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Newspaper
Wellington Times
Location
Wellington, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 17, 1943
Page
7
Poultry expert Mr. E. M Hadlington warns that proper brooding and rearing facilities are crucial to reduce losses in young chickens. He notes mortality often rises to 50 percent with primitive equipment, hindering flock productivity and increasing costs. improving equipment should be pursued where losses are abnormal.
The act requires registration of all medicines used for livestock including poultry dogs and cats. Exemptions exist for medicines prescribed by a veterinary surgeon or specially compounded for a single animal. After years of enforcement, authorities warn that ignorance will not shield sellers of unregistered proprietary and patient medicines from legal action.
Householders with lemon trees should pick fruit green for curing and store carefully to extend shelf life. expert R J Benton of the Department of Agriculture notes that ripe fruit is unsuitable for long storage and that keeping lemons in boxes in a cool, dark, windless place yields the best results.
Guidance on tank drainage to reduce erosion and silting outlines wide shallow drains, trench protection with stone, and widened confluences. Emphasizes even grades, crownless channels, proper silt tanks, and regular maintenance with simple tools to keep water clean and avoid washouts. A Sydney Department pamphlet offers full details.
The piece notes that 34.2 percent of tenant farmers move yearly with little assurance of continued tenancy, urging social changes and housing improvements to stabilize farming in New South Wales. It cites Europe’s tenancy stability from viewing farming as a life and livelihood, highlighting housing issues and the need for a tenancy regularisation act as a major legislative advance.
Investigations and experience show mixed farming boosts wheat area fertility. Sheep on wheat farms are valuable, and pigs can profitably use low quality grain and graze flattened crops, turning loss into output.
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