Damage by Hail Kurrajong Crops Suffer
STONE fruit crops and large areas of rock melons were destroyed in the Kurrajong district by a severe hailstorm during the holidays…
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Farming & the land, 1931
84 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 1 of 5
Dairymen Protest "Milk Board Should Be Abolished"
A meeting of the Windsor-Richmond branch of the Country Milk Suppliers' Association was held on Tuesday night last, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hawkesbury Dairymen Dissatisfied with Operations of Milk Board Two Different Views Ownership of Land at Bridge Council in a Quandary
The question as to whether the Richmond Coundif or an adjoining property owner really owned the land on the river bank at North…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hawkesbury Dairy Course Scholarships for Factory Employees
The Department of Agriculture has arranged that persons who have had at least three years' experience in dairy factory processing and manufacture may enter the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairyman to Interview Minister Re Functions of Milk Board Should Be Abolished Hawkesbury Dairymen Condemn Milk Board "A Burden on the Community" Fixed Price Is Not Being Enforced
DAIRYMEN in the Hawkesbury district, who strenuously opposed the establishment of the Metropolitan Milk Board, which was created for the purpose of regulating and controlling the supply and sale of milk, are just as strong in their declarations that the Board is "a burden on the community" and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Price of Milk Dairymen Get Less
REDUCTIONS in the prices of milk of 2£d. a gallon to the producer and 6d. a gallon to the consumer have, it is understood, been fixed by the Milk Board…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"The Tocsin" an Open Letter to the Farmer
The wheat man. The sheep man. The cow man. The pig man. Also the goat man. (There appear to be many goats connected, with our Primary Industries)…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Reminder to Sheep Owners
Owners of 50 or more sheep who have not yet filled in and returned the special sheep and Wool form posted to them in December last by the Government Statistician should…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Altered Stock Route Detrimental to Handling Fat Cattle Meat Company Protests
AT last meeting of Blacktown Shire Council the Riverstone Meat Company complained that the alteration of the stock route was detrimental to the handling of fat…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers Sell Turtles
FARMERS on the banks of the Hawkesbury River, near Windsor, have been selling small turtles for up to 1/- each during the past few weeks. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Milk Comes Down Low Rate to the Farmer Board Will Enforce Fixed Prices
FARMERS will obtain less for milk than they have far 10 or 12 years by the latest determination of the Milk Board—a reduction of 2[?]d. a gallon to 10[?]d. The maximum…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alleged Assault Cricketer As Defendant Farmyard Affray at Agnes Banks
WILLIAM ALCORN, well-known Hawkesbury cricketer and star bowler of the Pitt Town team, figured as the defendant in a case at the Richmond Police Court on he was suffering: acutely from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Milk Prices Hawkesbury Dairymen Protest Minister for Health Outspoken
SOME frank talk by the Minister for Health (Mr. J. McGirr) on Thursday of last week non-plussed a deputation of dairymen from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Scheyville Training Farm Plan to Absorb 1,000 Boys Camps on Scout Lines
A SCHEME for the immediate absorption of 1,000 boys between the ages of 15 and 18 years was discussed at the Y.M.C.A. last week…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bean Crop Threatened by Disease Production of Clean Seed the Remedy
BACTERIAL blight and mosiac, both comparatively new diseases, have taken heavy toll of French bean crops this season, and are rapidly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Butter Cows Many Fine Records Shorthorn Combine Leads
Another has been added to the list of officially tested 1,0001b. (or better) butter cows. This time it is Mary Queen of Richmond, a junior four-year-old, of the Hawkesbury…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hawkesbury Dairymen Demand Fixed Price for Milk See Page 12. Gloomy Outlook Position of Hawkesbury Dairymen Many Cannot Continue Under Present Conditions Demand to Be Made for Fixed Milk Board Price
ACCORDING to statements made at a meeting of dairymen in the School of Arts, Windsor, on Tuesday night, a number of farmers in the Hawkesbury district who are paying high rentals for land obtained on long leases are in a serious position, owing to the low price at present being obtained for their…
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MR. FRED MADDEN, who for twenty years was a stock inspector in the Department of Agriculture and is now a member of the Milk Board, gave an interesting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Navua Stud Farm Jersey Cattle and Berkshire Pigs. Valuable Imported Stock
AT the invitation of the manager, Mr. Tre-vor Brown, we had the pleasure—and it was indeed a pleasure—of being shown over the beautiful Navua Stud Farm at Grose…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Milk Industry Board Chairman Heckled Declined Gift of £5,000 Farm
A MESSAGE from West Maitland says that an offer to give him a farm valued at £5,000 free if he would pay the owner and his family the basic wage, was made…
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