Australia versus Canada and America in farming life
An Australian resident in California recounts Sydney Mail reflections comparing climates and labor between Australia, Canada, and the northern United States. He praises sunny fields, notes long farm days, road taxes, and self reliance, and warns against chasing distant betterment while highlighting Victoria’s western district soil and farming labor realities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Australia
California
Sydney Mail
America
Victoria
Daffy
Ike
Queensland
New South Wales
Calf Dietary Guidance From London Agriculture Ward
A London ward of Agriculture leaflet outlines calf rearing diet by week. It prescribes warm milk in early weeks, progressing to mixed milk, skim milk, linseed porridge, cod liver oil, and eventual hay. By ninth week, milk and cream substitute are omitted with five quarts of separated milk daily and incremental feed additions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ward of Agriculture
London
Ghostly disturbances at Welsh inn puzzle residents near Pontypool
An inn in a village near Pontypool reports nightly eerie noises a pistol like click a door slam a guest awakened by a blow to the face and a room found without light. A buried scent of lilies of the valley is later discovered under floor boards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pontypool
Portraits and a Brave Ancestor in the Gallery
A lady guiding a visitor through the family portraits recalls her great great grandfather an officer who earned fame for bravery yet suffered injuries in every battle. She notes he fought in twenty four engagements and had limbs lost in each.
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Evelyn Underhill
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Fortescue
The
King of Pollard Distributors
and Barnawartha
Vic
Fortesgue & Sons
the “Champion” Wool Press
Fred
Mason
D. Raves
Koerstz
Fred K. Mason
Successer
Sachse Merah Sees Street
Sydney
Alcocide Company
Pitist
Hoey
Sussex
Hunter & Company
Computing
Standard Computing Scale Company
Union Chambers
Pitt Street
Ghance
Government House
A. H. Burnet & Co
Amb
Minerva Platen
Crown
Gordon Platen
Denny Columbian
Chandler
Price
Imperial Printers’ Furnishing CO
Ig7 Ceakewce Staret
Stpugr
M. DE Lissa & CO. Ltd
Ofices
George St
Opponte
Ot. Andrew's Coubsdrei
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