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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jul 23, 1940
Page
1
The Leader urges readers to read advertisements to color daily life with better goods. It argues ads offer news of improvements, increased efficiency, and comfort, assuring advertised items are value-true and reliable for smart shopping today and savings for tomorrow.
All citizens are urged to attend the Win-the-War rally at Numurkah Town Hall next Thursday night July 25 at 8 o clock. Three Melbourne patriotic speakers will outline wartime efforts and how men and women may help including those over military age or unfitted for service. The event will discuss future recruitment, volunteering, and how to fund war savings and gifts while stressing attendance even for those without money to give.
An article from Ballarat Courier discusses how well built pig houses and proper nutrition prevent ailments in sows and litters. It emphasizes vitamin A, lime, protein, milk, and sun exposure, with practical rations and supplements to avoid farrowing issues and lactational anemia in growing pigs.
Garden Notes advises on Camelias revived in Melbourne nurseries, noting variety, bloom timing, and foliage value plus soil tolerance. It covers Ceanothus vigor, Cedrus Deodara as lawn specimen, and Ceratostrema Willmottae for massing, with pruning tips and seasonal grouping for lasting effect. The kitchen garden section urges soil prep, breaking lumps, manuring, lime, and bone fertiliser, then timing for sowing peas in two weeks.
The article advises sowing peas in successive batches through December with inch-high covers, thinly in shallow drills, two inches in light soil and one inch in heavy soil, two feet between rows, staking tall varieties at six inches, and hoeing soil around plants as they grow. It lists compatible crops and perennials including broad beans cabbage lettuce carrots beets radish onions turnips rhubarb sea kale silver beet asparagus potatoes fruit trees grape vines and citrus.
Curl leaf of peach trees caused by exoascus deformans is the most damaging fungus to stone fruits. It defoliates trees, weakens them, and reduces fruit quality. Bordeaux mixture remains the most effective fungicide. apply when scales unfold and buds pink, spraying susceptible early varieties first. Substituting other methods varies by district. spray all varieties, with timing adjusted to bloom. If full coverage isn’t possible, reapply to worst affected sections in prior years.
Catalogue from Rove Dublin offering free seed and seedling catalogues on request. Gladioli seeds and related plant lists featured, with emphasis on ornamental garden varieties and how to obtain printed guides.
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