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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1885

41 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 2 of 3

Farm and Garden

Hawkesbury Chronicle and Farmers Advocate · Saturday 6 June 1885 · page 2

BY agricultural returns to hand, we find that there has been a great falling off for the past year—the principal boing in maize, millet, potatoes, and tobacco, while wheat,…

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THE Hawkesbury Chronicle. the Farmers' Advocate. Saturday, June 6, 1885

Hawkesbury Chronicle and Farmers Advocate · Saturday 6 June 1885 · page 2

THE Works Committee of the Municipal Council of Windsor are proceeding vigorously with the levels recently surveyed by Mr. Surveyor BEDFORD, if we are to take…

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THE [?]awkesbury Chronicle. the Farmers' Advocate. Saturday, June 1[?], 1885

Hawkesbury Chronicle and Farmers Advocate · Saturday 13 June 1885 · page 2

WE do not suppose there are many persons in our midst who feel surprised at the reply given by the Minister for Works to the deputation from Windsor and…

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THE [?] Chronicle. the Farmers' Advocate. Saturday, June 20, 1885

Hawkesbury Chronicle and Farmers Advocate · Saturday 20 June 1885 · page 2

THE water supply for the metropolis of the colony in the hands of the Government, bids fair to outdo the railway system in the matter of blundering. It has long been the…

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THE [?]awkesburg Chronicle. the Farmers' Advocate. Saturday, June 27, 1886

Hawkesbury Chronicle and Farmers Advocate · Saturday 27 June 1885 · page 2

ONCE more Great Britain if committed to tory rule, but how long the people will stand it is an after consideration. The tories in the colony are, no doubt, jubilant, for the…

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THE Hawkesbury Chronicle. the Farmers' Advocate. Saturday, July 4, 1886

Hawkesbury Chronicle and Farmers Advocate · Saturday 4 July 1885 · page 2

SIR, Oracle bath agata spoken, but, unfortunately, when he oped his mouth, no pearls of wisdom came forth. By the bye, how bles't are the people of Windsor in…

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Farm and Garden

Hawkesbury Chronicle and Farmers Advocate · Saturday 4 July 1885 · page 2

OPENING OF A SILO.—Mr. G. G. Yeo, of Mulgrave is a progressive man, and coming from an English county noted for its horses and stock, and where agriculture is more of a…

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THE Hawkesbury Chronicle. the Farmers' Advocate. Saturday, July 11, 1886

Hawkesbury Chronicle and Farmers Advocate · Saturday 11 July 1885 · page 2

JUST as irrigation is in its infancy in Australia and wants nursing, so, also, does the preservation of green feed for cattle by silage. When, therefore, we see any one of…

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THE Hawkesbury Chronicle. the Farmers' Advocate. Saturday, August [?] 1885. Can Man Do Without Religion

Hawkesbury Chronicle and Farmers Advocate · Saturday 22 August 1885 · page 2

THE above is the title of a lecture recently delivered by the Rev. Dr. KINROSS, under the auspices of the "Christian Evidence Society"; and we cannot but think that the…

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THE [?]burg Chronicle. the Farmers' Advocate. Saturday, September [?], 1885

Hawkesbury Chronicle and Farmers Advocate · Saturday 26 September 1885 · page 2

"Persons want to know what they are to do to get rid of them[?]"—INSPECTOR OF NU[?]. HE[?] is a text for a sermon, a theme for a discourse, a problem for our "aldermanic…

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THE [?] Chronicle. the Farmers' Advocate. Saturday, October [?] 1885

Hawkesbury Chronicle and Farmers Advocate · Saturday 31 October 1885 · page 2

THAT there has been no great [?] question before the country during the late elections must be evident, from the remarkably incongruous, manner in which men [?]…

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THE Hawkesbury Chronicle. the Farmers' Advocate. Saturday, November 7, 1885

Hawkesbury Chronicle and Farmers Advocate · Saturday 7 November 1885 · page 2

THE result of the Central Cumberland election should convince the most sceptical of the necessity for a division in many of the larger electorates. It may be well enough…

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Farm and Garden

Hawkesbury Chronicle and Farmers Advocate · Saturday 14 November 1885 · page 2

CALENDAR FOR THE MONTH—Kitchen Garden—Now is the time for deep ploughing or trenching—no merely a spit deep—but down into the subsoil with a mattock, and if treated…

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THE Hawkesbury Chronicle. the Farmers' Advocate. Saturday, November 14, 1885

Hawkesbury Chronicle and Farmers Advocate · Saturday 14 November 1885 · page 2

WHEN Alderman PRIMROSE has sometimes, in his loftiest flights of oratory, extolled the many excellencies of the Borough of Windsor, many have smiled derisively at…

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THE [?]awkesburg Chronicle. the Farmers' Advocate. Saturday, November 21, 1885

Hawkesbury Chronicle and Farmers Advocate · Saturday 21 November 1885 · page 2

" TOUCH not pitch lest ye be defiled," is a proverb which Mr. STEAD, the editor of tte Pall Moll Gazette, may well take to heart, and it may stand him in need in his future…

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THE [?]awkesburg Chronicle. the Farmers' Advocate. Saturday, November 28, 1885. Public Instruction

Hawkesbury Chronicle and Farmers Advocate · Saturday 28 November 1885 · page 2

FROM Mr. TRICKETT'S Report for 1884, we find that bis department has been doing good work. During the year there were in operation 1,912 schools, embracing 2,071…

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THE Hawkesbury Chranicle. the Farmers' Advocate. Saturday, December 12, 1885. School Attendance Officers

Hawkesbury Chronicle and Farmers Advocate · Saturday 12 December 1885 · page 2

THAT the State, having undertaken the education of the people's children, should insist upon the work being well done, we quite agree--not only in the quality of the…

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Local and General. First Meeting of Windsor Farm Racing Club

Hawkesbury Chronicle and Farmers Advocate · Saturday 19 December 1885 · page 2

THE opening meeting of the new Club, on Saturday last, may be said to have been a complete success. Certainly, the weather might have been brighter, and there might also…

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THE [?]sbury Chronicle. the Farmers' Advocate. Saturday, December 19, 1885

Hawkesbury Chronicle and Farmers Advocate · Saturday 19 December 1885 · page 2

MR. DIBBS has made his Financial Statement, and however viewed by experts, must strike the general reader as an able one. It is paiufully aparent, however,…

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Farm and Garden

Hawkesbury Chronicle and Farmers Advocate · Saturday 19 December 1885 · page 2

As usual, when things began to look gloomy, down came the [?]eneficent rain—and one may well reverse the old saying and put it thus:— " Pity [?] that rain should ever do harm."…

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