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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 03, 1940
Page
1
A promotional piece urging readers to use advertisements in The Leader to colour life through better goods. It argues ads deliver improvements to comfort, efficiency, and economy, assuring value true and safer choices for today and tomorrow.
Garden notes emphasize regular trimming of hedges and borders to keep shrubs compact and healthy, with frequent clipping while growth is young. Advice covers azaleas rhododendrons roses mildew control with sulfur dusting, trial planting of new seedlings alongside reliable favorites, and recommendations for autumn flowering annuals like zinnias phlox and petunias.
The speech urges total national effort for wartime victory and announces the Freedom Loan. It calls all Australians to subscribe voluntarily through banks post offices or brokers at par with interest rates 2 3 percent for five years and 31 percent for ten to sixteen years. Subscriptions are open now.
The humble potato dominates menus with baked and chipped preparations, plus seasonal new potatoes with mint and butter. It highlights potatoes as energizing, mineral rich food, pairing with cheese and vegetables for nutritious meals. Includes several early 20th century recipes such as Potato Bake, stuffed potato onions, Alaska Potatoes, and instructions for cauliflower and garden care.
The Kitchen Garden notes Swede as a versatile winter vegetable with pungent flavor, digestible in soups or alone. It thrives after beans peas or parsnips, fares poorly after cabbage or turnips, and requires deeply dug, well manured soil with thorough soil breaking. Sow thinly and plant in drills with compost to ensure healthy growth.
Reports show foot lice affecting British breeds crosses and Corriedales in Victorian districts. Louse hides in skin feeding on blood. light cases cause little harm, while heavy infestations reduce condition. Incidence can reach 60 to 70 percent in some flocks, with spread slow. Treatment with Derris root foot baths every 14 days needed until infestation is controlled.
Farmers and graziers are urged to breed as many foals as possible as mechanisation reduces horse numbers. Petrol rationing and military demand have lowered horse stocks, making the horse a crucial alternative power if fuel for tractors becomes scarce. The policy aims for a durable, locally fed supply to support farming and potential army needs.
Local notice seeks old horses no longer usable. Dead stock to be removed within reasonable distance. Phone number provided for inquiries and arrangements.
Fragmentary readable items describe a hurried event or notice listing names and actions with unclear context. The text mentions Phyl LES, Jay, and a series of disjoint phrases implying a local matter or notice from an era with miscoded OCR.
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