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Farming & the land, 1894

236 stories in South Coast's papers · page 6 of 12

Making Good Butter

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 2 May 1894 · page 4

At the Monroe Institute (America), J. D. Clark Spoke on "[?] edged Butter, and How it is Made",. He said to make fine butter necessitated the keeping of…

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The Bedialla Estate Co-operative Farms

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 2 May 1894 · page 2

IT will be remembered that at end end of last year the Directors of the Bodalla Company, Limited, cut up part of the Bodalla Estate into dairy farms, and let the areas on seven years…

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Mr. Hay and Improved Dairying

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 2 May 1894 · page 2

ON Saturday afternoon last a meeting of Dairy Factory Directors and others was held at the School of Arts, Berry. The meeting which had been convened by circular by Mr. John Hay, of…

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The Denmark Dairy System

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 2 May 1894 · page 4

AN interesting report on the dairy system of Denmark has been made by the Belgian Consul at Fredrikshaven. It appears that there are 104 dairies in the Danish districts of…

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How the Champion Butter was Made

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 5 May 1894 · page 1

MR. LUCAS CHASSEY, winner of the champion prize in the great butter-making competition at the last London Dairy Show, has given an account of his procedure. It will be noticed that…

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Farm and Garden

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 5 May 1894 · page 2

If you have only a limited amount to invest, and are about baying sheep it will be far better to buy a few good ones than many nulls. It is the quality of your flock…

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Traveller, Farming in the Fiji Islands. Herbert Stanley Rentons

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 5 May 1894 · page 3

In fruiterers’ windows, everywhere in Australian and New Zealand Fiji bananas are displayed temptingly at prices ranging from six pence to a shilling per dozen…

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Duty on Wool Imported Into America. to Be Removed. London

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 11 May 1894 · page 2

The American Senate has agreed to the removed of the duties on wool on and after August 2nd…

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Farm and Garden

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 12 May 1894 · page 2

The appearance of the animals on a farm tells a good deal stunt the owner and his tastes. Thin cows with prominent ribs in winter or spring are not much of a…

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Selling Margarine for Australian Butter. London

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 May 1894 · page 2

The Dutch are packing margarine for export to England, simulating Australian butter, being packed in boxes similar to those brought from Australia…

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Rocks Ahead for the N.S.W. Butter Trade!

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 16 May 1894 · page 4

NEVER (says the Australian Field), since the earliest days of husbandry, has butter been so largely manufactured or widely used as at present. For the past few years…

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Dairy Farmers’ Export Association

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 18 May 1894 · page 3

THE following circular, under date May 10th, has been issued by the above : The above Association having decided to again increase the pro rata contributions to the…

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Dairy Farmers’ Export Association

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 19 May 1894 · page 1

THE following is the grader’s report for the week ending May 12:—“The consignments of butter now coming forward show a general falling off, still the supply is largely in excess of…

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Farm and Garden

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 19 May 1894 · page 2

It is just as important to adopt labor saving devices for the house as for the field. The separator is one of the things that will relieve the women folks immensely, if even…

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Farm for Leeches

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 19 May 1894 · page 2

G. E. Walsh, Suffolk Co., N. Y.: In North Carolina, not far from Greenville, there is a leech farm, where nearly all of the leeches used for medical purposes in…

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Women in The Dairy

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 19 May 1894 · page 1

IN an article in The Cable, the Rev. S. Currie says:—I have never known a child to be spoiled for society or usefulness by learning to milk, and I do know ladies…

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Victorian Wheat in England. London

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 May 1894 · page 1

Victorian wheat sold at £1 2s 3d per quarter…

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Dairy and Farm Notes

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 23 May 1894 · page 4

MR. J.S. MILLER, V.S., of Gudenby, N.S.W., claims to be the first person in Australia to have tried spaying cows to keep them in milk having spayed cows…

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The Butter Industry. Price Reduced by the Association

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 25 May 1894 · page 3

A MEETING of the New South Wales Dairy Farmers’ Export Associations was held on Monday afternoon at its rooms, Sussex-street, for the purpose of considering the…

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Farm and Garden

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 26 May 1894 · page 3

When prices are low the wise man does not rail against the times, but settles down into an effort to make them better so far as he is personally concerned. The farmer…

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