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South Coast · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1881

87 stories in South Coast's papers · page 5 of 5

Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. Experiments with Rust-resisting Wheats

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 1 December 1881 · page 2

THERE is an institution in Queensland known as the Board of Enquiry into Diseases of Plants and Animals. It can scarcely be termed a Government Board…

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For the Farmer. Cheese Factory

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 8 December 1881 · page 4

THE project, as mentioned in our last issue, of starting a cheese factory in the district, by Mr. Harding, who laid down the plant, and for several years conducted Mr. Mort's…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. Ostrich Farming

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 15 December 1881 · page 2

IT is no ordinary gratification, in this portion of our issue, to be able to give details of the absolute success which has so far followed ostrich farming in the colonies, and which…

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Agriculture. Station, Farm, and Garden. the Prospects for Australian Wool

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 22 December 1881 · page 5

THAT a great change is overtaking the wool trade of Australia, in the matter of markets, is a feature patent to all who observe the signs of the times in the wool…

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Farmer Allen Talks

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 22 December 1881 · page 5

I SOT in the amen corner whar' I've sot for many a year, An' I sealed every word ye tittered with a gen[?]ine hearty tear…

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For the Farmer £24,000 Extra for the Farmers

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 22 December 1881 · page 4

THE following lefter, written by G. A. Porter, appeared in the Illawarra Mercury :—Sir,—Since nothing is absolute in this world of ours, and oven the best of reasoning must…

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Agriculture. [?]Ation, Farm, and Garden. [?] He Sheep for the Farmer

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 29 December 1881 · page 2

[?]ILLE averse to saying a single world that [?] be considered as opposing the intro[?] of other breeds of sheep, amongst harming classes, we don't suppose there…

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