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Farming & the land, 1904

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Kangaroo Valley Butter Tests

The Kangaroo Valley Times · Tuesday 1 March 1904 · page 2

We annex the following letter from the Kiama “Reporter”:— Sir,—In the “S.M. Herald,” dated February . 2-2, 1904, there appears an…

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The Butter Market

The Nowra Colonist · Wednesday 2 March 1904 · page 2

The Coastal Farmers’ Co-operative Society reports, Feb 27 :—Sales have been very satisfactory during the week. The possibility of stoppage of export…

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Farm and Dairy

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 2 March 1904 · page 5
Also in The Nowra Colonist

In all 23 cattle were brought before the judges at Alstonville show with the object of having them passed into the Milking Shorthorn Association's herd book. Of these…

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Barrengarry Dairy Co

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 2 March 1904 · page 1

During the past year the Barrengarry Dairy Company's overdraft has been reduced from £1186 to £957, the lowest since the inauguration of the company. This is…

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The Butter Market

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 3 March 1904 · page 2

The Coastal Farmers’ Co-operative Society reports, Feb. 27:— Sales have been very satisfactory during the week. The possibility of stoppage of export…

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Farm and Dairy

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 3 March 1904 · page 4

Mr. Walter Ewin is giving up dairying at Milton and leaving the district. Late corn crops on the Richmond are said to be failures owing to the…

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Prize Cattle

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 2

THIS week’s Coastal Farmer’s Gazette contains illustrations of thfee of Mr George Tate’s (Kangaroo Valley) champion. cattle, namely —Jiminy; (dairy bull), and Lucky and Tot, two,…

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Cattle Markets

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 1

MR H Fryer, auctineer, held a record sale—so far as prices were concerned—at the Albion Park yards, on Saturday last. Eight heifers for Mr. D. Vidler were…

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Wharfage Dues on produce. Protest of Farmers

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 2

A meeting of farmers, convened by the Coastal Farmers Co-operative Society, was held at Bega on Wednesday to discuss the proposal to levy…

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Bega Show Milk and Butter Tests

The Nowra Colonist · Wednesday 9 March 1904 · page 1

Champion Dairy Cow.—Kameruka Estate’s “Vanilla” (Jersey), 1st day, 16lb 8oz milk, test 4.0, butter 72, 2nd day, 29lb 8oz milk, test 4.6, butter…

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Important to Dairymen. Arbitrary Action by an Inspector

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 9 March 1904 · page 4

A case of importance in connection with the dairying regulations was dealt with at the Maclean Police Court recently. Alexander Ross was charged with supplying…

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Judging Champion Dairy Bulls

The Nowra Colonist · Wednesday 9 March 1904 · page 3

Mr Charles Barnes, of Sydney, recently wrote to the Kiama Agricultural Association as follows :—“Having heard it asserted that the progeny of…

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Judging Champion Dairy Bulls

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 10 March 1904 · page 3

Mr Charles Barnes, of Sydney, recently wrote to the Kiama Agricultural Association, as follows :— Ha[?]ing heard it asserted that the progeny of…

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Alleged theft of Butter

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 12 March 1904 · page 2

AT the Mittagong Police Court on Thursday, before Mr. Maitland, P.M., Jones, the manager the B. D. Farm and Dairy Company’s branch butter factory at Mittagong, was charged…

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Increase in Butter Values

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 12 March 1904 · page 2

The Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Society is used the following report on Wednesday.-The rough weather on the coast recently reduced arrivals…

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Central Butter Factory for Kangaroo Valley

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 12 March 1904 · page 4

Mr. Henry J. Maynard writes to the K. V. "Times" as follows:—There appears to be a somewhat widespread idea that one central factory for…

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Farm and Dairy

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 12 March 1904 · page 2

A farm of 26 acres on the Manning River has been sold for £l,300. A block of locerue land at Bacchus Marsh (Vic.) was sold by Fairbairn…

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Results of Departmental Tests of the Season’s Wheat

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 12 March 1904 · page 2

THE chemist has lately been conducting a number of analytical tests of the present season’s wheat, the results of which will be of interest to millers and others in the flour trade…

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Important to Dairymen. Arbitrary Action by an Inspector

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 12 March 1904 · page 1

A case of importance in connection with the dairying regulations was dealt with at the Maclean Police Court recently. Alexander Ross was charged with supplying cream from an…

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