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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1930

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Millions of Cutworms Pest in Hawkesbury District Potato Crops Damaged

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 21 November 1930 · page 5

Potato crops in the Hawkesbury district are looking well, despite the severe cutting back caused by late frosts in many places Small lots of new potatoes will be marketed…

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Machinery & Organisation on the Farm

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 21 November 1930 · page 5

EVERY progressing country has the problem of the man on the land. Machinery has so increased the individual powers of production in modern industries that the…

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Exhumed Body of Old Man Owned Farm at Windsor Analyst to Report

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 21 November 1930 · page 1

REPORTED disagreement over the disposition of a dead man's property resulted in the exhumation of his body on Monday…

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Price of Milk Farmers Meet the Board

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 21 November 1930 · page 1

THE pill of criticism is generally swallowed more easily if it has a sugar coating. BUT the pills that the dairy farmers…

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Pioneer Farmer the Late Matthew Power

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 21 November 1930 · page 6

The death occurred on Saturday, 8th instant, of Mr. Matthew Power, one of the best-known residents of Seven Hills. Hehad been in ill-health for some time and…

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The Hawkesbury Doyles of Ulitedinburra, Ulinbawn and Dargle Farm, Sackville

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 5 December 1930 · page 7

BY the ship Folia, there arrived at Sydney on May 10, 1803, a splendid pioneer coupl—Andrew Doyle (I.) and his wife (nee Sophia Isabella Norris). The…

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Freak Sheep Two Worth £100! Are They Twins?

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 12 December 1930 · page 3

IN a mob of sheep that arrived from the country at the Riverstone meatworks this week an unusual discovery was made…

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Powers of Councils Dwindling One by One Board to Register Dairymen

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 12 December 1930 · page 5

ACCORDING to a circular received by the Windsor Council at its last meeting from the Metropolitan Milk Board, a proclamation is to be…

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Lang's Launch to Come to Myrtle Farm

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 12 December 1930 · page 10

FITTINGLY enough, Premier Lang, who controls the figurative ship of State, now owns a real boat. RECENTLY he bought for an amount said…

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Terrific Hailstorm Hawkesbury Crops Ruined Fowls Killed—windows Broken

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 26 December 1930 · page 1

LEAVING desolation in its trail, a terrific electrical storm, followed by rain and hail, occurred throughout the Hawkesbury district…

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