AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY
.RESULTS FROM SCIENCE
SYDNEY, May 30
Highly successful results from the application of science to many of the pests which beset the agricultural industry in Australia were claimed by Sir George Julius, when addressing members of the Victorian League Club in Melbourne the other day. Everything pointed to the great necessity Ifor increasing the efficiency of their industries, he said. The dairying country of northern New South Wales was probably the best in the world, yet the return per cow from that source was probably the lowest in the world
The use of superphosphates alone had meant an increase in annual income of about £7,000,000 for Australia.
Experiments had been carried out in Queensland in the supplementary feedof sheep, and results from 300 sheep showed, an increase of 25 per cent, in weight of the fleece a sheep, and 20 to 27 per cent, in the quality. The cost of feeding worked out at only lOd an animal.
In New South Wales rust in wheat was costing £2,000,000 a year and the blowflv post £4,000,000 a year. These nod other problems were engaging the attention of scientists.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19300610.2.66
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 10 June 1930, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
190AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY Hokitika Guardian, 10 June 1930, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in