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Newspaper
Guyra Argus
Location
Guyra, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 08, 1911
Page
3
Weekly notes led by Hon J L Treflé summarize department experiments and improvements in soil use. The ministry aims to disseminate scientific and practical findings to farmers via rural press, inviting queries to the Under Secretary for Agriculture.
The article examines Kerry cattle as a hardy local breed suited to poor land in Hawkesbury and Berry districts, noting Jersey crossbreds for improved milk and butter-fat yield. It discusses milking machines, their impact on cows and costs, plus experiences from Wisconsin and general milking effects on secretion.
A trial comparing machine milking with hand milking on ten cows each found similar strippings amounting to about 1.7 percent and 1.6 percent of total weekly yield. The average stripping for machine milked cows was 21.6 lb and for hand milking 3.19 lb, with careful testing and cows accustomed to the machine. The study concludes machine milking approaches the efficiency of good hand milking and may surpass it in some dairies.
An agricultural note urges farmers to grow fodder crops especially lucerne. It highlights crop rotation, soil fertility with organic matter, and the economic value of dual purpose fodder plants. The piece cites adaptability across climates and soils and notes success from small experimental plots expanding to larger areas.
The national insurance plan draws widespread congratulations through telegrams to Mr. Lloyd George while questions arise. Clerks typists and domestic workers gain coverage under the measure, and concerns about maternity benefits for unmarried mothers appear in discussions.
Redgrave schemes to burn a crossbeam fragment in his hotel room to hide its link to Mostyn Croxford. He lights the wood, smoke fills the chamber, and a hidden observer on a ladder outside peers in, a silhouette he suspects is Stanwell.
On Palm Island the Wasp lands Stanwell Redgrave Miss Devereux and Captain Brion confront Mostyn Croxford in a tense rescue. Redgrave, plotting murder and theft, is captured and later dies in prison, while Croxford survives to expose the mastermind and expose the conspiracy.
Redgrave kneels beside the collapsed Miss Deverent as Dr Paxton urges restraint on Stanwell. The detective senses Paxton’s hypnotic influence over the lone millionaire, who resists and stares in fury while Branwell seeks to free him and get him aboard the Wasp.
A summary of Mungo Park born September 10 1771 in Scotland who became a renowned African explorer. It covers his early life as a seventh son, voyage beginnings from Portemouth, his ordeals in Gambia with fever and capture by Ali, the hardships on the Niger expedition, the death rumors until 1912, and his final fate after returning to England and marriage.
Frank T. Bullen recounts his first octopus experience in Stewarts Island New Zealand. While wading the sandy riverbed he stepped on a blob of jelly and was seized by a long tentacle. He stabbed the creature, freeing himself as the water turned dark with musk and fear of drowning faded into relief.
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