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Northern Rivers · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1877

10 stories in Northern Rivers's papers

Agriculture. Farming and the Young

Northern Star · Saturday 20 January 1877 · page 2

The following is a synopsis of a lecture delivered by E. J. Wickson of the Pacific Rural Press, on "Agriculture and the Young Men:"…

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Poetry. Poppies and Wheat

Northern Star · Saturday 27 January 1877 · page 1

POPPIES have loved the golden wheat Many a thousand years. And still they lift a glowing face Up to the bending ears…

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The Northern Star. Lismore, February 3, 1877. Bread and Butter

Northern Star · Saturday 3 February 1877 · page 2

EVER since our mother EVE ate the forbidden fruit, the struggle for Bread and Butter has formed a very prominent feature in the sayings…

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Select Poetry. the Farmer Feedeth All

Northern Star · Saturday 7 April 1877 · page 4

My lord rides through his palace gate, My lady sweeps along in state, The sage thinks long on may a thin, And the maiden muses on marrying…

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A New Plant for Cattle Feeding

Northern Star · Saturday 2 June 1877 · page 3

UNDER the above title some attention has recently been directed to a boraginaceous plant—a close ally to our common comfrey— for extensive cultivation as a fodder plant…

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Jerseys as Butter Cows

Northern Star · Saturday 16 June 1877 · page 2

The annual meeting of the New York State Dairyman's Association was held during first week of December. Among the topics presented was a showing of…

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Who Exported thc First Australian Wool

Northern Star · Saturday 8 September 1877 · page 4

THE following letter appears in the 'Australasian:—Sir,—If there was one fact in Australian history which might have been deemed safe against misrepresentation, it…

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Dairy Farming at Home and Abroad

Northern Star · Saturday 6 October 1877 · page 2

In our dairy-farming we are sadly in want of instruction It is a serious defect, for in no other department of rural labour is a wrong method more ruinous and injurious…

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Cattle in America

Northern Star · Saturday 15 December 1877 · page 4

THE importation of meat from the United States has increased so much within the last twelvemonths that no little interest attaches to a statistical article which has…

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Agriculture. Dairying and Fertility

Northern Star · Saturday 15 December 1877 · page 2

Professor E. W. Stuart said that, in view of the extent of the dairy interest, becomes important to consider its effect upon the fertility of the soil. Milk…

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