The Farmer
In some parts of the Wellington district the wheat yield will be 50 bushels per acre. Australia is sending apples to England,…
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Farming & the land, 1899
71 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 1 of 4
"Don't Forgets" for Dairymen
Don't forget and milk a cow before she calves. Don't forget to give her some of the colostrum…
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The farmers at Coonabarabran have decided to establish a Co-operative flourmill. What is the matter with a similar movement in the Hawkesbury District?…
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THE man who first discovered and cultivated the potato conferred an untold blessing upon his fellows, for there is certainly no product of the soil which more generally enters into consumption…
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To THE EDITOR. Sir,—Your article on the "Potato Season" supplies food for thought. Nor are the good things confined to your own district, for they obtain in the North…
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To the Editor. Sir,—The following prices ruled this week in the colonial markets named:—Sydney, Melbourne. Adelaide. £ s d £ s d £ s d…
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"The farmer is of more consequence than the farm, and should he first improved." It is now generally allowed that over…
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One dry country squatter is paying ¶150 a month for grass within a few miles of Mudgee. During the late excessive heat in August…
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A wheat yield of as high as 52 bushels per acre has been obtained at Taieri (N.Z.) Sheep are dying in thousands in the…
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The GAZETTE is 2/6 per quarter, paid in advance. Upwards of 100,000 sacks of wheat are stacked at the various country railway…
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During last half-year the sale of the Berrima District Farm and Dairy Company amounted to £47,000. On Friday at Albion Park, 32 dairy…
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The annual meeting of the above was held on Wednesday, last. There was a good attendance of shareholders, and Mr. J. T. Gosper (chairman of…
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Victorian raspberry pulp is being quoted in London at from £40 to £42 a ton; Canadian has been sold up to £56 a ton. Mr. William Yabsley, of Coraki, has…
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"The farmers—it is astonishing how much ruin they will bear. Every season is the worst season known.—Dickens. Flocks of cockatoos are said to be…
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The Orient liner Cuzco took 8400 cases of Tasmanian apples to London last week. On one station alone in the Nyngan district 25,000 sheep are being hand-fed…
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Melbourne Agricultural Show has been abandoned, owing to paucity of entries. Why not establish a cornflour factor in the Hawkesbury? Echo answers—…
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The Mudgee show has been posrponed until 16th and 17th May. Mr. A. G. Sewell has been appoint a judge of pug dogs at the Sydney Show…
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Of the earth's surface, 1,300,000 acres are devoted to tobacco culture. There are 14,000 acres under oranges in N.S.W…
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Corowa P. and A. Society has an overdraft of £1800, after making a profit £134 on the late show. No enterprising farmer should be…
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Mr. J. Plummer, of Cowper, Clarence River, pulled and threshed this season 4 acres of red core early maize which yielded 90 bags. The first 24 bags gave a…
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