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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 17, 1929
Page
3
The Numurkah farmers meeting featured A W Sefton and A ving papers, with Government experts H A and Wadham offering cropping advice. Discussion centered on tractors versus horse teams, cost comparisons, productivity gains, and practical farm trials, including figures from Sefton’s 200 acre study and endorsements from peers.
A report discusses export lambs from Australia focusing on Canterbury type for England between October and April. It highlights Southdown cross breeding, emphasizes better trucking and marketing, and notes Browning's experiments with Southdown rams to improve Smithfield market suitability. It details overseas demand, London market visits, and the need to educate railway staff on humane handling.
Mr Mullett praised Numurkah farmers for their long standing support and outlined methods to improve wheat yields. He urged organized leadership, discussed stubble and fallow management, drainage, seed depth, and timing. Federation and Free Gallipoli emerged as top varieties with potential 10 to 15 percent yield gains through better control and cultivation trials.
Professor Wadham recalled visiting the Numuckah district two years earlier and accepted an invitation to the convention. He hoped to see if his soil impressions would change and joked about scientists being always secure and knowing every detail.
A report notes proposals for gypsum on patches of heavy land as trials. Mr Wadham says gypsum can be applied any time but earlier applications allow more dissolution. Mr Sefton questions soil analysis value for cereals and cautions against nitrate manures in the Valley given rainfall. A hearty voter thanks the Professor by acclamation on a motion by Morris and Adams.
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