Poetry. God Bless the Farm
GOD bless the farm—the dear old farm! God bless it every wood; Where willing hearts sturdy arms Can earn an honest livelihood!…
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Farming & the land, 1876
14 stories in Illawarra's papers
Shellrarbor. the Dairy Maid Steamer
Saturday was a gala day at Shellbarbou, [?] celebration of the arrival in the harbour of the [?] craft was a demonstration of no ordinary chars[?] for our little township. The event excited a m[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →District News. Shellharbour. the New Steamer Dairymail
SATURDAY last was a gain day at Shallharbour. The celebration of the arrival in the harbour, of the new craft was an demonstration of no ordinary character for our little…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lean Farms and Fat Banks. (To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury.")
SIR,—There would be some excuse for the landholders and tenant farmers of Illawurra in pursuing the present miserable hand-to-mouth system, if they were entirely devoid of capital, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Milk and Butter Supply in Victoria
Some ten years ago the production of butter within range of the metropolis of Victoria had augmented so greatly as to have brought the price below a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Prize Potato Crops
LAST spring, Messrs. B. K. Bliss and Sons, of New York, offered 500 dollars in prizes for the largest yield from one pound of their new potatoes, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. to the Shareholders and Shippers Per Dairymaid
GENTLEMEN.—I beg to call your attention to a circumstance which has just come to my knowledge, and which is calculated to mislead people, especially in Sydney, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Specific for Pleuro-pneumoni in Cattle. to the Editor of the Kiama Independent
SIR,—In looking ever a file of the Australian I found the enclosed letter. The Information contained therein may be useful, if published in your journal…
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We commend the following remarks contained in the leading article of the Rural Australian, to such of our readers as are settling on new farms as well worthy of their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Heidelberg Milk-farm
"M.F.D." sends the following to the Australasian:— Mr. Dowd, dairyman, of the Yarra Bank Farm, near Heidelberg, has set an example…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Pastoral Romance
To the already long list of real life romances the material for which is supplied by the history of many old residents in Australia who have been the archit[?]ts of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Why Farmers Should Keep Pigs
FIRST of all the demand for pork, bacon and hams is increasing, These are imported from Great Britain, Germany, and the sister-colonies, Why should this be so?…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To the Dairymen of Illawarra. Per Favour of the Kiama Independent
GENTLEMEN,—I am not an agent, nor am I going to solicit your custom to become one so before you pass over this portion of the Kiama independent read, and think…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grasshoppers in Kansas. a Blooming Farm Devastated in an Hour.—an Original Account of the Occurrence
The following original and characteristic account of the Kansas grasshopper plague is taken from a private letter to a gentleman in this city…
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