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Southern Highlands · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1898

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Tuberculosis in Dairy Herds

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 4 June 1898 · page 4

At the recent conference of factory managers, held in Melbourne, a paper was read dealing with the spread of tuberculosis in the dairy herds of…

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Dairy Factory Returns

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 7 June 1898 · page 3

[Managers of factories in perrima district are invited to [?] returns for publication in this [?] at very earliest opportunity.]…

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Dairy Factory Returns

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 14 June 1898 · page 3

For the month of May the Robertson Dairy Company s[?] 32,899 gallons of mild producing 16.458 lbs of butter; it took 19 15 16 lbs of milk…

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Dairy Stock for New South Wales

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 14 June 1898 · page 2

London, Jane 10.—The New South Wale Government has purchased 50 bulls and cows from the best dairy herds in England and Scotland. They…

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Adulteration of Dairy Products

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 15 June 1898 · page 3

The London correspondent, under date May 6, to the Daily Telegraph says:—The butter merchants at last week's meeting in connection with…

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Dairy Factory Returns

Robertson Advocate · Friday 17 June 1898 · page 3

For the month of May the Robertson Dairy Company treated 32,899 gallonS of milk producing 10,458 lbs of butter; it took 19 15 16 lbs. of milk…

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Tuberculosis in Dairy Cattle. (To the Editor of the Scrutineer)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 18 June 1898 · page 2

Sir,—Now that the Board of Health have actually put their foot down, as they did to some purpose last week, in the case of a Botany dairyman, where…

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Dairy Farming on the Richmond

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 18 June 1898 · page 5

There is at present such an exodus of dairy farmers from the Bega district to the northern rivers (remarks the Standard), and so much has…

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Improvement of our Dairy Herds

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 18 June 1898 · page 5

It will be recollected that some few months ago the Minister for Agriculture decided to import a number of dairy cattle from England and…

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"The Tax Will Not Fall Upon Farmers."

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 18 June 1898 · page 3

"The proposed land tax was a bogey which had probably frightened Mr. Campbell cut of the freetrade camp, and was now being used as a bogey—…

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Dairy Factory Returns

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 21 June 1898 · page 3

For the month of May the Robertson Dairy Company treated 32,899 gallons of milk producing 16,458 lbs of butler; it took 19 15 16lbs. of milk…

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Re-Exported Butter

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 22 June 1898 · page 5

A London correspondent writes.:— Arrangements are being made to ship some of the Duke of Argyll's Queensland butter as well as New Zealand to…

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Exported Butter. Brought Back for a Better Price

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 22 June 1898 · page 2

ALBANY (W.A.), Saturday.—The R.M.S. Ormuz landed at Albury 51 tons of Victorian butter which had been shipped to London, and…

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Winter Dairying

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 22 June 1898 · page 5

It is often urged as one of the disadvantages of the climate of the Braid wood district that its rigorous winters does not allow of dairying…

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Shelter For Dairy Stock

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 22 June 1898 · page 5

The recently inclement weather must have forcibly reminded some dairymen of the advantages of providing more shelter for their cattle…

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Prize Butter

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 29 June 1898 · page 5

It will no doubt be remembered that the £50 butter prize offered by the Government at the Sydney show in 1896 was won by the Fresh Food…

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General Principles of Dairy Practice

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 29 June 1898 · page 3

It is quite a common practice with dairy farmers to excuse themselves from the perusal of dairy literature, on the ground than what is there said does…

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Mixed Farming

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 29 June 1898 · page 3

Fourteen years ago, the farm at the Oaks known as Stagg's, was purchased by the present proprietor, Mr. W.J. Moulder. Sines the transfer was…

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Returned Butter

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 2 July 1898 · page 3

In the manifest of the Orient Company's steamer Ormuz, which arrived at Sydney on Saturday morning from London, is a line of butter (600 boxes),…

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Victorian Potato Crop

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 6 July 1898 · page 2

The potato crops in the late Victorian districts are now nearly all dug, and the results generally have been disappointing. Instead of from five to…

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