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Illawarra · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1870

14 stories in Illawarra's papers

Butter and Butter Making. Causes of Bad Butter

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 18 January 1870 · page 4

The causes of bad butter are numerous. Carelessness and ignorance of the true principles of butter making; depasturing on poor land, or new land; bad water for the cows, bad slat in the…

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Butter. Greasing the Wheels of Death

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 3 March 1870 · page 4

THIS is really a bad business about the butter. A sufficient time has been allowed for inquiry and comment, but no one has a word to say in favour of…

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Cheese and Butter

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 15 March 1870 · page 4

We concluded our last with the very natural inquiry—Why our dairymen, especially in the depressed state of the butter market, have not turned their attention more exclusively to the…

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Farmers' Clubs

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 8 July 1870 · page 4

The success of the attempts that have been made in South Australia and Queensland, to establish farmers' clubs, should commend them to emulation of the small freeholders and free…

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The Cattle Plague in Great Britain

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 18 August 1870 · page 4

The report on the Cattle Plague in Great Britain in 1865.7 has just been published. It will be remembered that on June 27, 1865, a disense appeared…

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The Butter Exportation Movement

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 20 October 1870 · page 2

A MEETING of the committee appointed last week in connection with the above mentioned project was hold, on Tuesday last, about noon at Mr. Adams's Steam Packet Hotel, The…

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Export Butter Meeting

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 27 October 1870 · page 2

Immediately after the adjournment, a meeting took place to consider the matter of exporting butter. The Mayor presided. He stated that he had been to Kiama for the…

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Export Butter Meeting

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 28 October 1870 · page 2

immediately after the adjournment, a meeting took place to consider the matter for exporting butter. The Mayor presided. He stated that he had been to Kiama for the purpose of seeing what the Kiama…

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Export Butter Meeting

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 4 November 1870 · page 2

Immediately after the termination of the previous meeting a number of persons interested in dairying pursuits assembled in the Chamber and E. R. Evans, Esq., J.P. (the Mayor of the Municipality) was voted…

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DAPTO. Meeting of the shareholders of the Central Illawarra Butter Company

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 18 November 1870 · page 2

On Wednesday evening a goodly number of the shareholders of the above company met in the Council Chamber, Dapto, pursuant to advertisement "for the purpose of electing officers, paying the amount of…

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Shellharbour. Butter Company

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 1 December 1870 · page 2

THIS company hold a meeting on Wednesday evening last, which was convened at the request of a number of the shareholders, for the purpose of considering the subject of freight…

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Butter Company

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 2 December 1870 · page 2

This Company held a meeting on Wednesday evening last, for the purpose of considering the motion of freight proposed to be charged on shipments of butter from Shellharbor…

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Central Illawarra Butter Company

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 2 December 1870 · page 2

A meeting of the above newly-formed Company took place at the Commercial Hotel, on Tuesday evening last The meeting was attended by about twenty persons, and was presided over by Mr. G…

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The Baby Farming Case

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 2 December 1870 · page 4

Margaret Waters and Sarah Ellis, sisters, were convicted of the crime of "baby farming" on Friday, the 23rd ultimo, and sentenced, Waters to death, and Ellis to imprisonmont for eighteen…

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