A Farmer's Offset
A 'HIRED man,' who has been employed on a farm in this country for several months entered suit against his employer the other day for balance of wages, amounting, as he claimed, to…
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Farming & the land, 1881
52 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 3
New Crops and New Industries
IN a new country, where the people are not yet masters of all the branches of industry which bring wealth and employment, new industries are continually suggesting themselves, many…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Ministe for Mines and the Pastoral Lessees
AT the recent election, candidates of all shades of opinion and degrees of knowledge concurred in stating that the rents uf squuttagua were much too low, and ought to he largely increased. The Ministers of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Meeting of Farmers. (From Monday's Herald.)
A MEETING of Hawkesbury farmers was held on Saturday afternoon, at the Fitzroy Hotel, Windsor. It was called " for the purpose of taking into consideration the present very unsatisfactory state of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This Crop for Last and Next Years
UP to the end of the year 1880 the total return of the crop sent into port is only 6526 tons. Assuming that there remains in the various works as much as 1000 tons, and we believe…
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SIR Henry Parkes, in the Assembly, informed Mr P. G. Myers—who asked, "Ls it the intention of the Government to establish agricultural schools and model farms in some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An Experimental Farm
A WRITER in the New York Times furnishes an interesting and intelligent description of the experimental farm—now famous throughout the country—established by Mr. Lawson Valentine. After alluding at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm Life
A WRITER in Scribner's Magazine asserts that the farmer, having the most sane and natural occupation, ought to find life pleasant. He alone, strictly speaking, has a home. How can…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ulmarra. the Proposed Model and Experimental Farm
ON Wednesday evening last a preliminary meeting, convened by circular, was held in the Council Chamber, Ulmarra, to consider the desirability of, and the best means whereby, a Modal and Experimental Farm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep-farming on the Clarence. [Commimocated.]
IT seems to have been long accepted as an established fact that sheep are stock quite unsuited for this district This arises, I believe, wholly from the knowledge that sheep have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Trade of Australia
GOLDSBROUGH and Co's review of the wool trade for the past season shows 165,302 bales were catalogued, and 122,272 sold at the wool sales in Melbourne and Goolong. Shipments from all the colonies…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep-farming on the Clarence. [Communicated.—ii.]
[I HAVE to commence this communication by a correction in my first, where the reading that sheep either make a man or a woman of their owners, should read a man or a mouse.]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Monthly Wool and Produce Circular. Mort and Co
SYDNEY, March 3.—WOOL: The season for 1880-81, which is now drawing to a close, has been an unusually short and active one, and, judging from the unfavourable opening of the current London sales,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Losses of an English Farmer
A WRITER in the Chester Chronicle says:—"I must confess I hear the most distressing stories from farmers who have tried their very best, and failed to make both ends meet. Their cry is, the land is too…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →American Cheese and Its Effect on Farming in Ayrshire
The extent to which American cheese is being imported and retailed at prices greatly under the cost of the home produce is beginning to tell in a way that was hardly anticipated by dairy farmers in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Small Farms
THE French people have more ready cash in individual possession than any other nation in the world. It is not the wealth of a nation that makes the people rich, but the general…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sheep Farming on the Clarence. (Communicated.)—iii
THERE is an will be for many years to come an ever-increasing local demand for muttion in these districts. This demand has been checked by the difficulties of obtaining regular supplies,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Protection and Farmers
THE Australasian has instituted some inquiries with the object of discovering the causes which have led to the agricultural distress at present existing in Victoria, and has arrived at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Clarence Pastoral and Agricultural Society
A MEETING of the committee of this Society was held on Tuesday last. Present Mr. T. G. Hewitt (President) in the chair; Messrs. A. Lipman, G. Orispin, A. W. Barnier. J. Barnier. J. Crispin, jun., T. Morrissey, T. C…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clarence Pastoral and Agricultural Society
A MEETING of the committee was held on Tuesday afternoon last, Present—Mr T. G. Hewitt, President, in the chair; Messrs. A. Lipman, G. Crispin, A. W. Barnier, J. Barnier, J. Crispin, jun., T…
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