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Newspaper
Toodyay Herald
Location
Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 21, 1928
Page
1
The Rev. W. A. Lewis reports a honey harvest of 2363 pounds from seven to 33 colonies after wintering in a simple 10 frame brood setup. He describes division techniques, feeding syrup, strategic requeening, and a wire screen frame for ventilation, with all colonies wintered successfully.
The Otago Witness describes continuous feeding to boost bee populations up to June. Seven colonies produced 310 pounds of comb honey and 36 pounds of extracted honey, valued at about £11 14s, with potential savings from feed costs.
The Granny Smith apple, now widely popular in Australia and increasingly known in Britain, began when Mrs. Thomas Smith found a stray tree. In 1867 she dumped decayed Tasmanian French Crab apples from a Sydney market case by a Ryde creek. A tree sprouted and bore fruit later judged fit for culinary use, after a local pomologist and his son confirmed its merit.
Forty years after John Boyd Dunlop applied for the patent he had just retired from his veterinary practice in Bangor and recalled his Belfast street test. The story recounts his boy Johnny, the making of the first air filled tyres from rubber tubes, and the homemade tricycle that launched a lasting cycling revolution. Dunlop funded the idea and forever changed motor and bicycle tires, though he never rode a bicycle himself.
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