Gloucester Dairy Directors Report On P D S Conference
The Gloucester Co-operative Dairy Company Ltd reports at its Monday meeting on a Producers’ Distributing Society Ltd conference held January 1. Highlights include a tour of the cheese plant and a lab test noting some butters fail despite gov grading. plans for a national butter brand and tariffs on British dairy imports. storage of butter for winter and prepayment of 90s per cwt for stored butter.
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P. H. Deards
Gloucester Co-operative Dairy Company Ltd
Producers’ Distributing Society Ltd
Sharpe
P.D.S
China
Tropics
Gloucester
National Box Co
Rackhouse
J. R. King
London
Major King
Great Britain
Dominions
King
Hindmarsh
PDS
Livestock Attendants Granted Expanded Railway Concessions
The Commissioner for Railways extended facilities for livestock attendants in transit. Drovers receive more liberal passes with scale based on truck count, and concession fares apply to attendants for blood stock to yearling sales in Sydney.
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Sydney
Four Cows Die From Wire Ingestion At NSW Farm
Tweed Lismore Pastures Protection Board stock inspector J Woollett reports unusual incident at Wyralah where three milking cows died from heart puncture after swallowing wire. A fourth cow also died. post mortem found wire in the heart. Nearby paddock contains a 100 yard wire rope with rusted fragments, cattle likely ingested while grazing.
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Tweed-Lismore
Mosquito Menace in Australian Towns and Remedies
The piece notes mosquitoes plague many northern and western New South Wales towns and Brisbane. It cites citronella use, smouldering manure fumes, and netting as defenses. Kerosene is added to water tanks by law to curb breeding but does not eradicate the problem.
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Winnipeg
Herald
Sydney
New South Wales
Brisbane
Farmers Consider Water Treatment To Protect Crops
The article notes using kerosene in tanks to deter mosquitoes, with limited effectiveness unless swamps and water-holes are treated. Householders are inconsistent, and inspectors must remind them. A future scientific study could find adequate protection methods. Also, the Lands Minister urges land seekers to submit applications as over 5000 registered, detailing demand. ducks destroy rice crops in the Griffith district, harming yields.
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S.M. Herald
Buttenshaw
New South Wales
Department of Lands
Sydney
Crown Land
English milk distribution and old London Bridge use noted
The article states daily milk distribution in England reaches about 20 million pints from around 150000 farms. It notes old London Bridge material used in Christ Church at Gravesend and mentions Oswestry Grammar School's Founder's Day with an apology from its oldest former pupil, Mr. Thomas Pope, now 101.
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England
London Bridge
Christ Church
Gravesend
Oswestry Grammar School
Thomas Pope
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Grime & Small
W. Batger
Church Street
Manchester
A, Dan
Gloucester & Taree
P.D.S. Conference
N.S.W
Hulles and
A-P
Moore
Pharmacy
Griffith
Manchester Goods
SEMCO
S.W
Chuldrens
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