Desert Farmers Grow Crops in the Salt Sea Desert
A 120 member farming group near Mt. Nebo works to reclaim the Dead Sea area by flooding land with Jordan River water for four months. Salt content drops from 15 17 percent to fertility through manual manureing, then plants olive and date trees vegetables and banana groves. They raise cattle ducks and fish with an artificial pond of 8 acres. The project, backed by Miss Henrietta Szold and Hadassah, faces heat malaria sandflies and difficult conditions but marks a bold youth agricultural movement in a desert oasis.
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Gunner Arnold Price
R. G. Laws
Dorrigo
A.lf
Gazette
Dead Sea
Mt. Nebo
Moses
Palestine
Jordan
Jericho
Henrietta Szold
World Jewry
Grounded in Youth Immigration Fund Story
A donor from Youth Immigration fund has supplied the Dead Sea group with a water filtering apparatus to purify the Jordan and presented an electric refrigerator ensuring filtered ice water. The innovation supports farmers at their remote bottom of the world farm, keeping produce fresh.
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Dead Sea
Jordan
Paper from any fibre could cost 50 per ton says letter
Delegates at the Raleigh District Council meeting of the P P U at Belligen heard a letter claiming a former North Coast resident has perfected paper making from fibrous materials and a method to produce petrol from caustic soda mercury aluminium and water. The letter urged inquiry by Minister for Commerce Sir Earle Page to verify claims and benefit Australia.
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Raleigh
P.P.U
Bellingen
North Coast
Bowraville
New South Wales
Caboolture
Queensland
Earle Page
Cattle Yardings Reported at Flemington and Sydney Markets
Pitt Son and Badgery Ltd report 1809 cattle yarded at Flemington with more medium weight bullocks and steers but bulk light weights. prices 10 to 15 shillings lower for bullocks while other grades steady. Winchcombe Carson Ltd note 1800 cattle yarded, prime steady, heavy cattle down about 10 shillings. best dealers to 55 shillings, steers to 40, heifers to 33, bullocks to 43, cows to 41 shillings per hundredweight. about 725 fat cattle and 40 calves penned. market opens to stronger competition with prices about 10 shillings dearer.
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Homebush
Sydney
Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd
Flemington
Bundock
Winchcombe, Carson Ltd
Improvement of Rural Tenancy Conditions
A NSW article argues that current rural tenancy harms farming and soil. It advocates a long duration English style lease with strong covenants on farm operation, maintenance, rotation, and manuring. Safeguards for tenants under the 1923 Act would reward higher husbandry and compensate at tenancy end.
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England
New South Wales
Look for TTF badge in windows and pay hospital contrition
A terse public notice urges locating a TTF badge displayed in windows and paying a hospital contrition today, signaling a local compliance request and possible civic duty measure.
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TTF
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Garden Forks
Saddlery
Berger
Garner
Service
P.O
Desert
Maitland
A. W. 8. Moodie
Agricultural Gazette
Warden of Roses
Cale Peter Moutzouris
Glouc&ster
Muaauua
Gulliver’s
Seaer
Clob
Wallace Beery
Leo Carillo
Ann Rutherford
Lee Bowman
Marjorie Main
Wyoming
Cooneee Hickman
Helene Millard
Richard Lane
Ustralian Overseas Newsreels
Gene Autry
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