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Southern Highlands · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1894

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The [?] Butter Expert

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 January 1894 · page 6

It in a curious fact, that whilst the export of butter from Victoria fur exceede that from Hew South' Wales, the Victorians should have been indebted to the engineers of our…

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Small Butter Making Machines

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 January 1894 · page 2

While the land separators admit of better work in butter. making on the farm there is still considerable skill required in manipulating the cream and working the churn…

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Does Butter Production Exhaust Vitality

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 January 1894 · page 2

The acsertion has recently been publicly made that the enormous yields of butter with which certain dairy cows are credited, is of no interest to the ordinary farmer, since…

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The Butter-Making Industry. a New Churn

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 January 1894 · page 6

One of the moat important questions at present engaging attention in Australia is that of butter-making. The rapid development of the butter export trade, and the…

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A Big Load of Wool

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 January 1894 · page 6

The biggest load of wool that ever came to Hay (says the Grazier) was brought in by Mr W. Spry. The waggon bore 100 sales of wool and six holes of rabbit skins,…

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

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 January 1894 · page 6

Gentlemen,.—Butter packed and graded for the week ending Jan 18th shows a stight incrense as compared with the results of the evening weels the number of boxes…

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The Home and the Farm. a Codlin Moth Trap. a Goulburn Invention

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 20 January 1894 · page 4

AT a meeting of the pomological committee of the Department of Agriculture on Thursday, a simple and efficacious codlin moth trap was submitted by Mr. Morgan,…

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Champion Farms

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 January 1894 · page 6

The report of the judge (Mr. F. B. Kyngdon, M.R.A.C) appointed to adjucicate on the merits of the farms entered for the champion prize offered in connection with…

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The Home and the Farm

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 24 January 1894 · page 3

SOOT.—The latest disinfectant is common soot. It is said to be a great germkiller, to absorb foul gases, and to be a preventive of cholera…

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The Victorian Butter Export

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 27 January 1894 · page 3

As a centre for the butter trade of the Western districts of Victoria, the little seaport of Warnambool enjoys many advantages. First and foremost com°8 the water…

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N.S.W Dairy Farmer's Expert Association Grader's Report

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 27 January 1894 · page 3

The dryness of the weather the near city of aucculent food suitable for dairy cows is beinning to show to some extent in various parts of the butter-making districts…

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The Banks and the Farmers

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 27 January 1894 · page 5

The farmers of the Walcha district have attended a meeting convened by the Mayor, and passed a resolution praying that two year's grace in the payment of instalments…

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The Farmer and the Sermon

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 31 January 1894 · page 2

A FARMER went to hear John Wesley preach, he was a man who cared very little for religion. On the other hand, he was not what we…

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Melbourne Chilled Butter Co

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 3 February 1894 · page 4

The dairying industry, as exemplified by the Melbourne Chilled Butter Company, has proved at great success, they having more than doubled their output every year of their…

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Good Yields of Butter

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 3 February 1894 · page 5

Mr. Fred. D. Badgery writes:—At Kiama Show on Thursday last fourteen cows were shows for the prize offered for the largest yield of milt. The prize was won…

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

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 3 February 1894 · page 3

Gentlemen,—My report for, the week ending January 27th again shows a decrease, in the quantity of butter packed for export in connection with the Dairy Farmers' Export…

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The Price of Wheat

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 10 February 1894 · page 4

The following respecting the price of wheat in Victoria, should be road and digested by every producer: The Melbourne market for wheat has completely collapsed,…

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Wheat and Rye on Cornstubble

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 10 February 1894 · page 2

Many farmers plant corn stubble to wheat and rye, and are usually in such a hurry that three lows of shocks are placed together and the balance of the field sowed. This…

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

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 10 February 1894 · page 6

Gentlemen,—I have to report for the post week an increase of 332 boxes in the quantity of butter prepared for export through the Dairy Farmers' Association. The…

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The Home and the Farm

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 10 February 1894 · page 4

HINTS FOR THE KITCHEN. — A dish of charcoal placed in the meat larder will keep the articles sweet and wholesome almost as…

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