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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1898

65 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 3 of 4

The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 30 July 1898 · page 8

The GAZETTE is the Local News paper, 2/6 per quarter in Advance. The Bermudas export over 17,000,000lb of onions every year…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 6 August 1898 · page 10

A farm of 600 acres is to be worked by the partially blind in Victoria. The emigration of Victorian farmers to New South Wales is still going on…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 13 August 1898 · page 10

The New South Wales Fruit Exchage Co-operative Company declare another dividend of [?] per cent, and carry to reserve fund £1,200…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 20 August 1898 · page 10

Hawkesbury farmers are now tormented by a plague of rats. What next? A plague of rats is causing some loss to the farmers of the Singleton district…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 3 September 1898 · page 10

Onions were selling last week in Sydney for £20 a ton—the season's record. Co-operative effort among farmers approved of by the Farmers and Settlers'…

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The H. A. College. [From "Home and Farm."]

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 10 September 1898 · page 5

WHEN the Government of N.S.W. some years ago decided to establish an agricultural college at what was then known as Ham C[?]mmon, many were the conjectures…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 10 September 1898 · page 10

The GAZETTE is 2/6 Quarterly in advance. The demand for dairy farms on the northern rivers continues. Many South…

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Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 17 September 1898 · page 10

The price of broom millet is £20 per ton in Sydney market. There are at present in N.S.W. 1,500,000 acres under wheat, from which the…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 24 September 1898 · page 10

One dairyman tn the Mudgee distict milks 85 cows daily. Not too bad. Mr. A. McBean, of Kirndeen Station, near Culcairn, is planting 3000 acres with…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 1 October 1898 · page 10

200 [?] shipped for India from Sydney. Onions have been bringing as high as £17 per ton during week…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 8 October 1898 · page 10

The GAZETTE is the Local News paper, 2/6 per quarter in Advance. The maize crops are coming up over the district, extensive areas having…

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Pitt Town Butter Company

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 15 October 1898 · page 11

A MEETING of the Directors of the above was held on the 13th inst. Mr W Maxwell occupied the chair. The Company's solicitor, Mr J J Paine, was in attendance, as was Mr G McCauley,…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 15 October 1898 · page 10

The GAZETTE is the Local News paper, 2/6 per quarter in Advance. Mr. J. H. Lake, of Ourimbah, near Gosford, is putting 7¼ acres under…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 22 October 1898 · page 10

For Bronchial Coughs take Wood's Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6 and 2/6. The GAZETTE is the Local News paper, 2/6 per quarter in Advance…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 29 October 1898 · page 10

It is asserted that quite a large area of land in the Hawkesbury District is not yet under crop. The dry weather has made ploughing a difficult task…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 5 November 1898 · page 10

The GAZETTE is 2/6 Quarterly in advance. [?]For Consumptive Coughs take Wood's Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6 and 2/6…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 12 November 1898 · page 10

When is that jam-making and fruit-preserving factory to be established Windsor. A bacon-curing factory is also spoken of…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 19 November 1898 · page 10

About 200 tons of butter are now sent every week to London from Sydney. The shipment of apples from the Penola fruit colony (S.A.) to South Africa netted…

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Food for Dairy Gows

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 26 November 1898 · page 5

W. R., Hawkesbury District, writes as follows:—"In the "Agricultural Gazette" for May I read with much interest the paper on the Dairy industry, by Mr. J…

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The Farmer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 26 November 1898 · page 10

Mr. Cook has approved of a fruit canning plant bering erected at the Wagga Experimental Farm. What a splendid dividend on a month's…

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