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Newspaper
Traralgon Record
Location
Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 02, 1901
Page
3
The article argues most dairy gains come from breeding, testing, and selecting cows. It notes dairy cows show variation in milk and butter fat, with high performers yielding far better economics. Kansas data highlight fixed costs and that top cows are rarely for sale, urging breeders to propagate the best animals and cull the rest based on production records.
Commonwealth elections yield a light district turnout with only eight or nine present at the poll and fourteen white votes after one ballot name was crossed out. At Sale the vote total was 434 with 42 informal ballots. The piece lists candidates, notes deposits lost for Mr C Sargeam, and mentions results from Traralgon and other electorates, plus references to local agricultural and market activities and business notices.
Amid continuous operations in the Orange River Colony Brigadier General Bruce Hamilton clears Demendorp after running fights. Seven Boers killed or wounded and seventy captured in recent actions. Portugal imprisons 673 Boers at Peniche and Alcobaco to curb unrest while Imperial Light Horse fights near Haartebeesfonten. Victoria Cross awarded to Surgeon-Lieut H Douglas for Magersfontein duty. Commandant Englebrecht surrenders to General French. Boer losses reported.
A Bosman student named Kapovitch has been found guilty of murdering Count Bogoliepoff Minister of Public Instruction and sentenced to twenty years penal servitude. The bubonic plague continues in Capetown with sixteen new cases yesterday.
Morwell Shire Council notes requests to open Paynes and Ratton paddocks road for transport of fodder. Land Board to decide disposal of water resources south of Haselwood. Health board seeks river water reply for Yinnar Buttar Factory. Contractors seek relief from Beyer’s road side cutting and gravelling work. Engineer instructed to attend to repairs on several mud or damaged roads. Tenders for La Trobe road gravelling reported. Molloy withdraws. Council discusses winter budget, bridge on Haselwood road, and payment of road works between Ofohase and Wanswispers.
Fragmentary OCR passage recounts Grady and a tense scene involving a pretended agent and a sarcastic laugh. It mentions lodging something in a head and urging guards to remain vigilant as ends and goals rise in a brig life scenario.
Reports from Mafra, Omeo, and Morwell describe yarding about 1000 cattle with high prices for bullocks and cows. Fat cattle edge £6 15s to £9 10s, stores £3 4s to £6 8s, calves £2 10s to £5 7s, and dairy sows £3 to £3 10s, with strong demand for fat cattle and mixed store sales across multiple yards.
Cairnbrunie Boxing Day sale and reward for twenty sheep and lambs branded rump with middle back marks. Auction terms and inspections at Me Heden Traralgon with W J Livingston secretary. Also church anniversary notice, addresses by Rev Smith Bain, and local notices on property listings, musicians, schooling and Toongabbie institutes.
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