What an Old Farmer Says
THIS is the advice of an old man who tilled the soil for 40 years:— I am an old man, upwards of threescore years, during two score of which I had been a…
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Farming & the land, 1881
83 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 2 of 5
THE Buwkesbury Chronicle. and Farmers' Advocate. Saturday, July 16, 1881
THE question to be first considered this session of Parliament is, according to the Government programme, the "Chinese Question," and which is perhaps the most…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Hawkesburg Chronicle. and Farmers' Advocate. Saturday, July 23, 1881
THAT there are " signs of the times" making themselves painfully vivid to those who hold to time-honoured orthodoxy is beyond all doubt. Heresies aud schisms have there been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmer. Three Ways of Growing Potatoes
I HAVE three neighbours, each of whom believes that utily his own method of raising potatoes is correct; yet last year all three of their crops were unexceptionably fine and as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Hawkesburg Chronicle. and Farmers' Advocate. Saturday, July 30, 1881
Is THIS a temperate age, or not? This question naturally arises from bearing on all sides such a hullabuloo about Temperance. The existing state of things appears to suit neither…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmer. the Pea Crop
No one will deny that the cultivation of the pea has received anything near the attention it should have done from our farmers. Maize has been the alpha and omega of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Poetry. the Farmer's Wooing
The daisic nodded in the grass, the buttercups were [?], And just across the river sang the farmers at their reaping;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Hawkesburg Chronicle. and Farmers' Advocate. Saturday, August 6, 1881. DOGMATISM
NOT content with their late fulmination, the Medical Association of N. S. Wales must needs wait upon the Colonial Secretary the other day, to urge upon the Government the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Destruction of Seeded Wheat by a Fungus
ONE of the most extraordinary cases on record of the non-germinatron of winter wheat is reported to have occurred in Europe. A field of this grain, which had been sown the…
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WE have on more than one occasion advocated a new order of things as regards farming in this district—when we say a " new order of things," we mean that our farmers should…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TELE Hawkesburg Chronicle. and Farmers' Advocate. Saturday, August 13, 1881
WHEN our civic fathers started in a hurry some time ago, to lighten the darkness of Windsor streets, they had not properly estimated the cost or made themselves masters…
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HERE we are in the middle of a dry season —with the prices of meat and butter running up to a height that few working men can reach without a severe strain upon their scant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE [?] Chronicle. and Farmers' Advocate. Saturday, August 20, 1881
OUR Civic Fathers are on the war-path; they mean reform—not in one thing only, but in many. Reforms are good, even though they come in the Autumn instead of thc Spring—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmer. Grass Land
To pursue the subject further we may say we are not advocating the converting the whole of our magnificent lands in the valley of the Hawkesbury into pastures: we are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE j Inwkesburg Chronicle and Farmers' Advocate. Saturday, August 27, 1881
CONSPICUOUS by their absome—at the public meeting held at the School of Arts, on the Licensing Question the other night—were those persons who may be considered, by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Polled Cattle
ACCORDING to Western Farm and Home, "the popularity of polled cattle is rapidly increasing," and the editor hopes to see this breed take the place of horned animals in all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Peas and Oats for a Fodder Crop
PEAS and oats grown [?] if cut when in blussom and property cured, make excellent fodder for winter. I have grown such fodder for several years, and a[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmer. Grass Lands
IN sowing grass-seeds, according to the same eminent authority before quoted, suit able weather [?] be selected. He says: —"Choose a fine day, when the land is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THe [?]besubry Chrunicle. and Farmers' Advocate. Saturday, September 3, 1881
THE Spring Meeting is over, and like all other tilings long looked-for, has also, in the natural course of events, become a thing of the past. Honest people have returned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Different Qualities of [?] on the Same Sheep
THE classification of the "staper" or sorter of wool is founded to a certain extent upon the difference in the [?] according to the part of the [?]…
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