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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1915

49 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 2 of 3

Dairying

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 28 May 1915 · page 12

How may the best use be made of land in southern districts that is becoming unproductive owing to infestation by rabbits? Addressing himself to this question,…

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Pastoral

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 4 June 1915 · page 12

Over halt the annual wealth of New South Wales is produced by the pastoral industries of the State. By far the largest proportion of this is represented by wool, but…

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Growing Wheat. The Width of the Drills

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 4 June 1915 · page 12

Some attention has been directed lately to the question whether the common practice in New South Wales of sowing wheat an drills seven to eight inches apart is the…

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Agricultural. Next Potato Crop

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 11 June 1915 · page 12

Although the planting season in the tableland district is a considerable way off, the Inspector of Agriculture, who is particularly concerned with potatoes, remarks that it is…

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Dairying. Milking the Cow

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 11 June 1915 · page 12

While the milking machine, in the care of an intelligent man, may solve the labor problem, it will do endless damage in the hands of a careless operator. So remarks…

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Dairying

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 25 June 1915 · page 12

What effect will the present European war have upon, the dairying industry? To this question the Dairy Expert of tho Department of Agriculture addresses…

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Making Men. for Field and Farm Young Australians at College

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 July 1915 · page 1

The following article is taken from the "Morning Chronicle," a leading London paper. It was written by Mr. Nicol, the special Commissioner of the "Chronicle," who…

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Dairying

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 16 July 1915 · page 8

The annual statistics of the herd-testing associations affiliated with the Tweed-Richmond Herd-Testing Council provide plenty of food for dairy farmers' reflection, but…

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Dairying. Cream Quality

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 6 August 1915 · page 12

Selling aside taints due to feed, absorption, etc., which only in very bad cases compel the cream to be classed as second quality, the article by one of the Dairy…

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Farm Book-keeping

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 August 1915 · page 5

Paper road by Mr. W. Booth at the June meeting of the Lower Portland branch of the Agricultural Bureau, entitled "Suggestions to Farmers as to advantages of…

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Dairying

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 August 1915 · page 12

The specialists in charge of various departments in the college of agriculture at the University of California; U.S.A.; were asked recently to boil down to a single page…

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DAIRYING Grass Palatability Tests at Hawkesbury College

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 14

A report by the of the Argostologist Department or Agriculture gives an account interesting to dairymen of some palatability tests with grasses carried out at…

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Agricultural. a Crop of Peas

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 14

A coastal fanner who had a crop of table peas in flower, asked what was the effect of frost upon the crop and whether there was anything he could do to minimise loss…

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Seasonable Work on the Farm

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 2

Paper written by Mr. W. C. Gambrill and read at the July meeting of the Lower Portland branch of the Agricultural Bureau :— The present season, winter, is considered by…

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The Liberals and the Farmers and Settlers a Farmers' Union Advocated

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 1

Tt is seriously proposed by these bodies— the one purely political, and the other, partly political ami partly industrial, to confer and possibly combine. Someone has proposed…

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Dairying

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 September 1915 · page 5

To the average consumer the cheese mile is merely an object of curiosity, though many suppose that it is only to be found on a good cheese…

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H.A. College Notes Mr. George Cobb. The College Farm Foreman

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 September 1915 · page 1

Mr. Cobb has just commenced his long leave at the end of 24. years, in the service of the Department of Agriculture as farm foreman at the College. Ex-students will…

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Dairying

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 24 September 1915 · page 8

"To sell butter fat or sugar means, from the standpoint of fertility, to sell transformed sunshine, air and water." So says Bulletin No. 204 of Kansas Slate…

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Co-operative Marketing What the Coastal Farmers' Co-op-erative Society Is Doing

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 1 October 1915 · page 4

From time to lime the "Gazette" has endeavoured to shove the co-operative movement along, and it notices with pleasure that growers throughout the fertile…

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Farm Life

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 8 October 1915 · page 10

Paper read by Mr. R. M. Smith at the August meeting of the Lower Portland Agricultural Bureau:— There is no life that should appeal to…

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