26 Feb 1915
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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Feb 26, 1915
Page
1
The season brings new hats and caps with sombre tones and simple trims including velvet, silk, and buckram styles. A notable glengarry and a Brebon sailor lead fashion, while a militarylike satin cap and a velvet crown draw attention alongside a boat procession for Dr Ceretti. Soldiers return from Rabaul to grateful crowds, many ill but buoyed by mothers and friends.
The Flower Garden extols Ranunculus Asiaticus and Anemone Coronaria native to Asia Minor. It explains seed sowing timing February to April for Ranunculus and autumn sowing for Anemone, plus planting in well-drained soil. Also notes Jersey Lily turnip and advises sowing peas, cabbage, cauliflower and other vegetables now.
A note on Prendergast's mastery system for language learning appears in a small book sold by city booksellers. The conversazione at Heht featured a musical instrument, the either, played by Mr Belschene with his wife at the piano, evoking Eastern Batouchs and çaïd garden imagery.
Advertises Marie Sheep Dip Jelly as a disinfectant and cure for vermin and germ life in children's heads. Promotes a hair beautifier benefit and lists price and supplier details with claims of safety, compatibility, and plain-wrapped shipping. Mentions Marte Shampoo and endorsements by BB Kevin, M.P.S., Forbes.
Sunday and weekday schedules list Parkes, Cowra, Eugowra, Molong, Bathurst, Sydney T P O and many stops with late fees noted. The timetable covers Sunday to Sunday with multiple routes via Parkes Cowra Grenfell and Trundle.
Offer to come any day this week with a promise to save ten shillings in every pound spent. The message targets shoppers seeking flexible delivery and bulk savings. No specific dates, locations, or organizations are named.
Agricultural notes advise against lucerne chaff as a green-feed substitute for fresh lucerne. Best method: pour boiling water over lucerne chaff in a vessel and cover overnight, then mix through wet mash or feed dry with bran and pollard. A sample mash ratio is 60 lb bran 20 lb lucerne chaff or dust 12 lb meat meal 8 lb ground corn. Adjust pollard and bran by fineness.
Poultry yard in wet weather becomes a slushy problem. If drainage is poor raise level. ashes or sand help briefly but do not fix underlying drainage. Incorporate soil into surface, loosen old layer, add new soil, level and compact. Do not use yard until surface hardens. do yards one at a time for multiple pens.
Advice on preparing apples notes that fruit can be cooked without water and that apples should not be pulped. It mentions apples being obtainable in abundance for much of the year and comments on whether the fruit tends to be watery.
A statewide look shows growers planting apples in small blocks to compare varieties. Some bud fruit on each tree, with two-row blocks of early varieties like Jonathan Cleopatra and Granny Smith and late varieties such as Rome Beauty and Leodan Pippin. The Fruit Expert urges side by side planting of varieties that blossom together and advises limited consecutive rows of one variety, plus budding on Rasional trees where blocks exist.
The White Apple bloom yields abundant nectar but poor honey quality and color in coastal districts. Much honey is hard to sell at a penny per pound unless scarce varieties exist. Some surplus has been shipped to Sydney, yet storing White Apple honey for bee feed next spring is advised. Red Bloodwood honey, flowering every second year, is expected this month and sells at good prices, aiding candied honey sales.
British resolve to carry on work and trade during the war is celebrated as wealth creation via commerce. Waugh & Josephson of Sydney announce prompt delivery of goods including Alfa Laval cream separators, Crossley gas plants, Le-Rig milking gear, dairy and steam equipment, and motive power solutions for all industries.
Practical guide from the Fruit Expert on pulping fruit for jam in domestic scale. After pitting, boil fruit with water to prevent burning, pulp into cans with vent hole, seal while hot, and boil cans briefly to vent air before final sealing.
Printed and published by George Washington Brownhill at the office of The Forbes Advocate in Lacheno-St. Vorbas.
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