Beneficial Rains. 1924 Starts Well. Tomato Crops Saved
Widespread rains which fell throughout the district this week were heralded on Tuesday evening by a vivid thunderstorm, have been the means…
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Farming & the land, 1924
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Farming As a Business Book-keeping as a Factor to Success
Farmers dislike book-keeping but on the small farm it is a task that need only [?] very simple. At its worst it is a necessary evil thast is generally…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News From Down the River The Citrus Crop
There is every prosepcet of a good erop of citrus fruit along the Hawkesbury and its tributaries this season. It Pays!…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Power of Agriculture Motor on Farm and Orchard
While the large farmer has been the biggest purchaser of tractors, it is not surprising to find that the small farmer is welcoming the advent of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Concessions to Farmers Resolutions of State Conference Commissioner's Reply
In view of resolutions and decisions arrived at by the State Conference of the Agricultural Bureau held at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hoskisson's Sale. Dairy Cattle £20/10/-
Despite the bad season, and the fact that the outlook for dairymen is not very bright in the Hawkesbury district, the sale of dairy stock, horses, farm implements, etc…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dry Farming. Mares Don't Matter. Neither Does Water Board
Mr. Manners, of Mo[?] Lane, would not care if the Water Board went out of business to-morrow. [?]se restrictions and other prohibitions imposed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →(Published by Arrangement). a Crop of Evils
A scathing denouncement of Prohibition has been made in the New York "Times" by Dr. Dan[?] Hubbard, Director of Public Health Education[?] of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Breeders in Conferen[?] Profit in Pigs. "No Farm Should Be Without"
Mr. A. F. Gray, piggery instructor Hawkesbury College, was to deliver a lecture on "Pigs" last evening, but owing to the general business of…
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Judge: A. Moorehcad. As was the case last year Mr. A. C. Hanni[?]us again secured the Champion Ribbon for champion dairy bull with…
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Judges: Messrs. C. W. Craig, Joshua Field, J. S. O'Neill and T. S. Mit[?]hell. Stewards: Messrs. Geo. Nicholls, F. R. Daley, O. Mit[?]hell, R. M. Smith, J…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hawkesbury College Winter School for Farmers Comprehensive Syllabus
Arrangements have been made for the annual winter school for farmers to be held at Hawkesbury Agricultural College from 24th June to 19th July…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →His First Visit Governor at Hawkesbury College Where Farmers are Made Diploma Day Celebrations
"It has often been said in this happy land there is no barrier between classes, and that the highest positions can be attained by persons starting from the most humble origin. If a young man has only ability, energy, and perseverence, there is nothing to which he may not aspire."…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →H.a.c. Old Boys Annual Re-union Farms for Graduates
The most important resolution carried at the annual re-union of the Hawkesbury Agricultural College Old Boys' Union was one…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Historic Windsor Farm Gosper's Famous Spelling Ground Home of Many Champions
On the banks of the historic South Creek, and within half a mile of Windsor, is an unpretentious looking establishment which has been the temporary home of more…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Built an Aeroplane Ingenious Dairy Worker
Without serving a single day at any skilled trade and with no technical instruction whatever, Claude Bushell, the young son of a well-known Windsor dairy farmer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Country Problems Claims of Farmer Junior Rural School Would Help
An entity the importance of whom is becoming steadily more generally recognised by the far-sighted students of Agricultural problems is that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trip To The Clarence Land of Cattle and Corn and Hospitable People
EARLY in the month of May, the Editor of of the "Gazette" and a genial companion, Mr. J. V. Dunston, of Wilberforce, left Windsor on a rail trip to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Kurrajong Wool" Industry Slumping
The cold winds and heavy frosts of late have been responsible for a [?] in shearing operations among the "Kurrajong wool clippers," quite a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Tractor Its Value to the Farmer
The question of ready money has been the barrier to the sales of the tractor, but that consideration does not belittle the value of the tractor. How…
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