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Butter Factories |
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Colac
Butter Factory in South West Victoria, c. 1905 - 1910. This factory separated
milk on site. The cream was kept for butter making while the farmers received
payment plus the skim milk which they took home to feed pigs.
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The gala opening of the Cororooke Butter Factory in South West Victoria,
26th September, 1901. Cororooke Factory later amalgamated with the nearby
Colac Butter Factory.
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Koroit Butter Factory in South West Victoria was one of the first
butter factories in Victoria, opening at the end of 1888.
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A cart carrying cream to a butter factory early this century. Before
the general use of motor transport in rural Victoria, transporting cream
to the factory was a laborious task. In summer, milk was often sour before
reaching the factory. In South Gippsland roads were so rutted and muddy
that many farmers used sleds and packhorses.
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A trainload of butter travelling to the Government Coolstores in the
early decades of this century. Railways were an important means of rapidly
transporting butter and many factories were located close to rail lines.
In the 1890s many railway stations built coolstores to store butter.
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