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Farming & the land, 1897

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Bad Butter in England. Private Enterprise at Fault. Government Supervision Needed

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 15 May 1897 · page 1

The Minister for Mines and Agricultures (Mr. Sydney Smith) has recently received reports from England showing a very undesirable state of things as regards the…

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Visit of a Dairy Expert. MR. U. P. CAMERON-HOLSTROM

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 15 May 1897 · page 2

Mr. U. P. Cameron-Holstrom, the dairy export of the Pastoral Finance Association, Sydney, is at present on a visit to this district. He is a Swede, and possesses the highest…

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The Dairying Industry. Illawarra Shorthorns for Queensland

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 15 May 1897 · page 2

Professor Shelton, agricultural expert and instructor under the Queensland Department of Agriculture has been making enquiries into the dairying industry of this…

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Dehorning Cattle

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 May 1897 · page 4

No two opinions exist as to the advantage age of dehorning Cattle, but particularly dairy cows. If the lose dairy farmers sustain through cows forming each…

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The Butter Industry. New South Wales Behind the Other Colonies

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 May 1897 · page 2

THE Minister for Mines and Agriculture (Mr. Sydney Smith) has recently received reports from England showing a very undesirable state of things as regards the…

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Facts for Dairymen

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 May 1897 · page 4

1. The production of butter largely dependent on breed. 2. There is a structural limit to the production of butter to each cow…

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Rearing Heifers for the Dairy Herd

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 May 1897 · page 4

IT is not enough that a heifer [?] for the dairy [?] should be of the right [?] of itself is not [?] must go hand in…

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London Butter Market Report

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 19 May 1897 · page 1

The mild weather continued until two days ago, though there has been less wet than usual. Rain and sleet, with a sudden fall in temperature occurred yesterday in…

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Prizes for Farms and Farms and Crops

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1897 · page 3

A FEW years back several of the leading agricultural societies adopted the plan of giving prizes for well managed farms and special crops, and the system became fairly…

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Exported Butter. the Trade in Defence

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 22 May 1897 · page 8

The publication of certain, reports regarding the exportation of inferior N.S.W. butter to England was considered by the principal exporting firms to be so damaging to the best…

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System in Farming

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 May 1897 · page 4

SYSTEMATIC management is not often a strong point with colonial farmers, and, with the great majority, operations are carried on in a somewhat “happy go…

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The Butter Market

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 2 June 1897 · page 1

Messrs. W. Weddel and Co. report under date of London, 23rd April :—The warm rainy weather referred to last week continued until yesterday, when…

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Bacon-Curing on Farms

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 4 June 1897 · page 4

THE following paper on bacon curing for small farmers was rend at a recent meeting of the Burra branch of the S.A. Bureau of Agriculture by Mr. J…

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The Butter Industry. Probable American Competition

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 11 June 1897 · page 4

THE Butter markets of Australia, and particularly of Victoria (says the New York, correspondent of the “Age”) will have in [?] themselves and…

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The Vagaries of the Butter Market. Work of the Middleman. (From the “Clarence Examiner.”)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 11 June 1897 · page 4

EXAMPLES of how our export butter trad is handicapped by the artifices of the middleman recur with such regularity and in such number that many…

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Ulladulla Refrigerating Butter Company, Limited

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 12 June 1897 · page 4

The second half-yearly meeting of the Ulladulla Refrigerating Butter Co, Ltd. (adjourned from May 19th ultimo) was held in the Council Chamber, Milton, on…

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The Dairying Expert

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 12 June 1897 · page 2

In the Assembly last week Mr. Archibald Campbell said:—I desire to ask the Secretary for Mines and Agriculture whether the dairying expert is to visit the various dairying centres of…

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The Butter Market

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 16 June 1897 · page 4

Messrs. W. Weddel and Co. report under date of London, 7th May, as follows :—The warm temperature still continues and the pastures in Ireland and…

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Agricultural Conference. the Dairy Industry

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 19 June 1897 · page 4

Following up the practice of the present Minister for Mines and Agriculture, Mr. Sydney Smith, of holding conferences of representatives of Various industries, it has…

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An English Dairy Factory

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 25 June 1897 · page 4

THE Tring herd of dairy cows in England is probably one of the finest collections of pure Jerseys in the world. The butter made at Tring is a special…

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