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Southern Highlands · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1898

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Dairying in Denmark

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 1 January 1898 · page 2

MR. W. ALCORN J.P., of Bowral, has brought to our office the "Tyrone Constitution," published in Omagh, Ireland, for November 26th, 1897, from which we…

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Butter for the English Market

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 5 January 1898 · page 5

A shipment of butter for the English market was taken away on Monday by the R.M.S. Rome, the shippers being—Co-operative Wholesale Society…

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London Butter

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 11 January 1898 · page 2

The unseasonable weather is depressing the butter market. Colonial butter is dull of sale at from 96s to 98s per cwt., a few lots…

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British Dairy Farming

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 12 January 1898 · page 3

The milking trials aud butter tests at the British Dairy Farmers' Annual Show continue to grow in importance and magnitude year by year. This…

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N.S.W. Fresh Food and. Ice Co.'s Special Prize the Three Best Kept Farms

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 12 January 1898 · page 5

Mr F. A. Badgery's decision as to the three best kept dairy farms supplying milk to the Company has been communicated to the manager, and is…

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Dairy Factory Returns

Robertson Advocate · Friday 14 January 1898 · page 2

Kangaloon Dairy Company paid 2[?]d per gallon for milk last month, and it took 23lbs. lO[?] of milk to make l[?]b. butter…

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Dairy Factory Returns

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1898 · page 2

The Kangaroo River Co paid 8d. [?] butter [?] for December. Kangaroo Valley Co. paid 7[?] per [?]…

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Butter for the English Market

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 19 January 1898 · page 3

The R. M. S. Orizaba on Monday week took away 696O boxes of butter for the English market, the shippers being :- South Coast Company, 700…

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The Best Butter Can be made in Private Dairies

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 19 January 1898 · page 3

That the best quality can be made in private dairies there can hardly be & doubt, because all the conditions are there directly under the control of the…

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Bowral News. Dairy Factory Returns

Robertson Advocate · Friday 21 January 1898 · page 2

Some say "the [?] at Bowral is a particularly good [?] others say it is not, that money is not circulating as they'd wish to see it— which is The Wingecarribee Dairy Company paid an average of [?] for December. The French Cheese and Butter…

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Dairy Factory Returns

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 25 January 1898 · page 2

Milk suppliers to the Berrima D. F. and D. Co., Mittagong, were paid [?] per gallon for milk applied during the month of Dec. The top pay of the…

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Dairy Land Values

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 26 January 1898 · page 2

No better criterion of the value of the dairy industry in the southern colonies could be obtained than the price of land used for dairying…

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District Auction Sales. Farms. Stock, &c., ONLY

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 26 January 1898 · page 2

On Saturday next, 2.30, J. D. Wood and Co. at Robertson.—15 milking and springing cows, young dairy heifers, on account of Messrs…

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A Wool[?] is Trouble

Robertson Advocate · Friday 28 January 1898 · page 4

A wool-ganger, of No. 4 Globe-street, Circular Quay, by the name of Arthur Andrew [?] interviewed the other day by a reporter, stated…

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Good Prices for Good Wool

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 29 January 1898 · page 2

The Sydney wool sales for the week have as usual attracted a great number of buyers and many superior clips. During the week the well-known lot…

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A Victorian Dairy Herd

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 2 February 1898 · page 4

A short time ago A test of a herd of cows in. Victoria for one month was made by Mr. R. Crowe, the assistant Government expert. The forty cows…

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Poultry Farmer's Balance Sheet

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 2 February 1898 · page 2

A few days ago tho Sydney Daily Telegraph published some particulars regarding Mr. Samuel Ellis' poultry farm at Botany, and as an evidence…

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Fodder Crops

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 5 February 1898 · page 4

THE growing weather and prospeets for a favourable season should induce our farmers and dairymen to sow large areas of the above, Should a mild winter give…

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Cippsland Bush Fires. Heaps of Roasted Cattle and Sheep

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 9 February 1898 · page 3

Melbourne, Saturday.—Heartrending accounts of the terrible bush fires in Gippsland continue to pour in from every direction. A telegram from…

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B.D. Farm and Dairy Co., Limited

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 9 February 1898 · page 2

The annual general meeting of shareholders in the above company was held in the School of Arts, Robertson, on Saturday afternoon last, the business…

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