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Title: The Land of the Lyre bird; a story of early settlement in the great forest of south Gippsland. Being a description of the Big Scrub in its virgin state with its birds and animals, and of the adventures and hardship of its early explorers and prospectors; also accounts by the settlers of the clearing, settlement, and development of the country
Year: 1920 (1920s)
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Subjects: Gippsland (Vic.) Victoria -- History
Publisher: Melbourne : Pub. for the Committee of the South Gippsland Pioneers' Association by Gordon and Gotch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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as they Avere at fiist miscalled. Alderneys, were the first in favour. ThenAyrshires were tried, and some favoured a cioss between the two breeds. Afew tried a milking strain of Shoi-thorn. but they have not met with muchfavour. To-d;iy the Ayr<liii( . -Icr-cy aii<l Sbovllioni crosses are in mostfavoui. witli tlie Ayrshii-e prcloiiiiiinl ini:-. The bi-eeding of )uii-e bied IJerlohii-e and Voiksiiii-e ))igs has been takenup by some entlnisiasiic breeders witii great success, with the i-esnlt that inthese lines this disti-ict stands pre-eminent, mid pure stock from local fMrmsis in demand throughout the Commonwealth. Cheese is also made in .s(Meral piM\a(c dairies, and the (piality is ex-cellent, although the (pianlilv i- not large. One makei- has taken no le.ssthan 1-2 first pi-izes in local shows, first at the lioyal Agricultural Show atMelbourne on two occasions: first at AVarrnambooJ. the home of cheesemaking: and the crold medal at the Franco Tritish Fxhibition in 100ft. The
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DAIRYING. 253 first cheese factory in the district was that of Mr. Mark Garcbier at Poowong,who sent the product l)y road to Drouin almost as soon as that route wasopened. During recent years the supply of milk to JMelbourne is another branchof the industry that has developed. By cooling milk on the farm it is foundthat it can be delivered by rail in as good condition as that produced close tothe city. Before the introduction of the separator, from i.) to 30 cows was theusual limit of a dairy herd, but now, witli up-to-date machinery and methods,dairies of from <)0 to SO cov.s are by no means unconnnon. and occasionallyover 100 cows are milked in one herd. The introduction of milking machines marked another step in the historyof dairying. At first many of the machines were failures, but they seemeddestined to fill such an important part h\ making dairymen independentto a great extent of outside labour, with its worries during the flush of theseason, that they have been persevered w

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