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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1897

743 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 15 of 38

The Dairying Industry

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 June 1897 · page 16

The Government dairy expert, Mr. M. A. O'Callagahan, has written a report to the Minister of Mines and Agriculture in regard to the butter industry. The report contains the following :-" I…

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A Rise in Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 June 1897 · page 5

The butter sellers along Sussex-street have raised the wholesale price of creamery butter from 15d to 16d per lb, and other grades proportionately…

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Rise in Butter

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 8 June 1897 · page 2

Butter sellers in Sussex street this morning raised the wholesale price of butter to 1s 4d per lb…

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Opening of Butter Factory

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 June 1897 · page 2

The attention of the public is directed to the announcement of the opening of Messrs James Moore and Co.'s butter factory. The factory will be open for…

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Prime Seed Wheat

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 June 1897 · page 2

Special attention is directed to an adverttisement appearing in this issue, from Messrs J. Moore and Co., announcing that they have ordored to arrive on Monday…

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Dutch Belted Breed of Cattle

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 June 1897 · page 1

The Dutch halted cows were originally bred in Holland, and are related to the Holstein race, which is so popular in some of the States. The Dutch bolted…

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Shropshire Sheep

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 June 1897 · page 13

The Shropshire sheep is evidently (says the Queenslander) destined to become the mutton sheep of Australia. Trained as the eye of the Australian sheep farmer has been to the merino,…

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Regulating Butter Rates

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 June 1897 · page 14

It is often wondered how the Danish butter can be sold in England at the price which it is, and yet leave a profit to the producer. But the system in vogue over there assists the…

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Singleton Butter Factory Opening

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 June 1897 · page 4

Tho opening celebrations in connection with the newly-established creamery and butter works, belonging to Messrs James Moore and Co., takes place next Thursday…

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Competitors with Australian Butter Producers

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 June 1897 · page 12

That the butter producers of Autsralia have to be constantly alert in their competition for a hold upon the British market is now abundantly evident (says the…

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The Farm & Garden. Bees As Defenders

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 June 1897 · page 14

At one time, several centuries ago, the city of Tamly, in the Spanish territory of Xiatine, was besieged by the Portuguese. The invaders wery winning bastion after bastion, when the…

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Singleton Farmers' Association

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 June 1897 · page 8

We have to report a very busy week in the produce trade, and our auction sale to-day may fairly be Cassed as one of the most successful held in Singleton. Buyers mUstered in force, and we were…

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Farming Operations

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 June 1897 · page 4

The result of the late rains, and the very mild season, is that the country in and around Singleton has been quickly transformed in appearance. The effects of…

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Good Winter Feed for Dairy Stock

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 15 June 1897 · page 2

Some of out farmers should try the experiment of cultivating Jersey tree kall. Professor Lowrie, of South Australia, has expressed the opinion…

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Singleton Butter Factory

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 June 1897 · page 2

The local butter factory commenced operations on Monday, by receiving milk and cream for treatment at their extensive works. The supply of cream from the…

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Singleton Creamery and Butter Factory

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 June 1897 · page 2

WHEN Messrs James Moore and Co., Limited, entertained the idea of establishing a butter factory, they secured the premises in John-street,…

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Agricultural Conferences The Dairy Industry and Agricultural Societies

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 June 1897 · page 4

FOLLOWING up the practice of the present Minister for Mines and Agriculture, Mr Sydney Smith, of holding conferences of representatives of…

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Opening of a Butter Factory at Singleton. an Enthusiastic Assemblage. Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 June 1897 · page 3

At noon to-day, Messrs. Moore and Company's new creamery and butter factor was formally opened by the Hon. A. J. Gould, M.P., the Minister of Justice who broke a bottle of champagne over…

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The Singleton Creamery and Butter Factory

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 June 1897 · page 4

Yesterday will henceforth in this district be remembered as the day on which the first butter factory in Singleton and established by Messrs. James Moore and Co., Ltd., was formally inaugurated…

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The Future of Dairying

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 June 1897 · page 4

There is an almost simultaneous feeling growing up in this colony that the time has arrived when farmers can no longer sit quietly down amongst the least instructed of the producing classes…

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