Rice Harvest Expands in New South Wales Irrigation Area
The primary industry grows rice on the Murrumbidgee irrigation area with 2000 acres under crop this year yielding up to 100 bushels per acre. Values reach about £40,000 from harvests, with water costs ranging from 20 shillings to 2 pounds per acre. Officials expect larger crops next year as experiments prove profit potential.
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New South Wales
Minagery
Atheurs
Flannery
J. Brady
Leoton Channing Factory
America
Drurige Fie Whsit
Ini- Fution Commission
Murmera
Yard ing Fish to Regulate Market
The article notes fish merchants yarding fish to control supply and prices. Pens at Lake Entrance Victoria keep live fish, with similar wire netting yards along the New South Wales coast. The system aims to ensure fresh fish for Melbourne and other markets.
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Lake Entrance
Victoria
Melbourne
New South Wales
Victorian wheat harvest shows higher yields and area
Victorian wheat totals rose last season with larger sown areas and higher returns. The 5,016,568 acres sown yielded 46,800,020 bushels, up from 20,255,534 previously, and per acre averages climbed from 11.6 to 16.4 bushels. Borung led with 10,064,049 bushels, Karaookoo 8,711,089, and Borung posted the best acre yield at 23.0 bushels.
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Borung
Kackaroo
Horung
Wheat record set by J W Ende at Wellington show
At Wellington show Australian exhibitor J W Ende of Eucha recha set a new wheat record by winning a bushel of any variety at 70 1b s per bushel. His samples from Hard Federation reached 63 and 66 pounds while Canberra and Commercial topped the list.
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Wallington
J.W. Ende
Eucharecha
Ende
Wellington
Canberra
Tbs
Young Australia League plans NSW to Queensland sugar tour
The Young Australia League will take two boys from New South Wales and rural towns on a mid winter tour to Queensland. They will visit sugar cane fields and the Colonial Sugar Refining Company works, with other stops at Swift Meat Works Morrow’s confectionery One Tree Hill beaches and historic sites. The tour costs 8/10 and is open to ages 11 to 18 with prospectuses available from the league at Huddleston House 15 Bligh Street Sydney.
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Thetroma
New South Wales
Queensland
Young Australia League
Swift Meat Works
Morrow
One Tree Hill
Hudeom
Bligh Street
Sydney
Care of Sheep Drenching for Stomach Worms in Sheep
The stomach round worm is common and destructive in sheep across the state especially in thin areas. Symptoms include paleness, dullness, diarrhea, and a hunched jaw. diagnosis requires examination of the fourth stomach after euthanasia. Treatment uses copper sulphate or arsenical drenches with precise dosing and a fast, followed by repeated dosing. Prevention centers on good nutrition, pasture rotation, and herd management to reduce exposure and improve condition.
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Liverpool
Rupertawood estate sold to Don Bosco order in USA
The Clarke mansion and 60 acres at Sunbury, part of H V M Kay's estate, sold to the Salesian Fathers of Don Bosco in the United States for 60000. Previous auction attempts and private sale history are noted, with ties to the Clarke family lineage and Bunbury years ago. The donors plan converting Rupertawood into an agricultural college for boys.
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Rupertawood
Clarke
H. V. M' Kay
Sunbury
Salesian
Don Bosco
U.S.A
William J. T. Clarke
Sir William Clarke
Bunbury
Rupert Clarke
Rupert
Itussl Clarke
J. V. M'Kay
Four Nights of Rabbit Trapping Boosts Wages in Orange District
Shortage of fruit crop and pes-picking work pushes workers into rabbit trapping. T. Cross earned £14 6d for four nights while another trapper received £30 for consecutive mornings. Poteto-diggers become scarce as labor shifts to trapping and army-level demand grows.
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Orange
T. Cross
Woolly aphids threaten apple trees on blight-prone stocks
An 1910s agricultural notice explains the woolly aphid pests on apple trees, noting that masses of white filaments indicate infestation, the aphids injure roots and limbs, and that blight-proof stock reduces risk. It advises high-pressure tobacco or nicotine sprays and autumn trunk applications to control the pest. It warns against late spraying near harvest and discusses spray methods and costs.
Treatment and grazing notes for pastures and livestock
The excerpt advises feeding sheep from troughs rather than tanks or dams and suggests spelling paddocks for horses while cautioning cattle to graze elsewhere due to stomach worms and other worm infections that can recontaminate pastures.
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