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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1897

70 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 1 of 4

The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 2 January 1897 · page 10

Farmers around Singleton, Camden, and other places intend to go in for wheatgrowing, instead of maize next season. There are now in New Zealand…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 9 January 1897 · page 10

The Mudgee Dairy Company (not companies, mind you) has distributed over £50,000 during the past six years to suppliers alone…

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Pitt Town Labour Farm

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 16 January 1897 · page 4

Hon J Ga[?]ard was driven over from D[?] by Mr Hutchinson, superintendent of the above, after holding a meeting at Dural on Wednesday evening. He spent the night on the settlement, and next…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 16 January 1897 · page 10

In Queensland, where there is an import duty of 15/-per ton on hay, that commodity (lucerne) sold last week at 25/-per ton…

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Pitt Town Casual Labour Farm

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 23 January 1897 · page 5

As reported in the GAZETTE of last week, Mr. Garrard, Minister for Labour and Industry, paid a visit to the Pitt Town Casual Labour Farm. He drove from…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 23 January 1897 · page 10

Nearly all the Australian colonies are drawing on N. S. Wales for potatoes this season, Enormous areas are being cleared for…

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"Since the Country carried Sheep" [?]From "The Bulletin."

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 30 January 1897 · page 1

We trucked the cows to Homebush, saw the girls, and started back, Went west, through Cunnamulla, and got: on the Eulo track,…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 30 January 1897 · page 10

Tomatoes are realising 2/-per case at the Windsor Markets. The first year after the tree is planted is the time to prune and shape the tree…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 6 February 1897 · page 10

Nearly 80,000 acres of land were taken up in New South Wales on Thursday, last week. In last Saturday's "Telegraph"…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 13 February 1897 · page 10

Dural fruit-growers have sent 70 cases of fruit for the Sobroan boys. Frst-class circular Head potatoes went up to £3 15s per ton in Sydney last week…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 10

At the annual poultry show at Bringel lyhall, Birmingham, Mr. H. Ainscough's first prize black-breasted red gamecock was sold for £200…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 27 February 1897 · page 10

Australian butter was exhibited at the London Dairy Show, 4780 tons ot wheat arrived in Sydney last month from Frisco…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 6 March 1897 · page 10

The share this year of one land-owner in N.S.W., farming on the "halves system, was 15,000 bags—nearly 200,000 The Parramatta District fruitgrowers…

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The Emu Wool-Scouring Works

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 13 March 1897 · page 12

THE Richmond correspondent to the "Nepean Times" writes thus:—"A number of people in town are complaining about the water supply being polluted. They declare it is the Emu woolwash…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 13 March 1897 · page 10

New maize brought 2/4 per bushel at Hough Bros' sale in Richmond last week. Some farmers can raise more produce from a single acre than others can get…

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The Farme

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 20 March 1897 · page 10

The butter exports from Sydney last week were valued at £16,909[?] making the value of the exports so far this year £83,110…

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Cattle Thieving

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 27 March 1897 · page 9

RESIDENTS of Berkshire Park and its vicinity have daring the past eighteen months or so been subjected to considerable losses, in consequence of the frequent thefts of their cattle, over 100 head having…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 27 March 1897 · page 10

Parties of farmers and fruitgrowers, of not less than six, wishing to inspect any of the experimental farms of the colony, are allowed to travel on the railways at…

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Windsor Butter Factory

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 3 April 1897 · page 9

IN spite of the dry weather, the supply of milk at the above is being regularly maintained. Of course, if rain had fallen a month since, the probability is that an increased quantity of milk…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 3 April 1897 · page 10

A small quantity of local new maize brought 2/8 per bushel at the Richmond sales on Saturday. About 600,000 trees are annually…

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