The Butter Factories
The two factories—Waughope and Woodstock—held meeting on Monday. The former has decided to pay 7¼d per gallon for last month's milk, and the latter 7d…
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Farming & the land, 1889
130 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 1 of 7
Factory Butter
The Produce Exchange is a special market for Factory Reuter Directors of Butter Factories are [?] to consider this.—HAWKEN A D…
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YET another factory—indeed it does seem that we shall have a sufficiency of them in this district, and we can only hope that each and all of them will have a prosperous career…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fearful Tragedy in West Australia. a Farmer and His Wife Murdered in Bed
A FARMER AND HIS WIFE MURDERED IN BED. PERTH, Thursday.—Early this morning the usually quiet town of Newcastle was thrown into a state of alarm consequent on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SECTIONS 2, 3, 4, and 5—Cattle, &c
Our remarks on these sections must be brief, or else we shall never have done. The blue ribbon for the bulls was taken by a splendid animal owned by J. W. Cole,…
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In the swine, Barnes, and Spinks Bros. came in for most of the prizes; James Mitchell for fat sheep; and for collie dog 1st M. N. Hindmarsh, 2nd T. H. Lees…
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THE following experiments have proved in California that fowls can be cured of croup speedily by the fumes of sulphur. A safe method of administering this is to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Section 13—Dairy Produce
As became the occasion and the district, there was a large collection of kegs and dishes of butter, the former being preserved and the hatter fresh. Here there was great…
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DURING the month of January this Company received 50,000 gallons of milk, and Shipped to Sydney 22,2001bs of butter, palising top price. The suppliers were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farming in Victoria. (To the Editor of the Illawarra Mercury.)
SIR, Our protectionist friends have been telling us a good many times lately, and more particularly during the electioneering campaign, that the farmers in Victoria were prospering…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farm. the Dairies of the Colony. Report by Mr. A. CRAWFORD
THE secretary for agriculture (Mr. D Martin) has received from Mr. A, Crawford, manager of the Government travelling dairy, the following report upon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Farm. a Famous Milch Cow. (Condensed from Live Stock Journal
(Condensed from Live Stock Journal. OF late years there have been instances made public of heavy yields of milk from animals of what are known as the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Farm, Agriculture, &c. Agricultural Colleges
PROFESSOR WEBSTER, an entomologist connected with the United Sates Department of Agriculture, who is visiting Australia for the purpose of reporting on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Meeting of Dairymen
AN important meeting was held in the Council Chamber on Saturday afternoon last, to discuss the matter of the milk supply to Sydney. There was a good…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farm, Agriculture, &c. a New Artificial Manure
A FRENCH agricultural chemist, and a practical one as well, claims to have found out a new artificial manure in fluate of lime. For three years he experimented…
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A CONFERENCE of directors of dairy factories was held in the Council Chamber last Saturday afternoon Alderman H. F. Noble, who is also one of the principal…
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A RECENT issue of the American DAIRY WORLD contained a suggestive article on the improvement of the large varieties of the dairy cows. In England it is well…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wheat Crop
THE wheat harvest in New South Wales this year is the poorest for 40 years, and instead of producing its own loaf will have to import five-sixths of its flour…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Washing Butter with Brine
MANY believe that washing with pure cold water is injurious to butter, because it takes out the colour and flavour. Any one can easily prove that fresh water…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gerringong Dairy Company
The Gerringong Dairy Company which has been Gerringong Dairy Company which has been in existence since about September last, hold its first' half-yealy meeting on…
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