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Southern Highlands · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1890

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Shipment of Butter for England

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 15 January 1890 · page 3

THE Orient, which left Sydney for London on Saturday, secured ft first-rate cargo, inclusive of a shipment of butter, amounting in all to some 1400 packages, 1150 of which…

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Butter Factory for Glenquarry

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 22 January 1890 · page 2

The roll of butter factories continues to swell. Glenquarry, or what may still be better known as Upper Mittagong, has decided to add another one to the list. A very hearty…

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Meeting of Dairymen

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 29 January 1890 · page 2

A MEETING of dairymen and milk vendors was held at Goulburn on Saturday evening last, and attended by about fourteen engaged in the trade…

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The Glenquarry Butter Factory

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 1 February 1890 · page 3

DAIRYMEN and others interested in the matter are reminded that the adjourned meeting in reference to establishment of a butter factory at Glenquarry will be held in the school;…

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Boys' Farm Home, Camden

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 5 February 1890 · page 3

The Boys Farm Home at Camden, Which, was the gift of Mr. W. H. Paling to the society for Providing Homes for Neglected children, was opened on Saturday bu the…

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Glenquarry Butter Factory

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 8 February 1890 · page 2

A PUBLIC meeting re the establishment of a butter factory was held at Glenquarry school house on Thursday evening last. Mr. A. Kirkland was voted to the chair, and there were also present Messrs. J…

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Glenquarry Butter Factory

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 12 February 1890 · page 2

The meeting, adjourned from Thursday evening, was held, at Glenquarry in the Sohoolhouse on Saturday evening. Mr. A. Kirkland was made chairman and the…

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Some Seasonable Suggestions About Butter. to Restore Rancid Butter

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 12 February 1890 · page 1

Use one part of water to each pound of butter, previously adding twenty grains of cloride [?] lime to each pint of water; wash well [?] matter in this mixture, afterwards…

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Carriage of Dairy Produce, &c

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 15 February 1890 · page 2

BYLAWS have been adopted by the Railway Commissioners under which dairy produce in small quantities, actual weight, is to be carried at the first-class rate, subject to the…

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Glenquarry Dairy Company

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 19 February 1890 · page 2

A GENERAL meeting of the above company Was held in the Glenquarry school-room on Saturday evening last, at 8 p.m. The following persons were present: Messrs. A…

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"Protected" Farmers

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 22 February 1890 · page 4

THE following instructive report of a meeting of farmers, held in Victoria last week, is taken from Tuesday's Melbourne Argus, and deserves careful perusal by all interested…

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Points of Ayrshire Cattle

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 26 February 1890 · page 4

THE head is small, the horns wide at the, base, curving upwards and slightly inwards at the points; the eye is quick and lively, the neck is long and slender, but thickens where…

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The Dairies Supervision Act. Suggested Amendments by the Dairymen's Society

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 26 February 1890 · page 4

AT a recent meeting of the Dairymen's Protective Society a committee was appointed to report upon the Dairies Supervision Act, with a view to suggesting amendments to…

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The Independent Farmer

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 2 April 1890 · page 4

IT is a popular belief, from one end of the country to the other, that the only truly independent men existing is the farmer. Therefore, we have but to look upon the…

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Illawarra Dairy Cattle

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 5 April 1890 · page 2

ANOTHER instance of the increasing popularity of the above-named strain of cattle, says the Kiama Independent, was furnished on Friday last, on which day Messrs. Cole Brothers, of…

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Cattle Sale

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 5 April 1890 · page 2

Mr. J. G. Morris held an imporant acution sale of dairy cattle on Wednesday last, at his yards, Bowral. Sixty head were put into the yards by Messrs. Oxley and Wellford—…

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State Butter Shows in Denmark

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 5 April 1890 · page 3

IN a report just issued, Mr. Inglis, the Consul at Copenhagen, who has already published an interesting report on dairy farms in Denmark, describes a new system of State…

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Kangaloon Dairy Company

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 12 April 1890 · page 3

TENDERS, receivable up to the 17th inst., are invited in our advertising columns for the erection of piggeries for the Kaugaloon Dairy Company…

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Section 2—CATTLE

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 16 April 1890 · page 2

Judges—MESSRS. WOODHOUSE and R. H. INGLIS. DURHAMS. Bull, any age. Miller Bros., Moss Vale. Cow, any age. Badgery Dros…

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Section 4—SHEEP

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 16 April 1890 · page 2

Best pen of 4 fat sheep, wethers, Cross-bred. No entry. Pen of 4 fat sheep, ewes, Cross-bred. H. S. Badgery 1; W. Morrice 2…

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