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Southern Highlands · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1898

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Selling Margarine for Butter

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 31 August 1898 · page 4

Mr James Mair, SM., had before him, at the Newcastle Court, a case in which Paul Edmond Getting, an inspector under the Public Health…

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Butter and the Tricks of the Trade

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 31 August 1898 · page 4

News reaches this part of the world from the Cape (Writes the Brisbane " Telegraph ") to the fact that butter bearing Australian brande, but not of…

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A Dairy Farming Experiment. Fat in a Cow's Milk

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 31 August 1898 · page 4

A London correspondent writes.—" The controversy as to the possibility of affecting the possibility of affecting the percentage of fat in a cow's milk by diet is likely to…

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Dairy Factory Returns

Robertson Advocate · Friday 2 September 1898 · page 2

[Managers of factories in Perrin district are invited to send in [?]turns for publications in this paper very earliest opportunity.]…

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Death of Dairy Cows

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 3 September 1898 · page 3

A strange mortality has recently affected the herd of a dairyman in Victoria, six of his cows dying within a week. The symptoms of sickness…

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London Butter Market

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 7 September 1898 · page 2

The demand is very small, and the rates remain low, owing to the heavy supply. Danish choicest sells at 88s to 91s; States and Canadian…

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Farm and Dairy. Profitable Potato Growing

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 7 September 1898 · page 4

Owing to the dry season potatoes have been s[?]arce and dear in the local markets for some time past, and these who have any to sell have been…

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Interesting Dairying Case

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 7 September 1898 · page 5

DAPTO, Friday.—A case of considerable interest to dairyman has occurred here. The Board of Health, through their officer, Mr. Bowker, has cancelled…

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Dairy Factory Returns

Robertson Advocate · Friday 9 September 1898 · page 2

For the month of August the P[?]ant Ground Dairy Company separated 3149 galolons of milk, making 1419[?] of butter; [?] took 20[?] milk to make [?] of butter…

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Wheat Harvest

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 10 September 1898 · page 3

The first forecast of the wheat harvest has just been published and the prospect is no doubt alluring. It is said that 1,600,000 acres are under…

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Amaatour Dairy Farming. on a Gigantic Scale

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 10 September 1898 · page 3

When the New South Wales Government announced through the metropolitan press by means of Sydney Smith's inspired daily paragraphs,…

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Dairy Factory Returns

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 13 September 1898 · page 2

For the month of August, the p[?]sant Ground Dairy Company separated 3149 gallons of milk, making 1419[?] of butter; it took 20[?] milk to make [?] of butter…

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The Imported Cattle

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 14 September 1898 · page 5

The Minister for Agriculture has decided to give dairy farmers and, pastoralists in every part of the colony on opportunity to profit by the recent…

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The Imported Cattle

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 14 September 1898 · page 3

Following are the particulars of the consignment and the prices paid by the Government:— SHORTHORNS. — Bull, Favorite…

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Butter Seven Months Old

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 14 September 1898 · page 2

Last week at the Singleton Creamery and Butter Factory, proprietored by Messrs. Jas. Moore and Co., some butter was opened up which had been…

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Our Sydney Letter. Our Wealth in Wheat

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 14 September 1898 · page 4

EVERY inhabitant of this colony is deeply concerned in the wheat question and the probable yield for the coming season. For the matter of that, the whole world is interested in its wheat wealth. By the…

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American Record Wheat Crop

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 17 September 1898 · page 5

The Chicago Post of August 8 says: —According to reports received by railway companies and business men the largest wheat crop in the history of…

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The Imported Loan Money Cattle

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 17 September 1898 · page 2

Mr. Sydney Smith's idea of spending loan money on importing stud stock has been sharply commented on in many quarters, the chief orguments…

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The Farm and The Dairy

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 20 September 1898 · page 2

Inspector Bowker, who recently inspected dairy [?] in the Central [?] municipality on behalf of the Board of Health, reports that [?] 163 out of…

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How to mako Peer Butter

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 21 September 1898 · page 3

An American dairywoman tells, in the Jersey Bulletin, what she would do to make poor butter What she would do, (says the Rural Australia) agrees…

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