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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1879

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Pastoral Notes

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 17 December 1879 · page 3

MR. A. BLOMFIELD, J P., of Marinumbla, near Buckley's Crossing, is a firm believer in the paddocking system for sheep-breeding; the grass…

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Dairyman's Plains Wheat

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 17 December 1879 · page 3

THE crops are excellent in this neighbourhood, and look well at the farm of Mr. Hugh Stewart, at the honestead of Mr. F. Blomfield, and…

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Agriculture. Baths for Farmers

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 31 December 1879 · page 2

ONE very great reason why farmers become "stiff and old" before their time is from their lack of bathing and thorough muscular exercise. The professional man…

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