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Newspaper
Guyra Argus
Location
Guyra, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 28, 1936
Page
2
A fragmented report on the wool market notes passed lots and delayed closing rates, with new clip arrivals and crate shipments looming. It mentions country producers selling, ongoing stock holdings, and forthcoming sales through mid June, amid weather relief and cautious optimism for price stability.
This snippet describes six character types from an Australian women’s magazine. Beaver Type works hard and lives frugally, Lizard Type accepts what is given, Fish Type indulges in drink, Mosquito Type fusses over small results, Chameleon Type confuses color choices, and Dead-hear Type appears fine but fails to act. The passage promotes The New Idea, a weekly Australian and New Zealand women’s paper featuring serials stories and other content, and notes its availability at newsagents.
A departmental leaflet outlines precautions for lamb marking to prevent diseases from injections and knife use. It stresses dry clean yards, surface soil removal, disinfectant dips, boiled knives, frequent disinfection, and proper wound care with oil kerosene or tannin dressings. Immediate destruction of condemned carcasses is advised to avoid infection spread.
A Southern district agricultural address urged poultry as a viable sideline for farm income. It stressed proper feeding, routine care, and reliable breeders, noting poultry can yield returns similar to other farm investments with careful management and wife involvement in the enterprise.
Farmers can craft affordable cow rugs from two heavy bags or rags sewn together. A 10 to 18 inch wide strip creates the neck strap and thigh straps, with a back strap 12 to 15 inches below the rump. The rug becomes waterproof after a few days of use and can be slipped on daily, with the cow’s name painted on the rump to prevent mixups.
A Victorian pits method outlines selecting well-drained land. Two parallel saplings form a trench for piling potatoes topped with straw and sods, then packed and drained. Dry potatoes avoid sunlight exposure to prevent greening. small pits favor cone shapes, with a fortnight delay before earthing up.
No single method ensures clean-up in districts where codling moth is a major problem. Growers must follow all supplementary controls advised by Entomological Branch officers. Handbags are compulsory only in Bathurst, though used voluntarily elsewhere. Chemically created hands have proven valuable for several seasons, despite bark injury to young trees and some moth escape. Proper destruction of hands in winter is essential.
Walter Watkin Wynn of Patonga was sentenced to three months in Sydney Central Police Court after an ideation alleging he sent through the mail a letter containing words of prosary offensive character to a foreign employer at Wheesington. Notice of appeal was given. The magistrate commented that anonymous letters of this nature risk serious trouble and should be punished.
The article explains bonding concrete to existing hardened surfaces. For watertight joints in tanks and silos, smooth the old surface, clean it, flush with water, and spread a 4 inch layer of mortar in a 1 to 2 cement sand mix. This provides a bonding matrix so new concrete beds into it. avoid just slurry.
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