Thawi Bunyaket

Thawi Bunyaket (also spelt "Thawee Bunyaget"; , ; 10 November 1904 – 3 November 1971) was a Thai politician and the prime minister for a short term.
Early life and education.
After studying at the King's College, University of Cambridge and the École nationale supérieure d'Agronomie de Grignon (France), he started to work as a government official at the Ministry of Agriculture.
Political careers.
On 24 June 1932 he joined the coup group of the 1932 coup, the People's Party. He became secretary general in the cabinet of Field Marshal Phibunsongkhram, and Minister of Education in the cabinet of Khuang Abhaiwongse. When Khuang resigned directly after the end of World War II, he was elected as prime minister on 31 August 1945 and formed the 12th Thai administration. However he was only chosen because the preferred candidate Seni Pramoj, chief of the Free Thai Movement, wasn't available. Seventeen days after his election, on 17 September, he resigned to free the post for Seni Pramoj.
Later he became president of the constitutional drafting committee in the government of Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat.


John Donnellan

John F. Donnellan (born 27 March 1937) is an Irish former politician and sportsman. He served as a Fine Gael Teachta Dála (TD) for twenty-five years. He played Gaelic football with his local club Dunmore McHales and with the Galway senior inter-county team in the 1960s.
Early and private life.
John Donnellan was born in Dunmore, County Galway in 1937. He was born into a family that had strong interests in both Gaelic games and Irish politics. His father, Michael Donnellan, had won an All-Ireland medal with Galway in 1925, later becoming a TD for the Clann na Talmhan political party. John Donnellan would go on to follow in his father's footsteps in both of these pursuits. John's son, Michael, would also go on to play football for Galway, winning All-Ireland medals in 1998 and 2001.
Playing career.
Club.
Donnellan played his club football with the Dunmore McHales club in the north of County Galway. He enjoyed much success with the club, beginning in 1961 when he won a senior county championship for the first time. In 1962 Donnellan won a county league medal before claiming a second county championship title in 1963. This last win was later converted into a Connacht club football championship. In 1966 Donnellan's club completed the double of county league and county championship victories. He completed a great run of success by capturing back-to-back county championship and Connacht club titles in 1968 and 1969.
Inter-county.
Donnellan's career as an inter-county footballer began in the late 1950s. He won an All-Ireland title with the Galway junior team in 1958 and he quickly joined the senior side. Two years later in 1960 Donnellan won his first Connacht title, however, Galway were later defeated in the All-Ireland semi-final. Three years later in 1963 he captured a second provincial title; however on that occasion Dublin defeated the men from the west in the All-Ireland final. In 1964 Donnellan was appointed captain of the Galway team. That year he won a third Connacht title before leading his team out in the All-Ireland final against Kerry. Galway were victorious on that day by five points and Donnellan captured his first All-Ireland medal. His moment of triumph was short-lived as, shortly after hoisting the Sam Maguire Cup, he learned that his father Michael had died in the Hogan Stand shortly before the start of the second-half.
In 1965 Donnellan added a fourth provincial medal to his collection. In the subsequent All-Ireland final against Kerry he was sent off but Galway were still victorious, giving Donnellan a second consecutive All-Ireland medal. The following year he won a fifth Connacht Championship title before qualifying for a fourth consecutive All-Ireland final appearance. Galway had a six-point win over Meath thus giving Donnellan a third consecutive All-Ireland medal and establishing that Galway team as one of the greatest of all time. In 1967 he won a Railway Cup medal with Connacht before winning a sixth and final provincial medal in 1968. Donnellan retired from inter-county football shortly after.
Political career.
Donnellan's father Michael died suddenly in September 1964, and at the resulting by-election in December John was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fine Gael TD for the Galway East constituency. He was successful at the next eight general elections, albeit with changes of constituency; to Galway North-East in 1969, back to Galway East in 1977, and - for the last eight years of his Dáil tenure - to Galway West. From 1982 to 1987 Donnellan served as a Minister of State, first at the Departments of Transport and Posts and Telegraphs, and then at the Departments of Health and Social Welfare. He retired from politics at the 1989 general election.


Fred Streeter

Frederick Streeter (25 June 1879 – 1 November 1975) was a British horticulturalist and broadcaster.
Streeter was born in Pulborough, Sussex, England, on 25 June 1879, to farm worker James Streeter and Dinah ("née" Sayers). The family moved to Dorking in Surrey, where he was educated at North Holmwood; and later to Reigate, after which he attended Reigate Grammar School. He left school at twelve years of age. He often had to move around for his gardening work in order to gain experience and promotion. He worked for Veitchs the famous nurserymen in Kings Road, Chelsea, then moved to Straffan, a large estate in Ireland, and from there, in 1901, to Basing Park near Alton as foreman, where he met his wife Hilda, née Burden (1880–1966). He secured his first job as a head gardener in his twenties.
Presenting.
He presented the BBC radio programme "Home Grown", with Roy Hay, that occupied the two o'clock slot on Sunday afternoon that was later occupied by "Gardener's Question Time". He also worked on television.
In 1945, he was awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's Victoria Medal of Honour, its highest award. He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme "Desert Island Discs" on 15 July 1957.
He died on 1 November 1975 at Petworth House Gardens in Petworth, Sussex, his home. His final broadcast, which was prerecorded, was transmitted on the same day.


Kuvasz

The Kuvasz is a traditional Hungarian breed of flock guardian dog. Mention of the breed can be found in old Hungarian texts. They have historically been royal guard dogs, or guarded livestock, but have been increasingly found in homes as pets over the last seventy years.
History.
During the Migration Period and later Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin, numerous nomadic or semi-nomadic tribes moved into the area that is now Hungary. The Principality of Hungary was founded in 895 or 896 AD. The Magyars probably brought sheep and dogs with them, and established a pastoral culture in the Hungarian plains.
In the fifteenth century Matthias Corvinus is believed to have kept large numbers of Kuvasz dogs at his court as guard dogs or hunting dogs, or sometimes as war dogs.
Selective breeding of the Kuvasz as a breed began in the latter part of the nineteenth century, and a breed standard was drawn up. In 1934 it was accepted by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale, which lists the date of full acceptance as 1954.
By the end of World War II, nearly all the Kuvasz dogs in Hungary had been killed. The dogs had such a reputation for protecting their families that they were actively sought and killed by German and Soviet soldiers, while at the same time some German officers used to take Kuvasz dogs home with them. After the Soviet invasion and the end of the war, the breed was nearly extinct in Hungary. After the war, it was revealed that fewer than thirty Kuvasz were left in Hungary and some sources indicate the number may have been as few as twelve. Since then, due to many dedicated breeders, Kuvasz breed have repopulated Hungary. However, as a result of this near extinction, the genetic pool available to breeders was severely restricted and there is conjecture that some may have used other breeds, such as the Great Pyrenees, to continue their programs.
In Romania, a breed-specific legislation specifies that Kuvasz must be muzzled when in public places.
Characteristics.
The Kuvasz is a large and powerful dog: dogs stand some at the withers, with weights in the range ; bitches may stand and weigh .
The coat is white or ivory-white; it is thick and coarse, with a soft undercoat. The skin is slate-grey; the tip of the nose, the lips and the rims of the eyes are black, and the pads of the paws are black or slate-grey.
The head is wedge-shaped; the muzzle is slightly less than half the full length of the head, and the stop is slight. The eyes are almond-shaped, dark brown and slightly slanted.
Although generally a healthy and robust breed which can be expected to live approximately 12–14 years, the Kuvasz is prone to developmental bone problems.


Alaska dairy industry

Dairy is a very small part of the overall agricultural production of the state of Alaska. As of 2020, the state has only one remaining dairy.
History.
From 1869 to 1965, there were over 12 dairies in the agricultural region around Juneau. The farms were operated by people who had come from the lower 48 states as well as by immigrants from Europe.
During the Presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, the federal government sent more than 200 families to the Matanuska Valley to farm, establishing the Matanuska Valley Colony in and around Palmer. Many of these families started dairy operations. In the Matanuska Valley, the Alaska Railroad ran a creamery from 1927 to 1932. In the early 1940's, the establishment of air service into southeast Alaska allowed the direct importation of fresh milk. This made Alaska dairying lose a great deal of its profitability. In 1959, there were 525 dairy farms in the state. From 1964 to 1980, the state's cattle population and milk production decreased. This was partially due to urban pressure from Anchorage on the valley. Milk production value began rising in the early 1970's, and rose over $7 million from 1984 to 1986 (adjusted for inflation). The Trans-Alaska Pipeline was starting to be constructed at this time, and as the value of other farm products rose, it's likely that Alaskans were investing in local industries. In 1988, the dairy industry's receipts represented 21% of all farm receipts in the state.
In 2019, in governor Mike Dunleavy's proposed budget, he eliminated the funding for the state’s only dairy inspector, which would force the closure of the states last commercial dairy- Havemeister Dairy in Palmer, Alaska. Havemeister Dairy is currently operational.


Boronia megastigma

Boronia megastigma, commonly known as brown boronia, sweet-scented boronia or scented boronia, is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a slender, erect shrub with aromatic leaves and flowers, the leaves with three or five leaflets and the flowers cup-shaped, dark brown to purplish black on the outside and yellow inside.
Description.
"Boronia megastigma" is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has slender branches covered with fine, soft hairs. The leaves are sessile with three or five thick, slender, linear leaflets long and strongly aromatic. The flowers are borne singly in leaf axils on a pedicel about long, the flowers cup-shaped, hanging, aromatic and sometimes in large numbers along a flowering branch. The four sepals are very broadly egg-shaped, glabrous and about long. The four petals are more or less round, long, reddish brown to dark brown or purplish black on the outside and yellow inside. Sometimes the petals are also yellow on the outside. There are eight stamens with those near the sepals having a more or less round, dark purple anther about long and sterile. The stamens near the petals have a similar anther but pale yellow and fertile. The stigma is unusually large, dark purple or black with four lobes.
Taxonomy and naming.
"Boronia megastigma" was first formally described in 1848 by Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling and the description was published in Lehmann's book "Plantae Preissianae". The specific epithet ("megastigma") is derived from the Ancient Greek words "mega" meaning "large" or "great" and "stigma", referring to the large stigma of this boronia.
Distribution and habitat.
Brown boronia grows in winter-wet swamps and woodland, mainly in the karri forests and the southern edges of the jarrah forests between Harvey and Cape Riche.
Use in horticulture.
This is one of several species of "Boronia" cultivated for its intense, attractive scent. It is the main "Boronia" source of essential oils, while its relative "Boronia heterophylla" is more often harvested for use as an aromatic cut ornamental. All of the organs of the flower contain oil glands and their activity is greatest while the stigma is receptive to pollen, which suggests that production of scent may serve to attract pollinators such as insects.
There are several cultivated varieties which bear flowers of different colors. The two main aroma compounds of the oil of this species are β-ionone and dodecyl acetate. The oil is used in perfumes and as a food additive that enhances fruit flavors.
Over-exploitation in natural habitat areas of Southwest Western Australia has caused re-examination of over cropping in the wildflower industry.
Plantations and cultivation have occurred in numbers of places outside of the natural habitat.


Paddy Harte

Patrick Harte (26 July 1931 – 8 January 2018) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served for 36 years as Teachta Dála (TD) for Donegal North-East.
Early life and family.
He was born in 1931 in Lifford, County Donegal. His son, Jimmy Harte, is a former Labour Party Senator.
Political career.
He was first elected to the 17th Dáil at the 1961 general election, and re-elected at eleven further general elections. In the 22nd Dáil, from 1981 to 1982, he was Minister of State at the Department of Posts and Telegraphs in Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald's government. In 1989 he was an unsuccessful candidate in the Connacht–Ulster constituency at the elections to the European Parliament. He lost his seat at the 1997 general election to the Independent Fianna Fáil candidate Harry Blaney, and unsuccessfully contested the 1997 elections to Seanad Éireann on the Industrial and Commercial Panel. After this, he retired from politics.
Post-retirement.
After his retirement he was involved in a number of projects, including (along with Glenn Barr) the Messines Island of Ireland Peace Park in West Flanders in Belgium. This park was officially opened in November 1998 by President Mary McAleese, Queen Elizabeth II and King Albert II of Belgium to commemorate all Irishmen who died in World War I.
Harte died the morning of 8 January 2018 at the age of 86.
Awards.
He was appointed an Honorary OBE in October 2006 for his ecumenical works. He received an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the National University of Ireland in September 2007 in recognition of his contribution to politics.
References.


Harms Farm

The Harms Farm in Phillips County, Colorado near Haxtun, Colorado, also known as Gansemer Farm, is a farm which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
It is located about north of Paoli, Colorado.
The farmland was claimed by John A. Nelson under the Timber Culture Act in 1894. It was purchased by William Gansemer in 1917 and it has been in continuous operation since. William eventually sold to his brother Fred. In 2015 it was operated by Duane Harms, Fred Gansemer's great-grandson.


Krisada Boonyarat

Krisada Boonyarat (, born 5 July 1957) is a former Thai civil servant who served as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Interior, and was the Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives in the first cabinet of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha. Chalermchai Sri-on was appointed as his successor.


Pinot Meunier

Pinot Meunier, , also known as Meunier or Schwarzriesling, is a variety of red wine grape most noted for being one of the three main varieties used in the production of Champagne (the other two are the red variety Pinot noir and the white Chardonnay). Until recently, producers in Champagne generally did not acknowledge Pinot Meunier, preferring to emphasise the use of the other noble varieties, but now Pinot Meunier is gaining recognition for the body and richness it contributes to Champagne. Pinot Meunier is approximately one-third of all the grapes planted in Champagne. It is a chimeric mutation of Pinot: its inner cell layers are composed of a Pinot genotype which is close to Pinot noir or Pinot gris; the outer, epidermal, layer is however made up of a mutant, distinctive, genotype. Pinot Meunier was first mentioned in the 16th century, and gets its name and synonyms (French "Meunier" and German "Müller"—both meaning miller) from flour-like dusty white down on the underside of its leaves.
Ampelography.
Pinot Meunier can be identified by ampelographers by its indented leaves that appear downy white, like flour has been dusted liberally on the underside, and lightly on the upper side, of the leaf. The name "Meunier" comes from the French word for miller with many of the grapevine's synonyms (see below) also hearkening to this association—such as "Dusty Miller" which is used in England, "Farineaux" and "Noirin Enfariné" used in France as well as "Müllerrebe" and "Müller-Traube" used in Germany. This characteristic derives from large numbers of fine white hairs on the leaves. However, some clones of Pinot Meunier have been found to be completely hairless—a chimeric mutation, in fact—which has led ampelographers to more closely draw a link between Meunier and Pinot noir.
In research, Paul K. Boss and Mark R. Thomas of the CSIRO Plant Industry and Cooperative Research Centre for Viticulture in Glen Osmond, Australia, found that Pinot Meunier has a mutation ("VvGAI1") that stops it from responding to gibberellic acid, a plant growth hormone. This leads to different, white-haired, leaf and shoot growth, and also to a slight stunting in growth, explaining why Pinot Meunier plants tend to be a bit smaller than Pinot noir. The mutation exist only in the outermost cell layer of the cultivar, the L1 or 'epidermal' layer, meaning Pinot Meunier is a chimera. Through tissue culture, it is thus possible to separate out plants containing both the mutant (L1) and non-mutant (L2) genotypes, yielding a normal Pinot noir -like genotype and an unusual looking L1-genotype vine with compressed internodes and thickly clustered leaves. The mutants could not produce full-grown tendrils, it seems that gibberellic acid converts grapevine flower buds into tendrils.
Wine regions.
Pinot Meunier is one of the most widely planted grapes in France but it is rather obscure to most wine drinkers and will rarely be seen on a wine label. The grape has been favored by vine growers in northern France due to its ability to bud and ripen more reliably than Pinot noir. The vine's tendency to bud later in the growing season and ripen earlier makes it less susceptible to developing coulure which can greatly reduce a prospective crop. For the last couple of centuries, Pinot Meunier has been the most widely planted Champagne grape, accounting for more than 40% of the region's entire plantings. It is most prevalent in the cooler, north facing vineyards of the "Vallee de la Marne" and in the Aisne department. It is also widely grown in the Aube region in vineyards where Pinot noir and Chardonnay would not fully ripen.
Compared to Pinot noir, Pinot Meunier produces lighter colored wines with slightly higher acid levels but can maintain similar sugar and alcohol levels. As part of a standard Champagne blend, Pinot Meunier contributes aromatics and fruity flavors to the wine. Champagnes with a substantial proportion of Pinot Meunier tend not to have as much significant aging potential as Champagnes that are composed primarily of Chardonnay or Pinot noir. It is therefore most commonly used for Champagnes that are intended to be consumed young, when the soft, plushy fruit of the Pinot Meunier is at its peak. A notable exception is the Champagne house of Krug which makes liberal use of Pinot Meunier in its long-lived "prestige cuvee"s.
During the 19th century, Pinot Meunier was widely planted throughout northern France, especially in the Paris Basin. It was found across the northern half of country from the Loire Valley to Lorraine. Today, Pinot Meunier is found outside of Champagne in dwindling quantities in the Loire Valley regions of Touraine and Orleans as well as the Cotes de Toul and Moselle regions. In these regions Pinot Meunier is used to make light bodied reds and rosés. These wines most often fall into the "vin gris" style are characterized by their pale pink color and distinctive smokey notes.
Other regions.
In Germany, Pinot Meunier is used most often to make still red wines under its synonyms Schwarzriesling, Müllerrebe and Müller-Traube. The style of those wines ranges from simple, light, off-dry ("halbtrocken") to rich, dry with substantial flavors. More recently, Schwarzriesling is used also to make dry white wines with a fresh, fruity character. Most German plantings of the variety ( out of , or 74%, in the year 2006) are found in Württemberg. Here it is used to make a local speciality known as "Schillerwein" which is characterized by its light pink color, smokey noted and slightly higher acidity than wines made from Spätburgunder (Pinot noir). Some growers in Württemberg have been promoting a particular clone of Pinot Meunier that has developed in the region known as "Samtrot". Pinot Meunier is also found in significant quantities in the German wine regions of Baden, Franconia and Palatinate. Despite the variety's connection with Champagne, it only recently become popular to use Schwarzriesling in the production of sparkling wines Sekt, often not blended with its Champagne partners but as pure brut Schwarzriesling "Sekt". Pinot Meunier is also grown in the German-speaking parts of Switzerland and in small quantities in Austria.
In California, American sparkling wine producers wishing to emulate the Champagne method began planting Pinot Meunier in the 1980s. Today most of the state's plantings are located in the Carneros AVA. Bouchaine Vineyards, Mumm Napa and Domaine Chandon are a few wineries in the all of the Napa Valley to produce a still Pinot Meunier. In Australia, the grape has had a longer history in Australian wine production than Pinot noir. In the Grampians region of Victoria, Pinot Meunier was known at one time as "Miller's Burgundy" and used to make still red varietal wine. In the late 20th century plantings were starting to decline until a revival of Champagne-style sparkling wine took hold in the 2000s which sparked renewed interest in Pinot Meunier. The New Zealand wine industry has recently discovered Pinot Meunier for both still & sparkling wine production. As a varietal red wine, Pinot Meunier tends to produce slightly jammy, fruity wines with moderate acidity and low tannins.
Possible relationships.
Ferdinand Regner has proposed that Pinot Meunier (Schwarzriesling) is a parent of Pinot noir but this work has not been replicated and would appear to be superseded by the Australian work.
The Wrotham (pronounced "rootum") Pinot is an English selection of Pinot that is sometimes regarded as a synonym of Pinot Meunier. The Wrotham Pinot does look somewhat similar to Meunier, with white hairs on the upper surface of the leaves. But it is particularly resistant to disease, has a higher natural sugar content and ripens two weeks earlier than Meunier. No genetic evidence exists however to prove it is anything other than a distinctively named clone of Pinot Meunier.
Synonyms.
Pinot Meunier is known under various synonyms across the globe including-Auvernat Meunier, Blanc Meunier, Blanche Feuille, Carpinet, Cerny Mancujk, Créedinet, Dusty Miller, Farineux noir, Fernaise, Frésillon, Fromenté, Frühe blaue Müllerrebe, Goujeau, Gris Meunier, Meunier, Meunier Gris, Miller Grape, Miller's Burgundy, Molnár Töke, Molnár Töke Kék, Molnárszölö, Morillon Tacone, Morone Farinaccio, Moucnik, Müllerrebe, Muller-Traube, Noirin Enfariné, Noirien de Vuillapans, Pineau Meunier, Pino Meine, Pinot negro, Plant de Brie, Plant Meunier, Plant Munier, Postitschtraube, Rana Modra Mlinaria, Rana Modra Mlinarica, Resseau, Riesling noir, Sarpinet, Trézillon and Wrotham Pinot.


Lewis P. Featherstone

Lewis Porter Featherstone (July 28, 1851 – March 14, 1922) was a planter and farm activist who served as a Labor Party U.S. Representative from Arkansas.
Biography.
Born in Oxford, Mississippi, Featherstone was the eldest son of Lewis H. and Elizabeth (Porter) Featherstone. He attended the common schools and Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee. He married Alice White in 1874, and the couple had five children.
Career.
Featherstone engaged in planting in Shelby County, Tennessee from 1872 to 1881. He moved to Forrest City in St. Francis County, Arkansas, and continued as a planter.
As a Democratic member, Featherstone served in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1887 and 1888. He was elected president of the Agricultural Wheel (a farmers' organization) in 1887 and reelected in 1888. In 1888, he ran as a Labor Party candidate against Democrat William H. Cate for the Fifty-first Congress; although Cate was initially declared re-elected, Featherstone challenged on the grounds of election fraud. Following the "Featherstone v. Cate" hearings held in the U.S. House of Representatives, Featherstone was seated in Congress in 1890 and served until March 3, 1891. He was an unsuccessful candidate on the Union Labor ticket for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress.
By 1892, constantly under attack for supporting efforts to preserve the right of blacks and poor whites to vote, Featherstone was one of the Union Labor members who joined the Populist Party, and served as platform committee chairman at the state party convention, which adopted a resolution (introduced by a black delegate from the St. Francis County delegation) calling on Arkansas "to elevate the down-trodden sons and daughters of industry in all matters ... irrespective of race or color." Featherstone was the head of the Arkansas delegation to the Populist national convention in Omaha. After the defeat in 1892 of the Arkansas Populists, Featherstone abandoned politics as populism faded, and Arkansas Democrats reasserted their political dominance by means of laws that disenfranchised many black and poor white voters.
Featherstone eventually moved to Galveston, Texas, where he engaged in railroad building and in development of the iron resources of Texas. During the Spanish–American War in 1898, he was commissioned as a first lieutenant, and became captain, in the First United States Volunteer Infantry, a unit mustered out in Galveston that saw no service outside the United States.
Death.
He died in Longview, Texas, on March 14, 1922 (age 70 years, 229 days), and is interred at Mission Burial Park South, San Antonio, Texas.


CountryMinded

CountryMinded was an Australian political party between 2014 and 2018 that claimed to represent the interests of regional Australians whose livelihoods depend either directly or indirectly on agricultural production. The party was founded in December 2014 by a group of people looking for accountable regional representation, including two brothers from New South Wales, David and Peter Mailler as the Country Party of Australia, and changed its name to CountryMinded in September 2015. In 2018, the party merged with the Australian Democrats.
History.
Peter Mailler stood as lead Australian Senate candidate for Katter's Australian Party in New South Wales at the 2013 Australian election and is also a former chair of Grain Producers Australia.
CountryMinded was formed (as the Country Party of Australia) in response to perceived lack of attention to rural issues in the Australian political process, and dissatisfaction with how the National Party represents regional Australians.
The party was registered in time to contest the 2016 federal election. It announced that it had reached the required 500 members in January 2016, and submitted the application for registration on 3 March 2016. Registration was confirmed on 12 April 2016.
On 2 February 2018, the Australian Electoral Commission issued a notice that it was considering deregistering the party on the grounds that it had ceased to have at least 500 members. On 8 May 2018, CountryMinded was deregistered by the Australian Electoral Commission for that reason.
Soon after the party was deregistered, the organisation merged with the Australian Democrats. The merged entity subsequently registered and will field candidates in the 2019 Australian federal election.
Ideology.
The party describes itself as non-aligned, rural, and independent.
CountryMinded is founded on the fundamental importance of agriculture as the key sustainable foundation of regional socioeconomic and political stability, both domestically and abroad for current and future generations. CountryMinded is founded around the idea that the stability and longevity of society has always and will always depend on the sustainability of the agricultural enterprise that supports it, thereby making all societies agricultural by definition.
CountryMinded's ideology and policies are shaped around key ideas such as every member of society is dependent on agriculture and therefore part of the agricultural value matrix and conservation of agricultural lands (including surface and ground water resources) is essential for sustainable agricultural development for both current and future generations.
2015 state elections.
CountryMinded did not contest the 2015 Queensland state election. It endorsed several independent candidates in the 2015 NSW state election as the Country Party of Australia.
In February 2015 the party, though still unregistered, announced Ron Pike, a former National Party member, would run as a Country Party candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Council in the 2015 NSW state election. Three other candidates endorsed by the party stood for the Legislative Assembly, although they were listed as independents on the ballot paper. David Mailler contested the seat of Northern Tablelands, Helen Dalton stood in the seat of Murray, and Paul Funnell, a City of Wagga Wagga councillor, contested the seat of Wagga Wagga. Pike plus 13 others formed a group for the Legislative Council, however a group of 15 is required to have a box for voters to vote "above the line". The candidate descriptions did not claim to represent the Country Party of Australia, but three of the candidates in "Group V" (Ron Pike, Pete Mailler, and Julie Pike) nominated the www.yourcountryparty.info website.
Results.
None of the candidates endorsed by the Country Party were elected. Helen Dalton placed second in Murray with 18.48% of votes to Adrian Piccoli (who had been the member for Murrumbidgee before the redistribution). Piccoli had beaten Dalton for National Party of Australia preselection in May 2014, before Dalton ran as an independent. Paul Funnell was third in Wagga Wagga behind Liberal and Country Labor party candidates. David Mailler was beaten by both the Nationals and Country Labor candidates in Northern Tablelands as well.
2016 Federal election.
CountryMinded fielded two senate candidates and one candidate in the House of Representatives in each of Queensland and New South Wales in the 2016 federal election. David Mailler placed sixth of ten candidates with 1.41% in the Division of New England, and Luke Arbuckle placed seventh of eight candidates with 2.38% in the Division of Maranoa. The senate candidates drew a total of 0.07% of first preferences in New South Wales and 0.10% in Queensland.
Peter Mailler represented the party in the 2017 byelection in New England and placed sixth of 17 candidates with 2.4% of the vote.


Royal Agricultural Society of Western Australia

The Royal Agricultural Society of Western Australia (RASWA) was established 1831 in Western Australia.
It held its first annual agricultural show, the Fair and Cattle Show, at Guildford on 7 November 1834.
The show was moved to the Claremont Showground in 1905, when it became the Perth Royal Show.
In 1907, a range of other agricultural societies merged. Despite the action, separate agricultural societies remain throughout the state.
The RASWA, as it has also been known, has survived substantial change in agriculture and agricultural practices in Western Australia in its history, and was able to celebrate with a history in 2004.


Jin Fo tea

Jin Fo tea (; pronounced ) is a Wuyi Oolong tea, developed at the Wuyi Shan Tea Researching Center located in Fujian Province, China. It is a medium Wuyi Oolong showing both creaminess and a floral aftertaste. The tea leaves have a uniform emerald green colour.


Kent County Show

The Kent County Show is an event hosted annually by the Kent County Agricultural Society at their Kent Showground headquarters at Detling near Maidstone in Kent, England. The event is primarily an agricultural show, showcasing the produce of Kent farmers such as soft fruit, alongside a livestock show and various other attractions such as demonstrations of traditional skills like blacksmithery and displays from the Royal Artillery.
First held in 1929, the show remains the shop window for rural Kent life, attracting around 100,000 visitors each year.
History.
The Kent County Agricultural Society was formed in 1923 with the amalgamation of the Mid Kent and East Kent Show Societies. The Society’s primary objective was to host an annual agricultural show.
This led to the very first Kent County Show being held that year at Wombwell Park in Gravesend. The show was declared by Gravesend's mayor of the time as "the greatest advertisement the town had been privileged to enjoy."
The official programme listed details of a band and smoking concerts with a sports gala and carnival as a Saturday night grand finale. There were 833 livestock entries and 15,000 people turned out to watch the prize cattle, sheep, pigs, and horses take the rosettes.
The first county show turned out not to be profitable and the Society relocated the event to Ashford in 1924. This year marked the first royal attendee when Prince Henry visited to peruse the livestock. This time, the event turned a profit.
In 1927, the county show moved on to Knole Park in Sevenoaks. Up to the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, a three-day Show was held in various parts of the County. In the years immediately preceding WWII it was held at Canterbury before then moving to Mote Park in Maidstone. From 1939 to 1945 it was cancelled as Kent farmers agreed that they needed to focus their energies on producing food for the nation.
After the war the event was restarted. From 1947–1963 two-day shows were held at Mote Park. In 1949 Winston Churchill arrived personally in Maidstone to collect his rosette and cup for breeding the first prize winner in a 'cow in calf' category at his farm in Westerham.
A permanent site, now known as the Kent Showground, was acquired in Detling in time for the 1964 Show. The show has been held annually there ever since.
Other royal visitors have since followed in Prince Henry's footsteps. In 1973 Princess Anne paid a visit. At the 50th anniversary of the show in 1979, another Duke of Gloucester, Prince Richard, cut the ribbon and for the diamond anniversary the Queen herself saw the agricultural pride of Kent with the Duke of Edinburgh.
In 2004, the Duke of Kent enjoyed the newly built Kent pavilion to celebrate the 75th anniversary.
The 2009 show saw Prince Edward and the Countess of Wessex visit to salute the 80th holding of the show.
In 2012, over 25,000 visitors were expected each day, but for the first time since 1964, the show was closed by bad weather - mainly severe rain over the preceding weeks. The first day of the show was closed due to the difficulty in getting vehicles into the car parks, after 8,000 visitors had been admitted. A similar situation allowed only 9,000 on the second day, despite over 400 tonnes of bark chippings being used to try to keep roads and entrances open. The third day, Sunday 15 July, was open only to those with pre-booked tickets.
The Kent County Show 2013 took place from 12-14 July 2013. New areas including a Canine Area hosted by the Kennel Club and a Country and Game Area hosted by the CLA were introduced. The Show enjoyed excellent weather, but many stands were missing after the poor weather of the previous year.
In July 2015 the show was featured on the BBC One programme "Countryfile".


Ricotta forte

Ricotta forte (strong ricotta) is a very traditional soft cheese of Basilicata and Apulia, in southeastern Italy. It is creamy, spicy and a little bitter.
Its preparation is similar to the Greek cheese called "kopanisti": the milk is fermented by bacteria and yeast which contribute to the spicy tasty and to the very intense aroma. The aroma is similar to the long-seasoned pecorino.
This cheese is typically used on pasta to make the tomato sauce tastier or on the bread with anchovies or in the traditionali fried "panzerotti""."
It has been recognised by the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies as a Lucanian and Apulian traditional food product (PAT Prodotto agroalimentare tradizionale).


English barn

The English barn, or three bay barn, is a barn style that was most popular in the northeast region of the USA, but are the most widespread barn type in America. This barn type is, with the New World Dutch barn the oldest type and has been called the "...grandfather of the American barn." New barns in this style were constructed for over a century, from the 1770s through the 1900s.
Design.
The early pioneers brought with them a barn design inherited from the first colonists. An average English barn measured thirty feet by forty feet and had a large double wagon door on its lateral side and unpainted vertical boards covering the walls. English barns were normally without a basement and stood on level ground. The interior of the barns were characterized by a center driveway which acted as a threshing floor, similar to the breezeway of a crib barn. The double doors generally opened onto the center drive which divided the building into two separate areas, one for hay and grain storage and the other for livestock.


Charles W. Gurney

Charles W. Gurney (May 13, 1840 – March 25, 1913) was an American businessman who founded Gurney's Seed and Nursery Company, an important seed supplier.
Biography.
Gurney was born in Massachusetts, and moved to Iowa about 1852. During the American Civil War, he enlisted in the Union army, serving with the 3rd Iowa Infantry, and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel.
After the war, he opened his first nursery, Hesperian Nurseries, in 1866 in Monticello, Iowa. The business remained in Monticello until 1882, when the business was moved to Dixon County, Nebraska. After realizing the trade potential in towns near rivers, Gurney moved Hesperian Nurseries to Yankton, South Dakota, in 1897.
Gurney's seven sons were very involved in the family seed business. In 1906, C. W. Gurney incorporated the nursery as Gurney's Seed and Nursery Company, with his sons and a nephew as partners. The company listed products on a generic price list for mailing purposes. In 1910, Gurney's published its first large seed and nursery catalog with a full-color cover.
Charles W. Gurney died in Yankton on March 25, 1913.
Legacy.
After his death, his sons and nephew continued the seed and nursery business. In 1919, Gurney's son Deloss Butler Gurney ("D.B.") became head. The company diversified and grew quickly. By 1924, Gurney's Seed was one of the largest in the world, receiving orders from 46 of the 48 states and many foreign countries.
Charles Gurney's grandson, John Chandler Gurney (son of D.B.), was U.S. Senator from South Dakota from 1939 to 1951.


Dairy Farmers, Inc

Dairy Farmers, Inc. (DFI) is Florida’s milk promotion organization, enhancing the industry's image and increasing milk and dairy product sales statewide via marketing and education.
Related links.
Official Website
National Dairy Council Website


Domaine Coche-Dury

Domaine Coche-Dury is a French wine grower and producer. It is based in Meursault, in the Côte de Beaune wine region of Burgundy, France.
History.
The domaine was established in the 1920s by Léon Coche. Some vineyard plots with established grapevines were purchased and Léon bottled some wine himself as well as selling grapes to local negociants to bottle.
The vineyard land was passed down to Léon's three children, with Georges Coche taking control of his share in 1964 and continuing to run the estate and purchase new vineyard land.
Jean-François Coche took over from his father Georges, on his fathers retirement in 1973. Jean-François's wife has the surname Dury which was added to the name of the estate.
In July 1998, Coche-Dury suffered damage to ten rows of its vines in Grand cru vineyard Corton-Charlemagne, after a helicopter spraying a neighboring parcel crashed.
In 1999 Jean-François was joined full-time by his son Raphaël Coche after Raphaël finished studying viticulture and oenology. Raphaël took over the winemaking role at the estate in 2010 with his fathers retirement.
Wines.
Coche-Dury cultivates around 9 hectares of vineyards and produces around 3,500 cases of estate bottled wine each year depending on the vintage conditions. The vineyards are planted with Aligoté, Chardonnay and Pinot noir grapevines. 70% of the harvested grapes are used by the domaine, with the remainder being sold to negociants including Louis Latour and Louis Jadot.
The domaine is best known for its white wines made from Chardonnay, with wine critics Clive Coates saying "This is one of the finest white wine domaines in the world" and describing Jean-François as "one of the superstars of white Burgundy", Robert M. Parker, Jr. saying "J.F. Coche-Dury is universally regarded as one of the five or six best white-wine makers in Burgundy", and Jancis Robinson noting that the estate is in her opinion "certainly the most reliable source of great white Burgundies".
The white wine Chardonnay vineyards cultivated by the estate include 0.34 hectares of Grand cru vineyard Corton-Charlemagne which was acquired in 1986 and three holdings of Premier Cru vineyards in Meursault with 0.5 acres in Perriéres, 0.18 acres in Caillerets and 0.21 acres in Genevriéres. Village classified vineyard holdings consist of 0.13 acres of Chevalières and 0.73 acres of Rougeots, both in Meursault, plus half an acre of the Puligny-Montrachet based Enseignières vineyard acquired in 1985.
In 2012, the domain acquired the previous hired Grand cru vineyard Corton-Charlemagne and doubled the surface whereof half of the plot is owned by the domain and the other half hired. Production will start in 2013.
A number of red wines are produced from Pinot noir grapes, vineyard holdings include 0.5 acres of Auxey-Duresses, 0.28 hectares of Monthelie, until 2012 0.34 hectares of Pommard Vaumuriens (then sold) and 0.39 acres of a Premier cru Volnay which is usually blended together but in 1999 was split into Clos des Chênes and Taillepieds specific bottlings.


Spanish goat

The Spanish goat, also called the brush goat or scrub goat, came originally from Spain via Mexico to the USA. It is now a meat and brush-clearing type found widely in the United States. In the Southeast and elsewhere, they are often referred to as "wood" (Florida), "brush" or "briar" (North Carolina, South Carolina), "hill" (Virginia), and "scrub" (midwest Pennsylvania) goats. Until recently, these goats were kept mainly for clearing brush and other undesirable plant species from pasture lands. The boer goats have overtaken Spanish goats for meat in the 1980s.
History.
Around the 16th century, Spanish explorers brought landrace goats from their native lands to the Caribbean Islands and areas that would later become the United States and Mexico. Some landrace Spanish goats exist in their native territory of Spain but survive through the bloodlines brought to the New World.
Spanish goats are hardy and can thrive in difficult environments. Pure Spanish goats have been crossbred with imported goat breeds for cashmere and meat production. Most crossbred goats show a “superb hybrid vigor.” However, due to the amount of crossbreeding, Spanish goats are threatened, and appear on the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy watch list.
Characteristics.
The Spanish goat has the ability to breed out of season, and is an excellent range animal because of its small udder and teats. In addition, Spanish goats are very hardy, able to survive and thrive under adverse agroclimatic conditions, with only limited management inputs. Within the general group of what are called "Spanish goats," there are those that are purely of Spanish origins, but the term has been used to represent an amalgam of all genotypes introduced to the area. There have been obvious infusions of dairy and Angora blood in many "Spanish" herds, but no organized attempt has ever been made to use them for milk or mohair production.
In recent years, the escalating demand for goat meat has focused research into the qualities of the Spanish goat as a meat goat. Spanish goats have shown excellent hardiness and have shown themselves to be a low-input goat compared to other meat breeds.
Several Spanish goat producers in Texas have been intensively selecting for increased meat production for the past several years. From information obtained from these producers, these "selected" Spanish goats appear to greatly outperform the ordinary Spanish goat used primarily for pasture maintenance.
Conservation status.
When Boer goats were introduced into the United States from South Africa in the 1990s, many producers switched from raising Spanish goats to raising Boer or Boer crosses, which greatly reduced the population of Spanish goats. In 2009, there were approximately 8,500 purebred Spanish goats nationwide. They are now held to be a conservation priority by the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy, and in 2007 the Spanish Goat Association was organized to help conserve this breed.
Today, fieldwork has been able to identify various strains of purebred Spanish goats. This fieldwork has been helpful in describing the different bloodlines and encourages development of a formal network of breeders. The ALBC is still locating populations of the Spanish goats and trying to work to preserve those strains. Recently there was an effort to preserve a strain found on an island off the coast of South Carolina. This strain is one of two strains known to exist in the Southeast.


Joseph Jenkins

Joseph Jenkins (27 February 1818 – 26 September 1898), was an educated tenant farmer from Tregaron, Ceredigion, mid-Wales who, when aged over 50, suddenly deserted his home and large family to seek his fortune in Australia. The "Australian Dictionary of Biography" says that "Jenkins's noteworthiness stemmed from the rich documentation of his experiences and thoughts that has survived". He was a consistent diarist for 58 years of his life and a consistent if not outstanding poet, under the bardic name of Amnon II.
He achieved fame posthumously from publication of some excerpts of his Australian writings.
The compiler, his grandson Dr William Evans, a Harley Street cardiologist, coined the title "Diary of a Welsh Swagman" by which name he is familiar to generations of Victorian school students for whom the book became a prescribed history text in 1978.
Early life and education.
Joseph Jenkins was born at Blaenplwyf farm near Ystrad Aeron in Ceredigion, Wales. He was the fourth child of 12 brought up by Jenkin Jenkins and Eleanor (née Davies). In 1846 he married his second cousin Elisabeth (Betty) Evans of Tynant. They purchased the lease of Trecefel farm, Tregaron and had nine children, the last of whom, John David, was born in April 1868.
He commenced education under a disciplinarian private tutor and later attended a small Unitarian church school at Cribyn, a five-mile walk from home. Throughout his life, Joseph bewailed his lack of more formal education. However, his thirst for knowledge, religious temperament and passion for reading and writing proved a firm basis for continuing self-education.
Agricultural skills.
Under his management, Trecefel won many prizes in agricultural shows and its cattle fetched top prices in the market. In 1851, it was judged to be the best farm in the county. In 1861, Joseph was appointed to adjudicate the same competition.
Joseph Jenkins favoured the rotation system of growing crops, spoke against deep ploughing, favoured thorough harrowing, and was a strong advocate of the virtue of feeding the soil with farmyard manure. In his writings appearing in farming journals, he emphasised the importance of harvesting young hay, and preparing lucerne and clover crops to provide fodder for cattle during a severe and prolonged frost in winter and periods of drought in summer. . .
Diaries.
Joseph Jenkins consistently maintained a diary of daily events for 58 years. Though he was a native Welsh speaker, he penned the diaries in English as an aid to self-education. His biographer, Bethan Phillips, wrote in her foreword:
. . . The diaries reveal him as a man seeking to exorcise his own demons by attempting to escape from them, but they also reveal him as an astute observer of the people and occurrences impacting upon his own eventful life. His dogged determination in keeping a daily journal, often under the most difficult of circumstances and in the most unpropitious surroundings, has given us a uniquely valuable historical record of life in the nineteenth century.
Wales.
The first entry was on New Year's Day, 1839. Though he continued to record each day, much of the early record has been lost. The earliest complete year extant is 1845. Manuscripts for the years 1839–1868 and 1895–1898 (when he lived in Wales) are held by the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, together with his shipboard diary of the voyage from Liverpool to Melbourne.
Australia.
The Australian diaries which were acquired in 1997 by the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, cover the years 1869–1894.
Joseph Jenkins disembarked from the iron-hulled schooner "Eurynome" at the Melbourne port of Hobson's Bay on 12 March 1869. The "Eurynome" was an 1163-ton sailing vessel transporting casks of beer to Australia on the clipper route, with 12 passengers in a first-class saloon and 21 (including Joseph) who paid a much lower price to share frugal and unhygienic steerage accommodation on the voyage of 140 days, including three terrifying weeks of gales in the Roaring Forties.
The following month's diary shows him carrying his swag, pessimistically prospecting and offering rural labour in and around the goldfields town of Castlemaine where he found many fellow Welshmen. He rarely left this vicinity except to attend the annual St David's Day "eisteddfod" at Ballarat where, on thirteen consecutive occasions, he was awarded the premier prize for an "englyn" (Welsh verse form).
Joseph obtained regular employment in 1884 as a cleaner of streets and drains in the town of Maldon, a few miles north from Castlemaine. He remained there working until he reached the age of 76 and became homesick for Wales. Having saved the fare, he departed Maldon by rail on 23 November 1894, and embarked on the "ss Ophir" which docked at Tilbury docks on 5 January 1895. In 1994 a water drinking fountain and a plaque were erected at Maldon railway station to recognise the centenary of Joseph Jenkins's departure and his unique record of the life of a rural worker in Victoria. His own words were cited: "Through this [diary] I am building. . . my own monument" (pictured at right).
Return and controversy.
On returning to Wales, he entrusted the diaries to his daughter Elinor (Nell) who stored them in the attic of her home, Tyndomen farm, near Tregaron. They came to light some 70 years later when a great-granddaughter, Frances Evans, recovered and protected them, permitting her uncle, Dr William Evans to read and edit the contents. Destruction of the diaries had been favoured by some family members who were concerned by their potential to arouse adverse reflection on reputations, especially that of Joseph's wife, Betty, whose alleged infidelity and at least one specific physical assault on him by her and others: "[26 May 1868] . . . my ribs and breastbone were fractured . . . I have an ugly black eye with about a dozen other different wounds". were consistently blamed by him as the cause of his leaving home. However, no conclusive evidence has emerged that Betty was other than a loyal and capable wife—and one who may herself have had good reason to find fault with Joseph's own personality and behaviour. E.g., in "Pity the Swagman", Bethan Phillips argues that Joseph drank excessively while at home, though he generally abstained in Australia, and that he became disliked by neighbours for actively supporting landowners and their politicians at a time when they were oppressing many tenant-farmers–who were consequently promoting liberal candidates.
Historical studies.
In 1904 a body of information with a photograph of Joseph and a selection of his poetry in Welsh was included in the book "Cerddi Cerngoch" by Daniel Jenkins and David Lewis. (The title is Welsh for 'Poems of Redcheek'—the bardic name of Joseph's brother John—but the book also records writings of several other distinguished family members.) Most of the book is printed in the Welsh language but some prefatory pages are in English.
In 1998, Dr Bethan Phillips of Lampeter, having devoted many years to the project, including a visit to Australia, published her extensively researched account in Welsh: "Rhwng Dau Fyd: Y Swagman O Geredigion", followed in 2002 by "Pity the Swagman—The Australian Odyssey of a Victorian Diarist".


Mary Valley Railway Cream Sheds

Mary Valley Railway Cream Sheds are heritage-listed sheds at Kandanga railway station, Amamoor railway station and Melawondi railway station, all of them on the Mary Valley Branch Railway, Mary Valley, Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Queensland Railways and built by Queensland Railways. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 14 October 2011.
History.
The Mary Valley branch railway cream sheds, located at Amamoor railway station (), Kandanga and Melawondi, were built between the 1920s and 1940s by Queensland Railways, in response to the strong growth of dairying in one of Queensland's most important dairy producing regions and the reliance on rail to transport dairy produce during this period.
The gradual opening of large pastoral holdings of Amamoor, Imbil and Traveston (established 1850s) in the Upper Mary River Valley for closer settlement from the late 1870s was a catalyst for the development of small cropping and dairying activities in the region. The changing patterns of land use and settlement in the Mary Valley occurred while nearby Gympie evolved from its beginnings as a makeshift settlement and alluvial field in late 1867 into an important regional town and major deep reef gold producer by the 1880s. The town provided a ready market for the growing number of agricultural producers in the surrounding district. In the Mary Valley, maize and potatoes were the dominant early crops, although experimental plantings of tobacco, rice, sugar cane, peas and pineapples were also undertaken.
From the late 1800s, a number of critical factors aided the expansion of the dairy industry into one of Queensland's principal primary industries by the interwar period. These included: the introduction of mechanical cream separators in the 1880s; Babcock testing to accurately measure cream content in milk; The Meat and Dairy Encouragement Act 1893 which made provision for government loans to construct butter and cheese factories; and the Department of Agriculture and Stock's use of a "Travelling Dairy" to demonstrate techniques and equipment to potential dairy farmers throughout Queensland. The introduction of pastures such as paspalum and Rhodes grass and the increased cultivation of fodder also occurred, to improve milk yields and to provide adequate feed during the less productive months of winter.
Hugo Du Rietz, a Swedish born architect, made an important contribution to the development of the dairy industry in the Gympie district by his introduction of the first mechanical cream separator into Queensland in 1882. The Queensland government's travelling dairy visited Lagoon Pocket, in the Mary Valley, in September 1890. By 1894 there were 120 dairies in the Gympie Land Agent's district, although most production was milk for town supply. In the Mary Valley, Frank Chippindall was transporting butter produced by local settlers into Gympie around 1885–1886, as was Peter Meyers in 1893.
By the early 1900s co-operatives were becoming the dominant form of ownership of cheese and butter factories, a pattern that defined the Queensland dairy industry for much of the 20th century. In 1897, Gympie's first dairy co-operative for butter production, the Gympie Central Dairying Company was established. By 1897 the Silverwood Dairying Company had taken over the factory and in 1906 the Wide Bay Co-Operative purchased the operations. In the year ending 30 June 1907 there were 322 suppliers to the Wide Bay Company, who were paid a total of for their cream. Metal cans containing the cream produced by dairy farms surrounding Gympie was carted into the Wide Bay Co-operative's factory by contractors. In the Mary Valley, some cream was also sent from the Traveston railway station on the North Coast railway line to butter factories further south.
At the beginning of the twentieth century the Queensland government was promoting the construction of branch railways in rural areas to assist growth in population and agricultural production. In the 1880s a Mary Valley route had been among the proposals for the line from Brisbane to Gympie, but was rejected. Local agitation for a Mary Valley branch railway (with varying proposals for the route's alignment) increased during the 1900s. The Railway Commissioner investigated and surveyed a proposed line for the Mary Valley in 1910, with the accompanying report contending "considerable traffic in agricultural produce, timber, livestock and dairy products" would eventuate. Subsequently, a route deviating from the North Coast line at Monkland (south of Gympie) and extending to Brooloo was approved, a decision aided by the availability of timber for freight and construction, and Gympie City Council's offer to fund one third of construction costs. Work commenced in June 1911 and by 1913, 550 men were working on the project. The line reached Kandanga in February 1914 and the terminus of Brooloo in April 1915, the month the whole line was officially opened for passenger and goods traffic. Along the line, subdivisions of a number of larger holdings into farm and town allotments near rail stops increased the availability agricultural land for settlers and led to the establishment of small townships at Kandanga (1912), Brooloo, Imbil and Amamoor (1914) and Dagun (1917).
While timber freight was initially the main income generator for the Mary Valley Railway, cream was transported on the line from its very beginnings. Transportation by rail was a far more efficient way of delivering cream to butter factories, with contractors and individual farmers able to deliver their cream direct to the nearest railhead. Following delivery and washing of the cans at the factory, they were returned by rail, with each can inscribed with the name of its owner for identification.
In its first four weeks of operations following the opening of its station in 1914, two tons of cream was sent from Kandanga. After the disruption of World War I, dairying and agricultural activity increased rapidly, with a corresponding increase in the transportation of produce on the railway. In 1921 there were 93 dairies located between Dagun and Brooloo, milking 2,900 cows (an average herd size of 31) and producing of cream. In October of that year, a combined total of around 350 cans were sent from Kandanga and Imbil railway stations each week. In January 1922, of cream, equal to around of butter, was sent to the Wide Bay Co-operative Factory at Gympie from suppliers between Brooloo and Amamoor.
The expansion of dairy production during the early twentieth century led to the construction of cream sheds by Queensland Railways at stations and sidings throughout the state. Cream sheds were built to a standard design; measuring , clad and lined with horizontal hardwood boards separated by open spaces, with the interior boards offset to cover the outside spaces. The spacing of the boards improved air circulation, resulting in a cooler storage space, reducing the risk of the cream spoiling before reaching the butter factory. Double doors opened out to platforms on either side of the shed for placement and retrieval of cream cans. Sheds were set on low stumps and were sheltered by a gabled roof.
By 1921, the heavy handling needed to load cream cans and their exposure to heat at Kandanga station was noted. The Railway Commissioner's inspection of the Mary Valley Railway in late 1924, noted the ongoing increase in "cream traffic" along the line and the arduous work involved for guards who were lifting the cans from platforms on rail level. The Commissioner agreed to cream sheds being provided at Amamoor and Dagun stations and Lagoon Pocket siding. The construction of the cream shed at Amamoor as well as a shed at Imbil was approved in February 1925 at a cost of and respectively. The following month the cream shed at the Lagoon Pocket siding was approved at a cost of . A shed at Dawn siding was built sometime after this date and a shed at Melawondi was built in 1946.
The provision of cream sheds along the length of the line demonstrated the extent and expansion of dairying in the Mary Valley. Cream supply was generally at its highest during the wetter summer months and this was when cream sheds were most heavily used. The lower output that occurred during winter is reflected in the returns for the week ending 24 August 1931, when 207 cream cans were forwarded to Gympie and 11 cans were sent to Pomona from Kandanga, Imbil, Amamoor and Dagun. The Mary River was subject to serious flooding during the wet season and the railway crossing near the Dawn often became impassable. The importance of cream freight was evident on these occasions, with a special train organised to pick up cans from the cream sheds until it reached the river crossing, from where the Wide Bay Co-op boat would ferry the supplies over the river.
The interwar period saw the dairy industry expand greatly in Queensland. Between 1927 and 1937 the total number of dairy cattle rose by 50 per cent. Dairying was geographically Queensland's most widespread agricultural industry in the 1930s and the state's second most profitable export industry from 1936 to 1941, accounting for 20 per cent of primary production. By the late 1930s, around one in eight Queenslanders were living on dairy farms.
The rapid increase in production in the Mary Valley during the interwar period made a significant contribution to the Gympie region's status as one of Queensland's top dairy producing areas. In response to increased cream supply outgrowing production capacity, the Wide Bay Co-Operative built what was claimed as Australia's largest butter factory in 1925, and was receiving cream from 2,000 suppliers by 1935. By 1927 the Gympie district was responsible for 10 per cent of Queensland's milk production, the majority of which was used for butter making. In 1937 the Petty Sessions District of Gympie was Queensland's largest milk and butter producer, with the greatest number of dairy cattle in milk. By 1939 the 12 butter factories in the Wide Bay-Burnett region (not including Cooroy), produced almost a third of Queensland's butter. In the same year, 4,500 cream cans were forwarded from Kandanga alone.
In 1952 the Gympie district produced 15 per cent of Queensland's butter, and 1953 was the Wide Bay Co-Operative's record year for payment to its suppliers. However, a downturn began in the 1950s, which reflected changes occurring across the industry in Queensland. Butter consumption per capita in Australia dropped from to between 1957 and 1972, and a major butter market was lost when Britain joined the European Economic Community in the early 1970s. The transition towards the production of milk rather than cream, requiring larger herds and new equipment, saw many smaller scale farmers leaving the industry or switching to beef cattle. Tougher regulations for the running of dairies, lower prices, foreign imports and competition from margarine producers all took their toll. Between 1973 and 1976, 28 per cent of the Wide Bay Co-op's farmers left the industry. As milk production increased, farm storage in vats and road transportation by tankers became the norm. The last delivery of dairy produce to Wide Bay Co-op's Gympie factory in a can (from Miva, west of Gympie) occurred in 1973 and the last butter was churned in May 1978, ending nearly 80 years of production at the site.
The decline of cream production and the realignment of transport arrangements for dairy producers saw the removal of some cream sheds on the Mary Valley railway, while those that remained were used for storage. The cream shed at Lagoon Pocket was removed in 1965 and at Dawn in 1968. In 1963 Dagun's cream shed was incorporated into the north corner of the goods sheds (erected 1938). At least one other example of a combined goods and cream shed is known to have been built in Queensland – at The Summit (near Stanthorpe).
While fruit freight (predominantly pineapples) continued to be transported on the Mary Valley railway following the demise of cream production, the line became increasingly unprofitable during the 1970s. By the late 1980s, the future of the line was increasingly precarious. In 1988 station masters/mistresses were removed from Imbil, Amamoor and Dagun and a number of railway buildings such as goods sheds, waiting sheds and residences were sold for removal. Queensland Railways opted to retain the cream sheds at Kandanga, Amamoor, Melawondi Dagun and Imbil (later removed) for storage purposes.
The reduction of infrastructure and services on the railway made it increasingly apparent that the line was to close. Strong protests by the district's pineapple growers helped to delay any final decision on the line's future. The last goods train ran to Kandanga in 1995 and thereafter pineapple growers took their produce to Traveston station on the Brisbane-Gympie North line. The line however, was not formally closed and in 1996 the Mary Valley Heritage Railway Board negotiated to conduct tourist train services on the line. The Mary Valley Heritage Railway commenced operations on the former Mary Valley branch on 23 May 1998. The "Valley Rattler" steam train tours and rail motor rides have since become a major tourist attraction for the region. A large group of volunteers and trainees contribute to the operation and maintenance of the line, rolling stock and buildings between the (former) Gympie Railway Station and Imbil. The cream sheds at Melawondi, Kandanga and Amamoor remain as evidence of the growth and economic importance of the dairy industry to the Mary Valley during the twentieth century.
Description.
Amamoor.
The railway cream shed sits within the southern end of the Amamoor railway station yard, facing west adjacent to the Mary Valley branch railway line. The cream shed is a square timber structure, set on low timber stumps and sheltered by a gabled corrugated iron roof. The shed is timber framed and is clad and lined with horizontal hardwood boards separated by open spaces, with the interior boards offset to cover the outside spaces. Double timber doors open out to towards the timber platforms on either side of the shed. A set of low timber steps with a concrete block base lead up to the northern end of the platform facing the railway. A guard log is positioned in front of the northern elevation. The recent mural adorning the external timber boards of the shed is not of heritage significance.
Kandanga.
The railway cream shed is located within the Kandanga railway yard. The building sits to the west of the station building, facing north adjacent to the Mary Valley branch railway line. The cream shed is a square timber structure, set on low timber stumps and sheltered by a gabled corrugated fibro roof. The shed is timber framed and is clad and lined with horizontal hardwood boards separated by open spaces, with the interior boards offset to cover the outside spaces. A number of (readily reversible) metal panels and shelves have been mounted internally for storage purposes. Double timber doors open out towards the timber platforms on either side of the shed. A set of low timber steps lead up to the eastern end of the platform facing the railway. The front platform extends to the west onto an earth loading bank retained with horizontal timber boards and vertical steel posts. The recent mural adorning the external timber boards of the shed is not of heritage significance.
Melawondi.
The railway cream shed is located within the Melawondi railway yard facing east adjacent to the Mary Valley branch railway line, and is the only remaining structure within the yard. The cream shed is a square timber structure, set on low timber and concrete stumps and sheltered by a gabled corrugated iron roof. The shed is timber framed and is clad and lined with horizontal hardwood boards separated by open spaces, with the interior boards offset to cover the outside spaces. Double timber doors open out to towards the timber platforms on either side of the shed. The front platform is missing some timber boards.
Heritage listing.
Mary Valley Railway Cream Sheds was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 14 October 2011 having satisfied the following criteria.
The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history.
The Mary Valley railway cream sheds are important in demonstrating the growth of the dairy industry in the Wide Bay-Burnett, one of Queensland's most important dairy producing regions during the twentieth century. The construction of the branch railway (1911–1915) and the associated increase in closer settlement in the Mary Valley was a catalyst for the expansion of dairying in the district. The provision of cream sheds along the length of the line during the 1920s to 1940s demonstrates the extent of this expansion. More widely, the cream sheds illustrate the historical importance and role of railways in transporting dairy produce in Queensland.
The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.
The highly intact Amamoor, Kandanga and Melawondi cream sheds demonstrate the principal characteristics of railway cream sheds built alongside Queensland railway lines to facilitate the transport of dairy produce during the twentieth century. Located adjacent to the railway line in station yards and built to a standard design, the small square sheds are clad and lined with horizontal hardwood boards separated by open spaces on both the interior and exterior, with those on the interior offset to cover the spaces on the exterior. The boards are spaced to improve air circulation, resulting in a cooler internal storage area. The sheds stand on low stumps, are sheltered by gabled roofs and have double doors that open out to platforms on either side of the shed for placement and retrieval of cream cans.


Ballarat Show

The Ballarat Show is an annual event held at the Ballarat Showgrounds run by the Ballarat Agricultural and Pastoral Society.
Established in 1887, the Ballarat Show is principally an agricultural event which focuses on the primary industries of Victoria, and rural lifestyle of many Tasmanians with events such as livestock judging, equestrian events, animal breeders competitions, produce competitions and wood chopping, although it also incorporates live entertainment, sporting events, food tasting, and fashion shows. A popular feature of the show is the sideshows which feature showrides, foodstalls, games of skill, and showbag stalls.
The show runs for three days, Friday through to Sunday, ending on the second Saturday in October. The Friday is a public holiday in the City of Ballarat, Hepburn Shire and selected regions in the Golden Plains Shire, known as Show Day. The Saturday is known as family day and usually involves many discounts and savings on showbags and rides from the other days.
Like its southern counterpart, the Royal Melbourne Show, over recent years the event has shifted towards more of a carnival atmosphere than its previously more agrarian focus.
No show was held between 1915–18, 1940–44 nor 2020.


Chiquitano dry forests

The Chiquitano dry forests is a tropical dry broadleaf forest ecoregion in Bolivia and Brazil. The ecoregion is named for the Chiquitano people who live in the region.
Setting.
The Chiquitano dry forests cover an area of . The ecoregion lies east of the Andes in the lowlands of eastern Bolivia and the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Rondônia.
The World Wildlife Fund includes the Chiquitano dry forests in the Amazon biome.
The ecoregion adjoins the Dry Chaco ecoregion to the south and the Pantanal ecoregion to the southeast.
To the northeast it blends into the Cerrado ecoregion.
To the northwest it adjoins the Madeira-Tapajós moist forests and Southwest Amazon moist forests ecoregions.
Climate.
The climate of the Chiquitano dry forests is tropical, with a strong dry season during the southern hemisphere winter.
Flora.
There are several common plant communities, or associations, which vary in structure and characteristic species. The forests of the region are adapted to the strong seasonal variation in rainfall, including wet-season flooding and dry-season fires. Many trees are deciduous, losing their leaves during the winter dry season, Deciduousness is more common in the semi-arid south.
The soto/curupaú association includes the trees soto ("Schinopsis brasiliensis"), curupaú ("Anadenanthera macrocarpa"), momoqui ("Caesalpinia pluviosa"), morado ("Machaerium scleroxylon"), roble ("Amburana cearensis"), and cedro ("Cedrela fissilis"). This association is found on well-drained soils. Trees form a canopy averaging 20 meters in height with emergent trees up to 30 meters. The canopy is 80% closed, and there is an understory of shrubs and herbs. Emergent soto trees are some of the largest in the forest, reaching up to 35 meters in height and living up to 500 years.
In the cuchi/curupaú association, either curupaú ("Anadenanthera macrocarpa") or cuchi ("Astronium urundeuva") predominates. It grows on well-drained but nutrient-poor soils, including rocky mountain slopes and sandy lowland soils. The canopy varies from 10 to 15 meters in height and is 65% closed, with emergent trees up to 25 meters high.
The cuta/ajo-ajo association is predominantly cuta ("Phyllostylon rhamnoides") and ajo-ajo ("Gallesia integrifolia"). This association is found on seasonally-flooded soils near streams.
The tajibo/tusequi association is of Tajibo ("Tabebuia heptaphylla") and tusequi ("Machaerium hirtum"). It forms patches of forest on low rises (half a meter to a meter) surrounded by open savanna.
The ecoregion also has areas of grassy savanna similar to the Cerrado savannas further east.
Fauna.
The ecoregion has 42 species of mammals, including marsh deer ("Blastocerus dichotomus"), white-lipped peccary ("Tayassu pecari"), and the rodent Goodfellow's tuco-tuco ("Ctenomys goodfellowi").
Conservation and protected areas.
During the period from 2004 to 2011 the ecoregion experienced an annual rate of habitat loss of 0.62%.
In response to indigenous demands for control over their home territories, the Bolivian government issued a decree in 1990 designating indigenous territories in the lowlands, and acknowledging the rights of indigenous peoples to collectively govern those territories. A 1993 agrarian reform law acknowledged indigenous communities' collective land ownership and formalized Native Community Lands (called "Tierras Comunitarias de Origen" , or TCOs) as the vehicle for ownership, and the 1995 constitutional reform further guaranteed the rights of indigenous peoples to Native Community Lands. Portions of the dry forests are within TCOs. A 1996 reform of Bolivia's forestry law required forest management plans and forest inventories, established harvest limits, and guaranteed the rights of indigenous communities to manage timber harvesting on forest lands within TCOs, and to engage in customary forms of forest product harvesting without central government approval.
From August to November 2019, fires burned 1.4 million hectares of the dry forests, an estimated 12% of the Chiquitano forest area before the fires. Earlier in 2019 the Bolivian government issued a decree supporting clearance of forest lands in the Chiquitano and Amazon regions for cattle and soya production. Civil society organizations concluded the fires were mostly deliberately set by people seeking to clear land, and linked the increase in fires to the change in government policy. Those organizations and indigenous leaders petitioned the government to repeal the pro-clearance policies, better protect the forests, and uphold indigenous land rights.
A 2017 assessment found that 55,861 km², or 24%, of the ecoregion is in protected areas. Protected areas include Noel Kempff Mercado National Park and Ríos Blanco y Negro Wildlife Reserve in Bolivia.


Brendan Crinion

Brendan Crinion (11 November 1923 – 2 July 1989) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served for more than twenty years as a Teachta Dála (TD) and as a Senator.
A farmer before entering politics, Crinion was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil TD for the Kildare constituency at the 1961 general election. He was returned for Kildare at the 1965 general election, but after boundary changes for the 1969 general election he stood in the neighbouring Meath constituency. He was defeated there, but was then nominated by the Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, to the 12th Seanad.
At the next general election, in 1973, he stood again in Meath, unseating the long-serving Fianna Fáil TD Michael Hilliard. Crinion was re-elected in Meath at the 1977 general election and again in 1981 general election, before retiring from politics at the February 1982 general election.


Dalton Bros

 The Dalton Bros was a company formed in the mid-1800s in Orange, New South Wales, Australia. It was formed by James Dalton and his brother, Thomas Dalton. The company flourished for many years in Orange until it became one of the largest milling companies in Australia.
The Dalton Bros company became so powerful, it had the largest pastoral holdings in Australia at the time, including places like Belowra in the 1880s, Gobala, Nevertire, in 1898 and the Lookout at Mullion. The head of Dalton Bros, James Dalton became so wealthy from the company he built some of Australia's most seen buildings in Orange such as Duntryleague, 'Kangaroobie', 'Mena', 'Killeny', 'Galbally' and 'Ammerdown' Homestead.
The Dalton Bros also had their imposing stores on Summer Street in Orange, which still dominate the streetscape today being one of the largest building fronts in the Central Business District.
Along with these holdings, Dalton Bros also had 'Dalton House' on Pitt Street in Sydney in 1878. and they owned stores in Lower Fort Street occupied a dock at Millers Point.


Robert Thomson Melrose

Robert Thomson Melrose (22 April 1862 – 26 April 1945) was a pastoralist and politician in South Australia.
History.
Melrose's parents George Melrose (22 December 1806 – 8 April 1894) and Euphemia, née Thomson, (died 1887) left Balerno, Scotland, on the "Palmyra", arriving in 1839. George established a sheep run at Macclesfield with (later Sir) Walter W. Hughes, later settled at Mount Pleasant.
Robert was educated at Prince Alfred College, then settled on the family property "Rosebank", of at Mount Pleasant, where he was a very successful breeder of Aberdeen Angus cattle and Merino sheep, and was involved in extensive tree planting.
He was a director of Elder, Smith & Co., Ltd., and from 1917 until his death was a longtime member of the Stockowners' Association and the Agricultural and Horticultural Society and its president 1919–1920.
He was chairman of the Anti-Cancer Campaign at the Adelaide University and on the board of the Adelaide Botanic Garden.
He was a keen golfer.
Politics.
Melrose was a member of the Legislative Council from 1921 to 1927.
Family.
Robert T. Melrose was a second generation member of a large and influential South Australian family founded by George Melrose.
He was married, leaving a widow, Gwendoline Grace Melrose (1908–1991). They had no children.


Meenglas and Leesh River Tea Estates

Meenglas Tea Estate and Leesh River Tea Estate are tea gardens, located near each other in the Mal CD block in the Malbazar subdivision of the Jalpaiguri district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Both the tea estates are located in the western end of the Dooars.
Geography.
Location.
Meenglas Tea Estate is located at .
Meenglas Tea Estate is flanked by the Chel River on the west and Malnudy on the east. The Newra range of Gorubathan forest is on the north.
Leesh River Tea Estate is located at
Leesh River Tea Estate is surrounded by rivers on three sides - Geesh River on the east, Leesh River on the west and Teesta River on the south.
Area overview.
Gorumara National Park has overtaken traditionally popular Jaldapara National Park in footfall and Malbazar has emerged as one of the most important towns in the Dooars. Malbazar subdivision is presented in the map alongside. It is a predominantly rural area with 88.62% of the population living in rural areas and 11.32% living in the urban areas. Tea gardens in the Dooars and Terai regions produce 226 million kg or over a quarter of India's total tea crop. Some tea gardens were identified in the 2011 census as census towns or villages. Such places are marked in the map as CT (census town) or R (rural/ urban centre). Specific tea estate pages are marked TE.
The gardens.
At Meenglas Tea Estate the old garden was uprooted and replanted afresh. The old factory equipment was dismantled and a new processing unit was installed in 2007. It is one of the best modernized tea processing units in the region, HACCP certified since 2008. It produces high quality CTC tea.
At Leesh River Tea Estate there are three divisions - Leesh, Hope and Patibari. In the Leesh Division, earlier named Phoolbarie, there are records that state that it had a planted area of 600 acres. It was among the first gardens to be planted in North Bengal. been The garden has recently been modified and has a HACCP-certified modern factory.
Goodricke.
Established in 1977, Goodricke owns 18 tea estates in India, all inherited from sterling tea companies, who operated from the late 1800s. Goodricke has 12 gardens in the Dooars. With its rich agro climate the area produces CTC tea. Goodricke's tea gardens in the Dooars are: Danguajhar, Leesh River, Meenglas, Hope, Aibheel, Chulsa, Chalouni, Jiti, Sankos, Gandrapara, Lakhipara and Kumargram.
Eight sterling tea companies viz., The Assam-Doors Tea Co. Ltd., Hope Tea Co. Ltd., The Lebong Chulsa Tea Co. Ltd., The British Darjeeling Tea Co. Ltd., The Chulsa Tea Co. Ltd., The Leesh River Tea Co. Ltd., The Danguajhar Tea Co. Ltd., and The Meenglas Tea Co. Ltd., were amalgamated with Goodricke in 1977.
Tourism.
Odlabari is an upcoming tourist attraction in the area. It offers some of the most spectacular sights in the Dooars region.


Killarney Station

Killarney Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Victoria River District of the Northern Territory of Australia. The property is situated approximately south east of Timber Creek and south of Darwin.
History.
Killarney Station was established by Eric Izod with managing partner Ivor Hall in 1953.
Bill Tapp purchased Killarney following talks with Izod and Hall about buying Killarney Station in 1960. Tapp paid £90,000, a Northern Territory record price for a cattle station at that time. He received title to Killarney in 1962.
The Tapp family properties, including Killarney Station went into receivership in 1991. Brian Oxenford's Western Grazing Company purchased the property.
Wallco acquired Killarney in 2001 from Western Grazing Company. The property was being run in conjunction with neighbouring Birrimba Station forming an aggregation with an area of that was supporting a herd of 41,000 Brahman cattle.
In 2012 the property was run by Wallco Pastoral Company until it was placed in receivership by the National Australia Bank before a refinancing.
Killarney was sold in 2014 to the Jumbuck Pastoral Company for about 35 million. At the time it occupied an area of .
Most of Birrimba and a small portion of Killarney were burnt out by a bushfire in 2014.
References.


Reginald Beauchamp Downall

Reginald Beauchamp Downall (26 July 1843 - 11 December 1888) was a British plantation owner and member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon.
Reginald Beauchamp Downall was born in 1843 in Kidderminster, the only son of Rev. John Downall (1803-1872), vicar of Okehampton, and Katherine Pyndar née Turner (1812-?). He attended Marlborough College in Wiltshire (1854-56).
He traveled to Ceylon in 1866, where he joined George Wall and Company, assisting Watkin William Wynn on the Kent and Ambokka coffee estates in Matale. He was appointed as a visiting agent after eighteen months, and the company's representative in Kandy. He purchased his first estate, Middleton, in Dimbula, followed by another in Tangakelle. He then sold those to purchase a more substantial estate (Dambetenna and Lemastota) in Haputale in 1877. He then bought an estate in Monerakande. A year after this purchase coffee plantations in the country were devastated by a fungal disease "Hemileia vastatrix" (also known as coffee leaf rust) and coffee prices plummeted. He retained his coffee estates longer than most other owners, who converted their estates to tea, which almost lead to his financial ruin. His estates in Haputale were subsequently purchased by Sir Thomas Lipton and formed the basis of the Lipton tea empire.
In 1876 he became the planters' representative on the Legislative Council of Ceylon, serving on the Council until 1888. During his term of office he was of the prime movers for the extension of the railway, pushing for it to be extended from Nawalapitiya to Haputale. The extension finally occurring in 1893.
In 1874 Downall purchased Barnes Hall and operated it as a small guest house/hotel. In 1892 it was sold to the Nuwara Eliya Hotels Company Limited, who renovated and expanded the building into what is now known as the Grand Hotel.
Downall was also known as a keen cricketer, wild game hunter and horse racing enthusiast. He established a cricket club at Kandapolla, Haputale and was a regular participant in local and district cricket matches. He owned a pack of hounds, which he used for elk (sambar deer) hunting and often went buffalo and elephant shooting. Downall also owned a number of racehorses.
Suffering from stomach cancer he traveled to London for an operation in August 1988, which prolonged his life for a few months until 11 December, when he died at his sister's home in Flax Bourton. He was buried at Church of St Michael and All Angels, Flax Bourton. A plaque was erected in his memory at the Holy Trinity Church, Nuwara Eliya.


Manof

Manof (, "lit: Crane") is a community settlement in northern Israel. Located on Mount Shekhanya in the Lower Galilee, about 30 km northeast of Haifa and at an average elevation is 382 meters above sea level, it falls under the jurisdiction of Misgav Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History.
The village was established by a group of immigrants from South Africa in 1980 on the land of the depopulated Palestinian village of Mi'ar.
Town facilities.
As of 2015, Manof includes 175 single-family detached homes. Additional town facilities include a grocery store, preschools for children aged 1–6 (up to kindergarten), a playground, ball courts (for soccer, tennis and basketball), a synagogue, a small library, and a small petting zoo.
Beyond kindergarten, there are no schools inside Manof. Most Manof children go, via school bus, to the Har Shekhanya elementary school in the adjacent town of Shekhanya (for grades 1-6), and then for grades 7-12 go to the Misgav highschool in the nearby (10-minute drive) Misgav regional council center. The council center houses various other facilities, such as healthcare, a gym and pool, a library, after-school activities for children, and more.
There are only a few small places of business in Manof's industrial zone, including a small chocolate factory, a plant nursery, an art therapy studio and a sport shop. A few other residents have a home business, or work from home. But the majority of the Manof residents work outside Manof, often nearby cities such as Haifa or Karmiel. As such, Manof is often considered a commuter town.
Politics.
In the 2009 elections, 317 people voted in Manof. 44% of the votes went to Kadima, 26% went to the Israeli Labor Party, 10% to each of Meretz and Likud, 5% to the Green Movement and 2% or less to other parties.
In the 2013 elections, 361 people voted in Manof. 29% of the votes went to the Israeli Labor Party, 29% went to Yesh Atid, 19% to Meretz, 10% to Hatnuah, 6% to Likud and 2% or less to other parties.
In the 2015 elections, 416 people voted in Manof (out of the 555 eligible). 59% of the votes went to the Israeli Labor Party, 18% went to Yesh Atid, 14% to Meretz, 3% to Kulanu, 3% to Likud and 2% or less to other parties.
Fun Run.
The "Manof Fun Run" is an annual tradition kept in Manof since 1980. The Fun Run is an amateur running event, going uphill along the road into Manof. The video linked below which shows life in Manof in 1980 centers around that year's Manof Fun Run.
The Fun Run started as a local Manof event, but in recent years has become popular with residents of other towns in the Misgav area, and is now formally named the "Misgav Race". The race is actually several races of different lengths (2.5 km to 10 km), and a 2 km non-competitive family run. All races end in the center of Manof, where runners and their families can find food stands, art activities, and other attractions.


Petr Maslov (economist)

Petr Pavlovich Maslov (15(27) July, 1867 maslovka - 4 June, 1946 Moscow) was a Russian economist.
Maslov attended at the Kharkov Veterinary Institute. He was in contact with the Marxist study circle of Nikolai Fedoseev, a contact which led to his arrest in 1889. He joined the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, and became a spokesperson on agrarian reform. He advocated the municipalisation of the land, in order to appeal to the peasantry by expropriating the land without compensation, and making it available to them cheaply, without giving them ownership. This was similar to a proposal by Lenin, except the latter wanted the land owned by central government.


Algernon Heber-Percy

Sir Algernon Eustace Hugh Heber-Percy, KCVO (born 2 January 1944) is a British landowner, farmer and public official.
Heber-Percy was born in 1944, to Daphne Parker Bowles and the army officer Brigadier Algernon George William Heber-Percy (1904–1961), who remodelled a large part of the gardens at the Heber-Percy family's ancestral home, Hodnet Hall, Shropshire.
Having served in the Army for four years, Heber-Percy returned to live in Hodnet Hall in 1966; he studied agriculture at a local college and has managed the family's farming estates thereafter. He has also extensively renovated the house with his wife Jane, daughter of the 3rd Viscount Leverhulme. He has been involved in a number of organisations, including periods as a trustee of the National Gardens Scheme and as a member of the National Trust's regional committee. Since 1988, he has been President of the Shropshire and Mid Wales Hospice, now called Severn Hospice. In 1986, he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Shropshire and served as High Sheriff for the 1987–88 year; he was appointed Vice-Lord Lieutenant in 1990 and then served as Lord Lieutenant from 1996 to 2019.
Heber-Percy retired as Lord Lieutenant in January 2019, at the age of 75. He had been appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 2014.