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South Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1871

6 stories in South Coast's papers

The Attractive side of Farming

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 11 February 1871 · page 4

AGRICULTURE corresponds to that degree of exercise which is the best preservative of health. It requires no hurtful fatigue, on the one hand, nor indulges, on the other,…

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The Farmer. Horace Greeley on large and small Farms

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 11 March 1871 · page 4

THERE is fascination for most minds in naked magnitude. The young colonel, who can hardly handle a brigade effectively in battle, would like of all things to command a…

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Slovenly Farming

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1871 · page 4

THE following, taken from the Rural American, will apply equally as well to some of the homesteads of our Australian up-country settlers. We recommend such…

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Australian Butter and the English Market

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 27 May 1871 · page 4

THE following letter has been received by Mr E. R. Evans, by the last mail from England, regarding the shipments of butter made by the Central Elawarra Butter…

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Original Poetry. Farmer's Daughter. -

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 10 June 1871 · page 4

Up in the morning early. Just at the peep of day, Straining the milk in the dairy Turning the, cows awag—…

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Select Poetry. Ode. to a Fat Sheep

The Shoalhaven News, Ulladulla and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 16 September 1871 · page 4

[We extract the following exquisitely humorous our piece from the Wagga Wagga Advertiser. The initials indicate the graceful pen from which it comes.]…

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