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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 16, 1925
Page
10
Prize essay by Dave White at Temora Show outlines paddock management fallowing seed and sowing for a 24 bushel wheat crop. Describes sheep on stubble, burning, discing, and rotation to prevent take-all and smut, plus fallowing to conserve winter rains and improve soil moisture.
Recommendations cover aeration, mulching with loose dry soil, and shaping a seed bed. Early ploughing, rough fallow, and harrowing assist black oats control. Sheep trampling consolidates soil, with fallow rotation guidance and careful weather timing for spring tooth cultivation before sowing. Seed choices include Zeeland for hay, Federation for main wheat, Canberra for late sowing, with dry copper carbonate seed treatment. Sowing rates and fertilizer rates vary by crop and timing, aiming for about 24 bushels per acre long term.
All types of horse and cattle canvas goods including tarpaulins water bags blinds tents and related items offered by Albert Jones at 27 Market Street Sydney. Birk coats tennis nets and other canvas products also available.
A reader objects to W H Stokes claims about Alfred Stokes. The writer defends Mr Rymer’s Forbes history reporting, noting the author’s local knowledge and urging continued honest coverage. The letter asks for factual support from Mr Stokes family deeds and dismisses petulance behind the rebuttal.
Robert Dickson Weston argues in Harvard Graduates Magazine that Liberty drives morality and that Prohibition is rarely enforced. He warns against accepting a bad law as better than no law and urges skepticism toward compelling Prohibition despite its solemn image.
A skewed ad copy praises Gow's Lemon Butter as the ideal accompaniment for pancakes, tarts, rolls and sandwiches. It mentions a Gow's label on a manufactured jar and teases a recipe book from Associated Brokers Ltd in Sydney.
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