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Illawarra · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1890

203 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 10 of 11

Wheat Cultivation

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 29 November 1890 · page 2

Mr. De la M[?]te, of the Sherbrooke Public School, was has been making extensive experiments in wheat cultivation for some time past has forwarded us several…

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Butter-making by a Novel Process

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 29 November 1890 · page 3

Butter-making in this district has undergone many changes, and it may fairly be assumed that in the not distant future perfection itself will be attained. The…

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Dairy Farmers' Association of New South Walks

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 2 December 1890 · page 3

Messrs. H.F. Noble (President) and T. Armstrong (secretary) of the above association, have just returned from a tour through the Bega district, where they…

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A Wrinkle in Dairying

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 2 December 1890 · page 4

Professor E.M. Shelton, Instructor in Agriculture, Queensland, writes:—"In Queensland, and generally in warm climates, the separator is looked upon as…

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Rust in Wheat

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 4 December 1890 · page 3

We (Nepean Times) are in receipt of a letter from Mr. D. Collins, of Mulgoa, relative to growing wheat without rust. Mr. Collins is well known in this and the…

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Butter Making. the Old and the New

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 4 December 1890 · page 2

In a radius containing 500 little farms. on churning day 500 women empty 500 cream jars at 500 temperatures into 500 churns, and 500 small boys are kept…

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Good-bye to the Dairymaid

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 4 December 1890 · page 2

Slowly but surely the primitive simplicity of rural districts is being blotted out by the genius of the mechanic (ob-serves an English contemporary). In…

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Farm Pupils in the Colonies. the Moral of a Tragedy

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 5 December 1890 · page 2

IN this crowded country (says the London Graphic) nearly all the avocations which offer the prospect of a fairly comfortable subsistence to Young men of decent…

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Gloomy Outlook for the Butter Market

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 6 December 1890 · page 3

We regret having to s'ate that we have it on good authority that an important meeting of representatives of the diarying interest of the colony to be held in…

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The Farmer's Wife

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 6 December 1890 · page 4

First of all, a farmer wife should be a mutual partner in financial affairs, instead of "an upper servant without wages." the husband having management…

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Gloomy Outlook for the Butter Market

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 9 December 1890 · page 3

WE (Illawarra Mercury) regret having to state that we have it on good authority that unless an important meeting of representatives of the dairying interest of the colony…

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The Butter Market. Price Fixed for This Month

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 11 December 1890 · page 3

We learn that at the meeting of representative dairy farmers and commission agents held at Sydney on Monday, as indicated in Saturday's issue, that the whole…

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Dairy Farmers' Association. the Butter Export Trade

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 12 December 1890 · page 2

WE are indebted to the President, Mr. H. F. Noble, for the following particulars:—Representatives of the above Association held a meeting last Monday at the Fresh…

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Our Wool Industry

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 16 December 1890 · page 2

Sir Patrick Jennings, in a speech delivered at the setting off the keystone of a new warehouse at North Shore for the Pastoralists' Association, on Saturday,…

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Melbourne Dairy Farmers in Union

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 16 December 1890 · page 4

EXTRACT from letter puplished in the Melbourne papers by the secretary of a newly formed dairy farmers union: "It is a well-known fact that for some time…

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The Home Butter Market

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 18 December 1890 · page 2

A writer in the columns of a Kiama contemporary, while noting as satisfactory that a recent shipment of butter to the London market realised 110 shillings per…

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Threatened Collapse of the Butter Market. (To the Editor.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 23 December 1890 · page 3

SIR,—The arrangements made by the Dairy Farmers' Association early in October have resulted in the exportation of between 150 and 160 tons of surplus…

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Original Correspondence. the Home Butter Market. (To the Editor.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 23 December 1890 · page 3

SIR,—The writer in your Kiama contemporary whom you quote in your issue of Thursday last evidently is not possessed of all the facts of theo case upon which he…

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Correspondence. Threatened Collapse of the Butter Market. to the Editor of the Kiama Independent

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 23 December 1890 · page 2

SIR,—The arrangements made by the Dairy Farmers' Association early in October have resulted in the exportation of between 150 and 160 tons of surplus butter, keeping the…

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Baby Farming Disclosures

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 23 December 1890 · page 3

Startling disclosures were published in the Brisbane Telegraph, on Friday, in reference to baby fanning. A low woman inserted an advertisement desiring to adopt…

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