Assortment
Tweed River Regional Museum, Murwillumbah, Australia.
Item Name
Butter Churn and Pat.
Object Description
Butter churn
Glass jar with metal screw prime lid. A wood deal with on best of the lid is effective a cog wheel and a smaller cog and pinion nut, which jointly turn a metallic rod projecting down into the jar. Metallic flanges connected to the rod rotate when the tackle is turned, mixing the contents of the jar. In poor affliction, the cog wheels and metal flanges are incredibly rusty. Dimensions: top 136.5 mm, width 145 mm, depth 560 mm.
Butter Pat
Wooden butter pat with a rounded take care of flowing to a rectangular formed spatula. The spatula is rounded on the higher side and flat on the underside, the operating area. This area has 4 radial strains incised in it. The spatula is wedge shaped in cross area, tapering to a slim edge. Dimensions: top 84 mm, width 230 mm, depth 10 mm.
This butter churn and butter pat are a collection of the dairy industry items in the selection of Tweed River Regional Museum. The dairy sector in New South Wales had its origins in the Kiama district, south of Sydney, during the 1860s and 1870s. By the 1890s most of the excellent farming land in the Illawarra was taken up and numerous settlers from the south moved to the north coastline, encouraged by studies of the heat local weather and good farming land which yielded continually high milk manufacturing and excellent selling prices. These farmers contributed their competencies and working experience to the improvement of the dairy marketplace on the north coastline, and also their perception in the co-operative motion. The Federal government, business in the perception that closer settlement was the critical to progress, introduced Crown land for agricultural uses and inspired settlers to clear the native forests and sow pasture for dairy cows.
The Butter Churn and Pat have historic importance due to the fact of their affiliation with the a lot of migrants who contributed their expertise and practical experience to the growth of the dairy field on the north coastline. They are proof of the labour intensive mother nature of early dairying and butter producing and the effect that technological developments this kind of as the cream separator and butter churn and improvements in rail and street transportation had on the market.
These dairying items also have intangible importance symbolizing the guide labour of the migrant family members who worked in the dairy market in northern New South Wales. They reveal the domestic operate of ladies in particular, as they ended up commonly dependable for building butter.
