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South Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1887

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Dairying Difficulties. (To the Editor of the Bega Standard.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 7 May 1887 · page 3

SIR,—This [?]lble contributions of “A Dairyman ” and “Colonist” have given additional interest to the discussion in your col[?]relative to the present…

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Dairymen’s Union. (To the Editor of the Bega Standard.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 7 May 1887 · page 3

SIR,—With a desire to make this spatter clear as possible, I centuries to state the following as the probable results of a “dairyman’s union,” if such were formed…

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Butter Making

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 11 May 1887 · page 4

THE following is an extract from the agricultural Gazette [?] to the mode of butter making as shown at the Working Dairy at Norwich:…

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Cooperative Butter Factory at Broughton Creek

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 11 May 1887 · page 2

On Friday evening last, a meeting was hold in the Agricultural Hall. Broughton Creek, for the purpose of taking stops to establish a cooperative butter factory at Broughton Creek…

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The Dairy Crisis. III. (By our Special Correspondent.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 11 May 1887 · page 2

THE Government forced the debate on the [?] proposals to a close after an [?] night sitting this week, and the majority of the House time generally affirmed the…

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Dairymen’s Union. (To the Editor of the Bega Standard.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 11 May 1887 · page 2

SIR,—It is very gratifying to find that the advocacy of the establishment of a Dairymen’s union in this district, is becoming so very popular; the more so…

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The Dairy Crisis. (To the Editor of the Bega Standard.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 11 May 1887 · page 2

SIR,—Having perused several letters that live appeared in the STANDARD, signed by “A Dairyman,” “Colonial” and others, with respect, to the dairy…

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The Dairy Crisis. IV. (By our Special Correspondent.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 May 1887 · page 2

THE possible crisis which would have re[?] from the removal of the duties on dairy produce has been[?] since I commenced [?] articles under this…

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A Farmer’s Son Shot by Moonlighters

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 4

A farmer’s son named Daniel Begley, residing at [?] near Mount Collins, in the west of the country of Limerick, was fire[?] at by a number of disguised men and dangerously…

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The Agricultural and Pastoral Show

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 1 June 1887 · page 2

IT has been customary to held the Metropolitan Show early in the spring of the year, but objections were made by that arrangement, and it was considered that…

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Another Sheep-Shearing Machine

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 1 June 1887 · page 4

A NEW sheep shearing machine has been [?] at Marr[?] by Mr. Bell, a [?] at the [?] depot, (says the “Murram[?]…

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Butter Factory at Wollongong

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 8 June 1887 · page 4

SPEAKING of the farmers' meeting held at Unanderra recently, the Mercury reports the speeches at length. We extract the following speech from the report:—…

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The Pastoral Rents. the Division on Mr. M'millan's Motion.—more Disorderly Sonnes

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 15 June 1887 · page 2

THE discussion on the motion of Mr. M'Millan that pastoral rents as fixed by the land boards should not be increased except where incompetence or corruption could be proved against…

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Bepet for Farm Produce

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 15 June 1887 · page 2

ONE of the orders of the day at yesterday's sitting in the Assembly was teh consideration by Committee of the Whole of an "address to the Governor, praying that His Excellency will be…

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Factory Butter

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 18 June 1887 · page 4

Mr. John Porter writes in the “Illawarra Mercury” :— “ I have been working the first private cream separator in the district. This has now been in use for fourteen months without repairs,…

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Hand-Made, Separator, and Factory Butter

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Tuesday 21 June 1887 · page 4

MR. JOHN PORTER writes to the Illawarra Mercury as follows:— Sir,—A. word or two from me in reference to cream-separators, and butter-factories,…

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Co-operative Butter Factory at Broughton Creek

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 29 June 1887 · page 2

AS announced in our advertising columns last week, a meeting of those who had sighed their intention of taking shares in the Proposed Batter was hold at the Agricultural…

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The Bonnyrigg Poultry Farm

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 29 June 1887 · page 4

THE Bonnyrigg Poultry farm is the property of Mr. Walter Kope, the well-known poultry breeder and writer upon poultry matters in the Sydney papers. The reporter…

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Candelo Farmers’ Union

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 2 July 1887 · page 2

AT the conclusion of the railway meeting, at Candelo on Tuesday last, a meeting was held for the purpose of considering the matter of forming a formers’ union…

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A Dairy of Sixteen Cows

Moruya Examiner · Friday 15 July 1887 · page 2

FOR the purpose of encouragement in these discouraging times to those who may be thinking of changing from dairying to something else that might pay better. I will give you the…

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