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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Farming & the land
76 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 1 of 4
MR WARBOYS, a well-known N.S.W. agriculturist, has recently returned from a visit to the chief Victorian agricultural centres, and the report which he presents serves to show that there is room for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Never tolerate weeds. A lazy man will be gazing arohnd for the ram clouds, while his orchard is smothered in weeds, every one of which. acts like a pump,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Chinamen in Melbourne have started bacon-curing. Cabbages 4/6 each and potatoes £4 10/ a bag at Johannesburg, South Africa…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Arrowroot culture and manufacture is extending. Over 200 tons have been sent from the Pimpama district, just accross the New South Wales border…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Despite the fact that the weather during the past few weeks has been so dreadfully hot, the maize and other crops in the Hawkesbury District are looking very…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →No less than 60,0000 acres of land are devoted to celery-growing in the United States. Over nine tons of grapes were…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →MAGNIFICENT peaches and watermelons are being sent from the Agricultural College farm to Sydney market. The peaches realized up to 10s per case, while the melons brought 8s per dozen. No…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Potato crops at West Maitland have bee destroyed by the green fly. One Sackville farmer put in just one hundred weight of potatoes, and dug…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →THE half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Pitt Town Dairy Company was held at the factory on Friday evening last, when there was a small attendance…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Splendid rain fell on Sunday and Monday last, and everything in the district is looking particularly bright just now. In some parts of the Richmond River…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Mudgee Dairy Co. paid £657 during January for milk. Dubbo Agricultural Society has secured £200 worth of special prizes for…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →AN extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders in the Hawkesbury Dairy and Buttler Company was held on Wednesday afternoon last, when there was a good attendance. Mr J T…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Besides flying foxes being a nuisacce at night, country people say that parrots and leatherheads visit their orchards in daytime, the latter pest coming in flocks…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →FOR the short period that it has been in operation, the Richmond Creamery and Batter Factory has done remarkably well, and the result of the test for the past…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →IT is reported that several landowners in the Hawkesbury District are attempting to pass the land-tax on to their tenants…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Australian eggs have lately been sold at 14d per dozen in London. Thirty-one tons of blackberries have already been marketed from Bulli this…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →IT is satisfactory to note that those Hawkesbury farmers who were granted seed by the Government after the flood last year have for the most part paid for same. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Department of Mines and Agriculture has issued placards in connection with the distribution of seed wheat, barley, oats, and rye, informing farmers that forms of application may be obtained at…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mr Reid proposes to import a couple of irrigation experts from California and India. The vote for agricultural society grants…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →AN extraordinary general meeting of shareholders was held at the factory on Monday afternoon last. There were present: Mr. J. T. Gosper (Chairman of Directors)…
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