{"id":122393,"date":"2015-09-29T19:59:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T09:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=122393"},"modified":"2020-11-16T13:34:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T03:34:38","slug":"fun-day-planned-at-dairy-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2015\/09\/29\/fun-day-planned-at-dairy-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Day Planned At Dairy Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kahlia Huddleston, from Murgon, enjoyed the opportunity to pat a dairy cow at one of the Queensland Dairy Museum’s Open Days<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"South<\/a>September 29, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Queensland Dairy Industry Museum will be holding an Open Day on Saturday, October 3, and it looks like being a fun morning out for all the family.<\/p>\n

Between 9:30am and 2:00pm, the Museum will be running working displays of butter making, hand milking, shingle splitting and milk separating.<\/p>\n

You can learn how to make damper; watch whip-crackers and leather craftsmen in action; and see cross-cut saws up close.<\/p>\n

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How is butter made? See the process at a working butter-making display<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There’ll also be displays of antique engines, blacksmithing, rope making and a draught horse-driven grain grinder, along with antique machinery and wool spinning..<\/p>\n

Children can enjoy milking a cow, an animal nursery, a jumping castle and miniature pony rides, along with an old-fashioned lolly stall; and billy tea, damper and other light refreshments will be available too.<\/p>\n

And everyone can enjoy the great live country music entertainment, along with bush poetry readings, that will be performed in the grounds all morning.<\/p>\n

The Dairy Industry Museum is located at 2 Sommerville Street on the southern side of Murgon, just off the Gayndah Road, and was established in 1988 to recognise the importance that dairying once played in the area.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dairying began in the Murgon area in the early 1900s when the railway came to the town, and grew quickly after a local progress association successfully agitated for a railway goods shed in 1908.<\/p>\n

However, most milk and cream produced in the area at that time was railed to Tiaro. And to avoid losing suppliers to a new factory that had opened in Kingaroy, Murgon and Tiaro interests combined to open a butter factory at Murgon in 1913.<\/p>\n

Branch lines opening up the Proston and Windera areas in the 1920s expanded dairying production even further.<\/p>\n

This, in turn, led to the enlargement of the Murgon butter factory in 1928 and later the creation of the Murgon Cheese Factory, which operated until 1995.<\/p>\n

The Museum is a treasure trove of historic buildings and memorabilia that chronicle all this history, and they’ll all be open on Saturday as well.<\/p>\n

Its large complex houses several historic buildings including Trinity House (c. 1893), an original Burnett slab construction homestead; Castra, the first house built in Murgon (c. 1904); the old Bank Of NSW building (c. 1906); and an old chapel (1932).<\/p>\n

The Museum’s collection includes:<\/p>\n