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Mid North Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1871

13 stories in Mid North Coast's papers

Wheat Specialty a Fallacy. (From the Californian Scientific Press.)

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 14 January 1871 · page 4

AGRICULTURAL writers throughout the Western States are [?]ouncing wheat growing as a specialty. They hold that it should be tolerated by the pioneer farmer only, who…

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Wool

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 28 January 1871 · page 4

The sales closed firmly on the 29th November, at prices averaging 1d. advance on the opening rates, 170,000 bales were catalogued, of which 50,000 were left over for…

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Things a Farmer Should Not do

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 18 March 1871 · page 4

A FARMER should ,not break up more land than he can cultivate thoroughly; half tilled land is aways growing poorer while well tilled land is constantly improving A…

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A Word to Farmers

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 8 April 1871 · page 1

THE following, taken from the Rural American, will apply quite as well to some of the homesteads of Australian settlers. We recommend such of our bush farmers as can understand the…

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Rented Farms

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 6 May 1871 · page 4

THERE are person in this [?] of the world who might profit from an attentive person of the following which is a part of a leader in the Sydney Morning Herald:—…

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Farmers’ Clubs

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 27 May 1871 · page 2

THE FACT that an Agricultural show came off a Maitland last week, and that it was at least moderately successful, seems to indicate that notwithstanding the fearful visitations of…

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Pastoral

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 24 June 1871 · page 3

THE news from the squatting districts is, on the whole, encouraging. There is everywhere an abundance of grass for winter requirements; so that the flocks and herds are not likely to…

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The Weather and Crops

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 24 June 1871 · page 3

DURING the past month the weather has been variable in the metropolis and throughout the colony. The rainfall has been general, and most of the rivers have been in fresh. On the…

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Pastoral

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 22 July 1871 · page 2

THE news from the great pastoral districts is of a very favorable character. The splendid growing weather that prevailed in the autumn clothed the country with a sufficiency of vegetation for…

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The Weather and Crops

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 22 July 1871 · page 2

DURING the past month the weather in the metropolis has been unusually fine for the winter season, the rainfall having been lighter than for a similar period for a long time previously…

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Arrival of the English Mail, Via Suez. News to July 8th . the Civil War Completely Suppressed. Good Order Everywhere Prevalent. the Count De Chambord Has Retired. No Hope for Napoleon at Present. the Queen Sends Congratulations to the Pope. the Duke of Edinburgh’s Elephant Killed His Keeper. the Tichbourne Trial Postponed. a Majority for the Ballot in England. Price of Wool Sustained

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 5 August 1871 · page 2

THE English mail per Geelong reached Adelaide last Saturday night. The news was printed in Sydney on Monday morning. FRANCE…

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Facts for Farmers

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 26 August 1871 · page 1

A FARMER of many years experience and much success in wheat-growing, gives it as his opinion that many failures in growing that cereal, arise from carelessness as to seed. He asks: Why…

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Three Sheep and a Branding Iron (To the Editor of the Australian Advocate.)

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 30 December 1871 · page 4

SIR,—Having been assured by you that the strange story about Mr. G. A. Lloyd, in connection with the “three sheep and a branding iron,” is substantially correct, I have only to…

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