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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1914

43 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 1 of 3

Dairying

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 2

During a recent tour along the North Coast, the manager or Cowra Experiment farm observed one dairy yard in which the discomforts which attach to…

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Dairying

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 2

A correspondent, who intends to start poultry-farming, and who wishes to avoid making any [?] blunders, has submitted a number of questions which touch so many of…

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Dairying

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 1

Denmark provides an excellent example of what can be clone by dairymen themselves towards the advancement of their industry—an example that can be quoted in…

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Dairying

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 12

Speaking before the Inverell branch of the Agricultural Bureau, Mr. H. A. Alexander made some comments on the crossing of cattle for dairy purposes, which will be…

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"Farmers' Calendar."

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 12

The exhaustion of the first 4000 copies of the Farmers' Calendar has led the Department to issue a third edition, and this is now available for circulation. It is…

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Dairying

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 February 1914 · page 12

The following scale of points which has been prepared by the Chief Inspector and the Dairy Expert will probably be found useful in judging competitions organised by…

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Dairying

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 20 February 1914 · page 12

Seven rules for the prevention of bad flavors in milk and cream are given in a newly-issued book by Mr. G. Sutherland Thomson, who was at one time dairy…

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Dairying

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 6 March 1914 · page 12

Outbreaks of a certain cattle disease of a rather obscure nature have occurred each autumn for the past three years in the most southern portions of the South Coast…

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American Trust Vetoes Australian Butter

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 March 1914 · page 5

A press correspondent writes as follows in regard to the combination in America against. Australian butter:—"New Zealand, better has been placed on the market, at…

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Farmers Help the Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 March 1914 · page 9

At the last meeting of the Blacktown Council, Cr. Pringle presented the following petition:—"We, the undermentioned ratepayers and residents of Woodstock Farms, Plumpton…

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Pastoral

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 20 March 1914 · page 12

What value can be attached by the pastoralist to "rung" country as against "unrung" That there is decided advantage in ringing is too well known for discussion…

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Cattle Killed by Lightning

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 20 March 1914 · page 10

We learn from our St. Albans correspondent that five head of cattle belonging to Mr. Francis Bailey; junr., were killed by lightning during, a storm on Monday…

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Dairying

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 27 March 1914 · page 12

For their immediate benefit, and for the good of the industry as a whole, the Dairy Expert thinks that directors and proprietors of butter-factories will find it wise, to take…

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Dairying

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 10 April 1914 · page 12

A few weeks ago we reported in these "Notes" some remarks by the Dairy Expert on the pressure that economic considerations are likely to impose upon the dairyman in…

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Dairying

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 24 April 1914 · page 12

The extent to which herd-testing has benefited the dairy industry in Denmark cannot be better expressed, than in simple statistics. It was in that country (a bulletin of…

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Farmers' Winter School

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 1 May 1914 · page 12

Arrangements have been made for the 1914 winter school for farmers to commence At the Hawkesbury Agricultural College on Tuesday June 23, and to continue until…

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Dairy Cattle

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 15 May 1914 · page 10

Cow giving greatest quantity of milk. Standard test of 3.2 or over: J. Griffith's Ida 1, C. J. Brown's Jinny 2. Cow, without calf, any age, giving…

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Cattle

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 15 May 1914 · page 1

Judge: Mr. H. R. Alexander. Durhams and Shorthorns. Bull, 3yrs: I. Turnbull's Roger. Bull, 2yrs: Fullerton and Greentree's Pride…

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Dairying

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 15 May 1914 · page 12

One practical result of the Department's advice to farmers on the subject of conservation of fodder has been furnished this season by a farmer on the Manning River—…

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Dairyman and Labor. How the Industry Is Burdened

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 22 May 1914 · page 5

Mr. Richard Shepherd, President of the N.S.W. Dairy Farmers' Association, expresses great pleasure at the remarks of Mr. H. D. Morton, M.L.A, recently published…

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