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Farming & the land, 1898

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Rough on the Dairy Expert

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 February 1898 · page 2

REFERRING to a speech delivered by Mr. M. A. O’Callaghan at the Albion Park Show luncheon, the “Kiama Independent” pokes the expert in the…

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Sugar-beet as a Food for Cattle

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 5 February 1898 · page 4

In regard to the value of sugar-beet as a food for stock, a correspondent write to an American Journal:—The beet contains considerably less nutriment than our standard…

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Lecture on Dairying

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 5 February 1898 · page 2

On Saturday evening last, Mr. M.A. O'Callaghan, Government dairy expert, delivered lecture on "Dairying," in the School of Arts, Milton, to an audience…

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Berry Dairy Company

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 5 February 1898 · page 2

PURSUANT to notice 27 shareholders of the Berry Dairy Company met at the Comany’s office on Monday, to attend the annual meeting. Mr. John Stewart, Chairman of Directors…

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Dairy Company Dividends

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 5 February 1898 · page 2

As the dairying industry is of more importance than any other to the South Coast, it is consequently of more interest than any other to those who “live, move, and have…

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The Sheep-killing Kea

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 February 1898 · page 4

A PAIR of keas, or New Zealand mountain parents, are on view at the Melbourne Zoological-gardens. The kea who first described as a sheep killer in…

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Poultry Farmer’s Balance Sheet

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 February 1898 · page 4

A FEW days ago the Sydney “Daily Telegraph” published some particulars regarding Mr. Samuel Ellis’ poultry farm at Bo[?]any, and as an evidence of…

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[?] to Butter Makers

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 9 February 1898 · page 1

In a letter in an Otago paper, Mr. J. Chapple states that by adding to the milk as soon as drown from the cow about two teacupsful of boiling water to an ordinary…

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Colonial Butter Report

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 12 February 1898 · page 4

MESSRS. WEDDEL AND CO’s. weekly report, for the week ending January 7th, says :— Butter.—So far there seems no indication of an old fashioned winter coming upon us…

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Colonial Dairy Produce

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 12 February 1898 · page 4
Also in The Ulladulla and Milton Times

The weekly market report of Messrs. W. Weddel and Co., dated London, December 31st, 1897, says:—The frosty and ideal Christmas weather…

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The London Butter Market

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 February 1898 · page 2

THE “S.M. Herald” writes as follows, under date 7th January :—It is very disappointing to have to record another fall in the butter market, so far as…

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Disastrous Flood in the Valley. a Repetition of the Flood 28 Years Ago. Computed Fall of Rain About 20 Inches. the Valley to Barrengarry a Huge Lake. the Public Road Impassable the Town Cut Off. Houses Inundated to the Roofs. the Old Bridge Swept Away Holus Bolus. Immense Destruction of Property. Horses, Cattle, and Poultry Drowned

The Kangaroo Valley Times · Tuesday 15 February 1898 · page 2

When on Wednesday last a terrific hot day was succeeded by a a sudden southerly change bringing with it smoke almost…

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A Record Shipment of Wheat

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 16 February 1898 · page 4

Hitherto the wheat sent from Australia to New Caledonia has been principally South Australian, reshipped at Sydney. Last tuesday evening the M.M. Company's branch…

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A Large Farm

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 16 February 1898 · page 4

The largest farm in New Zealand was at one time a swamp or morass, but was reclaimed by drainage. It is situated on the Great Canterbury Plain, and is the…

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Colonial Butter Report

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 3

MESSRS, WEDDEL AND Co’s, weekly report for the week January 14th, says:— Butter,—The abnormally mild weather which prevails all over Europe shows no signs of…

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Rules for Butter Makers. [?] of Cream and Churning

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 4

A list of rules about ripening cream and mating butter were sent recently by an instructor at Cornell Agricultural College, Ithica, N.Y. He says:—…

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Private Shipments of Butter to Europe. Consignments From Kangaroo Valley and Gerrigong

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 2

A first ship'nent of butter manufactured from cream pasto[?]rised at Mr. Rohert Gordon's manufactory at Omega (Gerringong) brought top prices in England, selling at 103s per cwt.,…

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South Coast Dairy Stock

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 2

The Government dairy expert, Mr. O'Callaghan, has been more favorably impressed with the dairy stock in the South Coast district than with the cattle in some…

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Wanted: A Dairymen's Association

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 8

The dairy farm and dairy produce manufacturing interests are of such magnitude, and so many issues, directly aud indirectly, affecting the industry and those allied to it…

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