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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 02, 1953
Page
2
The article questions the health impact of heavy smoking. It discusses nicotine effects on heart rate blood pressure saliva and energy, noting variability in tolerance and comparing inhalers to pipe smokers. It cites Oxford tests and quotes Sir Clement Price Thomas on chain smoking.
JG Crosby Plumber and Contractor advertises licensed sanitary plumbing services at Station Street Cobram with phone and competency certificate. It lists windmill and hot water installations septic tanks installed general household repairs.
The MV District Advisory Board held last Wednesday with members M J Shannon R F Batey J ER Menchin P R Pullar C M Sutton and J R Murphy present no apologies. Questions to the Water Commission led to approval of a tractor with attachments to be purchased when funds allow. A maintenance gang for Numurkah is planned to cut Cobram gang travel by July or August. Winter fruit spraying supplies were discussed but Yarrawonga main channel must be drained for weed control. The chairman was J R Dunne.
The article outlines water requirements for irrigated pastures on different soils with varying permeability. It cites Pyramid, Swan Hill, and Tragowel plots, giving irrigation counts and depths, and notes how legumes and grasses vary in water use. It also covers summer fodder crops and three key cereal crop irrigation occasions including pre sowing, head emergence, and early grazing oats.
Prizes for the 1952 wheat crop championships were presented at the Victorian Wheat and Wool Growers Association conference in Melbourne. W. B. Miller highlighted mechanised farming, improved varieties, and soil fertility, with the Farm Competitions Association aiding information spread. Awards of £50 per championship were donated by the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria to growers in Southern Wimmera, Northern Wimmera, Pagod, and Northern Districts, with winners named: M. L. Longmire Horsham. Douglass & Sons Charlton. J. W. Ballantyne Lake. John Henderson Jr Numurkah.
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