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Southern Highlands · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1893

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The Home and the Farm

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 15 March 1893 · page 3

ADVICE.—Take the band of the friendless; smile on the sad and dejected; sympathise with these in trouble; strive everywhere to diff[?]se around you sunshine…

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The Markets and Butter

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 6

The floods in the North have greatly unsettled the market. So far it is impossible to tell what the actual produce effect will be upon prices. The produce merchants…

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The Home and the Farm

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 4

HEADACHE. — Woollen stockings rectify headache. DON'T forget to give the poultry house a thorough overhauling about this time. Clean…

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The Dairying Industry

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 8

Mr. William Kennedy, responding to the teast of "The Judges" at the Ulladulla Show luncheon last week, spoke of the in provements in the breeds of cattle and he…

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The Home and the Farm

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 29 March 1893 · page 3

OATS.—Oats is one of the best egg-producing foods known. It would probably be more extenesively used were it not for the rough bull. Now that a bulless oat can be…

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The Dairy. Creameries, and Causes contributing to Their Success of Failure

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 1 April 1893 · page 7

The success of a creamery, like most commercial concerns, depends greatly on its situation. If a creamery ifs intended for the manufacture of butter alone, and its…

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The Dairy. Creameries, and Cannes Contributing to Their Success or Failure

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 8 April 1893 · page 2

The success of a creamery, like most commercial concerns, depends greatly on its situation. If a creamery is intended for the manufacture of butter alone, and its…

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The Home and Farm

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 3

MINCED BEEF.—Cold beef, I onion, flour, I oz butter, I teacupful gravy, cut onion in thin sliccs, and fry it in the butter till brown; then add the gravy and…

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Miscellaneous. My Daniel. the Farmer Speaks

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 7

You don't know Daniel, I reckon; well Daniel's my oldest son; He's a regular bloomin' cerus with nary a fault but one…

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Farm and Garden. Gapes in Chickens

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 6

The only visible symptom of gapes is a continued gaping, accompanied by a wheening sound, which increased in frequenoy and voilence until the disease begions to yield to…

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Determining Butter-Fat in Milk

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 19 April 1893 · page 4

Pursuant to an announcement in the September issue of the Agricultural Gazette, the Department of Agriculture obtained a Badcock milk-testor, which has been submitted…

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Politics and Butter

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 29 April 1893 · page 2

THE "first gentleman in the land," Sir G. R. Dibbs, did not seem to present the most, kindly front to a deputation of farmers led into his august presence by…

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The Traveller. Prince Whatsisname's Impressions of Bowral. CONTRIBUTED.—No. 5. the Butter Factories

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 3 May 1893 · page 4

The next day Mr. A. obtained a carriage (he called it a buggy, but I had never heard that name before, nor could he tell me why it was so named). He drove me to one of…

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Farmer. Warm Water for Cattle

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 May 1893 · page 3

One of the latest subjects brought under the notice of the farmers of Great Britain is that of warming the water given to the cattle in order to increase the flow of…

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Butter Shipments for Coming Season. To the Editor of the Scrutineer and Berrima District Press

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 13 May 1893 · page 2

Sir,—Enclosed please find scheme for next year's shipments of butter to London. It is quite certain that unless some steps are taken, and that almost immediately, butter…

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An Amateur Danci[?]aister. Scene: The Neepland Farm Servants Chaumer

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 May 1893 · page 8

Davie (a visitor frae a neebor toon)—Man, Geordie. I liket richt weel tae see ye dance the Heelan' fling at the plooin' match ball; it was capital. Nae won'er…

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Testing Dairy Cows

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 May 1893 · page 4

The uncertainty of deciding the value of dairy stock by general appearance was (says Hoard's "Dairyman') recently demonstrated by a breeder of high-class dairy cows. His…

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Australian Butter in London. an Experts Report

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 24 May 1893 · page 4

Some months ago the Victorian Government sent Mr. D. Wilson, an expert in the dairy and fruit industries, to London to inquire into the state of the English market Several cablegrams have already been…

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Robertson Dairy Company

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 24 May 1893 · page 3

The ninth half-yearly meeting of shareholders was held in the School of Arts on Thursday evening last, there being present Messrs. J.E. Williams J. Marshall, W. H. Walker, J. Curtis, M…

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The Butter Industry

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 27 May 1893 · page 4

The returns from the dairy industry in New South Wales for the year 1892 show that the manufacture of butter has considerably extended; that of cheese exhibits…

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