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Southern Highlands · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1894

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Butter-Making in Denmark

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 January 1894 · page 3

In view of the rapidly-increasing proportions of the butter industry in this colony, details of practical operations followed by older countries come to us with interest. At…

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The Butter Export Trade

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 January 1894 · page 3

Among the exports of this colony which have recently grown to importance there is perhaps none which has greater possibilities before it than the butter trade. A few years…

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To Win the Butter Trade

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 January 1894 · page 4

Australia stands in the peculiar position Amongst countries that export dairy produce, of being able to carry the business on with a main dependence of outdoor grazing…

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Milking and Butter Tests in England

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 January 1894 · page 4

Milking tests at the Royal Agricultural Society's Show, held recently, are very interesting, Cows that weighed over lOOOlbs, competed together, those under that weight…

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N.S.W. Dairy Farmers Export Association. Grader's Report

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 January 1894 · page 3

Gentlemen;—Daring the past fortnight shippers have been actively engaged packing for export, and a large quantity of butter is still coming forward, the qulity of which…

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The Home and the Farm. Buttermilk

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 6 January 1894 · page 4

BUTTERMILK, when it is acid and not bitter, is a very valuable article of diet, and ought to be more widely used than it is. It is especially good for consumptives, the acid…

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Experimental Farm at Wagga

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 January 1894 · page 3

The Chief Clerk of the Agricultural Department, Mr. Campbell, recently visited Wagga to ascertain the progress that is taking place there in connection with the…

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New Zealand Sheep

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 January 1894 · page 3

Notwithstanding the heavy do Zealand sheep through the expa[?] frozen meat trade the number of islands last year was 19,357,72…

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Wool Growing

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 January 1894 · page 2

Few, perhaps, of our Australian wool-growers would care to admit that the British wool-growers can teach them much in this line. Nevertheless, there is a good deal in…

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0South Australian Wheat

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 January 1894 · page 3

Reports from Adelaide state that the South Australian agriculturalist, is in a most enviable position, so far as the wheat and maize are concerned. It is estimated that…

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N.S.W. Dairy farmers' Export Association Graders Report

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 January 1894 · page 3

Gentlemen,—Deferring to the past weeks operatiors, a falling off in the supplies of butter coming forward was noticeable, still the market was well stooked and a large…

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Dairy Farmers' Export Association

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 January 1894 · page 2

A meeting of the executive of the Dairy Farmers' Export Association was held in Sydney on Friday to consider the present outlook of the butter industry, more…

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Dairy Training

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 January 1894 · page 3

At the Agricultural College, Hawkesbury, a new entire dairy plant is being erected and pupils outside the college are to be taken to go through a three month's…

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Profit for Farmers

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 January 1894 · page 2

The following is a certain method by which a former can get two crops from his land and enrich it also. Instead of bare fallowing and scarifying, ploughing and…

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Dairy Truths

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 January 1894 · page 2

Those who make a poor quility of butter do not generally got a profit out of it. A cow cannot be expected to give a large amount of rich milk without plenty of good…

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200 Cattle Poisoned

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 3

News has been received at Bourke of heavy loss of cattle by the poisoning of a mob of 570. Over 200 were attacked, and 60 died in one spot. Many of them developed…

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Signs of a Good Farmer

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 3

The fences are in good order. Gates swing easily and fasten securely. The buildings are in good repair. His work is well in hand…

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Agriculturist. Dairy Cultivation

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 7

Where good seed is sown one would [?] look for a crop of good grain, or fruit, or the product of whatever plant life was represented by the seed. But is there…

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Special Farming

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 7

One of the most serious objections to special farming is the difficulty in maintaining the fertility without either purchasing foods or fertilizers. It is a well selected fact that any…

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Farming Near Cootamundra

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 17 January 1894 · page 3

A correspondent of the Cootamundra Herald says:—"I paid a visit to Mr. T. Manning's farm, Greenshade, Stockinbingal, and there I found him in the midst of his…

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