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Farming & the land, 1905

575 stories in South Coast's papers · page 12 of 29

Butter Factory Brands. Tricks of Agents

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 20 May 1905 · page 2

The N.S.W. Dairy Expects, Mr. O'Callaghan, in the "Agricultural Gazette" for this month writes as follows:— Evidence given before the Butter…

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The Butter Commission. Allegations As to Bribes

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 20 May 1905 · page 8

Butter, as the subject of an investigation by the Federal Royal Commission, got its final public stir in Sydney on Tuesday. The taking of evidence…

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Butter Commission. Conclusion of the Sittings Allegations As to Bribes. Partial Withdrawals and Reiterations

Southern Star · Saturday 20 May 1905 · page 4

The final sitting in Now South Wales of the Federal Royal Commission which is inquiring into the conditions under which the butter…

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Life in Persia. Glimpses of Anolent Customs—Farmers and Nobles

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 20 May 1905 · page 3

A Persian farmer ploughs by moonlight, for the days are warm and dry; as he ploughs he sings to his buffalo in terms of endearment, [?] him a brother and…

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Farm Wages in England and Australia

Southern Star · Saturday 20 May 1905 · page 4

"TRAVELLER" writes in the "Sunday Times":—" 'Dads Wayback' says 'In Hosstralia a farm laborer gets, say, thirty bob a week; in…

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Farm Notes. (From Various Sources.) a New Theory

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 May 1905 · page 1

Dr. Bicker, of Lausanne, France, has recently published in the “Chromium Agricola do Canton Vaude” an article in which he gives his…

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The Butter Commission. These Charges of Bribery. Fairbairn's Fallacies

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 24 May 1905 · page 3

At the Butter Commission, in Sydney on Tuesday last, Frederick George Roberts, chairman of directors of the Cobargo Butter Factory; John Underhill, secretary of the…

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Farm Notes. (From Various Sources.) Flavor in Butter

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 26 May 1905 · page 1

It is the flavor of butter that captures the taste of the consumer. Good flavored butter always commands a ready sale. To…

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Danish Dairy Feeding

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 26 May 1905 · page 1

The Danes feed their cows on a system. Mr. James Dunlop, of Kilmarnock, Scotland, who recently delivered an address entitled…

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Dairy Matters. Faked Butter

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 27 May 1905 · page 2

It is not in Holland only that the blending of colonial butter with adulterants is being carried on. It is now well known in Tooley street (says the London…

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Canadian Butter Market

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 27 May 1905 · page 2

An event occurred in the Canadian butter circles last February, the "Canadian Grocer" states which, is almost without precedent in the history of the trade,…

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Australian Butter Values in London

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 27 May 1905 · page 3

At every opportunity certain politicians representing country, districts an also some of the Government dairy experts in the Commonwealth, make it a post to…

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An Old Fable. the Wolves and the Sheep

Southern Star · Saturday 27 May 1905 · page 3

The "Westminster Gazette" publishes the following extract from the Russian of Kr[?]loff.— The sheep were sorely distressed by…

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Poultry on Small Farms

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 27 May 1905 · page 7

No words from my pen can so well describe the management of poultry as those from the able contributors to the poultry columns of this paper…

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Farm and Field

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 27 May 1905 · page 3

Action of Warm Water on Rennet. It is stated by the Canadian dairy journals that the discovery has been made in Canada that the use of warm…

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Farm Notes. (From Various Sources.) Taint in Milk

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 May 1905 · page 1

A highly interesting lecture was recently delivered at Chelmsford, England, by Mr F. Chittendon, of the Country Laboratory staff, who…

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Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Society. Continued Successful Career

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 31 May 1905 · page 8

Following is a copy of the Directors Report presented at the half-yearly meeting of shareholders held in the Victoria Hall, Lismore, yesterday :—GENTLEMENT,—Your…

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Shipment of Horses and Cattle

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 1 June 1905 · page 2

The Illawarra and South Coast Steam Navigation Company intimates that horses and cattle intended for shipment from Shoalhaven to Sydney by the…

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Farm Notes. (From Various Sources.) a Simple Milk Test

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1905 · page 1

An extremely simple and inexpensive and apparently correct method of testing milk for butter was exhibited by Mr. Robert…

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Flavor in Butter

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 3 June 1905 · page 3

It is the flavor of butter that captures the taste of the consumer. Good flavored butter always commands a ready sale. To obtain flavor strict cleanliness in the…

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