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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 01, 1949
Page
3
Poultry officers of the Victorian Department of Agriculture say light breeds rarely brood but heavy breeds show broodiness. Remove a broody hen to a coop or spare pen immediately to recover production within 10 days to two weeks.
The Victorian Minister of Agriculture Col A H Dennett announced the revival of Dairy Farm Competitions. £1350 in prize money comes from the Commonwealth Dairy Industry Grant for 126 Herd Test Units and zone and state championships with unit prizes of £5 £2 and £1 plus awards for farm planting equipment care fodder and herd management.
The Beet Sugar Factory at Maffra is offered by the Department of Agriculture for lease or outright purchase. Minister Col A H Dennett cites a long decline in beet area and growers’ reluctance to plant as causes, with tenders due by April 26 1949. The factory opened in 1907, was government controlled from 1909, and profits to 1948 totalled £379,689, while beet area peaked in 1937-38 and fell to 50 acres by 1945-46 due to dairy profitability.
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