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Newspaper
Wellington Times
Location
Wellington, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 20, 1934
Page
2
Experiments by the Dairy Branch at Byron Bay tested six separators with 60 lb samples of rich and poor milk. Results show cream yield varies with milk richness due to season, feed, lactation, and cattle condition. A table outlines rewards for faulty separators, advising monthly tests to ensure proper skimming.
A Department of Agriculture report warns rabbits breed rapidly in Northern Tablelands Central Sloper and Western Riv districts. It favors erecting rabbit proof fences of 42 inch wire netting 17 gauge with lock posts, clearing vegetation, digging warrens, and placing netting outside the boundary fence to deter rabrabbit movement and withstand bush fires.
Senior Apiary Instructor notes that in heavy honey flows producers should aim to maximize surplus by expanding storage, preparing 60 supers per hive, and extracting promptly. Emphasizes timely extraction, adequate staff, and training strong colonies to handle high yields from Inland district white box and Grey Ironbark traits.
A chaotic colonial article advocates land retirement as a solution to unemployment, citing a Sydney conference under the Un employed Relief Council. Delegates argue land occupation provides work, stressing productive use of idle lands, fences, flood gates, and rabbit control. It includes insect notes on the 28 spotted ladybird beetle and control methods for crops like tomatoes and potatoes.
The writer argues for test settlement to reuse idle land and employ idle men, predicting future adoption of settlement on a broader economic scale. He warns against wasteful public spending on unproductive works and urges turning land and labor into a productive unit to raise prosperity.
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