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Promotion by the Department of Agriculture. Dirty milk churns, cream left standing in the sun and old milk all resulted in inferior butter. Hygiene on the farm and in the factories was a constant source of anxiety for the Department of Agriculture. Image Reference : 1(148)
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Butter box label, c. 1930. Each butter factory produced its own brand
label for butter boxes. Arch Brand was the brand name given to butter from
a number of factories including Bendigo, Violet Town and Nathalia in the
Goulburn Valley.
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Butter box label, c. 1930. "Fraternal Brand" was the brand of the
Upper Murray Butter Factory in Cudgewa, North Eastern Victoria. This label
appeared on 'Second Grade' butter.
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A
receipt for cream delivered to the Colac Butter Factory by the Cororooke
Creamery in 1899. Before World War I, many butter factories had outlying
creameries which separated milk then transported cream to the factory. By
the 1910s many farmers owned their own hand separators and delivered cream
directly to the factory.
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Exporting 5000 boxes of butter to Canada, January 1931. The first
attempt to export Victorian butter was in 1868. Twenty-four farmers sent
a load to England. So putrid was the butter on arrival that it was all sold
as cart grease. By 1931, Australian butter was highly regarded in Britain.
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