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Farming & the land, 1880

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Original Correspondence. The Butter Question. to the Editor of the Telegraph

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 1 January 1880 · page 2

SIR.—Many of your readers are aware that a movement has been made in the direction of a necessary change in the treatment and sale of butter in the metropolis, and that your…

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MISCELLANEOUS. Baths for Farmers

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 8 January 1880 · page 4

ONE very great reason why farmers become "stiff and old." before their time is from their lack of bathing and thorough muscular exercise. The professional man who is…

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Important to Wheat Growers

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 29 January 1880 · page 4

THE following extract from an old book on agricultural subjects, we clip from The Queenslander:—'The practise of steeping seed corn, which has of late been so greatly…

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Arrival of the Strathleven. Meat & Butter In splendid condition

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 5 February 1880 · page 2

LONDON, February 2.—The steamer Strathleven, which left Sydney on November 29 of last year, with a cargo of frozen meat, passed Gravesend this morning. Mr. Link, a large…

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Miscellaneous. a Central Butter Market

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 19 February 1880 · page 2

The cooperation of tho Agricultural Society of New South Wales having been solicited by tho Southern Coast farmers towards obtaining a metropolitan market for dairy produce, the…

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MISCELLANEOUS. The Candelo Butter Company

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 26 February 1880 · page 4

ONE of the most important industries ever introduced into this district is the packing of butter for export as carried on by Messrs. A. J. Cook and Co., at the Barrona, near…

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Illawarra Butter in London

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 4 March 1880 · page 4

THE following item of information from London respecting a sample of Illawarra butter landed there will be road with some interest by many of our readers, especially…

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Miscellaneous. a Central Butter Market

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 18 March 1880 · page 4

A DEPUTATION of dairy farmers residing in the southern coast districts waited upon the Mayor and Aldermen this morning, at the Town Hall, for the purpose of urging the…

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Rust in Wheat

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 1 April 1880 · page 4

WE (Queenslander) have been favoured with a communication upon the above subject written in German, of which the following is a translation:—"As I am only two yours in Queensland…

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MISCELLANEOUS. Burrawang Farmer's Club

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 1 April 1880 · page 4

THE regular monthly meeting of the above Club was held at Miles' Hotel, on Thursday, 19th Feb., on which occasion J. Hanrahan, Esq., J.P., President, occupied the chair…

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MISCELLANEOUS. American Dairy Produce

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 8 April 1880 · page 4

PROFESSOR WILLARD [?] New York, delivered a lecture in that city, on the 12th December, before the American Agricultural Association, on "The Dairy; its Profits and…

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The Butter Question. Producers' Co-operative Company

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 22 April 1880 · page 2

THE following communication, which appeared in the Kiama Independent of the 13th instant, on the subject of the sale and disposal of dairy and other farm produce, being to some extent…

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Original Contribution. Rust in Wheat. Restoration of Soil, &c

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 22 April 1880 · page 2

IN answer to a request that I would give some information in connection with the subject of rust in wheat, and as to whether I could sell or recommend Adelaide grown grain for sowing in…

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How Good Butter is made in America

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 29 April 1880 · page 4

I RECENTLY spent a few days with a friend who makes "gilt edged butter. The farm is substantially a dairy farm, containing 240 acres of good pasture and meadow…

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MISCELLANEOUS. Salt your Wheat Land

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 6 May 1880 · page 4

MR. C. E. HALY has written the following letter to the Queensland Times, expressing a wish that it may be copied by other papers; a wish we have much pleasure in…

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A Test Record for Dairy Cows

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 13 May 1880 · page 4

FOR some time past both the brooders and the purchasers of pure-bred, herd-bookrecorded, dairy cows, have been convinced that something more is required to give…

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MISCELLANEOUS. Export of Butter and Dairy Produce

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 20 May 1880 · page 4

THE following letter, contributed recently to the S. M. Herald by Mr. John Biggar J.P., of Wollongong on the abovementioned subject, will be read with interest by dairy men…

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Creameries or Butter Factories

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 27 May 1880 · page 4

It is somewhat difficult to give in the space of a newspaper article all the information asked by an inquirer. It is hardly likely, that any person knows the unities and…

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Counterfeit Butter

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 10 June 1880 · page 4

OLEOMARGARINE—a cunning compound of tallow and milk, with a little pure butter added to import flavour—is giving the dairymen and butter dealers no little trouble. It is an imitation…

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Original Correspondence. To the Dairymen of Shoalhaven Per Favour of the Shoalhaven Telegraph

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 10 June 1880 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—An era in your fortunes has arisen if you are prepared to take advantage of it. The experiment by the Strathleven has shown that butter in good condition heed not be…

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