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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian And Express
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 12, 1947
Page
8
The Victorian Racing Club announces weights for the Grand National Hurdle and Grand National Steeple next month. The article blends racing notices with a serialized fiction excerpt and literary scene descriptions.
The article describes surface layer fumigation of stored wheat to kill insects. The best tested agent is car ben Kisniphide at 16 fl oz per sq yd, with safety cautions for explosions. Ethylene dichloride and trichloroethylene mix offers near equal control, used at 45 turn oz per sq sand, safer but pricier. Fumigation mainly targets grain hover and the satin beetle with deeper layers remaining unsuitable for development. used with mineral drafts to protect 3,500,000 bushels at the Navy depot Murton Victoria for three years without price dockings.
A mosaic of race titles and names appears with references to Heritage 1048 and Powder Valley Pay-off. Mentions include Piet of the High, Frederick Nelson Litten, China Egg, B Montagu Scott, Old Taxtua of Bandicoot, Miles Franklin, Sydney Fowler, and Peter Field. Odds selections and partial race terms are scattered throughout.
Fragmentary OCR mentions The Second Farm at St. Clare's and The Title Prince with names Enid Blyton and Antoine de Saint Exupery. No clear event or context given.
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