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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jul 12, 1938
Page
6
IBy J. W. Robi of the Ormond Plant Farm. This notice gives a practical guide on winter cut flowers available in Melbourne, including Iceland poppies, mignonette, violets, stocks, calendula, carnation varieties, chrysanthemums, and a new Erica Winter Gem. It covers planting times, quantities for continuity, and notes on bloom quality and scent.
The article describes planting now for apples, apricots, peaches, plums, cherries and pears with varieties like Jonne Crown Granny Smith Delicious and Williams Bond Beurre Bose Packham's Triumph. It notes soil preferences, early frost risks, and urges trenching and manure before planting, offering to provide detailed advice on demand. A separate item recalls a comedy of errors in Hamilton involving a lost £50 note.
A departmental leaflet warns lamb marking can cause serious infections like tetanus and blood poisoning unless precautions are taken. It advises selecting a dry clean site or temporary movable yards, cleaning and disinfection of yards, boiling and disinfecting the marking knife, frequent dipping in carbolic solution, careful handling to avoid joint injuries, and proper wound care with disinfectant or oil mixtures. It also stresses immediate destruction of carcasses if mortality occurs and careful management to ensure lambs receive milk.
A historical note reports experiments on moult control in fine-woolled sheep like merino. Researchers found mild heart acetate doses may induce or assist wool shedding, with mixed results across breeds and mild adverse effects observed in some flocks.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions a superintendent and various names and actions. It reads with partial phrases about marking, recovery, and safety but lacks clear events, places, or outcomes. The readable content centers on officials and dates, though specifics are missing.
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