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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1929

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

Public Notice to Dairymen and Stockowners

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 14 June 1929 · page 3

OWING to another serious outbreak of contageous pleuro pneumonia are holding the special virus most suitable for inoculation purposes, I beg to notify that I am prepared…

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Dairyman Drops Dead the Late Mr. L. D. Mullan

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 21 June 1929 · page 3

SOMETHING in the nature of a sensation was, caused on Tuesday when the death, became known of of Mr. Laurence Daniel Mullan, formerly of Pitt Town Bottoms…

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Street Betting 194 Wagers in a Day Richmond Farmer Fined £20

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 28 June 1929 · page 1

BERNARD MICHAEL WATERS, at Richmond Police Court on Tuesday, admitted having been in East Market-street, Richmond, on Saturday, June 1, for the purpose…

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Mr. J. T. Lang Purchases Hawkesbury Farm

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 5 July 1929 · page 1

DOES Mr. J. T. Lang, ex-Premier, and Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly, intend to forsake politics for a life on the land? Recent…

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Pleuro Pneumonia Contagious Cattle Disease Interesting. Lecture by Stock Inspector

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 12 July 1929 · page 3

ALTHOUGH there have been no fresh outbreaks of pleuro, pneumonia among cattle in the Hawkesbury portion of the Cumberland P.P. District since our last issue, the disease has by no means bee stamped out. THERE are some sceptical people in our midst who are treating the matter…

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State-wide Conference. at Hawkesbury College 200 Farmers Will Attend

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 12 July 1929 · page 6

Hawkesbury Agricultural College, Richmond, will be invaded by an army of strangers from July 23 to 26, who will take possession of the dormitories, sleep in the…

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Mr. Lang's Farm Merely a "Business Deal." Intends to Sell Again

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 12 July 1929 · page 12

Definitely no! " Myrtle Farm," at Ebenezer, on the Hawkesbury River, is not to become a secret home-from-home to which Mr. Lang, as a future Premier, can slip away…

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Little Jack Lang. (Mr. Lang has bought a farm)

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 19 July 1929 · page 6

Little Jack Lang, Come blow up your horn, The black sheep are striking, The cow's, in the corn…

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Down on Myrtle Farm Lang May Remodel Convict Home "Ideal Rendezvous."

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 19 July 1929 · page 6

MR. J. T. LANG, ex-Premier and Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly, is being given plenty of publicity in connection with his recent Hawkesbury…

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Maize Yield Contest Central Coast Division Hawkesbury Farmer's Success

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 19 July 1929 · page 12

ONE of the silver cups awarded by the Royal Agricultural Society of N.S. Wales for the championship field maize competition in…

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Day Among the Chicks Scientific Poultry Farming Flourishing Wilberforce Industry

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 26 July 1929 · page 5

TO visit Mr. K. G. Cobcroft's poultry farm at Wilberforce is not only an education on the practical way a commercial stud should be laid out, but shows what can be…

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New Suppliers Milk Factory Will Accept Them Unselfish Policy of Hawkesbury Dairy Company

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 26 July 1929 · page 1

SINCE its inception some six years ago, the Hawkesbury Dairy and Ice Society, Ltd., has progressed with such leaps and bounds that it has practically outgrown itself, and is now one of the most flourishing institutions in the district…

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Price of Milk Farmers Demand Increase Dissatisfaction at Maitland

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 26 July 1929 · page 11

DAIRY farmers throughout the Hunter River district have long been dissatisfied with the conditions of the milk trade, and one of the biggest meetings of suppliers seen…

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Motor Fruit Thief Farmers Declare War Penalties Suggested

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 August 1929 · page 14

Farmers from all parts of New South Wales, who have just concluded their, annual conference, at the, Hawkesbury College, have declared war, upon the…

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Hawkesbury Dairymen Strongly Oppose the Milk Bill Still Progressing Hawkesbury Dairy and Ice Company Another Successful Year Payments to Suppliers Reach Nearly £70,000

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 23 August 1929 · page 1

THE Hawkesbury Dairy and Ice Society Ltd., has just closed what is regarded as one of the best years experienced by any dairying community in New South Wales. During the period payments to suppliers amounted to nearly £70,000, representing an average price of more than 1/1 per gallon for the twelve…

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Man-woman Masquerades for 20 Years Worked on Richmond Farm

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 23 August 1929 · page 9

FORCED by cruel fate to adopt the appearance of a male when only nine years of age, a woman now working in an Eastwood orchard as…

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Domestic's Claim Boiling Fat Over Foot Poultry Farmer Sued

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 30 August 1929 · page 7

BEFORE Judge Perdriau and members of the Workers' Compensation Commission, Alice Cooper, of Park-street, Helensburg, claimed compensation from George Preston…

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Hawkesbury Farms Successful Property Sale

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 6 September 1929 · page 2

On Saturday last, August 31, Messrs J. B. Johnston and Co., auctioneers, of Windsor submitted to auction at the School of Arts throe agricultural, farms and a town…

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"All Moonshine!" "Colds" and "Chill" in Cattle. Problem of Pleuro Pneumonia

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 September 1929 · page 2

REFERRING to the outbreaks of pleuro pneumonia in the County of Cumberland, the P.P. Board inspector (Mr. D. MacPherson) in his…

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Farmer's Invention New Principle in Power Farming May Revolutionise Agriculture

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 September 1929 · page 10

THE discovery of a new principle in the transmission of tractor power is announced by Professor R. D. Watt, of Sydney University, which…

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