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Illawarra · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1885

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Associated Dairying

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 2 January 1885 · page 4

KIAMA, the fertile district of the South coast, the residents of which three years ago took initiatory steps that have led to many satisfactory results in the…

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District Cattle v. Ayrshire and Jerseys. to the Editor of the Kiama Independent

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 6 January 1885 · page 2

SIR,—Although I am not anxious to engage in a public discussion or to figure conspiciously as a newspaper controversialist, because I have neither the time or the…

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Dairy Cattle. to the Editor of the Kiama Independent

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1885 · page 3

SIR,—The recent discussion whick took place upon the different breeds of cattle, together with the subsequent correspondence which has appeared in your columns…

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District Cattle v. Ayrshires and Jerseys. to the Editor of the Kiama Independent

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 16 January 1885 · page 2

SIR,—It appears that Mr. Henry Fredericks like Othello, has been impelled to deliver a tale of his "whole course of loves." Unlike the celebrity referred to however,…

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District Cattle v. Ayrshire and Jerseys. to the Editor of the Kiama Independent

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1885 · page 2

SIR,—The Production in your issue of January 16th over the signature of "J. T" Cole," on the above subject, is another exemplification of the "mountain in labour…

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District Cattle v. Ayrshires and Jerseys. to the Editor of the Kiama Independent

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 3 February 1885 · page 2

SIR,—The last effusion on the above subject is, at times, so frisky and at others so pathetic, and altogether so regardless if the subject under discussion,…

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Silos. a Visit to Mr Paling's Farm

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 17 February 1885 · page 2

Silos are fast becoming common features on English, French, German and American farms; but in this country they are as yet almost entire novelties…

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"Pass the Butter."

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 20 February 1885 · page 4

A YOUNG lawyer told some friends at one of the round tables in. Hoffman the House, New York, of his experiences on a professional tour in the west. "I'd never been…

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Dairying in Illawarra

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 21 February 1885 · page 2

The following remarks concerning dairying on the South Coast appeared as a sub-leader in Thursday's Herald:— Dairying on the South coast is making a new…

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Dairying in Illawarra

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 27 February 1885 · page 2

THE following remarks concerning dairying on the South Coast appeared as a sub-leader in Thursday's "Herald":— Dairying on the South Coast is making a…

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Sacred Cattle

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 10 March 1885 · page 4

AN American journal hat the following: —"JohnO'Neil, a cattle-grower of life-long experience in Victoria County, Texas, called on the Scotch Grower this week, and…

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A South Coast Dairy Stock Sale

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 13 March 1885 · page 4

AS you pass over the top of Saddleback Mountains, having ridden through fox-grounds, and ascended by a precipitous path that only a mountain cat or an…

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The Butter-factory System

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 14 April 1885 · page 4

OUR South Coast friends who have adopted the co-operative factory system of dairying in preference to the plan of "everyone for himself," so honoured…

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Cattle Breeding. (To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury.")

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 5 May 1885 · page 2

SIR,—I was very much interested in reading your epitomised report of the last meeting of the Dapto A. and H. Society in discussing the question "Selection v. Pedigree." It appears to me…

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The Butter Company

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 4 June 1885 · page 2

As already stated, the fourth annual meeting of the South Coast and West Camden Co-operative Company was held in the Temperance Hall, Kiama, on Friday last. The following extracts…

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Farmer John

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 9 June 1885 · page 4

"IF I'd nothing to do," said Farmer John, To fret and bother me— Were I but rid of this mountain of work, What a good man I could be!…

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Ensilage and Dairy Cattle

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 16 June 1885 · page 4

IN a letter to the "Scotsman " Mr. E. T. Blunt, Blaby Hill, Leicester, writes: "I have several times been asked the question whether I considered ensilage…

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The Illawarra Butter Market

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 28 July 1885 · page 2

Many of our farmers, no doubt, regret the late [?]alls that have taken place in the price of butter, and numerous complaints are made about the importation of butter and ch[?]ese from the other…

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The Butter Company

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 4 August 1885 · page 2

In our issue of Tuesday, July 28th, appeared an article under the beading of "The Illawarra Buttre Market," accompanying which was a letter that had been anonymously circulated to a…

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Farmers' Union for Kiama

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 21 August 1885 · page 2

ON Tuesday afternoon last, at 2 o'clock, pursuant to announcement, a meeting of persons favourable to the establishment of a farmers' union in Kiama was held in…

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