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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Farming & the land
27 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 1 of 2
Last week we had occasion to refer to the ridiculously high price which butter &c., in a purely agricultural district such as ours, was realizing, and this week it is necessary to make…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy summer pruning, or looping off leaves and branches after a good growth has been made always checks more or lest the vigor of the plant, and if the rubbing off of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →One part coarse SaLt, two of lime, and two of good Wood ashes mixed thoroughly together makes one of the very best mixtures to apply around fruit trees in the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Ha had been trying all the winter through To speak the fateful words; and well she knew He had been trying—but what could she do! Most maidenly of little maids was she,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Probably the most frequent cause of lameness ill horses is caused by contraction of the hoof or feet, and this is caused by neglect either in shoeing or caring for the feet…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →There is a large class, not only of farmers but of other classes of people, who seem to have an abiding faith in luck. If a man raises a good crop or has good stock,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The great number of vegetable gardens in the possession of Chinese in almost every district of the colony must strike the observant mind with the fact that,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The first and most important point is to select land that is naturally or artificially underdrained. Rich, moist, alluvial land, containing considerable sand, is best, if the land…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Since there makes our own wine bottle there seems to be no good why we should not provide our own corks, of which We are consuming from year to year a greater…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →For some months we have been urging upon the producers of this district the necessity for establishing a butter factory in their midst, and now there appears to be a possibility of this object…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Her dimpled cheek is pale, She's a lily of the vale, Not a rose. In a muslim on a lawn…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The proposal to form a butter factory company meats with the approval of the whole of the district residents, but somehow those who feel inclined to take shares hang fire. We can guess the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In an article on 'Why Cattle Are Salted,' the American Dairyman says: As soon as the food enters the stomach the natural tendency is for fermentation to begin, and there arises…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →TO THE EDITOR.—Sir—I attended Mr. Pateson's lecture on Dairying the other night, and heard that gentleman intelligently demonstrate that dairy farming would pay both producer and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat, which is now the bread-corn of twelve European nations, and is fast supplanting maize in America and several interior grains in India, was no doubt widely…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →On Tuesday evening last there was a good attendance of farmers and townsmen at the lecture delivered by Mr. Pateson, in the School of Arts, on the above subject. Mr. J. B. Johnstone, jun.,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →If all our winemen would adopt Captain Niebaum's plan a great and radical change would soon tate place in the wine business. His motto is 'quality, not quantity.' He…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →On Monday last a provisional directors' meeting was held, when Mr. C. W. May occupied the Chair. Mr. W. Gosper proposed, and Mr. J. T. Gosper seconded,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →We understand that a number of local gentlemen, who are of opinion that a butter factory might be successfully floated in this district, notwithstanding…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Valencia orange differs but little from those grown in Sicily as to sweetness and flavour, neither being a perfectly sweet orange; but what is termed by the trade a…
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