaks at Dalgety’s Pier about the late Professor Hunter and Dr. Boyle, praising their worldwide reputation for curing chronic diseases through surgery. He notes their influence on medical science and discusses their intended travels to New Zealand and Australia to inspect municipal health efforts and improve medical distribution.
A fashion piece discusses long tunic blouses and frocks paired with coats in bright colors and fabrics like crepe satin and brocades. It covers tunic styling, color harmonies, tuck making, value of simplicity, and the mindset to invest in quality over trimmings.
A cryptic note extolls the value of Sana as the rarest ilea in the world, praising taste and skill with exalted language and a playful self reference.
A collection of antiquated home remedies offers advice for cleaning, deodorizing, and preserving items. Suggestions include washing dishes with a teaspoon of time, using soda to keep milk sour free, rust removal by sweet oil and time, softening brushes with diluted petrol, rejuvenating an old pen by flame, and loosening rusty screws with a red hot iron.
A damaged OCR page lists several beverage recipes. It includes LEWON SYRUP with sugar water lemon wine, COLT WATER OLINGER BEER with figs ginger cream of tartar brew, GINGER BEER with boiling water sugar lemons and cream of tartar, AN ORANGE DRINK with oranges lemon sugar and boiling water, MINKAPE LEMONATIE a lemon and sugar drink, AQATON CREAM a water and sugar based mixture with egg whites.
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