Subsidies to Agricultural Societies Confirmed
The Minister for Agriculture says subsidies will continue at last year's rates. Approved prizes receive 76 6d in the pound, while subscriptions by members are limited to 1s 6d in the pound.
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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 08, 1905
Page
3
The Minister for Agriculture says subsidies will continue at last year's rates. Approved prizes receive 76 6d in the pound, while subscriptions by members are limited to 1s 6d in the pound.
Fox correspondent reports a fine fox sighting in a dry creek bed near Cumnock and a litter of eight young found in a rabbit burrow. The note warns farmers to curb foxes to protect flocks as drives elsewhere kill several foxes and many rabbits and hares.
An Australian tale recounts Bill and Jim, longtime companions since the seventies, plotting a poultry yard theft for a £10 reward. Bill is jailed for three weeks while Jim dies the day after, leading to the grim punchline that Jim finally turned dog.
An advertisement touts Sheldons Digestive Tabules as digesting foods and transforming users into new persons with strength and renewed life. It promises appetite satisfaction, enhanced health, and enjoyment of living, marketed by C.F. Stephens.
The question asks which venemous enemy of humans introduced the purille device.
A reader questions where large sums paid to a land agent linked to a lands department lease scheme ended up. The piece asks if squatters and financial institutions funded the agent for his influence or if he acted as a conduit for a larger financier’s funds.
Trappers urged to buy C F Stephens chewist tin of Rabbit bait priced 2s 6d. The bait kills rabbits with no mixing and has proven deadly. a trapper from Aledown reports two hundred rabbits killed in one night using half a tin. Sold by F Stephens, local chewist.
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