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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1971

23 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 1 of 2

Must Help Farmers with Decisions

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 13 January 1971 · page 4

Rural extension workers must become more involved in the sociological problems of…

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Local Dairymen Promised Help

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 March 1971 · page 1

Help from Government, Local Government, and private sources has been promised local dairymen in the changeover to bulk milk collection…

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Sand Removal As Farm Restoration

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 24 March 1971 · page 17

Removal of sand from property in Yarramundi Lane, Richmond, has been permitted by…

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Showdown Coming on Farmland Extraction

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 31 March 1971 · page 23

A showdown is coming over the extraction of material from rural areas of the Windsor Municipality, which could well determine if large sections of land are to become quarries…

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Beef Cattle Disappoints

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 April 1971 · page 17

The number of entries in the recently introduced beef cattle classes was…

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Approval Given For Duck Farm

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 12 May 1971 · page 4

Conversion of a chicken farm to duck breeding was approved at a special…

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Duck Farm Complaints Letters Not Brought Before Meeting

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 26 May 1971 · page 4

Letters complaining of a duck farm at Mulgrave had never been brought before Windsor Council, it was revealed during a debate at the last…

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Farmers Urged to Capitalise on Flood Works

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 26 May 1971 · page 18

Farmers should take full advantage of flood mitigation works to quickly adapt low-lying land to primary production…

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Council Backs Farmers on Bakers' Lagoon Level

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 16 June 1971 · page 2

The unanimous opinion of adjoining farmers that the level n Bakers’ Lagoon on the Richmond Lowlands should be reduced to 9ft, is being…

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Dairymen Seek 3-Phase Power

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 16 June 1971 · page 2

An approach for a group scheme for the installation of a three-phase power supply in…

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College Help To Dairy Industry

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 14 July 1971 · page 1

Research in dairy technology at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College has been…

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Assurances on “Dog Farm”

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 21 July 1971 · page 34

After assurances that a “dog farm” at Kurrajong would actually board “dachshunds and poodles” and be supervised by a “little old lady,” it…

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Pet Sheep Attacked

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 18 August 1971 · page 1

Heads, fore-legs and spines were all that remained of two pet sheep believed to have…

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Important Farm Management School

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 25 August 1971 · page 10

Commodity prospects, relative profitability of different enterprises, sources of credit, financial…

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Farm Produce Packaging Study

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 8 September 1971 · page 22

A Packaging study was “one link in the chain of events” which would bring the farm produce industry “back on a prosperous footing.”…

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Historic “Clydesdale” is side-by-side with ultra modern dairy

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 November 1971 · page 30

The old and the new are blended at “Clydesdale” at Berkshire Park, where the manager of an up-to-the-minute dairy farm lives with his family in a graceful “country seat” built in 1823…

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Accusations over duck farm approval

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 November 1971 · page 6

A mulgrave resident has made serious accusations on the manner in which Windsor Council approved of a duck farm adjoining his property…

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New Policy on Poultry Farming

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 24 November 1971 · page 6

Development of large sections of the Windsor Municipality from what was mainly farming areas to residential, has brought about a situation where…

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Two celebrate 60 years of dairying

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 24 November 1971 · page 14

Memories of “the way it used to be” were revived when Mr Arthur Dell, of Richmond…

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River contamination Dairymen Upset Over Tv Program

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 8 December 1971 · page 1

District dairymen are incensed at a TV news program for laying the blame for heavy faecal contamination of the Hawkesbury River on dairy…

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