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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Mar 20, 1903
Page
3
This farm advisory piece covers dairy herd care, milk testing, and feeding. It discusses pregnancy indicators in cows, the value of good breeding stock, and the impact of cleanliness on dairy quality. It also offers pig feeding guidance, treacle as a ration aid, and the merits of shallow versus deep creaming methods.
An old farming note argues that careful breeding and development of dairy cows yields superior milk. It emphasizes selecting well formed stock, proper feeding, and attentive care to mature cows into productive milk producers. Observations suggest cows from various herds improve by their third calving under guided tending and nutrition.
Instructions describe hive wax extraction using a wax extractor with water-filled bottom, steam melting the wax, and pouring melted wax into cold-water molds. Repeats for quality, cleaning the apparatus between batches, and alternatives when few stocks exist.
Recipe describes making candy cake by dissolving sugar with water and crystallised sugar, stirring to prevent burning, boiling to drive off liquid, then cooling and beating until white and smooth. The method ends with a firm, workable confection that can be poured, cooled, and lifted from the pan without sticking.
A horticulture minded writer argues that garden progress thrives on new ideas and systematic cross fertilisation. He envisions wide potential in hybridizing many flowers fruits and vegetables and urges gardeners to pursue deliberate breeding to create improved varieties. He notes advances seen in Chrysanthemums Begonias and Sweet Peas and calls for broader application to Apples Pears and other crops.
A Maine Agricultural Experiment Station bulletin outlines Professor G M Gowell s experiments on boosting egg output via systematic breeding and trap nests. The study explains selecting high producers, inheritance rules, and observed gains across breeds like Barred Rock and White Wyandottes, with results suggesting substantial efficiency improvements in laying hens.
In urban slang and satire Mr Dooley debates how a trip to Africa would unfold for Joe, Kiplin, and others, imagining receptions, parades, and a symbolic crown of freedom. The scene shifts through Hennessy and Leary as locals react with humor, politics, and old world diplomacy.
A compressed spoof recalls Mr Dooley debating rights and duties with Mr Hennessy during a mock political quarrel. Dooley mocks pretensions, cites ironies of equality, and lampoons various factions demanding pay, influence, and concessions as a chaotic crowd roars for reforms.
A letter in The Times from a medical officer of a New Zealand Swallywage corps, sent from New Zealand, alleges hundreds of colonial troops serving in South Africa have not been paid. It criticizes British and South African authorities for delays and demands prompt settlement of overdue wages and allowances. The author appeals to public influence after months without resolution.
A foreign editor reflects on editor woes including subscriber complaints about content and space. The piece reviews fashioning public opinion, church, theater, and family praise or blame, then analyzes Dr Arthur MacDonald’s claim linking technology to crime and mental strain, noting gendered education impacts and societal stress.
A Scotsman writer laments rising accidental gun deaths and firearms cheapening. He traces causes to cheap imported weapons and exploded myths of boyhood play, urging stricter safety, training, and public lectures to prevent tragedy.
Lord Milner delivers an open letter tribute to Cecil Rhodes highlighting Rhodes as a force for South Africa’s commercial growth and imperial federation. He recalls personal meetings, praises Rhodes’s surveying and architectural influence, and urges redirection of inter-state jealousies toward unified empire-building.
The Weestminster Gazette reports a reform effort in Paris and provincial prisons using three placards on La Sante walls. One shows a drunken worker amid inscriptions on degradation while the other side highlights tuberculosis as the daughter of age, warning of the ruinous effects of vice on families. The project aims to promote moral improvement through stark imagery, though its efficacy remains uncertain.
A fragment outlines a policemen s college in St Petersburg with a museum for training and practicing criminal tools, a passport system, and doorman duties checking newcomers papers in a police station setting. The text also mentions a Bath porridge meal scene, a Christmas royal table, and a short note about King Victor Emmanuel dining with Queen Helene and a Hawaiian delegate in a separate filing.
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