Stagg of Tarcowie : the diaries of a colonial teenager (1885-1887)

by William Stagg, 1867-1946

Other authorsNancy Flannery (Editor), Jill Francis (Illustrator)
Paperback, 1977

Status

Available

Call number

SA STA

Local notes

Good reading if you're having a hard time growing food in your garden. Descriptions of ploughing with a single furrow plough and a horse, grubbing mallee stumps and picking stones.

"People are prophising a dry season. We have only had light rains, and things will prove most disarstrous in the extreme. The farmers cant see the folly of carrying all their eggs in one basket, for they depend solely on wheat. I don't know, though, what else will grow in this arid climate." William Stagg, June 5th, 1885.

Publication

Jamestown, [S. Aust.] : Nadjuri Australia, 1977, c1973.

Barcode

550
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