Something Like Farming
MR. James Wilson, J.P., of Broughton Creek, from time to time during the past twelve or fifteen years, has been enlarging the area of his landed property on…
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Farming & the land, 1881
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A New Zealand Farm
Among the best known farms in the colony (remarks the N. Z. Pastoral News) is Greenfield, the estate of James Smith, Esq., on the Clutha River, Otago. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Original Correspondence Butter, and the Butter Market. (To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury.")
SIR,—At an impromptu meeting of dairymen—supporters of the Central Butter Market—it was suggested, as little had been heard lately of the progress of the Company formed for establishing…
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THE S. A. Resister has soon specimens of two kinds of American wheat which seem to be able to withstand the attacks of rod rust. They are known as the Defiance and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter and the Butter Question. (To the Editor of the Illawarra Mercury.)
SIR,—At an impromptu meeting of dairymen—supporters of the Control Butter Market—it was suggested, as little had been heard lately of the progress of the company…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Original Correspondence Co-operative Butter Company. (To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury.")
SIR,—With regard to the letter signed "Dairyman," in Tuesday's 'Mercury,' it affords me much pleasure to be able to inform your correspondent and the public that the formation of the Company…
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Unquestionably, it is not creditable to the dairy farmers of Illawarra that they have allowed Victorians to gain the honor find profit attached to sending a shipment of butter to England this…
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There were a large number of exhibits, dairy cattle, of course, predominating. About one hundred dairy cows competed for the various prizes, foremost among…
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In farming implements, vehicles, &c., the competition was unusually small, attributable, no doubt, to the fact that the proprietor of our largest manufactory, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Export Meat and Butter Prospects
The reports by cable of the sale of the Protos butter at £5 per cwt., and at a shilling n pound, have perhaps even more than the all round sale of the mutton at 6½d…
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The above meeting took place on Thursday last, in the Council Chamber, having been postponed from the previous Saturday night owing to the wet weather. The…
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Of the butter market in England, in which Australia has, we venture to hope, a permanent interest, it is said that " butter, in spite of a greatly increased import, has…
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We reprint the following from the Milton Times. The model of a dairy was exhibited at the Ulladulla Show; and the description accompanying it seems to have been written…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Co-operative Butter Market Scheme
As Mr. D. L. Dymock's speech at the meeting of Directors of the Co-operative Butter Market movement, held at Kiama on Friday, may be said to be a manifesto of the present position of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence The Allowrie and the Butter Trade. (To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury.")
SIR,—The hopes that were entertained in this district some months ago to the effect that the [?] S. N. Company's new steamer Allowrie would be fitted up with a refrigerating apartment for butter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Alowrie and the Butter Trade. (To the Editor Illawarra Mercury.)
SIR,—The hopes that were entertained in this district some months ago to the effect that the I.S.N. Company's now steamer Alowrie would be fitted up with a…
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Some time since, the President of the New York Produce Exchange, Mr. F. H. Parker, at the request of the butter trade, addressed a letter to the Secretary of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Original Correspondence The Co operative Butter Market. ("To the Editor of the Illawarra Mercury.")
SIR,—Allow me to remark through your columns that it is to be hoped us farmers as a class will come forward in this instance as we ought to enable the advocates of a Co-operative Butter Market to make…
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Messrs Tate, Brothers, Commission Agents, of Sydney, write to the Bega Standard as follows:— Much has been written and more said on…
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The late mails from Europe have brought quite a flood of correspondence on the prospects of the export meat trade from Australia. The opinions of the writers have, of…
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