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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1945

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

Profitable Sweet Corn Crops Follow Recent Good Rains

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 28 March 1945 · page 5

SOME magnificent crops of sweet corn are now being harvested in the Hawkesbury River district…

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Milk Price Speech In Federal Parliament Case for Dairymen

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 March 1945 · page 4

THE appointment of an independent arbitrator on the question of milk prices in the Inner Zone was advocated in the…

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Straying Sheep Were Government Property Pound Fees Unpaid Council Request

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 4 April 1945 · page 4

WHEN it was mentioned at the last Richmond Council meeting that fees due on certain Government sheep impounded had…

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Farming's Future in Great Britain Depends On Goodwill Of Community

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 4 April 1945 · page 1

Principal H. G. Robinson, of Midland Agricultural College (Eng.). stated recently that the future of farming…

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Reminder to Farmers

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 4 April 1945 · page 2

Landholders, occupiers and persons engaged in rural industries within the Richmond Police Patrol are reminded…

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Swiss Farmers Control Erosion

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 4 April 1945 · page 5

A N.S.W. soldier just returned to Australia after having escaped from a P.O.W. camp in Germany and been interned…

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More Form Filling for Farmers

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 4 April 1945 · page 4

There are few countries in the world where economic and climatic conditions very as much as in Australia. Each…

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Big Help To Growers Boys From Farm Home Provide Valuable Labour

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 4 April 1945 · page 2

IN view of the discussion aroused in this district by a proposal to transfer some of the boys from the Gosford Farm…

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Want Independent Arbitrator District Dairymen Decide Full Support for Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 11 April 1945 · page 1

AT their Annual Meeting at Windsor on Monday evening the members of the Hawkesbury branch of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council discussed the prices position, and unanimously decided to inform the Council that they would not accept any finding other than that of an independent arbitrator. This supports the…

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Farmyard Manure Wasted in Coastal Districts

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 18 April 1945 · page 4

Soils, like banking accounts, cannot be maintained indefinitely on debit operations. The steady deter[?]oration of our coastal dairying lands…

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Scheyville Welfare Farm Setback

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 2 May 1945 · page 1

OPENING of Scheyville Farm, near Windsor, as a child-welfare institution had heen de layed because the Institution…

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Farmers' Conference

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 2 May 1945 · page 2

In view of the pleasing results [?]rived by farmers throughout the district during the season from labour procured from the Pitt Town…

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Pioneer Dairyman Quits Industry

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 9 May 1945 · page 6

Pioneer identity of the Castlereagh district, Mr T. R. Smith, whose, family settled along the Nepean more than…

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British Farming Highly Mechanised

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 9 May 1945 · page 6

Details of how in Great Britain the home industry for making farm machinery and implements responded to the…

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Land Settlement Problems Advisory Body Submits Views of Interest to All Farmers

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 9 May 1945 · page 1

IN view of the proposed land settlement schemes for returned soldiers in the post-war period, and other Government proposals affecting the fanning community, directly or indirectly, all district primary producers will find much to interest then in the article…

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Poor Citrus Crop

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 23 May 1945 · page 2

The prospect for citrus fruit was again poor this season, said the chief of the Division of Marketing, Dr H…

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Labour Saving Home Made Machines For Farms

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 30 May 1945 · page 6

In Illinois (U.S.A.) recently farmers swapped labor-saving ideas in a series ui travelling exhibits sponsored by the…

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Prof Copland on Guaranteed Farm Prices Admits Minimum, Maximum Rates Are Necessary

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 30 May 1945 · page 4

IN A REPORT to the Commonw wealth Government on economic conditions in the United Kingdom, United States of America and Canada, Professor Copland, Economic Consultant to the Prime Minister, says that it should be…

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Richmond District Farmer Shares His Profit

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 30 May 1945 · page 2

WELL KNOWN as a director of Richmond Rural Co Operative Society and" for his activities in the district, Mr R. Danvers Power was the subject of a recent article In "Today," the news magazine supplement of the "Sunday Telegraph."…

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Wheat Stocks

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 6 June 1945 · page 3

We are advised by the secretary of the Windsor W.A.C. (Mr. V. J. Dugan) that the Department of Agriculture desires it to be generally…

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