Our Butter Factory. CONTRIBUTED
THE Wingecarribee Butter Factory Co., Limited, commenced operations on Tuesday morning last, 28th iuslant. The opening was an unoficial one but notwithstanding there was a good muster of…
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Farming & the land, 1892
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The Home and the Farm
BUTTER.—A great deal of butter is spoiled after it leaves the churn by being worked too much. It destroys the quality of toughness, and tends to make it greasy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Farmer's Son's Opinion. (To the Editor of the Scrutineer.)
Sir,—I'm only a Burrawung farmer's young son at school and when i'm tourt when to say and when to held my toung. But sumtimes i comes in to Moss Vale and then…
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THE export season for 1892-3 has now fairly commenced, and up to date the South Coast ana West Camden Co-operative Co., Sydney, have pnaked and despatched 1900 boxes of butter. The surplus…
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The best breeds of fowls will lay many more cues, and cost no more than a common hen. It is well worth while to try the experiment with, a setting of eggs…
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Two beeves can never be made fat on a pasture that has only grass enough for one. To keep the poultry free from vermin, their quarters must be kept obsolutely clean…
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On Saturday evening last the Director of Agriculture, Mr. H. C. L. Anderson (whoso portrait we have pleasure in presenting to our readers above), was announced to lecture on "Manures." The…
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A MEETING of those interested in the establishment of a butter faotory at Mittagong was held in the Canterbury Hall on Tuesday last. Mr. J. Loseby occupied the chair…
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The fastest way to make money in the dairy, is to keep alwaye weeding out the poor cows. The only way to free the farm from…
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It would be of considerable advantage to farmers if they paid more attention to the business of poultry raising. That it is profitable, if sensibly and properly pursued, has…
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Shelter in Pasture.—We have often urged the need, in a treeless pasture, of some shelter to afford the animals protection from the excessive heat of the sun. If this shelter…
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Our readers will remember the cattle stealing case in September last at Moss Vale when James Thomas Dillon, calling himself a cattle dealer, was captured by the…
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An inquiry was made of the London Live Stock Journal as to whether a height of 19 hands had ever been exceeded in horses, whereupon came out a description…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Determary. Diseases in Cattle
Dadd says the pathology, or doctrine of diseases is little understood. Many different causes have been assigned for disease, and as many different modes of cure have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmer. English Dairy Management. (Extract from an address before the Gowrie Creamery Company, as published in the North British Agriculturist.)
The principal matter in milking was to have the milk clean. Good butter could never be had from filthy milk or cream. The cow's adder must be perfectly clean, and the hands…
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KEEPING BUTTER.—Having, experimented to ascertain the keeping qualities of washed granular butter and unwashed, L. P. Bailey says in Rural New Yorker…
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A MEETING of the company was held on Saturday morning, in the Canterbury Hall. Mr. J. Loseby was voted to the chair. After discussion it was unanimously decided to…
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SIR,—We beg to advise that we are in receipt of cables from London reporting the sale of our first spring shipment of butter at 124s per cwt…
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New tins should be set over the fire, filled with water, for some hours before using them. HONEY SPONGE CAKE.—One large coffee…
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THE Wingecarribee Butter Factory put through 19735 gallons of milk last month and paid suppliers 3d per gallon, owing to the piggeries not being completed the price paid was lower than it otherwise…
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