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Farming & the land, 1898

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Disease in Cattle

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 19 November 1898 · page 2

There is a story told of Napoleon's famous physician, Bourvoisier, that once at some public baths he heard a slight cough from aw person in and adjoining room. It was repeated after an…

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Use of Prescrvatives in Butter. English Objections

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 19 November 1898 · page 4

The dairy expert to the Department of Agriculture (Mr. O'Callaghan) has furnished a report to the Minister with reference to the resolution that a strict investigation be…

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The Wheat Crop

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 November 1898 · page 2

AN estimate of the wheat crop of the colony, compiled by the “Sydney Morning Herald,” gives the area under grain the season as 1,043,000 acres, from which…

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The Butter Industry

The Kangaroo Valley Times · Tuesday 22 November 1898 · page 3

Weddel and Co’s report, dated Oct. 14, shows that following quantity of butter was important into the united Kingdom from the undermentioned countries…

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The Barrengarry Dairy Factory. a New Refrigerating Plants

The Kangaroo Valley Times · Tuesday 22 November 1898 · page 2

Some time ago the directors of the Barrengarry Daily Factory, imbued with that sense of progressiveness which leaves everything ancient behind and ensure…

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Instructing in Dairying

The Kangaroo Valley Times · Tuesday 22 November 1898 · page 3

No class of workers in the colony is more eager to master all details pertaining to their avocation than the managers of butter factory companies. They are a…

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Items of Interest to Farmers

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 23 November 1898 · page 3

The Wyandotte is recommended as a farmer's fowl by Mr. George Bradslaw, a writer in the Agricultural Gazette. As sitters they are good and most careful mothers, but with a tondeney…

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The Wheat Crop

Moruya Examiner · Friday 25 November 1898 · page 2

AN estimate of the wheat crop of the colony, Compiled by the Sydney Morning Herald, gives the area under grain this season AS 1,043,000 acres, from which an average…

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A Triple Cross In Cattle

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 25 November 1898 · page 4

AN interesting letter, on the subject of raising crossbred cattle, has been contributed the “Live Stock Journal” by Mr. W. H. Walker, Tenterfield Station,…

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CHEESE V. BUTTER. (To the Editor.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 25 November 1898 · page 2

SIR.—As I know you are always willing to disseminate knowledge which might be useful to the farmers of the district. I respectfully ask if you will induce some…

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Colonial Butter in London

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 26 November 1898 · page 2

The weekly market report of Messrs. Weddel and Co., dated London, October 7, 1898, is as follows:— The hot weather mentioned in the last report…

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Ulladulla Refrigerating Butter Company

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 26 November 1898 · page 4

The fifth half yearly meeting of the Ulladulla Refrigerating Butter Company, Limited, was held in the Council Chambers on Wednesday afternoon. There was a…

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Dairy Farmers’ Association. New Method of Pasteurising

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 26 November 1898 · page 3

THE third meeting of the South Coast Dairy Fanners’ Association was held m the Berry School of Arts on Tuesday afternoon, Mr. D. Thorburn, who presided, in his opening remarks…

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The Barrengarry Dairy Factory. a New Refrigerating Plant

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 26 November 1898 · page 3

Some tim ego the directors of the Barrengarry Dairy Factory (says the Kangaroo Fulley Times), [?] with that sense of progressiveness which leaves everything ancient behind and…

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A Hint to Farmers

The Kangaroo Valley Times · Tuesday 29 November 1898 · page 3

Many of our farmers will be interested at learning the result of some interesting potato growing trials which are reported by the New Zealand Department of…

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Economy on the Farm

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 November 1898 · page 4

PROFITS on the farm are, consequently, much greater when the averages for several years are compared, as each year must hear its proportion of…

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Two Million Sheep

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 2 December 1898 · page 4

THE McCaughey brothers, of N.S.W. —Sam. David, and John —own among them more sheep than any other family in the world —2,000,000 head at the…

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Neglected Farms

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 2 December 1898 · page 4

OUR Milton contemporary, the “Times,” in noticing the remarks made at Berry recently by Mr. John Stewart as to the impoverished state of South Coast…

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London Butter Market

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 3 December 1898 · page 2

Messrs W. Woddol and Co's. weekly market report dated London, 21st October, 1898, is as follows:— During the early part of the week the weather…

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The London Butter Market

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 3 December 1898 · page 2

MESSRS. W. WEDDEL AND Co’s report October 28th, says:— The weather during the past week has been dry on the whole, though cloudy and…

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