Record Prices for Cattle
The following clipping is from a late English paper:— Extraordinary prices were realised at the sale of 38 Shorthorn cattle belonging to the executors of the late…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1921
20 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers
Sprayleigh Soldiers' Farm
In another part of this issue will be found an advertisement relating to the products of "Sprayleigh" Soldiers' Farm. A display of jams and conserves made at the farm…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Gun License Act Farmers and Free Licenses
The Chief Secretary refers to complaints which had appeared in the press to the effect that farmers and others were being hampered by the Gun License Act in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Fruit Crop Enormous Wastage
An enormous quantity of the summer fruit crop will not be gathered this season. The reason for this is simply that the gathering and marketing would not pay…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →English Farmer on Australia. Present Conditions Indicted. "Land of Lost Opportunities."
Amongst the saloon passengers on the s.s. Ormonde, of the Orient Line, which sailed on 12th ultimo for London, was Mr. Henry A. E. E. Holland, of Somerleyton, Suffolk…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Future Farmers. Diploma Day at H. A. College. Farewell to Mr. Potts
Rarely has the Hawkesbury district appeared in more attractive guise than what it did on Wednesday of last week, when parents and friends of students at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Digger Influence in Farming
"Can you tell me the best method of making hay from cow-peas?" The foregoing inquiry reached the Department of Agriculture recently. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dairying the True Worth of a Cow
The discoveries of the Babcock tester are so arresting that it seems inevitable that even the least progressive dairy farmer must eventually say good-bye to guesswork…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farmers' Winter School
The Minister for Agriculture has approved of the usual winter school for farmers being held at Hawkesbury Agricultural College from June 21 to July 16…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →All About Sheep
Before Mr. T. B. Clegg, P.M., at Windsor Small Debts Court on Tuesday week, Andrew Sinclair sued John Stewart to recover the sum of £10 for damage ^alleged to have…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The First Australian Farm
Mr. C. T. Burfitt, F.R.H.S., writing on the man who first blazed the farm trade in Australia, and how he managed it remarks "Dalgety's Review") says:— The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →How to Fail in Dairying
Sometimes the best way to show how to do a thing is to tell how it should not be done. Here are some rules on how not to succeed with cows. Each can be guaranteed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Alleged Child Slavery on Dairy Farms
The Sydney "Sun" on 29th July published an article dealing with the above subject. Some of the statements made were so flagrantly incorrect that the President of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dairying Profits
Probably all businesses have a, leakage and, that leakage affects net profits. It may result in the case of dairying from carrying on in the old-time way-hand milking-or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Million Farms. Campaign Committee's Task. an Appeal for Funds
There are in Australia a bare six millions people The United States a white, man's country of the same area has 18 times the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Twelve Crops a Year. the Fecundity of an Orange Tree
It sounds like moonshine to assert that an orange tree can bear a fresh crop every month in the year, and, more so, every month for three years in succession…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Vaccination. and Tubercular Cattle. (To the Editor.)
Dear Sir,—Please grant me space in your widely circulated paper for a few remarks on "Vaccination," for public information. My remarks are prompted by the following…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fruitgrowers' Problems. Marketing the Coming Crop
The Executive of the Fruitgrowers' Association of New South Wales held a two days' session recently to deal with many of the matters discussed but not finalised,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Agricultural & Pastoral Note. for the Man on the Land
These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. [?]2…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairying. Hot Water for Dairying. Use a Domestic Bath Heater
Hot water, boiling if possible, is an essential to successful dairying. With-out hot water, and plenty of it, dairy utensils, milking machines. &c., cannot…
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