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Illawarra · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1898

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Farm and Dairy. Dairying on the Clarence

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 14 July 1898 · page 3

At a meeting of the Clarence River Dairymen's Association the other day reports were submitted showing that the scheme for the export of butter during the…

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Colonial Dairy Produce

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 16 July 1898 · page 2

MESSRS WEDDEL & Co. report as follows on June 10th:— Butter.—The weather, since the end of April where the circular was issued has…

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A Dairying Dispute

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 19 July 1898 · page 4

At the Kangaroo Valley Police Court on Thursday last. James Ca[?]k sought to recover the sum of £3 0.41 from the Barrengarry Daily Company, Limited…

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Interesting Information for the Farmers. (To the Editor.)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 26 July 1898 · page 3

SIR,—Your Kembla correspondent, in referring to Mr. Kennedy's meeting at this place, omitted to mention one very important fact, which I feel sure will interest the…

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To the Dairy Farmers of New South Wales

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 2 August 1898 · page 2

THE following letter appears in some of our country exchanges:—Gentlemen,—It will doubtless be remembered that, at the invitation of this Institution, the directors'…

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Pure Bred Cattle for N.s.w. Importations by the Government

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 2 August 1898 · page 2

The s.s. Hawke'S Bay, which left London on June 29, carried a large consignment of pure-bred cattle for Australia. For the New South Wales…

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Unanderra Dairy Company, Limited. 21St Half-yearly Meeting. Refrigerating Plant to Be Obtained

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 2 August 1898 · page 2

The 21st half-yearly meeting of the Unanderra Dairy Company (Ltd.) was held at the Unanderra Council Chambers On Saturday evening, when there was a…

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Tuberculosis in Cattle. Important Information

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 4 August 1898 · page 2

The poleaxe cure for tuberculosis, as practised in Massachusetts, is said to have almost exterminated the badly diseased cattle in that state, but these at…

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Pure Bred Cattle For N.S.W. Importations by the Government

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 4 August 1898 · page 2

THE s.s. Hawke's Bay, which left London on June 129th, carried a large consignment of pure-bred cattle for Australia. For the New South Wales…

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Unanderra Dairy Company

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 4 August 1898 · page 4

At the Half-yearly meeting of the above Company on Saturday last, the question of purchasing refrigerating machinery was introduced…

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Rearing Heifers for the Dairy

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 4 August 1898 · page 4

Mr. Freer-Thonger, the well known European dairy expert, writing in comment on the calf-raising experiments at the Iowa (U.S.) station, states as…

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Tuberculosis in Cattle

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 6 August 1898 · page 2

THE poleaxe cure for tuberculosis, as practised in Massachusetts, is said to have almost exterminated the badly-diseased cattle in that state, but these at most…

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Meeting of Directors and Dairymen

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 6 August 1898 · page 2

A MEETING of factory directory and other representative dairymen was held at the Pioneer Hotel, Kangaroo Valley, on Tuesday, the 28th ult., for the purpose of…

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Australian Dairy Produce

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 6 August 1898 · page 4

The Australasian Butter Season, Which has just closed, is distinguished from all its predecessors by the unprecedentedly low prices which prevailed…

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Wheat Growing

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 9 August 1898 · page 4

Mr. Greene, M.P., is the owner of Iandrs Station, near Young. Before he took the station two other gentlemen had been ruined with it. Now Mr…

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Our Dapto Letter. Cattle Sale

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 9 August 1898 · page 2

On Wednesday last, at Reed's yards, about as choice a lob of heifers as it has been the good fortune for any dairy farmer here to see public together were…

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Butter Prizes

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 11 August 1898 · page 3

A MONTH ago the Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Sydney Smith, approved of State prizes being offered to improve the quality of New Mouth Wales butter. It has now been…

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Correspondence. Export of Butter. to the Editor

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 11 August 1898 · page 2

DEAR SIR,—In your issue of the 6th August there is a report of a meeting held at Kangaroo Valley, where it is stated that the Fresh Food and Ice Coy's charge was…

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The Dunmore Dairy Co. and the Secretary of the U.m.s.a. to the Editor

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 11 August 1898 · page 2

SIR,—Some "prentice hand" who seems to have a well grounded suspicion that the publication of his name would be a sufficient answer to his silly effusion attempts to…

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Strange Death of Dairy Cows

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 11 August 1898 · page 4

A strange morality has recently affected the dairy herd of Mr. Eli Jacobs of Kyneton, six of his cows dying within a week. The symptoms of…

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