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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Aug 13, 1909
Page
6
A long 19th century guide outlines practical methods for rearing chickens. It covers brooding setup, feeding regimens with soft and hard foods, temperature notes for incubators, care of sitting hens, use of spare roosters, separation of sexes, and handling leg fractures with simple splints. Emphasis on cleanliness, ground cover, and gradual bird development.
An article discusses the shift in rose breeding toward preserving fragrance while noting many varieties lack scent. It lists highly scented hybrids such as Etienne Level, Marie Baumann, and Commandant Felix Faure, along with numerous named roses praised for their perfume and distinct scents.
The Dally News recounts a May 18 magistrates hearing in Yarmouth over a wedding incident. A bridegroom and his aunt defendant faced allegations of jeering the bride outside the parish church and during her walk to the carriage. witnesses described rowdy actions and hooting. The aunt denied the charges, while the court cautioned her for the behavior.
An experienced New Zealand Jersey breeder touts tincture of aconite as a simple, harmless, and highly effective cure for milk fever in cows. He recites a case where aconite restored a downed cow within hours, notes the danger of milking tubes, and urges ready-made aconite doses and teat care to prevent hard milker issues, improving cow value.
Practical guidance on improving milk yield through proper feeding of young stock and cows. Emphasizes weighing cows, sterilising milk vessels, and understanding separators. Advises clean dairies, formalin spray for moulds, whitewashed walls, and the cow’s health and blood quality as key to milk quality.
An Australian article argues for stronger producer cooperation to cut costs and improve efficiency. It cites purchasing, labor, and machinery advantages from uniting under a system of mutual protection and aims to prepare for possible farm emergencies with wage scales and coordinated buying.
In West London Porce Court on June 9, Christopher Ashford of Wellington Street Chetenham was charged with stealing two newspapers from his father Albert Henry Ashford of Manor Street Cheltenham. The magistrate discharged the defendant after defense questions and a witness stating the defendant had left the father’s business to start his own. The prosecutor sought costs under the Caste In Chantel Cases Act, 1905, but was denied.
The Daily Telegraph correspondent cites America’s War Department instructions to the chief signal officer to draft a plan for coastal balloon defenses along the Atlantic from Maine to Florida. Balloons and balloon houses would be spaced to warn of enemy airships, with zones seaward and near the coast, to aid coastal defense rather than full strategic warfare.
A Paris report recounts the dramatic death of a professor’s wife who killed herself with prussic acid after a tumultuous separation. The tale follows police, victims, and neighbors as authorities investigate a poisonous study in the husband’s laboratory. In New York, debate arises over who should lead a Fifth Avenue Baptist Bible class, with financier John D. Rockefeller Jr. courted as a candidate and others urging leadership to restore the class’s prominence.
A detailed sketch of rural life shows the squire quarrelling with tenants and village figures over property rights, freeholds, and social order. The Stirrup Cup inn, Mrs Manktelow, and local clergy are described amid debates on liberty, decorum, and the old ways.
The Zephyr Worth area suffers a severe tornado with Gulf coast origins. Forty bodies recovered from ruins as churches, schools, and homes are destroyed. Survivors lose possessions. relief slow due to broken wires and blocked roads. Medical supplies scarce. a Sunday relief party faces debris strewn hillsides and scattered bodies.
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