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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1904

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FARM PRODUCE—Sub-Section C.

Hawkesbury Herald · Friday 13 May 1904 · page 9

Judges, Messrs. H. H. Honey and F. E. Barker. Butter, fresh dairy, P Hulbert 1, J T Gosper 2…

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Government Labor Farm

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 14 May 1904 · page 5

The Labor Commissioners are evincing considerable interest in the Farm on Pitt Town Common. Quite recently they came from Sydney and closely inspected…

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Milk and Butter Test

Hawkesbury Herald · Friday 20 May 1904 · page 3

Five guineas first, two guineas second, for the cow giving the greatest quantity of milk; also cow giving greatest quantity of butter. Decided…

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On Tramp. No. Vi a Good Time at Swilly Farm

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 4 June 1904 · page 6

HEARTY was the greeting I received from "Bob" Farlow. I had so often promised to come, and had as often failed to keep it, that my friend left me to make my own time…

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Food for the Crop

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 2 July 1904 · page 9

DIFFERENT crops inquire different treatment—some phosphates, some polash, and others again nitrogen, but the most successful growers always use a fertiliser that shall…

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Pitt Town Labor Farm

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 8 October 1904 · page 7

A SYDNEY publication says :—It is seldom we hear of a Government official, with a sinecure, retiring at his own request. Yet such an instance has just occurred. Mr…

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When the Farmer Don't Come In

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 15 October 1904 · page 13

When the farmer has to pay and there's no get out of it, When his land tax bill comes in he feels inclined to quit;…

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For Profit, Feed the Crops

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 22 October 1904 · page 4

ONCE it was defined advisable to manure the land, but that being a costly process agriculture did not make the advance it should. To day, however, ideas are very…

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Hawkesbury Dairy Company. To Be Wound Up

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 10 December 1904 · page 8

THE adjourned meeting of the Hawkesbury Dairy and Butter Company, Ltd., was held at the residence of the secretary (Mr A. Berckelman) on Saturday evening, when…

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The Good Old Days of the Cattle Bell

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 17 December 1904 · page 12

OH! here's todays when the lads were young In the old station home on the Billabong, Yes! here's to the times when our hearts were glad,…

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