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Everything tagged "Dairy Farm Pokfulam"

30 - Dairy Farm - Cowshed-03.jpg

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1930

The farm mainly composed of cowsheds, paddocks, silos, manure pits, living quarters for cowboys etc. Silos were used to store surplus fodder during the summer and supplied as silage in the winter to the herd, whereas manure pits were for collecting cow manure for use as fertilizer.

Dairy Farm(p35) 1.jpg

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1900

The design of the sheds had many factors that had to be considered such as the Hong Kong weather, Hong Kong Typhoon season made it generally impossible to transport materials such as fodder from storage to the cattle in their sheds.

DFL Marker Stone.jpg

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2016

DFL Marker Stone-1.jpg

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2016

Marker Stone below catchwater.jpg

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2016

Manure Pit at Chi Fu Valley 3 (960x1280).jpg

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2021

Manure Pit at Chi Valley 2 (960x1280).jpg

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2021

Manure Pit at Chi Fu Valley 1 (960x1280).jpg

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2021

Cowshed of the old Dairy Farm in Pok Fu Lam, near current day Consort Rise.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2018

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