Space Farming Contrary to Good Ethics Advertisers Please Note
SEVERAL times during the past year, in our Christmas issue, and again this week we were compelled to refuse permission to regular advertisers, who…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1929
47 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 1 of 3
Factor Upholds Supremacy Potato Trials on Hunter and Hawkesbury Crops in Dry Weather
A series of variety and manurial trials of potato-growing, just completed by the Department of Agriculture on the Hunter and Hawkesbury Rivers, was, from a yield point…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairying Course Hawkesbury Scholarships
The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. H. V. C. Thorby) states that, in addition to the scholarships recently awarded as the result of donations by dairy produce companies, for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Killed in Week-end Hawkesbury Tragedies Hurled Into Eternity Tragic 'Plane Crash at Cornwallis Well-known Hawkesbury Farmer Killed Pilot and Mechanic Dragged From Burning Wreckage
DEATH came suddenly from the sky in awful form on Monday to Mr. Albert Charles Smith (51), a well-known Hawkesbury farmer, who was killed instantly when an aeroplane dived on top of him while he was chipping weeds on his cultivation at Cornwallis, a few miles from Windsor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shire Rating Farmers' Bad Times. Cr. Pye's Protest
THE bad times, the farmers are passing through was pictured by Cr. Pye at a recent meeting of Blacktown Shire Council, when he…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cornwallis 'Plane Tragedy Poignant Story of Farmer's Death Pilot Somerville Cannot Remember! "Feloniously Slain," Says District Coroner
SENSATIONAL evidence of how aeroplanes had flown at low altitudes over farms and paddocks in the Windsor and Richmond districts was given at the Richmond Court House on Monday at the inquest, on Albert Charles Smith (51), a well-known farmer, who was killed when a De Haviland Moth 'plane crashed on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Scheyville Training Farm New Buildings to Cost £24,000 Foundation Stone Laid by Minister for Labor
"NOTWITHSTANDING the inclement weather and the shocking condition of the roads, there was a good attendance on Saturday afternoon at the Scheyville Government Training Farm, when the Minister for Labor and Industry (Mr. E. H. Farrar) laid the foundation stone of a new block of buildings…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Blacktown Show Successful Exhibition Farm and Garden Produce Excel
THE outstanding feature of the annual show of the Blacktown Agricultural Society, which eventuated on Friday and Saturday last, was the fine display of farm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Last Word Farmer's Strange Will
PROPOSING the toast of "The Ladies" at the opening" ceremony of the new Public School at Riverstone recently, Rev. W. J. Owens M.A., in a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Egg Marketing Board Position of Poultry Farmers, and all Persons who Have Twenty or More Adult Fowls or Ducks. _
Many poultry farmers and poultry keepers in a small way are in doubt as to how the operations of the new Egg Marketing Board will affect them. They naturally…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Early Potatoes Farmers' Experiments
The coastal districts between the Hunter, and the upper reaches of the Hawkesbury have just experienced the driest spring on record. No useful rains had fallen since…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Another Good Reason Why Should Shop at Home Waited in Vain for Suits Jury Gets Tailor's Measure Hawkesbury Clergyman & Farmers Victimised Another Chapter in Career of Fraud
FOR men in the country to be measured by a city tailer and have their suits delivered to them—well, it's nice and convenient. But when one parts with his money and the suit doesn't come along, he is better able to appreciate the virtue of shopping in his home town or district…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →10,000 people saw the Hawkesbury show on Saturday Magnificent Success Hawkesbury's 49th. Great Carnival Brilliant Sunshine Attracts Record Crowds Thrilling Ring Events-hard Work of Officials High-class Exhibits in Horses, Cattle, Poultry and Horticulture
THE 49th annual exhibition of the Hawkesbury District Agricultural Association, held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday last, was a magnificent success from every viewpoint. Splendid entries were received—nearly 200 more than last year—and the exhibits, which embraced many attractive features, were a fine advertisement of the district's resources…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Diploma Day. Farmers in the Making Hawkesbury College Celebrations
SOMEHOW one envied those tall graduates at Hawkesbury College Diploma Day celebrations last week. They shone with such erudition as they paced down the long…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sidelight From History Foundation of the Australian Merino Wool Industry Chaplain Samuel, Marsden and King George Iii
IT will be remembered that the Rev. S. Marsden was in England during the greater portion of the years 1808-1809, and that the famous minister had taken a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sheep Will Replace Cattle in County of Cumberland Stock Inspector's Views
ACCORDING to Mr. D. MacPherson, inspector of stock, in his report to the monthly meeting of the Cumberland, Pastures Protection Board last week, it will…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →£50 Damages Trespass on Melon Patch Cattai Farmer's Loss
MICHAEL CALBERT, a farmer, of Cattai, proceeded against Amelia May, Johnston, of Vermont, Pitt Town, before Judge Thompson at the District Court, Parramatta,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Windsor Farmer Killed Fell Off Motor Lorry Fatality Near Richmond
CHARLES OSCAR PATERSON (43), a farmer, of Macquarie-street, Windsor, fell off a motor lorry at Nowland's Corner, between North…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm Tragedy Night in Bush with Corpse Constable's Vigil at Putty
WHEN Constable Fitzgerald went to the cattle farm of Joshua Amzi Medhurst, out in the hills in the Putty district, at the extreme end of Colo Shire and 68 miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Skull Fractured Windsor Farmer Killed Mysterious Fall Off Lorry Coroner's Strong Comments
IT is evident to me that had Chalmers stayed at home instead of coming up to Windsor on a drinking bout, the deceased would…
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