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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1917

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Farm Slaughtered Animals

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 July 1917 · page 6

The heaviest loss that most farmers suffer in connection with the killing of animals and preparation of meat on the farm is due to bad skinning or flaying, especially in the case…

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Dairying

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 27 July 1917 · page 6

The improvement in the quality or the butter produced in the State during the past season has been Mentioned in a good many ways of late, and an article in the "Agricultural…

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Dairying

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 31 August 1917 · page 3

Classifying the use of "starters," the Dairy Expert considers them as used (I) in factories that receive cream daily, and that therefore handle a large quantity "of sweet cream, and…

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Rotation of Crops

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 21 September 1917 · page 5

Of figures that show the importance Of rotation there are plenty, in the view of some farmers, perhaps, but the latest are certainly remarkable. They are given by Professor…

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THE ,1000lb Butter Cow

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 26 October 1917 · page 10

The race for the £100 prize offered, some years ago by the Department of Agriculture for the first cow in New South Wales producing 1000lb. butter in 12 months, under…

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Seed Peas the Crop That Failed

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 November 1917 · page 1

In the District Court, Parramatta, a case interesting to nurserymen, seedsmen and growers generally was heard before Judge Bevan, when George William Case, an…

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Dairying

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 21 December 1917 · page 6

"The more he worked the fess profit he made." That is the testimony concerning a dairy farmer who was a member of a Minnesota testing association, and it seems to…

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