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Southern Highlands · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1888

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The Gerringong Butter Factory

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 8 September 1888 · page 2

OPERATIONS at the new Gorringong Butter Factory were commenced last Monday morning. There was nothing in the shape of a public demonstration, but nearly all the…

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FARM & GARDEN. Professor Henry on the Preparation of Ensilage

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 12 September 1888 · page 3

In Professor Henry's ensilage articles, being published in the Breeders' Gazette, he says Unit hint season he urged Unit the fodder be wilted before it was put into the silo, and…

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Cobbitty Butter Factory

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 15 September 1888 · page 2

AT a meeting at Cobbitty, held a few days ago, a Company was formed, the capital of which was fixed at £2000. The articles of association were read and…

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Wheat Growing

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 19 September 1888 · page 3

A well-known wheat dealer, in an article recently contributed to the Overland Monthly, figures out tho profits on 4000 acres of wheat land, which ho promises a Missouri farmer…

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Irrigated Wheat

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 19 September 1888 · page 3

The S. F. 'Chronicle has always stronously advocated the irrigation or flooding of soil to be devoted to a wheat crop whenever practicable While this may be troublesome…

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Farm and Garden

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 19 September 1888 · page 3

A MERMERIC PLANT.—A plant grows in Mixteca, Mexico, which the natives call the 'herb of propheccy.' A dose of it produces sleep similar in all respects to the hypnotic…

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Cattle and Sheep

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 22 September 1888 · page 1

RATES for conveyance of cattle (at per truck) Homebush are as follows:—From Goulburn, £1 4s; Marulau, £3 10s. 8d; Moss Vale, £2 12s; Bowral, £2 8s; Mittagong, £2 6s; Picton, £1 10s…

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Farm and Garden. Fine points of an Ineubator

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 26 September 1888 · page 3

An incubator may be described as a limited chamber, the temperature of whose atmosphere its humidity or moisture, its freedom from noxious gases, are under the cotrol of the…

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Cattle and Sheep

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 29 September 1888 · page 1

RATES for conveyance of cattle (at per truck) Homebush are as follows:—From Goulburn, £4 4s; Marulan, £3 10s 8d; Moss Vale, £2 12s; Bowral £2 8s; Mittagong, £2 6s; Picton, £1 10s…

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Cattle and Sheep

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 6 October 1888 · page 1

RATES for conveyance of cattle (at per truck) Homebush are as follows:—From Goulburn, £4 4s; Marulan, £3 10s 8d; Moss Vale, £2 12s; Bowral £2 8s; Mittagong, £2 6s; Picton, £1 10s…

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How to Make Good Butter

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 10 October 1888 · page 3

I have learned by long experience about making what I call good butter, and preserving it nice and sweet after it is made. To keep butter good that is made in the fall is one thing,…

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Farm and Garden

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 10 October 1888 · page 3

It is said that caterpillars and other pests of trees and shrubbery may be destroyed by boiling the stems and leaves of tomato plants and pouring the liquid upon the afflicted…

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The Camden Dairy Company

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 17 October 1888 · page 1

AT the School of Arts, Camden, on Saturday afternoon, tho Camden Dairy Company's first annual meeting was held and was very largely attended. The report and…

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Cattle and Sheep

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 20 October 1888 · page 1

Rates for conveyance of cattle, (at per truck) Homebush are as follows:—From Goulburn, £4 4s; Marulan, £3 10s 8d; Moss Vale, £2 12s; Bowral £2 8s; Mittagong, £2 6s; Picton, £1 10s…

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Kangaloon Butter Factory

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 20 October 1888 · page 2

A PUBLIC meeting was held in the hall at West Kangaloon on Thursday evening last. There were about 40 persons present, and Mr. H. Kennedy occupied chair. A similar meeting had been held…

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Danish Butter. Important Official Report

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 20 October 1888 · page 4

CONSUL Inglis, of Copenhagen, has just published a report on dairy farms in Denmark. He states that the total annual exports of butter from that country, which in 1877-82…

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The Kangaloon Butter Factory

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 24 October 1888 · page 1

BY advertisement in another column it will be seen that shares in the Kangaloon Butter Factory Company are obtainable on application to the secretary, Mr. Jas. L…

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Cattle and Sheep

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 27 October 1888 · page 1

RATES for conveyance of cattle (at per truck) Homebush are as follows:—From Goulburn, £4 4s; Marulan, £3 10s 8d; Moss Vale, £2 12s; Bowral £2 8s; Mittagong, £2 6s; Picton, £1 10s…

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Cattle and Sheep

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 3 November 1888 · page 1

RATES for conveyance of cattle (at per truck) Homebush are as follows:—From Goulburn, £4 4s; Marulan, £3 10s 8d; Moss Vale, £2 12s; Bowral £2 8s; Mittagong, £2 6s; Pioton, £1 10s…

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Butter Factories. Hints on Their Establishment

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 3 November 1888 · page 4

THE following extracts, which will be interesting to many of our readers, are taken from a report of a lecture on Co-operative Dairying, delivered recently by Mr. Henry Harding, of…

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