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South Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1880

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Wool, Cattle, and Coal, Tax Bill

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 8 July 1880 · page 4

ON the 1st instant a bill founded on the resolutions of committee of Ways and Means, imposing export taxes on wool, coal and shale, and a tax on horses and cattle, was introduced…

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MISCELLANEOUS. The Duty on Wool, and the Horse and Cattle Tax

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 15 July 1880 · page 4

MESSRS. Harrison, Jones & Devlin, Stock and Station Agents, of Sydney, requests the publication of the following for the information of readers. There is, however, few, if any, wool…

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The Editorial Crop

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 22 July 1880 · page 4

THE outlook for a full crop of editors in the future looks bad, judging by the immediate past. Charles De young, of the Chronicle, was wantonly, assassinated in his own office…

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Wheat Growing on Swan River Plains (From the St. Arnaud Times, July 2.)

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 29 July 1880 · page 4

AT the last monthly meeting of the Avoca Plains Farmers’ Club, Mr. E, Bankin in the chair, Mr. Hodgson read the following paper giving the results of “Ten years’ experience…

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A Girl's Dairy

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 29 July 1880 · page 2

15TH MARCH.—I must buy to-day: Some cologne Some hair-pins. Some racho lace…

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The Co-operative Central Butter Market

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

A MEETING of the Committee of the Shoalhaven Agriculture Association was held at the Temperance Hall, Terrara, on Tuesday last, at 3 p.m., for the purpose of deliberating on a scheme…

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Central Butter Market. to the Editce of the Mail

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 5 August 1880 · page 2

Sir,—I observe by the “Kiama Reporter” that a meeting was held in the Council Chamber there on Wednesday, 21st ultimo, to consider the question of a Central Butter Market…

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MISCELLANEOUS. Co-operative Central Butter' Market for the Coast District. KIAMA A. AND H. ASSOCIATION

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 5 August 1880 · page 4

THE following is the report of the meeting of members of the Kiama A. and H. Association, to which we referred in our last issue and premised to reprint:—…

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Agriculture. Scientific Farming Practical

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

MR. BUCKMASTER, before a well-attended meeting of farmers, held at Tadley, in England, the other day, to consider a scheme for teaching the science of…

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Prospectus of the Co-operative Company for the Sale and Export of Butter

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 12 August 1880 · page 4

THE above company, under the management of twelve local directors (say) one from each of the following places, Wollongong, Dapte, Albion Park, Shellharbour, Jamberoo, Kiama…

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Agriculture. a Good Farm Makes Good Stock

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 12 August 1880 · page 2

SOMEONE has said "the character of the stock on a farm depends essentially upon the cultivation and condition of the soil." Grass is not only the natural food, but the…

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Scientific Farming Practical

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 12 August 1880 · page 2

MR. BUCKMASTER, before a well-attended meeting of fanners, held at Tadley, in England, the other day, to consider a scheme for teaching the science of farming…

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Agriculture. Winter Butter Making. the Dairy

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 26 August 1880 · page 2

IF the first requisite for good butter is the cow, the second is the dairy room or house, for it is useless to pr[?]re good milk, if it is spoiled in the keeping. A dairy room should…

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A Bee Farm

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 26 August 1880 · page 2

Near the village of Beeton, Ontario, Canada, there is a bee farm which is probably one of the most extensive and successful things of the kind in the world. It…

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Exporation of Butter

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 2 September 1880 · page 4

AT the last meeting of the Burrawang Farmer's Club, Mr. John Tate (representing the firm of Messrs. Tate Bros, of Sussex-street, Sydney) attended to lay before the members, the particulars…

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MISCELLANEOUS. Co-Operative Central Butter Market

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 9 September 1880 · page 4

THE following communications are taken from the Kiama Independent, in which journal they appeared as a discussion of this pro's. and cons, of the scheme abovementioned:—…

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Agriculture. to Cure Foot-rot in Sheep

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 16 September 1880 · page 2

THE preparation of the foot is just as essential as the remedy, for if every part of the disease is not laid bare the remedy will not effect a cure. A solution of blue vitriol as…

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Nature. Ants and Their Milch Cattle

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 23 September 1880 · page 2

THE instincts of the [?] are, indisputably, more extraordinary than those of any other in the whole range of animated nature. The ancients magnified them into fabulous…

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Agriculture. Counterfeit Butter

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 30 September 1880 · page 2

A MORE unblushing and dangerous swindle has not been palmed upon the world for many a year, than the el[?]margarine which nobody ever sees under its own brand, but…

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The Butter Question

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Wednesday 6 October 1880 · page 2

A PUBLIC meeting of the dairy farmers and others was held at the School of Arts, Milton, on Saturday evening, 25th ultimo, to meet Captain Farquhar, the Manager of the New…

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