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Southern Highlands · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1893

146 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 5 of 8

Farm Land Manure

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 7 October 1893 · page 3

Thousands of farmers do not realise the value of their yard manure, and thousands more have no idea of the waste which takes place in manure not thoroughly cared for. To…

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Special Land Sale. Farming Properties "Land Has Touched Bottom."

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 7 October 1893 · page 5

Mr. D. L. Dymock held a special land sale at Mr. Carter's Lake Illawarra Hotel, Brownsville, on Saturday afternoon, when several farming properties were placed in…

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The Wool Sales

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 11 October 1893 · page 2

The September-October series of London wool sales were closed on Saturday last, 185,000 bales having been sold and 35,000 held over…

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Butter Pats

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 14 October 1893 · page 2

There are a great many people in the dairy world who entertain a great many singular ideas about making butter. Take the subject of working butter for an instance;…

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The Export of Butter

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 14 October 1893 · page 5

The Minister for Mines and Agriculture has received a report from Inspector Dunnicliffe with reference to the shipment of utter to France. Mr. Dunnicliffe states that on…

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The Wool Trade Difficulty

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 18 October 1893 · page 2

A meeting of the Woolbrokers' Association was held in Melbourne on Monday, at which it was decided to accept the buyers' terms, that the sellers shall satisfy…

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The Wool Traffic

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 25 October 1893 · page 2

A busy season has been experienced in Darling Harbour in connection with the wool traffic, the daily deliveries, particularly those of the last few weeks, being heavy…

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Cash for Wool

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 28 October 1893 · page 3

The recent trouble between the Melbourne woolbuyers and selling-brokers is an eloquent commentary on the present rottenness of Victoria. The old-established trade…

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A Victim of Baby-Farming

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 28 October 1893 · page 3

A post mortem examination was made on Monday at Melbourne on the body of the infant named Toole, who was found in a terrible neglected condition at Brunswick,…

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London Butter Market

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 1 November 1893 · page 3

It is satisfactory to learn that Australian butter is realising such handsome prices in London just now; 118s to 120s per cwt. for factory butter is a substantial figure, and at…

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Wingecarribee Butter Factory

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 1 November 1893 · page 2

THE first annual general meeting of the shareholders of the above company was held in Morris and Co.'s Mart, Bowral, yesterday afternoon. Present: Messrs. W. J…

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More Wool, More Worry

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 1 November 1893 · page 2

The unfortunate dispute between sellers and buyers has brought a dead lock both in Melbourne and in Sydney. Happily in Melbourne the difficulty has been sufficiently…

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Exported Butter

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 4 November 1893 · page 5

The shipment of Sydney butter per R.M.S. Orotava, which sailed from Sydney on 11th September, is selling at 96s to 104s per cwt…

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Butter Exportation

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 4 November 1893 · page 3

Mr. H. Sinclair, manager, Bengelala Dairy Company, writes to the Berry Register.—After a short run round some of the agents' establishments in Sussex street, and…

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The Wool Trade Difficulty

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 4 November 1893 · page 5

The position of the two parties to the wool trade dispute is one of armed neutrality. The negotiations broken off on Tuesday were not renewed. Each side was…

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Co-Operative Dairying

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 4 November 1893 · page 3

Says a writer in the Otago Witness, N.Z.:—"To my way of thinking the certain assurance of the future of the great dairy industry lies in making it a colonial…

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The Wheat Crop of the United Kingdom

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 8 November 1893 · page 3

Sir J. B. Lawes, the well-known authority on agriculture, estimates that the wheat crop of the United Kingdom will yield a trifle under 5,500,000 quarters; The total requirements are estimated at…

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Price of Butter and Milk

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 8 November 1893 · page 3

Following letter has been addressed to the [?] Daily Telegraph—Seeing the interest you sake in domestic economical questions, I beg to draw your attention to the anomaly between the…

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Butter Exportation

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 11 November 1893 · page 3

A meeting of the full Executive of the above Association was held at their offices, Corporation Buildings, Sussex-street, for the purpose of considering very important…

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The Latest Invention in Dairy Machinery. the Swedish District Butter Extractor and Cream Separator

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 11 November 1893 · page 3

Manufacturers of the present age are forced by the ever increasing competition in all branches of industry, and the standing outery for reduced cost of production, to…

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