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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1882

31 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 2

Hunter River Farmers' Association. Mr. Brunker on the Operations of the Association

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 18 July 1882 · page 3

MR J. N. BRUNKER, M.L.A., addressed the half-yearly meeting held recently at Maitland, and was loudly cheered on rising. He said: It affords me extreme pleasure to meet you here this evening, and to…

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Correspondence. Rust-proof Seed Wheat. to the Editor of the Clarence Examiner

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 July 1882 · page 2

SIR.—By last mail I received a communication from the Directors of the Department of Agriculture and Commerce, North-West Province, India, with reference to a supply of rust-proof wheat seed from that…

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Henry Ward Beecher As a Farmer

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 5 August 1882 · page 3

THE Rev. Henry Ward Beecher appears to be one of those amateur husbandmen who farm for pleasure and not for profit. He has a farm of 36 acres on the Hudson River, and according to Mark Twain, whom…

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The Status of Farming

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 26 August 1882 · page 3

THE merchant, the lawyer, the physician, and the minister must take pride in his profession if he would do good work in it. He must not hold it in contempt if he would succeed in it. It should be the…

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How to Make Good Butter

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 12 September 1882 · page 3

THE following hints are from an essay read before the Healdsburg Grange recently: "First milking should be done regularly, or as nearly so as possible, and as soon as the milk is brought in let it be strained…

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Creole and Lauhinia Canes. (From the Planter and Farmer.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 17 October 1882 · page 4

IN a description of a trip to St. Helena, a penal station in Moreton Bay, the abovenamed journal says:— We come at once to what we were most anxious to…

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The Keeping of Sheep by Farmers

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 21 October 1882 · page 6

FOR a farmer's sheep, and for a district having the conditions of moisture of climate and richness of soil, such as is possessed by Gippsland, we would recommend the long-woolled breed of sheep…

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Open Column. [Communications of an instructive character for their discussion, will find a place in this column.] Practical Irrigation for Farmers

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 18 November 1882 · page 3

A CORRESPONDENT writes as follows to the Australasian on the interesting subject of practical irrigation:— When drought was desolating our northern districts,…

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Agricultural Notes. (From the Planter and Farmer.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 18 November 1882 · page 3

A NEW sugar company is being formed in Melbourne, with a capital of £25,000, to work a plantation on the M'Ivor River. Has any one attempted the culture of the cork…

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Gigantic Farms Not Generally Approved Of

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 2 December 1882 · page 1

AN agricultural visitor in Dakoto, writing to a New York paper, has the following on the subject of the immense farms in that state:— Returning over the same branch line we…

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Farmer Blake's First, Lesson

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 19 December 1882 · page 3

WHEN I first went to live up at the Grange, Farmer Blake took me into the fields to talk to me. I was then young, but quite old enough to understand what he said…

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