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Farming & the land, 1888

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Parkes or Protection. To Our Farmers & Free Selectors

Moruya Examiner · Friday 13 April 1888 · page 3

PROBABLY no class in New South Wales would benefit more by the adoption of a Protective tariff than our farmers and free selectors. Yet strange to say, a large…

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Dehorning Cattle

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 21 April 1888 · page 1

THE [?] says:—Hardly an agricultural paper comes to hand from America without some reference to the practice of dehorning cattle, all who have tried it being loud in their…

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Parkes or Protection. to Our Farmers and [?] SELECTORS

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 21 April 1888 · page 1

PROBABLY no class in New South Wales would benefit more by the adoption of a Protective tariff than our farmers and free selectors. Yet strange to Bay, a large number of them…

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The Victorian farmers and Protection

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 1

The Queenslander says:—The farmers in the mallee country of Victoria do not appear to be in a very thriving condition, for at a very large gathering of selectors at Winiam it was stated…

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“The Poor Victorian Farmer.”

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 1

The Victorian statistics of agricultural for 1887, just received, contain some truths exceedingly inconvenient to Foreign-trade oratory. It been the habits of our fiscal opponents to…

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Odds and Ends. a Thought for the Farmers

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 5 May 1888 · page 3

Our farmers have not, so far, performed their share of the work, or borne their proper proportion of the expenses, although the press has constantly advertised the [?] merit and…

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Butter-making by the Dry Process

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 9 May 1888 · page 3

WHAT is called the "dry process" in butter making promises to effect a great improvement in the production of an article capable of retaining its soundness during exportation. In…

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Farm and Garden Vicious Horned Stock

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 12 May 1888 · page 3

Almost every week we read of some person or animal being gored by a vicious bull or cow. I have been caring for bulls ever since. I was big enough, which is over thirty years…

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Advanced Dairying in New South Wales

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 16 May 1888 · page 2

Two years ago I visited the dairying districts of New South Wales, and reported that the mother colony had taken a long stop in advance of victoria in its methods of carrying on this…

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Farm and Garden. Dehorning Cattle

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 19 May 1888 · page 3

When the subject of dehorning cattle was first brought into public prominence by the street of its originator at the instance of the Humane Society of Illinois upon the charge…

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Butter Packages

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 23 May 1888 · page 4

The butter which scored such a success in the London market was sent in square boxes. These are known as New Zealand boxes, and the feature about them is a patent…

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Making Good Butter

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 23 May 1888 · page 3

"IN a recent paper on this subject, Mr. George Barham remarked as follows:— "In making 1lb of butter you take just the same constituents from your land as in…

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The £5000 Travelling Dairy Grab

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 23 May 1888 · page 4

"MILD INQUIRER" writes to The Age (Melbourne) under date May 6, as follows:—Sir,—As one interested in the dairy business, I have been watching with considerable interest the…

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Advanced Dairying in New South Wales. Exportation of Better

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 23 May 1888 · page 4

The past season in New South Wales has been a highly favourable one for the dairying business. After a long series of dry years in which dairymen had been taking steps to…

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The Island Butter Factory

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 30 May 1888 · page 2

THE manager of Kameruka Estate, Mr. W. W. Were, courteously invited a representative from the office to be present at the opening of the new totter factory at…

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Advanced Dairying in New South Wales. the Newest Butter Factory

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 30 May 1888 · page 4

The Camden Butter Factory is the most recently-established co-operative dairying concern in New South Wales. I have in previous articles, recorded the hi-tory of the factory…

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Among the Butter Factories. Cream Separtors

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 6 June 1888 · page 4

The cream separator is an important feature of the New South Wales butter factories. There were factories in America and elsewhere, however, before the…

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Advanced Dairying in New South Wales. Methods of Working

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 6 June 1888 · page 4

There are 50 suppliers sending milk to the factor, and this is about the largest number. Some factories carry on with 20, and the average is about 30. Many farmers, however,…

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Farm and Garden. Budding and Grafting. a Few Practical Hints Upon These Important Subjects

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 9 June 1888 · page 3

Having been requested to give an opinion on the subject of ‘Stocks, Grafting, and Pruning,’ I accede with pleasure, though having but a few moments of leisure at my…

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Rabbit Drives. the Sport of the Fr[?]sno Farmers. Tickling the Palate of the Swine with Cottontails

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 9 June 1888 · page 3

‘At what is known as Wildflower Colony in Fr[?]sno county, twenty miles south-west from the city of Fresno, is where the 10,000 rabbit drive took place last Friday,’ remarked…

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