ADDED WEALTH
AUSTRALIAN AGRKTI/ITRAL
INDUSTRY - ■ i
SYDNEY, May- 30.
! ?;H;iy sOgccxsl'iil results from the apitilii a.L-oii (if -science to many of 'the pests which beset tile agricultural industry in AVistraiia wore claimed by Sir George. ’"Julius, when • addressing members of the'Victoria League Club in Melbourne the other da\. Everything- pointed, to the great necessity for increasing the officio nc> for their industries. h<- said. I ladairying country of northern Non South Wales was probably Hie' host in Hu- world, yet the return a cow from that source was probably the lowestill the world.
The use of superphosphates alone bad meant an increase in annual income of about £7,009,009 for Australia. • .
Kxperiinculs bad been carried out in Queensland in Hie supplementary Feeding of slice,n. and results Irom -100 .beep showed a M increase ol 25 per cent! in weight of the fleece a sheep, and 29 to 27 per cent in the quali-.\. The cost of feeding worked out at oulv 10d an animal. In Xew South. Wales, rust m wheat AV: vs costing 1:2.0-00,000 a year, and the blov-flv.pesL £!,090.090 a year. These and oilier problems were” engaging the ;i't ten lion of si ientists.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1930, Page 6
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